How has your sage tv setup changed ?

[daz19]

I have been running sage tv for about 2 years now and I amazed at how my initial setup has grown from a server with one tuner and wireless MVP connected via wireless G router to a server with 6 tuners and a network supporting 5 x MVP, 2 x HD100 and Laptop paceshifter connected via mixture of netgear fastethernet and gigabit ethernet switches connected via Cat 5 cabling.

I have tried all different technolgies to keep sage tv running smoothly, I started of with wireless moved on to various homeplug speeds from 14mb, 85mb and 200mb and finally took the plunge at upgraded the whole lot to cat 5 cabling.

So my question is how has your setup changed since you initially installed it ?

[Menehune]

I've got 2x the tuners and about 3x the HD space I started with. I've switched from a TV-centered viewing experience to a client-centered viewing environment. I have the capability to record HD but I haven't set it up yet. I don't know if I want to open that can of worms yet

[sandor]

In just over 3 years:
I switched from a Windows to Macintosh server.

Added some recording space, but still only recording OTA ATSC. Now with 2xHDHR (4 tuners total) instead of a pair of a180's.

i still have the server running my main tv, client in the bedroom and placeshifter for the roof's projector...

[Djc208]

I started using my computer as a PVR with an ATI All-in-wonder card and the ATI software. Didn't take long to want to move to real PVR software. Couldn't bring myself to re-purchase Windows XP to get MCE so I did some searching and found Sage. Picked up a 1600 and installed a trial of SageTV and never looked back.

Since then I've only added the HD PVR to get more HD channels but the 1600 is about the only thing left from that original system. I moved to a server/client setup, added over 1TB of storage, and added two clients and an extender.

I'm good for now but I'll probably migrate the server to WHS for it's backup capabilities, and eventually more storage too.

[CollinR]

Originally Posted by Djc208

I started using my computer as a PVR with an ATI All-in-wonder card and the ATI software. Didn't take long to want to move to real PVR software.

Me too back in like 1995 I swapped a Rage129Pro out for an All-in-Blunder with software encoder.

I have never forgiven ATI since and in the hundereds of display adapters I have bought since then there have been 0 ATI.

[Djc208]

Originally Posted by CollinR

Me too back in like 1995 I swapped a Rage129Pro out for an All-in-Blunder with software encoder.

I have never forgiven ATI since and in the hundereds of display adapters I have bought since then there have been 0 ATI.

I didn't have a problem with the card. Even with software encoding. I bought it originally to transfer video to DVD. When I upgraded my system I bought a second faster version (9600 Pro) and the old system with the AIW (Radeon 7xxx) I used as a PVR in the living room. Even then it was fine for capture and playback. It was the software that sucked, little more than a glorified VCR for programming, if it didn't crash and loose the file, but it was free software so I couldn't complain much.

After I added the Hauppage card and Sage (I only got the Hauppage becuase Sage didn't like the AIW) I used the ATI for playback till it died. The Nvidia card I replaced it with gave me more problems than that ATI ever did, playback was better too, and while the RF remote was finicky it was a nice piece. I still use them in other machines.

[paulbeers]

When I built my first PVR back in 2002 (or was it 2003?), I had a simple FIC SFF with a celeron 766mhz processor outputing to the tv with an FX5200 PCI card and 2 Avermedia M150's (SD hard ware encoders) running Sage 2.0 with only an 80GB hard drive. Now today, I am running a seperate Sage server to 1 HD200, 2 HD100's, 3 MVP's with 7 tuners and 3 TB of storage space (only 1 TB for recordings). Its an obsession. Not to mention I am also on to my 2nd Sage only server (overclocking that e4300 sure did a number)....