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Hardware Support Discussions related to using various hardware setups with SageTV products. Anything relating to capture cards, remotes, infrared receivers/transmitters, system compatibility or other hardware related problems or suggestions should be posted here. |
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Blank Slate SageTV Network Suggestion
Wow, so much to sift through, I'm a bit overwhelmed right now. How about I start with what I am looking for, and what I have already.
I have a WHS server that I absolutely love, and 3 desktops and 1 laptop. One machine is Windows 7, the others are XP. I have all my pictures and videos on the WHS server. I also have dish network. I have played with the Media Center that came with W7 beta, and don't much care for it. It got me looking into other options, and I really like the long term flexability of Sage. That being said.... I would like to do DVR recording on the WHS using sage. Hence the question, what hardware works best for capture? What about a good Dish Network tuner? Right now I am looking at just 1 stream for testing, but would like to grow later. I don't have HD now, and might add a stream for HD later though. If you had a blank slate, what would you suggest? Troy |
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Is Dish Network your only programming source?
Don't worry about whether you have HD now or not. You'll still want the HD-200 extender to watch on a regular TV, and it will need a wired network connection (so a wire and maybe a switch). It's the communication between the extender and the server that's critical. The extender can deliver a great signal to any TV. |
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I'm re-pulling CAT6 and RG-6 quad to all the locations in the near future, so that won't be a problem. I'm adding a gigabit switch and gigabit NIC to my WHS as well.
Right now, I'm itching to get started. I have a Dish Network 625 SD DVR, and would like to use that to just get started. (Suggestions to get moving with this as well would be welcome) I'm also planning to import our DVD collection, as that is what my kids watch mostly. I was also looking at the Hauppauge 1600 capture cards for the server, for grabbing off air HDTV as well. |
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The 1600 would work fine. The digital tuner will let you pull OTA channels and you can connect your Dish tuner to the analog input (S-video preferable), and use the IR blaster to control the Dish tuner.
The large file sizes involved in the TV recordings work better on hard drives formatted with large cluster sizes. There is a tutorial around here on how to format drives in the recording pool for 64k sectors. Others (myself included) have simply added a separate recording drive not in the pool, formatted and used for recordings. Sage WHS comes with a placeshifter license, so you can start playing with that at first. For computers that will stay within the house wired to the network a Sage Client license is the best way to go for quality and flexibility. For laptops that may be used outside your network, then placeshifter is the software to use. The HD-200 will take all of the stress and difficulty in setting up a playback client at a TV location. It's like buying a DVD player, you connect it up, plug it in, and use it. You'll spend more time setting up Sage than the extender.
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Server: Core 2 Duo E4200 2 GB RAM, nVidia 6200LE, 480 GB in pool, 500GB WHS backup drive, 1x750 GB & 1x1TB Sage drives, Hauppage HVR-1600, HD PVR, Windows Home Server SP2 Media center: 46" Samsung DLP, HD-100 extender. Gaming: Intel Core2 Duo E7300, 4GB RAM, ATI HD3870, Intel X-25M G2 80GB SSD, 200 & 120 GB HDD, 23" Dell LCD, Windows 7 Home Premium. Laptop: HP dm3z, AMD (1.6 GHz) 4 GB RAM, 60 GB OCZ SSD, AMD HD3200 graphics, 13.3" widescreen LCD, Windows 7 x64/Sage placeshifter. |
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