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Old 07-23-2009, 05:19 PM
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BTV & SageTV - I'm making the switch but want to finish up watching old BTV stuff
What's my best bet if I am switching from BTV to Sage but want to finish up last season's BTV stuff?

Should I just leave a copy of BTV on the Sage server, run it with a spare tuner not used by Sage, and just watch and delete the BTV-type shows?

Or, is there a quick and dirty batch converter? We're talking quite a few shows here, and as I understand it Sage stores its program info and formats differently.

And suggestions or sticky references would be appreciated.

Thanks.
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Old 07-23-2009, 06:04 PM
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Brent Evans has a handy guide to convert BTV shows.

http://www.geektonic.com/2008/01/how...hows-into.html
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Old 07-23-2009, 07:00 PM
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Thanks ! That is perfect, and even easy enough for me to figure out !
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Old 07-23-2009, 08:32 PM
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Its not perfect but it works well enough.

You do not need to uninstall BeyondTV. I disabled the service for BeyondTV and let Sage do all the recording. That way you can still go back to it for any reason.
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Old 07-23-2009, 08:34 PM
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Yep. As said above, I wouldn't delete BTV or anything like that (for a while at least). Just don't try to run both at the same time on the same PC.
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Old 07-24-2009, 10:52 AM
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I made the switch a few months back because of the lack of extender support for BTV - I think now that I'm getting more used to keystrokes + remote control usage, I like sage better anyway.

Glad you made the switch too - welcome!
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