Sage server on Win 7

[stevech]

Am I correct that Sage Server isn't supported on Win 7 (Vista)? And as a Windows Service?

Would "old" (!) Hauppauge USB2 or PCI bus Standard Def tuners have drivers for and work in Win 7?

I have this setup now for XP. Looking ahead.

The Sage Client seems to run OK in Win 7.

[Fuzzy]

There are many people (myself included) running servers and clients on win7. I have no problem using my Hauppauge PVR-500 on my machine. For each tuner you'd have to check the manufacturers driver availability, but pretty much if they offer a Vista driver, it will probably work fine in Win7. They also do list vista support on the site for the USB2.

In all honesty, you won't really gain much going to win7 for JUST a server, but on the client front (or combo server/client) I feel 7 is far superior.

[brandypuff]

I'm running on a Vista x64 machine fine. the only catch is that you need to use special drivers for the PVR-500 (PCI bus) which someone posted a link to somewhere in this conference else you won't get a clean TV picture.

[stevech]

Thanks.
I failed to see this on the sage product website

"For SageTV Media Center for Windows - PC Operating System: Microsoft ...., or Vista ".
So I guess Vista's drivers are fully Win 7 compatible?

Interest in Win 7 is that relatively soon Micro$oft will stop doing security fixes for XP, as I understand. Until that's imminent, I will stay with XP for the 24/7 server in the garage. I have two Hauppauge USB2 tuners and one PCI bus Hauppauge. (No HD).

Win 7 in general: Try as I might, I can't go to desktop Linux due to the MS Office stranglehold. OpenOffice still doesn't work for non-trivial word and power point documents as I use in my job. Win 7 on the Intel Atom is amazing, for the price. Glad I don't work for Intel or AMD as these kind of chips will slash their revenue to the bone (in CPUs).