HD only, any reason to keep SageTV history

[korben_dallas]

My new SageTV "HD Only" server is almost together. As the title says, I will be recording only HD channels. Along with that and my new but ever increasing Blu-Ray collection, my goal is from this point forward to only watch HD content.

So my question, is there any reason I should port over my 5+ year SageTV history, or can I just start with a fresh install?

When I watch SD material now it hurts my eyes, so I'm not keeping any programs/videos/movies recorded in SD.

[Fuzzy]

The only reasons I see to keep the wiz.bin are for metadata for recordings and imports, and your favorites list. If none of that is important to you, then no, there's no reason to keep it. I suppose it also has the 'watched' status for shows, to determine if they are to be recorded again, but you may prefer that be gone anyways, to get them all new in HD.

[stanger89]

If you use Intelligent Recording, you'll probably want to keep it as well since if you don't you'll have to retrain it all over again.

[korben_dallas]

Originally Posted by stanger89

If you use Intelligent Recording, you'll probably want to keep it as well since if you don't you'll have to retrain it all over again.

Heh, had SageTV for 5 years and have never tried IR. Maybe I should start now? Is there a way to throttle it, or it records 24x7?

[stanger89]

It doesn't record 24x7, well not once you've got it trained. I usually do go through every day or so and mark a lot of stuff don't like.

[Fuzzy]

heh.. I don't have enough time to watch my favorited recordings, let alone clutter up the list of things I 'might' like...

[stanger89]

I don't let it clutter up the list, I premptively mark most stuff "Don't Like" before it ever records it. But it's the occasional show it catches that I do want to watch, either because I knew it was on and forgot to setup a favorite/manual recording or because I didn't know it was on that keeps me leaving IR on.

But that's all really beside the point, if you don't use IR, and don't care to have your viewing history intact (to keep your Favorites setup, keep your watched history, etc) then there's no real other reason to keep your info.

[tmiranda]

Originally Posted by korben_dallas

Heh, had SageTV for 5 years and have never tried IR. Maybe I should start now? Is there a way to throttle it, or it records 24x7?

Make sure you select "Aggressive Negative Profiling". This will slow down the IR. When you first enable IR it will try to record everything it can. Once you start marking stuff "Don't Like' it will slow down considerably, especially if you select Aggressive Negative Profiling.

IMHO IR is one of THE best features of Sage, I don't know how I lived without it. It's always finding and recording things I like.