SageTV for WHS

If you’ve been reading my blog lately you’ll know I’m installing SageTV for WHS. The idea is to eventually have Freeview (for those outside Britain its free-to-air Digital TV) on all PC’s and Tv in the house come through WHS.

Now the Website isn’t entirely clear on exactly how SageTv 6 integrates with WHS.

Does it use the console? Does it run as a service (a big thing for WHS software since no-one is logged in most of the time)? How does it deal with the WHS folder structure? Does PlaceShifter integrate with the Remote Website?And a million and one other questions.

Now I was just browsing through the feature list for SageTv and it is impressive.

Here are my favorites:

Multiple Tuner Support
Record two or more shows at the same time! No limits to the number of tuners allowed. I can’t seem to find a card with more than two tuners so expandability is great.

SageTV Studio Development Kit (learn more)
Let’s you customize or develop new applications for SageTV . Need I say more?

Support for multiple formats across multiple tuners (can mix MPEG-2 and MPEG-4/DivX hardware encoders). Better and better.

Favorites Manager^TM
Never miss your favorite shows whether it’s first runs, re-runs, or all episodes. This is good since I currently have Google Calendar remind me of shows .

Sounds too good to be true. I’ll let you know how it plays out when I get it. It might be soon, it might not. Stay tuned.

On Blogging

Hugh Macleod, in his imitable way, has a list about why we now blog less:

Here is Reason one:

1. We got busy. For many of us, blogging created opportunities for us in the offline world, just like the early blog evangelists predicted. And as we found out the hard way, it’s actually quite hard to do stuff and blog about it at the same time. As my father, a very smart and observant man once quipped, “A lot of these bloggers seem to have a lot of time on their hands”. That may have been true in 2002, back when the recession was still on. It’s certainly less true with a lot of people I know.

Check the other reasons out.

[via Shel Isreal]

Comic Relief: Ricky Gervais

I saw this earlier this year on BBC Comic Relief and had me crying with laughter. It still does:

PodTech:Will the Internet Still Be Here in 20 Years? Part Two

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