SageTV HD Extender Available Today!

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Thousands of SageTV fans just wet their pants today in anticipation of SageTV finally releasing their HD extender. In race that few watched, SageTV was able to beat the dedicated Vista extenders out the door by at least a day :). Even more impressive is that they did it for a $200 price point. Congrats to Sage!!

What are you going to get? The HD extender from Sage supports just about every file format out there and you get a virtual duplication of the SageTV UI. Brent also mentioned they will be having a $249 bundle that includes the HD Extender and SageTV Media Center Server license. Pretty good deal. 

Click read more to see the unit’s full specs. 

You can head over to SageTV’s HD Extender product page to pick one up. 

Brent Evan’s review is also up.

Just as they did with their SD Extender, SageTV made the user interface on the extender mirror the SageTV server interface. Anyone familiar with the SageTV HTPC screens will feel right at home with the HD Extender. Each of the SageTV plugins (STVi’s) I tried worked fine on the HD Extender. As I mentioned above, the interface is very responsive to the remote – more-so by far than our old Time Warner Cable DVR box. Changing channels and jumping through the menus on this extender were extremely fast. The user-interface animations worked well on it and you definitely do NOT get the feeling you are dealing with a Home Theater PC here. It just feels like an extension of your television albeit a much more powerful and useful one.

 

 

Video format supported: MPEG1, MPEG2, MPEG4, H.264 up to 1080p, AVI, VOB, WMV9/VC-1 up to 1080p

Audio format suppported: MP2, MP3, AAC, WMA, Vorbis (stereo only), AC3 (stereo down-mix/pass-through), FLAC, DTS (pass-through)

Video Outputs: 1 HDMI, 1 Component, 1 Composite, 1 S-Video

Audio Outputs: Left/Right audio output and optical S/PDIF

Maximum Number of SageTV Media Extenders: 1 SageTV Media Extender works with SageTV minimum system requirements.
Tested 5 SageTV Media Extenders successfully on 2 Ghz CPU 512MB RAM PC
with average speed disk drive (7200 rpm 8MB cache) and 100Mbps home
network.

TV Set Requirements:

  • HDMI, Component, Composite or S-Video input
  • Left and right audio input jacks, optical or HDMI audio input

Network Requirements:

  • One 10/100 RJ-45 port on a Router, Hub or Switch network with DHCP server on network

    • or

  • Direct connect from SageTV HD Media Extender to PC running DHCP server via cross over LAN cable (not supplied)

Included with the SageTV Media Extender:

  • SageTV HD Media Extender digital media receiver
  • Remote control with batteries
  • 1.5 meter A/V cable set
  • 1.5 meter Ethernet cable
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