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SageTV HD200 – DTS Shortfall and How To Overcome It
BrentEvans | 19 hours ago by Brent
Do you have lots of MKV files? Do those MKV files have DTS only audio tracks? Don't have a DTS capable receiver/TV? Then SAGEAudioConvert is for you. NOTE: This is a guest post by David. Basic guidelines for writ read more
Build your own DVR from an old PC
HacknMod - You name it. We hack it. | December 19th 2009 by joe426
A DVR (Digital Video Recorder) helps all TV addicts record their favorite TV shows but a branded product like TiVo can be expensive. Instead, learn to make your own PC based DVR by following this thorough tutorial. A custom built DVR lets you do a read more
Windows 7 MCE + DVBLink for HDPVR = HD Happiness
BrentEvans | December 14th 2009 by Brent
Readers of GeekTonic know I’m a fan of the Hauppauge HD-PVR and it’s ability to take component video in and allow you to record all of your Cable or Satellite channels on your HTPC. You probably also know that’s supported with HTP read more
Deal: SiliconDust HDHomeRun HDHR
Multimedia-PCs | December 1st 2009 by jeremywjones
The SiliconDust HDHomeRun HDHR is on sale right now for only $124 with free shipping. The HDHomeRun is a dual qam network tuner. It works with Windows, Mac and Linux. I know a lot of people use these with MythTV, Windows Media Center or SageTv and read more
Solving the HD PVR 0x8007001f error in SageTV
Matthew S. Dippel | November 30th 2009 by Matthew Dippel
This saga has extended about a year now, but I have finally solved my HD-PVR problems and since it seems like a lot of folks have been hitting the wall on this one, I thought I'd put together how a year's worth of spare-time research resulted in a re read more
Month in Review – October 2009
BrentEvans | November 1st 2009 by Brent
October 2009 turned out to be the biggest month (by a large margin!) ever at GeekTonic in terms of pageviews and number of readers – thanks to all of you for frequenting GeekTonic! Thanks to an increasing readership, I’m working on a read more
Week in Review – October 26
BrentEvans | October 26th 2009 by Brent
Below is a quick summary of the past week's news and stories on GeekTonic. It’s been busy as always these last few weeks, but plenty of news to share: SageTV Remote for the Palm Pre – A remote app for controlling your SageTV HTPC via read more
CableCard and SageTV Sittin’ in a Tree
BrentEvans | October 20th 2009 by Brent
One of the things Microsoft has had over competing HTPC software makers was the CableCard tuner which allows native tuning of all digital CableTV content whether it is encrypted or not. Yes you can do this with the Hauppauge HD-PVR as I con read more
GlideTV: Smooth, Egg-Shaped Media Remote
Gadgetz World | October 16th 2009 by ahsan shakil
he is a couch GlideTV mouse, something very practical when many of us watch TV and movies on our computer screens. It works via USB, a plug and play dongle into the machine. From there you can move the cursor with a touch pad control, and there are a read more
SageTV HD Theater Beta Update
BrentEvans | October 15th 2009 by Brent
The SageTV team has now released two new beta firmware updates for their popular HD Theater (HD200) Player/Extender. Nothing Earth-shattering, but a few nice improvements/updates were included. The most recent version adds support for N read more
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SageTV HD200 – DTS Shortfall and How To Overcome It
Do you have lots of MKV files? Do those MKV files have DTS only audio tracks? Don't have a DTS capable receiver/TV? Then SAGEAudioConvert is for you. NOTE: This is a gu…
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Solving the HD PVR 0x8007001f error in SageTV
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CableCard and SageTV Sittin’ in a Tree
One of the things Microsoft has had over competing HTPC software makers was the CableCard tuner which allows native tuning of all digital CableTV content whether it is encrypted or not. Yes…
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SageTV HD Theater Beta Update
The SageTV team has now released two new beta firmware updates for their popular HD Theater (HD200) Player/Extender. Nothing Earth-shattering, but a few nice improvements/updates were included…
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SageTV Beta for Mac Version – Snow Leapard Support
SageTV, the popular multi-OS HTPC software has released beta version V6.6.2 for the SageTV Mac versions. The main (possibly only) purpose for this beta is to test Snow Leopard compatibility.&#…
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SageTV PlayOn Add-on Brings Hulu Netflix Amazon VOD and other Online Video
Last week I told you about a 3rd pary add-on being developed for SageTV that would give SageTV users easy access to Hulu and other online video content from their HTPC. Last night, that applicat…
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Hulu and SageTV – For Real This Time via 3rd Party Solution
We SageTV HTPC users had pretty much given up on the hope of having a good Hulu app inside of SageTV after the Hulu vs. Boxee debacle and hearing from SageTV’s CTO that they had for now abandoned th…
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Tutorial: How to Convert from BeyondTV to SageTV
I’ve spent a good deal of time with different Home Theater PC software programs over the years, but in the past several years, my home’s media has been powered by Snapstream’s BeyondTV HTPC…
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