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Message: <blockquote data-quote="gtfreymann" data-source="post: 775347" data-attributes="member: 114733">LOL. It means I'm getting closer!! I'm waiting on delivery of my new 2TB drive and when that gets here I can indeed switch out the SageTV and go with the new MP.I've done a lot of playing with HTPC systems over the last 5 years.I started with LinuxMCE 7.10 Beta but started a bit too early as nothing worked. After a week of hassles I gave up on it.I then installed MythBuntu 7.10 and it went in very easily. I had to tinker a bit with the IR Blasting there too, but even so in one day I had it working with the master in the basement and clients throughout the house.I then had a chance to do what I'm doing now, play with a spare box and tried LinuxMCE 7.10 when it was released and this time everything worked. It was more fun (to me) and I switched over to it for about a year. The wife hated it. It took a week to make the slightest change and unfortunately I found their forums to be the worst I've ever participated in. I gave up on LinuxMCE not so much because their software was bad, but because their people were horrible.We went with VistaMCE and Linksys Extenders after that. That worked out well except for the cost of buying all the extenders. When Linksys stopped supporting the extenders and the codecs started to change (upgrade) the extenders started to fall behind. Eventually one failed and I had to think of something else.In came SageTV. Again, I had to outlay some money at the start, but we did get the 30 day trial period and everything worked great so I bought a bunch of licenses and one HD300 extender.I was about to buy another HD300 extender but then Google bought them up and the store was closed. Now we're all in limbo wondering what is going to happen to SageTV.I'm pretty sure a lot of us SageTV users are giving Media Portal a good look over.My setup is pretty simple. Even though every TV in the house supports HD and wide screen we still have 3 SD satellite receivers and don't feel like buying new receivers and paying Bell even more money each month. The PVR-150 cards work well and are supported by every piece of software I've ever tinkered with. I bought a couple for spares just in case one in the server ever fails. That's how I"ve been able to 'test' with the new box.I will sell the HD300 and use the money to buy a Zotac MAG to replace it. I'll also have the old SageTV server computer to sell off. And I'll have some extra parts in case of failures.The new media drive is coming Friday so who know, on Sunday (when I actually have some free time) I may make the swap!</blockquote>

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