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Message: <blockquote data-quote="foxbenw" data-source="post: 787364" data-attributes="member: 115475">HelloI was new to SageTV a few months ago. I bought one of their awesome extenders and got most of the software running how i wanted... then, literally about a week after I had most of it working and was delighted with my new set up, they were bought by Google and stopped selling those extenders. So I have decided to move on and find an alternative, given the likely lack of future support and no new extenders. Very frustrating. I am quite new to the htpc world, having never had a good place to put a server alongside a tv aerial until recently - although have always wanted to.Having done a bit of research, my first stop for where to try next has been MediaPortal. (I am not particularly interested in MCE due to its lack of pc based extenders, although it does seem to have a great GUI and the money behind it will presumably ensure that it gets all the good IPTV providers). XBMC looks nice but no built in TV.MediaPortal seems pretty cool so far to be honest. But I have a couple of things to clarify if that is ok. I hope someone can help.1) There is no transcoding from the server side? So any extenders/clients I use need to have decent graphics performance and I need a good network connection. (I tend to use AV500 homeplugs). The new Zotac nanos look pretty cool for this. Particularly as it sounds like they will be doing an E-450 version too.2) From the TV Series plugin forum it looks like there is no easy way to support box sets of tv series? I got MyMovies working well on SageTV - when i clicked on 'series 1' for a particular show, instead of showing all the different epsiodes at once it would show the different discs in a context menu. Each of the discs would have info on the episodes included on it but only one play option, which is to play the disc.Thanks for any help! I don't want to go too far if I am not going to get what I want from the software.Ben</blockquote>

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