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Originally Posted by MickMcGeough
I've never used Win7+PS3 so I can't really say how it compares to that.
The biggest advantages to having a custom SageTV (or MythTV - I hear that's good) build that might be harder to get with most setups:
- Auto commercial cutting and video transcoding/archiving
- Auto DVD importing/ripping
- Customizable UI
- Full HD PVR
- Stream your TV to the web (real-time transcoding)
- Cheap extenders (SageTV client extenders are $200 for other rooms - pause your show in one room and finish watching in another)
Streaming TV is one of the coolest things. SageTV natively supports streaming to a browser so if you've got a TV Tuner card you can watch all your recordings and live channels through a browser from anywhere. I've got Orb installed which does the same thing but it streams anything - recordings, live TV (analog only though), etc. to my iPhone.
The only real disadvantage I can think of is that the setup isn't for the faint of heart. It's incredibly powerful but you've got to be prepared to put some time in to get everything set up the way you like it.
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F'n brilliant man. I could yak your ears off for hours over this setup.