SageTV Media Center

SageTV lets you enjoy your favorite TV shows and online video when you want, wherever you want! Browse, search and watch all the latest online video from Google Video from the comfort of your couch with SageTV Media Center.

Enjoy the most popular online videos, news, movie trailers, TV shows, comedy, music videos and more at the push of a button on your remote control.

SageTV makes it easy to browse or search for your favorite shows and record them so they're ready for you to watch whenever you want. Record a whole season of shows at the press of a button!

Supported Analog TV Tuners with Hardware Encoding:

Adaptec VideOh! DVD Media Center Edition (PCI only)

ATI eHome Wonder

ATI Theater 550 chipset, including those by GeCube, Sapphire, Gigabyte, MSI, PowerColor, Tul, VisionTek and Yuan (with V3 or later)

ATI TV Wonder Elite (V3 or later)

AVerMedia M150

AVerMedia M175

AVerMedia M1A2 Dual Tuner PCI

AVerMedia UltraTV Media Center PCI 500

AVerMedia UltraTV Media Center PCI 550

AVerMedia UltraTV 1500MCE

AVerMedia M038 USB

AverMedia M780

Creative Labs Video Blaster Digital VCR

Hauppauge Roslyn

Hauppauge WinTV-HVR-1600

Hauppauge WinTV-PVR-150

Hauppauge WinTV-PVR-150MCE

Hauppauge WinTV-PVR-250

Hauppauge WinTV-PVR-250BTV

Hauppauge WinTV-PVR-250MCE

Hauppauge WinTV-PVR-350

Hauppauge WinTV-PVR-500MCE

Hauppauge WinTV-PVR-USB2

nVidia DualTV

Plextor ConvertX M-402U

Plextor ConvertX TV-402U

Prolink Pixelview PlayTV P7000

Provideo PV256 Series

Provideo PV258 Series

Provideo PV259

Provideo PV358T

Vista View Saber 2020

Yuan MPG-600

Yuan MPG-843

Yuan PG-600

Other MPEG-2 encoding cards based on the Conexant IVAC-15, IVAC-16, CX23415, CX23416 or StreamMachine 2210 Codec should function correctly but may not have been tested.

Tuners compatible with Windows MCE should work, but not all of them have been tested.

Supported DVB Tuners (requires SageTV V6 or later):

Cinergy 2400i DT Capture

Dvico FusionHDTV USB

FireDTV DVB-T/CI (supports PayTV through CAM/CI)

FloppyDTV T/CI (supports PayTV through CAM/CI)

Hauppauge WinTV Nova-T-Stick USB

Happauge WinTV Nova-T-USB

Kworld VStream DVBT100

Kworld VStream XPERT DTV-DVB-T PCI

Leadtek DTV1000

Pinnacle PCTV Dual DVB-T Pro PCI

Provideo's PV913

Technotrend DVB-T/C 1300 (supports PayTV through CAM/CI)

VisionPlus/Twinhan TwinhanDTV (VP-3021)

Most USB Stick devices using the Dibcom 7700 Chipset should work, but not all of them have been tested.

FireDTV DVB-C (supports PayTV through CAM/CI)

Technotrend Budget C-1500 (supports PayTV through CAM/CI)

Most other BDA based DVB-T/C cards should work with Version 6.1 or later but may not have been tested.

Supported OTA HDTV Tuners (requres SageTV V5 or later):

ATI HDTV Wonder

AVerMedia AVerTVHD MCE A180

AverMedia M780

Conexant CX23883 ATSC based cards

Dvico FusionHDTV5 Lite

Dvico FusionHDTV3 Gold-T

Dvico FusionHDTV5 Gold Plus

Dvico FusionHDTV5 USB Gold

Hauppauge WinTV-HVR-1600

Hauppauge WinTV-HVR-950

OnAir HDTV-GT

Philips x237 PCI 7133 ATSC based cards

Vbox Cat's Eye 164e PCI-e dual tuner

VBox DTA-150/151 ATSC card

VBox USB-A 3560 device

Most other BDA based ATSC cards should work with Version 5 or later but may not have been tested.

Supported ClearQAM HDTV Tuners (requres SageTV V6.1 or later):

OnAir HDTV-GT

HDHome Run from Silicon Dust

Supported TV Tuners with Software Encoding (requires SageTV V5 or later):

Plextor AV100U

Plextor TV100U

Most other WDM capture devices should work with Version 5 or later but have not yet been tested. The above list will be updated as other cards are tested.


Requirements:

Minimum 128Mb RAM and a Recommended 256Mb RAM

For Hardware Encoding: Intel Pentium III, Celeron or AMD Athlon at 600 MHz or VIA 800MHz or faster

For Software Encoding: Intel Pentium 4, Celeron or AMD Athlon 1.5 Ghz and above

DirectX v9.0 or higher available freely from Microsoft.

Java Runtime Environment 1.4 or higher available freely from Sun Microsystems

Video Card: PCI/AGP bus graphics card with overlay. NOTE: While it is recommended that your Windows graphics card drivers support DirectX9 for optimum performance, it is not required.


Limitations:

15 days trial