Unfortunately, Home Media Networks (the maker of ShowShifter) are slow on updating ShowShifter, so they lost me as a customer while I was waiting for hardware encoding support and EPG. However, they did not provide an EPG and did not support hardware encoding cards. ShowShifter worked fine and offered a complete suite with PVR, DVD, a photo module, a very good music module and a movie archive. Software that I have not testet seriously: SageTV, MythTV, MediaPortal

Microsoft Media Center Edition 2005 (MCE) Meedio + Beyond TV (+ tested Beyond Media)ĥ.

Early experiments with an ATI All-in-wonder RADEON and the ATI Media CenterĤ. I have been messing around with home theatre PCs (HTPCs) for a couple of years. So, you’ll be better of with Windows MCE than with a Tivo.įor flexibility, total freedom and control: MythTV and MediaPortalįor usability: Microsoft Media Center Edition 2005 (MCE) Still, even Microsoft haven’t implemented something like the Tivo “we’ll delete whatever we want”-functionallity. Open solutions like MythTV and MediaPortal suddenly became even more interesting. You can buy this VHS tape, but you’ll hand over the keys to your apartment so that the content producers can come and take it when they decide that you shouldn’t be able to watch your recording anymore. Tivo has recently made headlines as people have discovered a horrible functionallity that lets content providers delete shows on your box. We’ve seen how Google’s developer efforts are designed to stimulate innovation across the web, and as developers have played a core role in the success of SageTV, we think our shared vision for open technology will help us advance the online entertainment experience.Here you find my complete list with links to all the HTPC-frontends I know of. By teaming up with Google, we believe our ideas will reach an even larger audience of users worldwide on many different products, platforms and services. And as the media landscape continues to evolve, we think it’s time our vision of entertainment management grows as well. Since 2002, we’ve worked to change the TV viewing experience by building cutting-edge software and technology that allows you to create and control your media center from multiple devices. We're also now thrilled that Google let us open source the SageTV platform! The source code is now available on GitHub. We’re thrilled to announce that SageTV has been acquired by Google.

Sagetv beyondtv