SageTV's STX-HD100 media extender is available starting today. You can pick the set top box up for $199 from the SageTV store. SageTV also plans to offer a $249 bundle in the future that will get you an STX-HD100 and SageTV software.Brent Evans got his hands on a review unit and wrote up a pretty extensive review. Overall Evans was impressed, but he does complain that the remote control does not have universal features to control your TV and while the unit comes with AV cables, there are no HDMI or component cables for HDTV.
Nitpicking aside, the STX-HD100 is reportedly quiet, easy to use, and supports a ton of file formats including AVI, ASF, MPEG-1/2/4, MKV, QuickTime, MP4, OGG, WMV, H.264, VOB, MP3, AAC, AC3, FLAC, and WMA. It also sports 2 USB ports on the front that are currently inactive, but could be used in the future to add support for a keyboard, external hard drive or other device.
I'm still a bit skeptical that there's going to be a ton of demand for these boxes, since they are designed to work only with SageTV software, which is probably still a pretty small niche. How hard would it have been to throw some Windows Vista Media Center compatibility in there?
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12-10-2007 @ 7:02PM
Dave Zatz said...
Not to mention it's pretty hard to sell media extenders... no retail presence makes it that much more difficult. Having said that, Brent seems pretty fired up! PS We'll be giving away that unit on ZNF later this week. :)
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