HTPCentric

You’ve heard Tim and I go back and forth about SageTV vs. Windows Media Center.  Believe me when I tell you that we’re not the only people out there who are passionate about which HTPC software they use or the reasons behind it.

On Friday, March 13th, you’ll get to hear it hashed out for real as Tim and I are joined by Josh Pollard, co-host of Entertainment 2.0, Brent Evans of Geektonic and Josh, the Minnesota Maven in a two-on-two grudge match between software.

With Tim and Brent taking up the cause for SageTV and Josh and I taking up for Media Center, Josh Pollard be stuck in the middle trying to moderate.  While I don’t think anyone will change their mind about which software they use, You’ll get a chance to hear people with a lot of knowledge on the subject help you make a decision.

Again, the show will be posted on Friday, March 13th.  We look forward to hearing your questions and comments.

We’re back!  It’s been awhile since we’ve had the chance to get together and push out an episode of the show but we wanted to get one out this week.  Sometimes real life has to interfere unfortunately.

On this episode of the show we take time to talk a bit about other HTPC software options.  Specifically BeyondTV and MythTV.  While Tim has some experience with BeyondTV, it’s been awhile now and neither of us have ever used Myth. 

The main focus of the show today however is SageTV plugins.  These are apps created by the community to help extend and and expand your SageTV experience.  Since this is Tim’s forte, I let him take the reigns for the show to feature some of the better ones.

Notes:

• Sage Web User Interface
• Comskip Monitor
• DVRMSToolbox
• SageMC STV
• Media Scraper

Thanks for listening to this week’s show!  We should have a special episode for you on Friday and I look forward not only to recording it but hearing what the community has to say.  You can follow Adam and Tim on Twitter or email the show to reach us.

Click Here to download Episode 3

Tim and I were able to get together and record episode one of HTPCentric for all of you out there listening.  I’ll ask you to excuse the quality on this one as we didn’t have the perfect setup.  That’ll be fixed for the next show and quality should jump up a lot.

I hope you enjoy the first episode even with the issues we had.  Stick with us and you’ll get to hear us argue more about our systems as well as talk about other aspects of Home Theater PC.  I think next week I’ll try and explain to Tim why he needs to invest in surround sound.

Click here to download the latest episode. 

Starting tomorrow the show should be available in iTunes and if you subscribe to the feed for the blog in your favorite podcast software (Zune for me.) it should update automatically.