LOL Collin - I didn't even realize Sage had the ability to do some of those things. Nice to know!
My strategy was no modifications to Sage (including auto-comm skip, etc.) until everything was reliable, stable and no issues with HD or SD recording/watching. Another week without issue and I plan to add comm-skip, caller-id, folders/sorting, etc.
Absolutely! They are perfect for SD viewing. My antenna install finished perfectly today and we watched the Panthers game recorded in HD and transcoded on the fly to SD without issue (except no FF/RW - just jump forward/backward). A couple HD MVPs and my setup will be perfect! Kids were on another TV watching DVDs while we watched this transcoded football game and CPU utilization only hit 22%. Not bad My server is headless and is quite reliable so far. I have it sleep after 1 hour of inactivity and have had no issue (except it doesn't wake for MVP use... and my HVPro will take care of that)Would you agree that MVPs are somewhat of a "must do" thing if you still have SD TVs in your home?
My strategy was no modifications to Sage (including auto-comm skip, etc.) until everything was reliable, stable and no issues with HD or SD recording/watching. Another week without issue and I plan to add comm-skip, caller-id, folders/sorting, etc.