SageTV STPHD200 HD Theater
by Sze | Filed under MultiMedia.
SageTV introducs the new STPHD200 HD theater that lets you play your media from your PC, Mac, network storage or USB storage in FullHD on your HDTV. The device also allows you to watch live TV as well as YouTube and other online videos without PC.
The SageTV STPHD200 supports MPEG1/2/4, H.264, WMV9, VC1, MKV, MOV, AVI, FLV videos, AAC, MP3, WMA, FLAC music and JPEG, PNG and GIF images files. HD200 has an Ethernet jack; HDMI, Component, S-Video and Composite video outputs and a USB port on the front.
Update: The Sage TV HD Theater has been released and the price is $199.
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Tags: HD Theater, HD200, SageTV, SageTV HD200, SageTV STPHD200, STPHD200
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I own one of these, and it is a huge disappointment, which I am still trying to sell/return/dispute with my CC company. This unit is by no means, even with the latest beta, a ready for prime time device, and should not be on the market as of May 2009.
Beware before you purchase, if there are issues, and there will be many, make sure you ask specifically for an RMA, and not some assistance etc. if things smell bad so to speak, return it immediately.
They release betas about once a month, and each one introduces at least a dozen new bugs that did not exist previously.
Check the forum before you buy, and also carefully read the specs as this does not have HDMI 3.1 and various audio output types you might expect, and there are many show stopper bugs with certain NAS drives that seem to increase with each beta release (which cause a roll back, which essentially means you can never update).