Based in Europe, the MP community really is not well suited for developing the US TV market. It has come a long way in its development.

Media Portal seems to have far more configurable settings, and their configuration program seems to be far better suited for dealing with the various external plugins or internal features.Ī little more about Media Portal. SageTV again requires all changes to be made in the Viewscape or directly to its Sage.properties file (their equivalent to BTV's settings.xml). Non-TV setup in SageTV is about on par with Media Portal, however Media Portal offers a configuration program similar to BeyondTV’s Webadmin, where all configurations can be entered or tweaked beyond the initial setup of folders etc. Part 2 - Non-PVR functionality – SageTV compared Media Portal This is part 2 of the article: BeyondTV Plus MediaPortal vs SageTV – Redux To read Part one click here Basic guidelines for writing and submitting a guest post at GeekTonic can be found here. NOTE: This is a guest post by ZetaVu, a GeekTonic reader and frequent guest-blogger on GeekTonic. It’s a long one so I’m breaking it out into two parts – one which I posted early Thursday. I’ve noted a few corrections or “clarifying notes” where I thought they would be helpful to other readers, but otherwise I’m posting this review verbatim as provided to me by ZetaVu. ZetaVu is a pretty hard-core user with some pretty specific needs, but you can’t argue that he put some serious time into trying things out. So after posting a how-to on switching from BeyondTV to SageTV I thought I’d share with you a counter-point guest-post by a long-time BeyondTV user who tried to switch to SageTV, but couldn’t make the move in the long run. I still have BeyondTV installed on a test PC but have since switched to SageTV for my whole-home HTPC needs. As many GeekTonic readers know, I was a long-time user of BeyondTV.

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