babgvant wrote:If TV, music

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February 10, 2012 at 2:56 pm #6849
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    [quote=babgvant]If TV, music and photos are the only use cases requiring consideration then this is true, otherwise there are huge functional gaps b/w SageTV and 7MC. The most glaring is proper support for non-TV content; for e.g. 7MC extenders don’t support DVDs, HBR audio, BD quality video and the even the PCs are difficult to configure for BD-Lite, M2TS and MP4 playback.

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    My #1 thing for my HTPC is DVRing, that is it. Because PC’s suck at getting high quality video out properly for movies and such I still use a dedicated BD player, in my case the Oppo BDP-93.

     

    However extenders will infact play back M2TS, I “backup” all my kids movies to mkv, then convert them to M2TS for native playback on extenders. 360’s also support DVD playback and doesn’t detract from Extender mode, pop in a dvd, starts playing dvd, stop, goes back to extender mode, you never see the dashboard. While this solution doesn’t work for everyone, it does for my family.

    While there are constraints you have to work within, I still find it a better solution in the end. And has me spending less time supporting the systems vs. actually using the system.

    -Josh