Originally posted by: psxjunky
Originally posted by: superflysocal
best thing i like about snapstream is the ability to broadcast tv to any computer on the network or even over the internet....basically i turned my laptop to a truly portable tv i can take around the house. yes i know you can do that with windows media encoder but with snapstream you can change the channels also, turning it to a true tv. can sagetv do this?
SageTV has a dedicated client application that you can run anywhere on your network. You can not only play back recorded shows thru this client, but also can view channel guide, schedule recordings, view live TV ... basically do pretty much everything that you can do using the SageTV server app.
Theoretically you could do this over the internet provided your firewall is properly setup and you have a fat enough data pipe between the two locations. Also, SageTV records programs directly into MPEG2 files, so you can always access those files directly and play them thru any other app if you wish.
Remote recording scheduling thru the web is one thing that BeyondTV does now that SageTV doesn't do yet ... but version 2.0 of SageTV is supposed to have this feature. Public beta testing of version 2.0 is going on right now and all registered users of SageTV v1.4 are eligible to download the v2.0 beta and use it.
Also, all registered users of v1.4 SageTV will get v2.0 for FREE once it is released.