I don't know why Sage doesn't do whatever it takes to acquire the rights to SageMC and make it a first class citizen and the default UI. The photo slide show is cleaner (better transitions which I know is stupid but the wife loves them) the visualizations for music are better (as in there are some.) It just feels slicker. With plug-ins you can do better than a video-ts directory you can mount isos. If Windows 7 has the features of vista plus HD-PVR support I will be buying a couple of Xboxs and switching. Lobster is absolutely amazing when it comes to nuking anything HTPC related, and she just can't seem to break this! I know, a week does not sound that long, but for this house, it's close to a record.and that includes my 4+ years of running XP MCE and Vista MC. I have not had a single lockup since moving to WHS, I have not missed a single channel change since implementing firewire channel changing, and my entire setup has been up and running for over a week with no reboots, no weirdness, no problems. However, I have absolutely no problems with my Vista clients, and Sage server on WHS is absolutely bullettproof. Lobster) and Sage would do well to reverse engineer it into Sage7, but it's just not worth losing the functionality.Īs far as using it as a platform for Sage, I suppose it'll work great. I'm the first one to say that the Vista MC, and the Win7MC UI is absolutely gorgeous (the opinion expressed here is solely my own, as it is instructed to me by Mrs. No HD-PVR support, no client/server support, no WHS/Media Center integration, no VIDEO_TS 's the same garbage in a new flashy(er) package. My impressedness was short lived however as I dug in deeper and found it to pretty much have the exact same functionality as Vista. I launched my XBox 360 and used it a an extender and it looked perfect.
I installed Win7 this past weekend, applied the MP3 fix and installed the drivers for my HDHomeRun using Silicondust's Vista TV-Puke (TV-Pack) installation instructions and was pretty surprised at how well it worked and how easy it was to get clear QAM.