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SageTV 6.0: Now with Google Video
by Brad Linder Dec 19th 2006
Probably the biggest new feature is the inclusion of online video. Right now, that means you can access content from Google Video from your couch. You can browse through videos online just as easily as you can schedule and watch television recordings with SageTV 6.0. There are plans to add other online video services in the future.
There's also a new function that lets you save unencrypted DVDs to your desktop and view them through SageTV, with the original menus and special features intact. Add to that support or a number of new audio and video file formats including AAC, and SageTV's got a pretty solid release on their hands. There's a free upgrade for SageTV 5.0 users. If you've got version 4.0 or earlier, you can upgrade for $30. Everyone else will have to pony up $80, although there is a 15-day free trial.
The other big announcement is that SageTV has launched a $30 "placeshifter" client for Mac. While SageTV currently runs only on Windows and Linux, you can run Placeshifter on a Mac to schedule and watch recordings through the internet or your home network.
SageTV CEO Mike Machado tells PVR Wire in this week's podcast that a full version of the software for Mac is due out early next year.
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
