SageTV HD Theater Expert Reviews

Streaming boxes are a mixed bag these days. With super-polished commercial offerings like the AppleTV, as well as streaming functionality integrated in every other consumer electronics device-from the Xbox 360 to the TiVo-we thought the age of the ...

The HD Theater effectively extends the capabilities of your SageTV Media Center to other rooms in your home. Connect the HD Theater to a wired network, and you'll be able to stream recorded TV, live TV, music, movies, and photos from the host PC to ...

Practically every device in my house (save for the counter-top fryer) doubles as a media streamer, blasting movies, music or even photos from one side of the house to some screen on the other. The SageTV HD Theater is different, though: It's smaller, ...

Combination of standalone mode, extender capabilities, and web video make it a steal for the price. Sports all the A/V connections du jour (component, composite, HDMI, SPDIF, S-Video). Plays media in a ton of formats: MPEG, H.264, WMV, AVI, AAC, FLAC ...

No integrated Wi-Fi. Flashing status lights are ridiculously bright. Switch from "extender" mode to "standalone" requires a power cycle. Remote is unnecessarily complicated and hardly universal. Mediocre quality for web video. Sorry home audio buffs, ...

way to watch all of your media and millions of Internet videos on your home HDTV. It's much smaller than its predecessor, the stereo-component-size SageTV HD Media Extender, but the new unit still manages to pack in the same features. These include ...

Smooth local network streaming, even in high definition. Small size. Includes plenty of cables and a full-featured remote. USB ports finally work

Still no Wi-Fi capability. Sparse, boring selection of online content. Plenty of hiccups in online streaming performance. Some stability issues

The SageTV HD Theater isn't the killer, must-have media extender we've been waiting for. It's a decent box, but only if you skip the online video section and stick with USB or network streaming.

The SageTV HD Theater is akin to Western Digital's WD TV HD Media Player in that it can stream music and video to your television independent of a computer-that means you...

Computer-independent, inexpensive, HDMI output, 1080p, 10-foot user interface, very extensible, Ethernet interface

Insufficient documentation, should support more file formats, slightly buggy