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<a href="http://www.theverge.com/2012/7/26/3188845/google-fiber-tv" target="_blank">http://www.theverge.com/2012/<u></u>7/26/3188845/google-fiber-tv</a><br>
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New competition for Myth? Thoughts?<br>
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Google Fiber TV is the evolution of SageTV. SageTV was bought by<br>
Google a little over a year ago. The SageTV founder and CEO (Jeffrey<br>
Kardatzke) confirmed yesterday that SageTV is the core of the Google<br>
Fiber TV<br>
(<a href="https://plus.google.com/106418316475648112522/posts/7NLbtpJUdvC" target="_blank">https://plus.google.com/<u></u>106418316475648112522/posts/<u></u>7NLbtpJUdvC</a>)<br>
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SageTV was a commercial cross-platform, client/server Java PVR with<br>
JNI interfaces for dealing with tuners. Then sold server (backend)<br>
software for Windows, OSX, and Linux. You could either run the client<br>
(frontend) on the same machine, another PC, or on their Sigma designs<br>
based thin client media extender (HD100 / HD200 / HD300). The media<br>
extenders gave perfect HD playback including de-interlacing, native<br>
output resolution / frame-rate switching, and the ability to play BD<br>
rips, all in 15w (HD100) and down to 7w (HD300) at the end.<br>
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To me, the Google Fiber setup sounds like the SageTV server running on<br>
a headless server with 2TB of storage, and (probably) IPTV tuning.<br>
Their "TV" box sounds like a new generation HDx00 media extender.<br>