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[drvnbysound]

Hello all! I am a techie person who loves tinkering with anything electronic - from car audio to photography. I have been getting into (primarily reading) about Home Automation for the past year or so, and have since begun to install controllable light switches and receptacles in my home. I am getting ready to add take the plunge into a whole-home media server. I will admit that SageTV was my first choice, but for those who dont know, they were bought out by Google a number of months ago, and it doesn't appear that the capability it offered will be available via the next GoogleTV release. That being said, I am looking into various alternatives and WDTV is one of them. I know the WDTV devices are amazing extenders with a ton of capability - it seems like they can play every media format that you throw at it.

However, I have not seen anything regarding DVR functionality, and wanted to find out if I was missing anything, or if that was actually the case? I would love to have the ability to have a single media server, that schedules TV recordings, stores my DVD, Blu-Ray, and music libraries, and is able to be accessed via extenders - preferably small-form factor ones that can fit behind a wall-mounted LCD and go unnoticed - a glaring problem with WMC and Xbox extenders.

From what I have seen so far, it looks like I might have to go with 2 separate systems, but I hope that is not the case.

Thanks in advance for your responses. I look forward to learning more about WDTV and possibly buying some hardware soon.

- drvnbysound