SageTV Media Center 5.0 has just been released and it becomes the first full-featured personal video recorder/media center software product to offer placeshifting capabilities enabling users to access their live or recorded TV, music and photos on any PC you are away from home. The integration of PVR and placeshifting functionality in a single system yields better video quality and faster navigation than a separate placeshifting box connected to a PVR while also costing significantly less than purchasing two separate solutions.

Mike Machado, the CEO for SageTV said, “You don’t need an extra piece of hardware on your network, you don’t need to pay monthly subscription fees for a PVR service, you avoid the losses in video quality caused by having to rerecord the recorded video, and you don’t have to wait while the box sends IR commands to a PVR, records the TV signal and sends it for decoding.”

With SageTV’s new placeshifting feature, users can watch live or recorded TV from their home network as well as access their music and photo libraries from any PC with an Internet connection. The placeshifting function can be used to stream video to any computer or TV with any wireless 802.11b connection around.

SageTV Media Center also allows family members at home or away, or in different locations in the house, to watch the programs of their choice without being affected by each other’s viewing habits. The good thing about this piece of software is it work on old computer with Pentium III 600MHz or AMD Athlon 600MHz. We believe everyone can affords this old type of PC anytime.

Version 5.0 of SageTV Media Center for Windows and SageTV Media Center Linux OEM Edition is available immediately at www.sagetv.com. Its not expensive and its not cheap. Its just nice for a great and stability software from SageTV. Head over to SageTV site for more information.

P/S: Thanks to Stephanie for sending in this news and images for us.