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HDHomeRun™ Networked Digital HDTV Tuner
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f1000
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Feb 6, 2007, 07:08 PM
 
HDHomeRun™ Networked Digital TV Tuner

Watch over-the-air digital TV from all computers in your home
Dual tuners - Record/watch multiple channels at once

Works with popular DVR software:
Pause, rewind, fast-forward live TV.
Record all your favorite TV shows by name.
Fully integrated 14-day TV guide.

Compatible With:
Windows Media Center:
MCE 2005 (beta driver).
Vista MCE 32-bit (beta driver).
Vista MCE 64-bit (coming soon).
SnapStream BeyondTV (coming soon)
SageTV - DVR for Windows.
MediaPortal - DVR for Windows (beta driver).
GB-PVR - DVR for Windows (beta driver).
MythTV - DVR for Linux.
Pluto - Home automation & media system.
VLC - Multi-platform media viewer.

Technical Specifications:
8-VSB (ATSC over-the-air digital TV)
QAM64/256 (unencrypted digital cable TV)
IR Receiver (signal PC with a standard remote control)
100baseTX high speed network

products/hdhomerun - Silicondust - Trac
     
f1000  (op)
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Feb 6, 2007, 07:11 PM
 
Seems to be a cool little gadget. Anyone have any experience with it?

http://www.engadgethd.com/2006/10/30...iew-hdhomerun/
     
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The HDHomeRun has separate inputs for each of its two tuners, and having two tuners seems to allow for great user flexibility. For example, two clients could each watch different channels by accessing their own tuner. Alternatively, each tuner can be hooked up to a different input, such as OTA and QAM cable, to provide clients with a variety of viewing options. A third possibility is to allow a client to display one channel while acting as a PVR on the other. If two tuners aren't enough, one can easily add more HDHomeRuns to a network.
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Feb 17, 2007, 04:33 PM
 
It could be very useful to me if it had a USB or SATA port for an external drive to cache programs on until I can hook a computer up to the network to download them.
     
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Feb 17, 2007, 05:45 PM
 
Originally Posted by mduell View Post
It could be very useful to me if it had a USB or SATA port for an external drive to cache programs on until I can hook a computer up to the network to download them.
That's what cheap BSD boxes are for.
     
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Feb 19, 2007, 03:23 PM
 
I own one of these. Marvelous little device. Completely plug-and-play with my MythTV system. If EyeTV supported this, it would be KILLER on the Mac.
     
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How much?

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Feb 19, 2007, 06:55 PM
 
Originally Posted by Big Mac View Post
How much?
List price is $169, but remember that it comes with two tuners. If you already had a 'Nix server though, you could simply plug in two Artec USB HDTV tuners for $39 each (when they're on sale) instead.

Oh, and thanks awaspaas for the testimonial!
     
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Mar 4, 2007, 05:03 AM
 
And, I just whipped up a program in AppleScript Studio that streams its video to VLC without the commandline:



Version 0.1 is released: Silicondust :: View topic - MAC VLC with HDhomerun
( Last edited by awaspaas; Mar 5, 2007 at 12:13 AM. Reason: Edit: link to release)
     
   
 
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