HDHomeRun – Networked Digital TV Tuner for Windows, Mac, and Linux PCs
By Alexander Grundner |
September 13th, 2006
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Here’s an intriguing device. HDHomeRun is basically a network connected dual over-the-air digital TV tuner whose stream can be accessed and viewed through multiple computers using VLC, MythTV 0.20+, and soon Windows MCE and BeyondTV. It’s a mystery how this technology works in practice, but I for one would love to see it in action. HDHomeRun will be available to the public September 15th and is priced at $169.
Specifications:
- 8-VSB (ATSC over-the-air digital TV)
- IR Receiver (38kHz)
- 100baseTX high speed network
- Open source drivers/support
* Order direct from 9th Tee
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I may have to get one of these….
after seeing some reviews of course
Boy, I have a USB tv tuner connected to my linux NAS and I can tell you that this baby uses lots of bandwidth to get good quality video through the network. I suspect this thing will bring your network down to a crawl for half decent video unless the product is doing some seriouly good [yet bad at the same time] compression.
unless this thing can do h.264 in realtime, which I doubt, this will be a network hog.
F.
This is a real interesting product and the price is right. If this thing pans out it would be a great excuse for me to ditch my digital cable all together.
With something like this for the HD local chans + a device like say… Apples new iTV I could easily disconnect from the cable line (for TV anyway, i would still need it for internet until FIOS, rolls out in my area.)
There doesn’t seem to be any video output on this, so I guess you have to use a computer to process the content? interesting….
There’s a review up at http://techwandering.com It also mentions various ways of viewing content using the HDHomeRun.