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| SiliconDust HDHR-US HDHomeRun Networked Digital TV Tuner (White) | 
 enlarge | Brand: SiliconDust USA, Inc
Category: CE
List Price: $169.99 (€134.29)
Buy New: $159.00 (€125.61)
You Save: $10.99 (€8.68) (6%)
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (30 reviews)
Sales Rank: 807
Color: white
Media: Electronics
Memorabilia: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2
Dimensions (in): 7.8 x 3.3 x 10
MPN: HDHR-US
Model: HDHR-US
UPC: 094922698360
EAN: 0094922698360
ASIN: B0010Y414Q
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | 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 | | • | 1 year warranty |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Product Description
With HDHomeRun, you can receive all unencrypted DTV and HDTV content delivered by your cable provider, even if you don?t have a ''digital cable'' package. With HDHomeRun and an antenna, you can get HDTV broadcasts in your area.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 25 more reviews...
 Love it January 3, 2009
What a great product! Using my Terk desktop antenna, I can watch over-the-air HDTV on my Windows desktop and my Linux laptop. A couple warnings: (1) you need a router to assign an IP to the device, (2) you need a pretty decent system -- I can't play HD content on my Pentium 4 1.8 GHz system, but I can play it on my Core 2 Duo 2.4 Ghz system, (3) tuning is different than with a television -- you use the channel's frequency number instead of the channel number itself, (4) if you save HD content to disk, then you will need about 6-8 GB of storage per hour of video depending on the bit rate of the source.
Best Linux HDTV solution to date December 28, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I use this for watching OTA HDTV channels on my Gentoo Linux workstation. It does that job admirably and with none of the driver issues that plague other Linux TV solutions. It consumes about 15-20% of my 3GHz quad-core processor when the real-time HDTV stream is being displayed on the desktop.
It comes with a single CD that contains no manual, and almost no software. You have to go to the SiliconDust website to get information on how to install and run it. It's really fairly simple if you already have a DHCP server running on your network, and an application capable of streaming video (ala VLC on Linux). There's an ebuild for Gentoo available on the http://bugs.gentoo.org bugzilla that installs the config program and the config GUI. Then plug the HDHomeRun into your network and the DHCP server assigns it an address. Attach the antenna or cable input. Then run the config GUI, and it will find the device on the network and allow you to scan the channels and open a VLC window to watch the stream. When you're not actively streaming the box shuts down automatically to avoid wasting network bandwidth.
Took me about 10 minutes to go from out-of-the-box to watching 1080p HDTV on my Gentoo box. That's amazing.
HD Home Run, hits a grand slam! December 25, 2008
If you have over the air TV, or QAM sat. this unit makes using MythTV, or Sage TV, a snap!
 Great QAM tuner November 12, 2008
Great product. Dual tuners, and multipe PC access to the unit, what more could you ask for? Very well integrated with the Vista Media center. Highly recomend using it on a wired network. 802.11n may work, if your signal is strong enough.
Works great. Excellent concept. October 30, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This box works great once it is set up. I like the idea that it comes without software and documentation, that way you get the latest version available when you install it. I have tried it with Vista Ultimate, Sage TV and Media Portal. It worked fine with all of them. The picture quality cannot be faulted in any way, it is VERY good.
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