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| SiliconDust HDHR-US HDHomeRun Networked Digital TV Tuner (White) | 
 enlarge | Brand: SiliconDust USA, Inc
Category: CE
List Price: $169.99
Buy New: $149.99
You Save: $20.00 (12%)
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Avg. Customer Rating:  21 reviews
Sales Rank: 412
Color: white
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
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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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 16 more reviews...
 Great HD quality October 3, 2008
Really good HD quality. Works with El gato TV and Mythtv flawlessly on a celeron processor. Kind of expensive but it is the best multiplatform HD tunner you can find right now.
Awesome product.... September 26, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I was debating for a while if I should purchase a mac mini with the hd homerun or an apple tv or tivo. A tivo will cost me $299 plus a monthly cost. The apple tv will cost $299. A mac mini is $599 plus $170 for the hd homerun for a total of $769.
It cost more than tivo or the apple tv but you can do a lot more with a mac mini and hd homerun combined. You can use it as a standalone computer and dvd player.
The hd homerun can record two shows at once and will work just like the tivo.
If you pair the hd homerun with elgato eyetv software this setup becomes superior and easy to use.
The mac mini can do the same as the apple tv. You get less memory on the mini but cheap external hard drives take care of the problem. The mini comes with a remote and front row as well.
Here is my setup:
-Mac Mini 1.83ghz c2d
-Silicon Dust HD HomeRun
-Elgato EyeTV Software
-Google these free plugins for EyeTV: pyetv (integrates eyetv into front row), etvcomskip (skips commercials automatically when watching a recorded show.
-Logitech Dinovo Edge Mac Edition: This is essential to the setup. Its a keyboard with a built it trackpad. No more shuffling between a keyboard and mouse. Its an all in one making life a lot easier.
The hd homerun works perfect. With elgato eyetv software setup was really easy.
2 Years of Reliable Use September 23, 2008
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
What I like about this product is the flexibility a networked device delivers. All the computers in my house can access it as needed: the Linux box running MythTV, the Vista PC running Media Center, the Mac running EyeTV. Even my iPhone can access the HDHomerun to check on antenna signal quality (using an iPhone application I wrote: Signal GH). A tuner in a PCI slot or on a USB dongle would not be nearly as useful and would tend to be harder to setup as special device drivers would be required. And if every computer had its own tuner, my antenna signal strength would be split down to nothing.
I was an early adopter of this gadget, purchasing one in November 2006. It has been reliable and has good sensitivity for over the air broadcasts hooked up to my rooftop antenna. The manufacturer has released a steady stream of firmware updates resulting in a gadget you can rely on not to crash. As a software engineer I'm impressed with the quality of the publicly available code for controlling the device. El Gato sells a package with this tuner and their (really good) EyeTV software for OS X, and I would recommend Mac users go that route.
I've found it to be extremely easy to use with MythTV, making it one of the few easy things about MythTV.
My Kill-A-Watt tells me my HDHomerun draws 6W, which isn't horrible, but something to keep in mind for people worried about yet another constant electricity sink.
Great product at good price September 21, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
SUMMARY: I have had this product for over a year now. I use it with windows media center for Vista and the product works great. The SiliconDust web site was very helpful getting me set up and running. It has all the latest firmware and software you will need.
My TV over the air TV antenna was not located near where I have my PC so I needed something that I could put near my TV Antenna and communicate over a network to my PC. I have the LinkSys Media Center Extender and the HD HomeRun located near my TV and the PC is in another room completely. I have a hardwired network in the house so there are no network issues. My TV has an HD tuner, so I can actually record 2 programs and watch a third program.
I have had absolutely no issues with this product and it has worked great for me for over a year now. I recommend it.
Pulls in unencrypted QAM like a champ September 21, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I used to have 2 separate MyHD cards in two separate PCs to record OTA HD material. After finally upgrading to digital cable, I realized that OTA, with its frequent drop outs, inconsistent tuning, and reception problems that would render a show utterly unwatchable at least once a week was no match fo digital cable. The HD Homerun was affordable and had two tuners, so I could ditch both the MyHD cards. The tuner itself is great, not only does it get all the network HD stations (which were the only ones I could pull OTA), it also gets a dozen or so SD cable stations and it gets the main PBS HD station that was simply untunable OTA.
While the hardware and tuner software work flawlessly, the manufacturer gives you no viable way to schedule and view the recorded material. I was left to fend for myself to figure out how to schedule recordings and view programs as they were recording. For that software hole, I take away one star. This is not a product for beginners or the faint of heart, but it is the cheapest way to get reliable dual QAM tuners into your HTPC setup.
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