SiliconDust HDHR-US HDHomeRun Dual Digital ATSC Network

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Terrible product, worked for 4-5 days and I have been fighting to get a replacement for over a month.

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I love this, should have bought one long ago. I need a better antenna than the one I have, but the unit is easy to use and understand!

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This is a brilliant idea. How else can you have a tv tuner on your laptop without having it connected to your antenna cable? Instead of buying tuners for each computer, you buy this one and use it from any computer on your home network. It is an idea whose day has finally come.

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This thing has worked exactly as advertised. I'm using it along with my recently purchased HTPC and it's fantastic. I love that I can also watch TV on any computer in the house now. My only complaint would be that I had to do a little manual work to match up the channels with guide info in Windows Media Center. But I only had to do it once and it's perfect now.

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Awesome if you are looking for a digital only tuner to add to your network. Performance is great, even on an old AMD Athlon XP pc. 1080i content actually performed quite well on my older computer, though still a little jerky, much better than I expected. New computer soon so that is a non-issue. Did not come with any kind of manual, though you can find anything you need on their website. Definitely would recommend this to others looking for an external digital tuner for their PC's.

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This thing works great and was easy to set up. It's a great way to add TV to all the computers on your network. It would have been nice if they would have included a $4 splitter to make it easier to connect both tuners to one cable input.

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Works Great easy setup. Software to show signal strength worked perfect for me to tweak my antenna. now all 4 media centers

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Works exactly like it should. Should have bought one long ago.

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I ordered this particular tuner because there is on-board video hardware on my emachine plus Vista. My son hooked it up in seconds. It found my network and was showing over-the-air TV in a MINUTE! The delivery was within 24 hours of the order! I am so happy with everything I purchased here. The products and delivery are beyond my expectations. This is the place for everything ''E''.

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I found this product to work as advertised, pulls in signals just as well as an HDTV tuner I have hooked to a tunerless HDTV. Using Win 7 MC for program guide and DVR functions and they have all worked painlessly.

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Used several other tuners. This one is by far the best. Brought in signals a little better. Taking the tuner out of the box and putting it on the LAN has helped reduce CPU utilization. No problems with network traffic on a 10 100 1000 network switch even with multiple MCEs and computers running. Con: Resolution is slightly lower than the internal tuners however you dont notice the differrence after a few days and the performance boost this tuner gives is well worth the trade off.

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Purchased this after deciding I needed to add a digital tuner to my Vista Media Center, so I could record high definition clear-QAM content from my cable company (my old hybrid tuner only allowed one or the other, and I'd been using it for analog). It's three key features (a) dual simultaneous tuners (i.e. watch two tuners at once), (b) built-in network ability (i.e. share tuners across network) and (c) channel mapping in Vista to add QAM support to Vista and wide support for other DVR software were all key factors in my decision to purchase. I've been very happy with it so far. As for the 86 channel limit, I believe that's a Vista or analog issue, caused by trying to map digital channels to analog, which has limitations. I'm not sure it holds true in Win7, which has native QAM support. I have used it with Win7 and that version of Media Center and it seems to work fine. You'll need to install drivers on each machine that will use the tuners.

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Just an amazing piece of technology. Nicest HD pic ever. I'm buying another one soon!

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I have used this product for six months or so. Now that my cable company upgraded the digital channel offerings this is a wonderful product. I use with Beyond TV software - digital channels are a bit cumbersome to set up but I think as the on line TV guides get better this will get easier. Really cool to stream cable on to my home network.

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I did not set it up because it only had 69 digital channels.

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after dealing with a bad ethernet cable on my end, the HDhr unit worked great. Mostly i like how any 2 computers on our network can access the 2 tuners and alot easier than installing a tuner card.

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Not the cheapest TV tuner, but the ability to place this anywhere on your network is well worth the added expense. I'm using it with multiple HTPCs one of which being an ION which wouldn't allow for a PCI tuner. The picture quality is exactly the same as a localy attached tuner and the support from Silicon Dust is excellent.

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I've been using mine for 3 years. Works great with Sagetv (HTPC) media. Brainlessly easy to install. I like the support, over the last 3 years they have continued to provide updates, making this product rock solid. Don't listen to these other people giving bad reviews.. This is a great product!

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unless you develop rocket engines for a living i would skip this one. the idea is great but it's way too complictaed for the average joe. it either screws up you listings on media center and i don't have month to figure that out, or you have to run it outside of media center and there is no way to record beucuase most programs will not see a card on the network which makes it a total waste. it's easier to just use straight cable and if you want to record hdtv there are programs that do that. it does work, but it's not refined enough and thus kind of a waste and overkill.

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...Sadly I returned it, because it ONLY TUNES HD. I wanted to use its High Def compatibility with a Tuner box from my cable provider. It does as advertised. It tunes HD Channels over the cable line. it is complicated to adjust the channel names, but not impossible. In my region however the 32 channels were not enough. Very Little Latency ,in ten seconds it catches upon a single core P4 2.6 GHz with 4 GB RAM Great Product though

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General: Works as advertised. This is my second unit. Have been using only with vista (32 & 64 bit systems)Home Premium. Makes an excellent frontend to a dual DVR. Pros: easy to setup and get working even though instructions are scant. Two tuners in one slim unit. Cons: Power supply may be a weak link. This unit working fine for now but had to replace 1st unit after 5 months. Channel assignment seems random. Station have different channel number between units 1 and 2 when attached to our Time Warner cable system. [only an issue if using multiple units] I also had to tweek the channel names to get Vista/Media center to download proper guide information. OTA usage seems to be consistent, but have only used spareingly. Local digital reception is still getting bugs worked out! No Composite or Svideo to work with sat/cable boxes. I use another vendor tuner for this functionality.

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Using the HDHomerun in the US with linux-based Mythtv and Mythbuntu on my home network. Pulling great HD QAM from Comcast analog cable service. Working great with the Mythtv DVR features, get yourself one!

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This thing is the cat's meow. I live in Milwaukee and I get 35 channels out of the air in HD. Love it.

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I have had this for over 6 months and use it through Vista and Media Center. If you have a built-in multi TV tuner card (ATSC/QAM/NTSC) onboard it integrates beautifully and allows for multiple recording (two HD and one from your card) in Media Center. Beginning of the year changes (09) in Media Center allow for more channel access to clear QAM cable channels that the Homerun device sees in Vista. But still not all channels are allowed that are veiwable in the Vista based channel tuner program (this program is extremely basic). Their are Vista based programs that are available that are supposed to work quite well. Without an internal card the overall lack of stations is a bit much in Media Center. I tried an external NTSC tuner but it blocked the Homerun device in Media Center. When the digital change over is completed the big test will be if it allows more access. I get all my local channels and a few others in HD without paying monthly for an HD cable tuner to any networked device.