SilconDust HDHR4 US and CC Tuners Coming Mid-2013

Ceton is going to have to step up their game with the promised InifniTV6, or there will be no reason to buy InifniTV. After having switched to SiliconDust HomeRun duals (not the cable card kind) from the internal/external USB tuner, I could not have been happier. They are absolutely solid. Ceton on the other hand, keeps "service not available" here and there. Admittedly, I have one of the first Cetons, which apparantely has been redesigned, but still. I like the stability of the HomeRuns and ability to keep them in the basement.

The article also mentions that there will be a beta of the DLNA streaming function available next week for existing HDHomerun Prime users. Very cool!

 

Me too. I have two of them installed in my electronic closet for roughly six months and I haven't had to reboot them once. They simply work...

 

We still need one of the streamer companies to step up and come up with a (nice) DVR app. I'll even pay for guide data... if it's full featured.

Edited by Charles R - 1/8/13 at 9:36am

I've been using HDHR since V1 and they have always proven to be a solid, stable solution. I currently have four of the HDHR V2 dual tuners running that replaced my two V1s and I haven't had a single problem with them since installing. Can't recommend them enough.

It will be interesting to see how ComSkip handles the transcoded videos.

Ben

This is big. More CC devices. More tuners. A possible path forward for Copy Once after WMC is dead and gone...
This should hold me over nicely until true ala carte/streaming comes along.

I bought the Prime fairly early and was having issues. It turned out it was a setting for my network card that was rare because I direct connect the device to the HTPC. And I also had a problem with Comcast having not removed the filter for Limited Basic.

Other than that, both my Prime and my original HDHR have been very solid. The software just seems to get better and better and easier to setup.

Agreed. I think Ceton was waiting to see what SD was bringing to the table before they released the iTV6... at least that's what I'm hoping.

So does this mean the HDHR4-US will have four tuners?

Curious to see if SD will release their own player app on Android or iOS or Windows RT.

Also I guess WMC/PS3 are required to view premium channels?

I get this with both the InfiniTV4 and the HDHR Prime all the time. I think it has to do with the delay in initializing the tuner when WMC polls the available tuners to start recording. WMC eventually finds a tuner so I've never had a show not get recorded because a tuner was unavailable.

As for being a way forward beyond WMC, I wouldn't hold your breath. Unless a third party developer gets Cable Labs certification to allow cablecard use, our only option is WMC, at least for copy once content. If you're fortunate enough to be on FIOS or you're only getting OTA channels, then you have a few more choices available to you. I'm on FIOS and I had just started looking at SageTV with the CC patch right before they sold their business. I was on the verge of buying a license when I discovered they were no longer available. I went back to WMC and I'm OK with it.

There are just too many different front ends available right now and I have no extra time to try them all out. I'd love to give Plex a shot, but simply do not have the time to deal with it. The latest version of unRAID server has a Plex add-on so I'd really like to take it for a spin. My Honey-Do list is already getting out of control so I need to spend time doing other things around the house (the wife seems to have forgotten that I single-handedly put a new roof on our two-story house this past summer:rolleyes:).

On a side note: Do any of you notice when you reboot your PC it takes about two (2) full minutes for it to connect to your LAN? I've been rebuilding a couple of my PCs and the LAN connection is super fast (like 3~4 seconds from icon in system tray to INTERNET ACCESS) until I load the Windows SD software. Once I do that I have to wait 2 minutes before I can access my LAN much less the internet!

Any ideas? Maybe there's something I could check? I'm on GB-Lan, the SD Dual and SD Prime are right on my Motorola Gateway and it is connected to my GB switch where my PCs are connected.

Hopefully this will lead to some kind of "SD Media Center" or "Ceton Media Center" Windows app that can tune and record CopyOnce Live TV.
Make it happen! I'll even donate!

So the HDHR4-US is only going to have 2 ATSC tuners not 4? That would be a huge disappointment.

Nope, I rebuilt my system before the holidays with new components and have no issue with Prime software and my PC connecting to my GigE switch after reboot. It's available immediately. You could try forcing the NIC to 1Gb full-duplex mode instead of auto-negotiate but it sounds like the problem is higher up in the stack - try running ipconfig /all from a command prompt after boot and see if you have a valid IP address (with DNS etc.). If you don't get one, try setting a fixed IP address etc. in the adapter, you might be having DHCP issues. Post over in the SD support forums and see what they say.

I ordered two HDHR3-CC's recently only to see the next day this news Oh well, at least they are a ways off until they become available.

Going to replace my current Ceton. Take some heat out of my main HTPC.

I think it'll be interesting to see what software developers will do with DNLA support built into HDHR4s. Maybe expand how XBMC, Plex, or something else is used. I'm not really counting on XBMC or Plex bringing the abliity to see copyonce material.

The only thing I wish they had the ability for these boxes is to be able to able to QAM, clearQAM, and ATSC. I didn't realize that when I got the HDHR3CC, it did not do OTA. I got it because it had more tuners and so I had the ablity to use a cablecard if I ever chose to use subscription cable in future.

What a coincidence. I was just wondering that myself. I just built a new HTPC around and AMD A10/ASRock micro ATC motherboard. Somewhere along the way (maybe after SD software install), Ethernet activation got ridiculously long (2 minutes for me as well). Since I just did an install last night, I may redo the whole windows install until I can narrow down where that happened.

This seems to me to be a crucial missing component. I don't care terribly about the ability to do live TV absent anything else. Are there any good software DVR programs out there with which this can be made to work? XBMC doesn't do backend and the DVR interface is pretty crude. SageTV is gone. None of these platforms support DTCP-IP to my knowledge. Is there a big market of people out there that are looking to watch live TV on the PS3s without any DVR functionality? I'm not being contentious-I'm genuinely curious.

Even setting aside protected content, I'm not sure there are any software platforms available other than 7MC on which I'd want to watch TV and there doesn't seem to be anything particularly appealing on the horizon.

Kudos to SD for doing this but I'm not sure where it gets us.

MythTV, for one. Has a master/slave setup that works well for multiple PCs at the expense of more complexity (and features) vs. WMC. Only for non-protected content with the Prime of course.

I recommend LinHes if you want to try out a distro.

I found something in my LAN connection delay -- a buddy suggested SD may not be the culprit... I'm also running MediaPortal on my PCs. SURE, my Server is in the basement and this is a Client I'm focusing on with the delay... odd thing, when you install MediaPortal it asks if you want to watch TV and I say YES. This not only installs the TV-Client but a Server... since I'm using the HTPC's Server this one is not used! I STOPPED the TV-Service on this Client and viola` Rebooting worked flawlessly taking only about 2 seconds to establish the LAN (internet access) connection once explorer (your main desktop) is open and I'm using a SSD so boot times are really fast!

With mediaportal you need to answer that is a dedicated client. When you answer that question it installs both the client and the backend server

This is EXACTLY the first thoughts that went through my head after reading about this.