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Reddit mentions of SiliconDust HDHomeRun HDHR5-4US Connect Quatro 4 Channel Tuner,Black
Sentiment score: 2
Reddit mentions: 6
We found 6 Reddit mentions of SiliconDust HDHomeRun HDHR5-4US Connect Quatro 4 Channel Tuner,Black. Here are the top ones.
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- Cut the cable and save on monthly fees
- Watch live TV on multiple devices simultaneously throughout your home with our Multi room Multi user network tuner solution
- Compatible with HDHomeRun DVR Plex iOS android Windows 10 Mac Linux devices etc.
- Pause recordings on one device in one room and resume in another on a separate device with HDHomeRun DVR service
- Works over your home wired or Wi-Fi network to many devices throughout your home
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Specs:
| Color | Black |
| Height | 1 Inches |
| Length | 3 Inches |
| Number of items | 1 |
| Weight | 1 Pounds |
| Width | 3 Inches |
If you don't need the DVR functionality and just want to stream live tv then the HDHomerun Quatro will work for you by itself. For DVR HDHomerun has a DVR service that requires an annual subscription and a NAS device for storage. I don't recommend that.
My setup uses a quatro as the tuner and a home-built PLEX server as the DVR.
If you want an easier setup I have read about a few products Tablo, AirTV, Amazon Fire TV Recast that need a USB harddrive added for DVR function to work. One of these may be the closest you get to a plug n play answer.
I’ve been looking at this. Seems like I would have to have storage on my network for recordings?
SiliconDust HDHR5-4US HDHomeRun CONNECT Quatro 4-Tuner Live TV for Cord Cutters
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B078LH47CD/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_QLVJAb5PDJPB1
What is SiliconDust privacy like? Do they data-mine with the apps? How hard is it to teach grandparents to use this? Is this it https://www.amazon.com/SiliconDust-HDHR5-4US-HDHomeRun-CONNECT-4-Tuner/dp/B078LH47CD/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1521430408&sr=8-4&keywords=SiliconDust%2BHDHomeRun&th=1
its huge. lol
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i think i'll wait a year until the price halves along with the size.
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https://www.amazon.com/SiliconDust-HDHR5-4US-HDHomeRun-Connect-4-Tuner/dp/B078LH47CD/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1542189324&sr=8-3&keywords=hdhomerun
Would this be what you're talking about?
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I remember reading about these a while back but I never dug too deep. Do I just connect it my cable coaxial cable, insert the Cable Card, then connect it to my network through ethernet? I'm sure I can figure something out in terms of mounting the box to my rack. Once it's connected I assume its just seen as a network wide device that I configure with NextPVR or something of the sorts?
Disclaimer I use Vue combined with an HD homerun and my plex server so I'll frame it from that perspective to a degree.
TL;DR - Vue has basically everything but CBS streaming, the DVR is a bit weird but works fine and Dish is basically you paying an extra $75~100 per month for a convenience fee just have everything work in one place.
OK so the main advantage to dish is all the channels all in one place and a pretty reliable DVR and auto-skip some commercials.
The biggest drawback other than the price tag is bad weather kills the signal.
For Vue, the main complaints so far is that it's entirely dependent on your internet. If your internet goes down, you lose TV unless you tether off your phone's LTE connection.
The other complaint is that the DVR is not like the dish DVR. All the recordings techincally just live on Sony's servers and when you mark a show to record, you simply flag it to stick to your profile like marking a show on netflix or something to watch later.
The other huge problem with Vue is no CBS streaming. You can download the CBS app and login with your Vue credentials but only watch shows that have already aired. This is where the HD Homerun tuner came into play.
My wife likes watching all the crime shows like NCIS and SVU and stuff like that which are on CBS so instead of using the CBS app and sitting through all the commercials, we use the HD Homerun and set the plex server to record her shows.
Now there's some setup involved with all that and it's another tradeoff you have to be ok with but the upshot is that (for us at least) the OTA HD channels are sent at 1080p near bluray quality (roughly 20,000~25,000kbps). The other thing is getting plex hooked up to the homerun and sync'd up with the channel listings. For a while plex was messed up and you'd have to manually download an XML file using a script and then copy that to your plex database folder and then go in plex and manually tell it to use the new file but now it's fixed (at least it seems this way) and the schedule is automatically updated. If that breaks and I don't realize it, there will be hell to pay.
So yeah, basically dish is paying for a huge convenience fee and nothing more. If you don't need streaming CBS and are ok with not being able to skip commercials on Vue, then you can probably get by without the HD homerun/plex.
That said, I think HD homerun offer their own DVR service so you wouldn't have to have or setup plex for that but it costs money.
If I didn't have a plex server, the wife would be fine with no streaming of CBS and I would probably do Homerun's DVR service. When you got SEC football and college hoops on CBS, it hurts not having that right then and there (you wouldn't be able to host a game day party or anything like that) and I'd take a swift kick in the nuts before paying for CBS all access. I've heard nothing but terrible things about it and you still can't fast forward through commercials (last I heard).