Tried to read the review for HDHomeRun hardware but most questions were about wifi, will it work ...

[G+_Rud Dog]

Tried to read the review for HDHomeRun hardware but most questions were about wifi, will it work on my tv etc.

There appears to be, and I no expert, boxes with 2 tuners and yet others with 4 tuners.

Some claim to be hardware tuners as for the others not sure but guessing they use software tuners. Not sure what this means and when these tuners come into play. There have been suggestions the hardware tuners are used to quickly ready the video for the type device requesting like a cell phone, tablet, etc. I don't know if the onboard tuner hardware devices do anything to the video when it comes to viewing on a Flat screen TV?

So the question looming in my mind is why buy the HDHR Extend with 2 tuners when I could have HDHR 4 OTA Tuners MPEG2. What does one have over the other excluding the number of tuners.

Should I order the HDHR Extend or the 4 OTA Tuners MPEG2?

[G+_Giligain I.]

So the 4 OTA uses MPEG2 compression? Does this imply that the HDHR Extend does not use this compression?

 

If true, then isn't this like, in music, using a WAV file versus MPEG? There's a bottleneck somewhere and options are there to address each one.

[G+_Rud Dog]

Giligain I. Thank you. I think you might have something there. Does the Extend do something to the video transferred over the LAN making it more efficient where the others just send it without any conditioning? It would be nice to have more tuners but at what cost LAN'wise

[G+_Patrick C]

It's the format the files are being stored in. MPEG2 is much less space then raw video. I actually just got a HomeRun HD. I use Plex to record and watch. It's actually not bad. To your point yes I would advise not using wifi if possible. To prevent restrictions or bottle necks. If you use a Roku or Apple TV just use Ethernet.

Note that recording is considered a use of a tuner as well as watching a show. So two tuners gets used immediately if you a watching live TV and a recording is happening. So far very impressed with the ability. Was able to show a coworker it working. Didn't skip a beat.

[G+_Rud Dog]

Patrick C Thank you for your input. How many tuners do you have?

[G+_Patrick C]

I just have the two tuner version. However I am really the only one for now that uses it. We haven't had cable for a long time. If you have more than two people that watch TV at the same time then I would definitely be getting the 4 or more tuner. The price just climbs up quickly.

[G+_Rud Dog]

For those using OTA antenna what was the value of the cable 50Ohm, 75 Ohm etc.

[G+_Jason Marsh]

In-home OTA and cable TV equipment tends to be built to use 75 Ohm coax. Using other impedance ratings won't blow up your equipment, but more distant stations may not be received. If you were transmitting through the coax, you could burn up your radio, but that's a different ball of wax.

[G+_Rud Dog]

Jason Marsh Thank you now I can rummage through the old box in storage for all my 75-ohm cables and tee-amplifiers. This has been welcome information concerning my cable use. Again thank you.

[G+_Rud Dog]

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