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HDHomeRun is a network-attached digital television tuner box, produced by the company SiliconDust USA, Inc.
Unlike standard set-top box (or set-top unit) appliances, the HDHomeRun does not have a video output that connects directly to the user's television. It instead receives a live TV signal and then streams the decoded video over a local area network to an existing smartphone, tablet computer, smart TV, streaming device, computer, or game console. This allows it to stream content to multiple viewing locations.[1]
The HDHomeRun can be controlled and viewed from a wide variety of DVR/PVR software, including Windows Media Center for Windows XP through 8.1, EyeTV 3 for macOS,[2] and Myth TV for Linux.[3][4]
Newer models of the HDHomeRun are DLNA certified.[5]
Consumer Tuners
| Line | Model | Part Number | Number of Tuners | Tuners | Coax Ports | CableCARD Slots | USB | Hard Drive | DLNA/UPnP | Hardware Transcoder | Notes | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ATSC 1.0 | QAM 64/256 | ATSC 3.0 | CableCard | DVB-T | DVB-T2 | DVB-C | ISDB-T | |||||||||||
| Flex | Flex 4K | HDFX-4K | 4 | Yes | Yes | Yes (2 of 4 tuners) |
No | No | No | No | No | 1 | 0 | Yes | No | Yes | No | |
| Flex 4K Development Edition |
HDFX-4K-DEV | 4 | Yes | Yes | Yes (2 of 4 tuners) |
No | No | No | No | No | 1 | 0 | Yes | No | Yes | No | Comes with developer firmware for deep signal inspection/tinkering | |
| Flex Duo | HDFX-2US | 2 | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | 1 | 0 | Yes | No | Yes | No | ||
| Flex Quatro | HDFX-4US | 4 | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | 1 | 0 | Yes | No | Yes | No | ||
| HDFX-4DT | 4 | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | 1 | 0 | Yes | No | Yes | No | |||
| Connect | Connect 4K | HDHR5-4K | 4 | Yes | Yes | Yes (2 of 4 tuners) |
No | No | No | No | No | 1 | 0 | No | No | Yes | No | |
| Connect Duo | HDHR5-2US | 2 | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | 1 | 0 | No | No | Yes | No | ||
| HDHR5-2DT | 2 | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | 1 | 0 | No | No | Yes | No | |||
| Connect Quatro | HDHR5-4US | 4 | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | 1 | 0 | No | No | Yes | No | ||
| HDHR5-4DT | 4 | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | 1 | 0 | No | No | Yes | No | |||
| Connect | HDHR4-2US | 2 | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | 1 | 0 | No | No | Yes | No | ||
| HDHR4-2DT | 2 | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | 1 | 0 | No | No | Yes | No | |||
| HDHR4-2IS | 2 | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | 1 | 0 | No | No | Yes | No | |||
| Scribe | Scribe 4K | HDVR-4K-1TB | 4 | Yes | Yes | Yes (2 of 4 tuners) |
No | No | No | No | No | 1 | 0 | No | 1TB | Yes | No | |
| Scribe Duo | HDVR-2US-1TB | 2 | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | 1 | 0 | No | 1TB | Yes | No | ||
| Scribe Quatro | HDVR-4US-1TB | 4 | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | 1 | 0 | No | 1TB | Yes | No | ||
| Dual | HDHR3-US | 2 | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | 1 | 0 | No | No | No | No | ||
| HDHR3-DT | 2 | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | 1 | 0 | No | No | No | No | |||
| HDHR3-EU | 2 | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | 1 | 0 | No | No | No | No | |||
| HDHR-US | 2 | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | 2 | 0 | No | No | No | No | |||
| HDHR-EU | 2 | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | 2 | 0 | No | No | No | No | |||
| Single | HDHR-US-T1 | 1 | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | 1 | 0 | No | No | No | No | ||
| Extend | HDTC-2US | 2 | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | 1 | 0 | No | No | Yes | MPEG2 → h.264 | Plastic case and fan | |
| HDTC-2US-M | 2 | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | 1 | 0 | No | No | Yes | MPEG2 → h.264 | Metal case, fanless | ||
| HDTC-2US-L | 2 | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | 1 | 0 | No | No | Yes | MPEG2 → h.264 | 2US converted to fanless case | ||
| Expand | HDHR3-4DC | 4 | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | 1 | 0 | No | No | Yes | No | 5V 2A power adapter | |
| HDHR5-4DC | 4 | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | 1 | 0 | No | No | Yes | No | 5V 1.5A power adapter | ||
| Prime | HDHR3-CC | 3 | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | 1 | 1 | Yes | No | Yes | No | USB for Tuning Adapter only[6] | |
| HDHR3-6CC-3x2 | 6 | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | 1 | 2 | Yes | No | Yes | No | USB for Tuning Adapter only[6] | ||
| HDHR5-6CC | 6 | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | 1 | 1 | Yes | No | Yes | No | Unreleased, canceled[7] | ||
Commercial Tuners
| Line | Part Number | Number of Tuners | Tuners | Coax Ports | CableCARD Slots | USB | Hard Drive | DLNA/UPnP | Hardware Transcoder | Rackmount | Notes | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ATSC 1.0 | QAM 64/256 | ATSC 3.0 | CableCard | DVB-T | DVB-T2 | DVB-C | ISDB-T | |||||||||||
| Tech | TECH3-6CC-3X2 | 6 | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | 2 | 2 | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | |
| TECH4-8US-2X4 | 8 | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | 4 | 0 | No | No | No | No | Yes | ||
| TECH4-8DT2x4 | 8 | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | 4 | 0 | No | No | No | No | Yes | ||
| TECH4-2US | 2 | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | 1 | 0 | No | No | No | No | No | ||
| TECH4-2DT | 2 | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | 1 | 0 | No | No | No | No | No | ||
| TECH4-2IS | 2 | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | 1 | 0 | No | No | No | No | No | ||
| TECH4-8IS | 8 | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | 4 | 0 | No | No | No | No | Yes | ||
| TECH5-4K | 4 | Yes | Yes | Yes (2 of 4 tuners) |
No | No | No | No | No | 1 | 0 | No | No | No | Yes (ATSC 3.0 → MPEG-TS) |
No | ||
| TECH5-4K8-2X4 | 8 | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | 4 | 0 | No | No | No | No | Yes | ||
| TECH5-16US-4X4 | 16 | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | 4 | 0 | No | No | No | No | Yes | ||
| TECH5-16DT-4X4 | 16 | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | 4 | 0 | No | No | No | No | Yes | ||
| TECH5-16DC-4X4 | 16 | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | 4 | 0 | No | No | No | No | Yes | Unreleased, canceled[7] | |
Introduced in late 2011, the HDHomeRun PRIME provided the ability to view and record all digital cable channels the user subscribed to without using a cable-supplied set-top box. The device employed a CableCARD to replace the set-top box. The HDHomeRun PRIME could be integrated with Windows Media Center. With 3 tuners, the PRIME let you record two programs and watch another program live simultaneously. Due to a change in FCC regulation (cable service providers no longer have to make CableCARDs available to their customers), they are no longer in production.[7]
Launched in 2018, HDHomeRun Premium TV was a virtual MVPD service that worked with the HDHomeRun PRIME and HDHomeRun DVR service. A notable feature of this service was the ability to record the channel streams to a local hard drive for time-shifted viewing. In March 2019, HDHomeRun announced that it would shut down its Premium service.[10]
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HDHomeRun is a network-attached digital television tuner box, produced by the company SiliconDust USA, Inc.
PDTV is an abbreviation short for Pure Digital Television. Often seen as part of the filename of TV shows shared through P2P, The Scene, and FTP servers on the Internet. In this case, PDTV refers not to container, bitrate or dimensions of the video, but the digital nature of the capture source. Non Scene European rippers often use the label DVBRip or DVB-rip to specify a purely digital rip of a Digital Video Broadcast (DVB), however all Scene groups use standardized labeling. PDTV encompasses a broad array of capture methods and sources, but generally it involves the capture of SD or non-HD digital television broadcasts without any analog-to-digital conversion, instead relying on directly ripping MPEG streams. PDTV sources can be captured by a variety of digital TV tuner cards from a digital feed such as ClearQAM unencrypted cable, Digital Terrestrial Television, Digital Video Broadcast or other satellite sources. Just as with Freeview (DVB-T) in the United Kingdom, broadcast television in the United States has no barriers to PDTV capture. Hardware such as the HDHomeRun when connected to an ATSC (Antenna) or unencrypted ClearQAM cable feed allows lossless digital capture of MPEG-2 streams (Pure Digital Television), without monthly fees or other restrictions normally implemented by a Set-top box. Although different from the analog hole, Pure Digital Television capture imposes no technological restriction on what is done with the stream; playback, Mash-Ups and even recompression/pirated distribution are possible without the permission of the rights holder. A publisher of fan-made DVD releases also uses the name PDTV, but with no connection to the more common usage explained above. The "PD" in this case refers to "planet dust" with an additional connotation of Public Domain, even though the material offered is more often the video equivalent of abandonware as opposed to anything where copyright has actually expired. Whereas PDTV content online (as described above) is indiscriminate in terms of copyright, physical DVD releases from PDTV only exist to supply fans with material not officially published to the DVD format. As of 2018, the latter PDTV has undergone somewhat of a "rebranding", shifting its focus slightly to further emphasize preservation of VHS, Beta and Laserdisc content. The meaning of the "PD" part of its name thus becoming more associated with "physical disc" rather than anything else.
Tablo is a digital video recorder (DVR) for over-the-air (OTA) broadcast television signals which is controlled by a streaming device, tablet or web-based application. Tablo receives free OTA signals from an antenna, allowing the user to either watch live TV or record programs to an external USB hard drive or internal storage, depending on the model. Tablo can connect to a home network through either Wi-Fi or Ethernet connections. Tablo is designed and developed by Nuvyyo, a Kanata, Ontario-based technology company, formed by veterans of the local technology scene, which launched in 2010. Some of Tablo's competitors are Channel Master, HDHomeRun and TiVo. In 2022, the company was purchased by E. W. Scripps, a television broadcasting conglomerate, for $14 million USD.
Kodi (formerly XBMC for Xbox Media Center) is a free and open-source media center application developed by the Kodi Foundation, a non-profit technology consortium. Kodi is available for multiple operating systems and hardware platforms, with a 10-foot user interface designed for use with large screens and remote controls. It allows users to play and view most streaming media, such as videos, music, and podcasts from the Internet, as well as all common digital media files from local and network storage media, or TV gateway viewer. Kodi was initially designed as a multi-platform media center application that has grown to become a multi-purpose technological convergence platform. It is fully customizable: skins can change its appearance, and plug-ins expand the application with new features, such as weather forecasts and more remote control options, and can allow users to access streaming media content via online services such as Amazon Prime Video, Crackle, Pandora, Napster, Spotify, and YouTube. The later versions also have a personal video-recorder (PVR) graphical front end for receiving live television with electronic program guide (EPG) and high-definition digital video recorder (DVR) support. The software was originally created in 2002 as an independently developed homebrew media player application named Xbox Media Player for the first-generation Xbox game console, changing its name in 2003 to Xbox Media Center (abbreviated as XBMC, which was adopted as the official name in 2008) and was later made available under the name XBMC as a native application for Android, Linux, BSD, macOS, iOS/tvOS, and Microsoft Windows-based operating systems. Then the project was renamed again from XBMC to "Kodi" in July 2014 with the release of Kodi 14 (instead of the expected XBMC 14 release), while still keeping "XBMC Foundation" as the name for its legal entity that owns Kodi's code as well as directly related trademarks and logos. Because of its open source and cross-platform nature, with its core code written in C++, modified versions of Kodi together with "just enough operating systems" have been used as a software appliance suite or software framework in a variety of devices, including smart TVs, set-top boxes, digital signage, hotel television systems, network connected media players and embedded systems based on armhf platforms like Raspberry Pi. Derivative applications such as MediaPortal and Plex have been spun off from Kodi, as well as just enough operating systems like LibreELEC. Kodi has attracted negative attention from the news media and law enforcement agencies due to some add-ons as plug-ins made available by third parties for the software that facilitates unauthorized access and playback of media content by different means of copyright infringement, as well as sellers of digital media players that pre-load them with third-party add-ons for the express purpose of making piracy easy. The XBMC Foundation have expressed that they do not endorse the use of third-party add-ons that are designed for the purpose of piracy, and it takes active steps to disassociate and distance the Kodi project from third-party add-ons that violate copyright. These steps include blocking such add-ons and banning all discussions about piracy in their community forums, as well as threatening legal action against those using the Kodi trademarks or logos to promote add-ons and digital media players that come with them pre-installed with such add-ons.
Before the 1921 destruction of Tulsa’s Greenwood District, Black residents had created a remarkable center of business and community life. The district included stores, professional offices, entertainment venues and homes owned by Black citizens. Understanding Greenwood means learning what was built—not only what was burned.
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