The product name is HDHomeRun Connect. The first two letters are HD and the troubleshooting guide online for "HD channels do not play smoothly" says "This is a known issue of the current player. We are working on updates to better handle HD channel playback." After purchasing this "HD" product, how long are their customers supposed to wait before it delivers on its namesake? I will be returning mine tomorrow.

It really does just work. You will need a good HDTV antenna, of course, and TV signals for that antenna to grab, but when you have those two boxes ticked, this feeds a digital HDTV video stream onto your network, directly to an app or as I've done, to a Plex Media Server. Each HDHomeRun Connect can feed up to two channels at once, but you can have several feeding your network if you need to watch (or record) more at once. Each HDHomeRun negotiates its own IP address on your network and is then ready to serve. Here in the San Francisco Bay Area, I discovered 100 available channels over the air, many in gorgeous HD. This is with a simple $20 antenna stuck to the inside of a window. If you are cutting the cord, or just want to supplement one of those new streaming TV services with local and PBS channels, here you go.

HDHomeRun allows you to literally walk around the house with a TV in one hand. This would have been considered just a dream a few years ago and nobody 20 years ago would have dreamed of this. The TV I am describing is actually a tablet (iPad or Android - you supply yourself or sold separately). Although, you should have a fairly good tablet and router to use this product. Since this product does not "transcode" - i.e. compress the video on the fly, there is a lot of data that has to be carried by your router (recommend AC router or better) and the tablet must be able to process this to avoid pixelation. The video will break up if you are any distance from your router unless you have a good AC1200, AC1750, AC1900, AC3200 dual or triband router. An N router will work, just don't stray too far from your router. Forget about using anything less than an N router - the pixelation and breakup of images make the product unusable. Also, your client (tablet, PC) on the receiving end should be a fairly good/modern product. Don't try to use an end-of-life product and expect good results. Other than that, this product works very well using prescribed good tablet/router combination. Some bugs/minor-glitches on the client software, but they are not too bad. Mainly just start the software on the tablet in landscape (not start the software in portrait orientation) and you should be just fine. In other words, all the bugs are tolerable and if you work around them, the product adds so much convenience and value that you forget about the short-commings. Don't expect perfect from this product, especially considering its pricing as compared to other products. Also, consider that you DO NOT have to pay a subscription like TiVo. The subscription on TiVo is highway robbery compared to free over the air TV and this product (compare, and you will see what I mean). You can pay for a subscription on this product to get a better TV guide (channel listing), but that is optional and only if you want PVR and extended channel listing capability. This is a very good product for the price.

I bought this version of HDHomerun to connect to an over the air antenna based upon YouTube raves by Lon.TV and my interest in subscribing to their internet pad dvr feature (they never explain it is software, not hardware) . However, I have not been able to get it to work yet. I am disturbed at the BAD documentation. There is NO NO NO video showing the basic install process so you don't know what to expect. You only get a piece of paper telling you to go to a website where it tells you to download an app. For Windows 10, I had to go to the Microsoft store and download their free app. But all I got was a Green HD icon and when launched, it showed a full black screen with the green HD logo an some text in the lower right. Nothing else. So I called support at 925-233-2240 and got a recording. They are in California and only work business hours there. But I called at about 3:30 California time and no answer, and no response to my message. I called the next morning and left another message. It is now 7:30 am their time, so maybe they will call. But right now the unit is useless. They do have a website with a troubleshooting database, but no introductory video of how installation should work. They want me to do all the work of reading all their knowledge pages to find a solution. Not impressed. Now many people like this product, so I will come back and fix this when I get a response and it is working, but this is a caveat, and comment about BAD setup documentation. I am old school - I expect competent written and vidoe details on setup and use of a product and I could not even find a YouTube video by reviewers that showed the setup process. I am using Chrome and Windows 10 on a new Intel 8th generation i7 system and have a working wifi and internet. I even downloaded the app to my Android Samsung 10" tablet and got the same exact black screen. See the pictures. I am just trying to get the hard wired system to work.

Easy as can be ... connect the HDHomeRun to your router and a TV antenna and BAMM! TV anywhere in your house from any device that is on your home network. All it takes is the HDHomeRun app on your tablet, phone or computer or streaming device. I have it on the Nvidia Shield TV for our primary TV and using it also on mobile and laptops. The DVR add-on service for only $35 is a great deal and runs flawless. Does not lockup or crash like some other apps/tuner combinations that are out there. Especially noteworthy if you have something like a sports event recording and you get home before the end of the event you can view it from the start while the HDHomeRun records the rest of the game!