HDHomeRun - SCRIBE DUO 1TB DVR - Black

I've been without Local Access TV for years due to a 2017 Vizio I bought that didn't come with a tuner. Luckily, i stumbled upon this unique device that allows me to watch local access on any device connected to my internet. I have an unhealthy obsession with Antique Road Show and a few other extremely odd PBS shows, and now I can RECORD them and gleefully watch every antique that touches a curators hands. Seriously, the HDHomerun device works elegantly and appears to be made of seriously good components vs. a cheap external tuner. The device boots up right away when you install the homerun app on your devices. You can't go wrong with this thing.

The SiliconDust HDHomeRun Scribe DUO 1 TB DVR is a great OTA DVR for completing a cord cutter's arsenal to capture live TV episodes for watching at a later time, while not having to pay for cable. It comes with a years service for the HDHomeRun guide and that is $35 annually to provide the guide service. This allows for recording two shows at once and playback to many different devices. A great purchase and glad I added it to my cord cutters kit. Very nice to have the builtin 1 TB DVR on the HD HomeRun device itself.

I liked that it did not compress the video before sending over Ethernet compared to the Fire recast. However the software that interfaces to the HDHomeRun is horrible. There is no way to view a schedule of upcoming shows on multiple channels. You have to look at one channel at a time and then scroll through that channel. Also is says it works on Roku but you cannot schedule recordings over Roku or Windows 7. You can view recorded shows but not schedule. This did not work for me so I took it back and went with the Fire Recast even though it did not have as high of video quality as the HDHomeRun. The user interface was just too unusable.

Works fantastic most of the time but still very buggy with Plex love tv/dvr most times and for what it is probably shouldn’t be more than $100

They did not have unit at my local Best Buy. I drove 30 minutes to do the curbside pick up due to Covid-19. I did not really get it functional and working properly for about two weeks. The unit does have a 1 TB hard drive but only worked with the HD homerun app on my computer & iPad & iPhone. My main purpose was to watch programs on my Apple TV which only works with the Channels App which is a challenging set up operation and Does not allow the one terabyte storage of the HD homerun unit to be utilized you need a NAS R Dr. to hook up to your router or you need to use a computer with a lot of storage or connected to an external hard drive and your computer mistake on all the time. Which is not what I was looking for. I did get it to finally work the way I want it to you after phone calls to HD homerun. Company and a lot of online research on the Channels app on my Apple TV. It is impressive in the end for what it was purchased to do.

My second HDHomeRun device This allows me to record from my cable tv line. I can receive non scrambled channels, basically about 30 or so. I can record major networks off of cable and skip commercials and watch it on PC, phone or iPad thru the HDHR app. Came with a free one year sub to the channel guide for timed recording. Will purchase a years sub when the first free year is over. Highly recommended

The setup was very easy. The picture quality is excellent (I do have a mesh network so I don't have any bandwidth issues). The only thing is that it doesn't work well with an antenna with an amplifier. Once I switched it to a regular indoor antenna, it worked great. The interface for recordings is not superb but with a bit of getting used to, it is ok.

Scanning for channels is fast and easy. Only issue was the DVR setup does not work with HDHomeRun app in Roku. It works with FireTV though. Sometimes we noticed that the video and audio was not in sync when playing back the recorded content. But you close the app and restart it again, the the sync is fine.