SiliconDust - PRIME Tuner with CableCARD for digital cable TV - Black
Model: HDHR3-CC
SKU: 8548056
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Customers enjoy the ease of setup and excellent performance of the PRIME Tuner with CableCARD. Many found the setup process quick and straightforward. Positive feedback highlights the device's ability to meet expectations and provide a high-quality viewing experience. Users appreciate its capabilities for watching and recording multiple channels simultaneously.
Positives: Setup is reasonable. If you have tried cutting the cable you know you can get almost all your local channels free over the air in HD. So why pay the cable company extra for something that is all ready free!?! The box pays for its self in less than a year. It was costing me $10 for the HD service and 5.99 for the additional box so 15.99. I'm now saving a month! Think I break even in 7 or 8 months. Cons: Not compatible with Roku. No channel guide on PS3 Can be slow to start showing the channel. It's connection is not WIFI. (minor) once setup it will send the signal over your Wi-Fi network Verdict: Wish there was a Roku channel. Embrace the change to save some change. Get it. It's a good buy
Posted by Unclebingo
The Silicon Dust HD Homerun Prime does what it says. The only trouble I had was not the company's fault - it was Comcast's fault. You go to your cable TV company and get a CableCard. Put the card into the HD Homerun Prime. Download the software from Silicon Dust and call the CATV company to activate the card. It took me 5 calls to get the card activated correctly. Here's a tip: When you call your CATV company to activate the card make sure you tell the rep that you are NOT USING TIVO. This way the rep enters the correct numbers so the card will load your channels from the cable company. The only other issue I have is that the picture sometimes freezes or pixelates, but wait a minute and it will clear up. Silicon Dust is working on this. Make sure you use CAT6 Ethernet cable, and if you're streaming wirelessly to other computers, make sure you use an AC router and AC wireless adapters. This way you can send HD to those computers. By the way, Best Buy's price was the best one I found via eBay.
Posted by Winkasdad29
Took about 30 min to get up and running with my local FIOS cable service. Most of that time was spent getting my cable card activated through my service provider and then waiting for a full channel scan. Currently evauating whether the HDHR app on XBOX One and integration with Plex Live TV / DVR (on non DRM channels) is a worth while replacement for the costly set top boxes from the cable company. As of writing this, the HDHR app on Xbox One does not support premium DRM channels after some bugs with the latest Xbox update. Hopefully it will be resolved soon. That aside, Plex seems to work great. The native IOS HDHR apps have a weird video sync issue that causes the video to stutter frequently so haven’t really used it much. Live TV integration with Kodi works fine (minus DRM support) and although most all channels are available on Windows 10 / Xbox platforms, channel navigation with just a remote can be frustrating. It seems Xbox does not accept IR number pad inputs so you’re forced to scroll through the entire channel list or use a wireless keyboard / Xbox controller keyboard add on to type in channel numbers. Time will tell if this passes the wife test and hopefully will let me save a significant amount of my cable bill by turning in my cable boxes and canceling DVR service.
Posted by AnotherOne
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