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General Details

There are currently 4 HDHomeRun models on the market: a single-tuner ATSC

ATSC

ATSC standards are a set of standards developed by the Advanced Television Systems Committee for digital television transmission over terrestrial, cable, and satellite networks....

/clear QAM model, a dual-tuner ATSC/clear QAM model, a dual-tuner commercial (TECH) ATSC/clear QAM model, and a dual-tuner DVB-T

DVB-T

DVB-T is an abbreviation for Digital Video Broadcasting — Terrestrial; it is the DVB European-based consortium standard for the broadcast transmission of digital terrestrial television that was first published in 1997 and first broadcast in the UK in 1998...

/unencrypted DVB-C

DVB-C

DVB-C stands for Digital Video Broadcasting - Cable and it is the DVB European consortium standard for the broadcast transmission of digital television over cable...

model. All models are designed to receive unencrypted digital broadcast or cable television and stream it over a network for use by any PC on the network. HDHomeRun normally receives an IP address via DHCP but will also work via an auto IP address if no DHCP server is available. If used with an auto IP address the HDHomerun will not work as a networked device.

The HDHomeRun Windows

Microsoft Windows

Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal...

driver presents the tuners as standard BDA

Broadcast Driver Architecture

The Broadcast Driver Architecture is a Microsoft standard for digital video capture on Microsoft Windows operating systems. It encompasses the ATSC and DVB standards and gives developers a standardized method of accessing TV tuner devices...

tuners, enabling BDA-compliant applications to work with the HDHomeRun. The HDHomeRun can also be controlled via a command-line application which is available for Windows, Mac OS X

Mac OS X

Mac OS X is a series of Unix-based operating systems and graphical user interfaces developed, marketed, and sold by Apple Inc. Since 2002, has been included with all new Macintosh computer systems...

, Linux

Linux

Linux is a Unix-like computer operating system assembled under the model of free and open source software development and distribution. The defining component of any Linux system is the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released October 5, 1991 by Linus Torvalds...

, FreeBSD

FreeBSD

FreeBSD is a free Unix-like operating system descended from AT&T UNIX via BSD UNIX. Although for legal reasons FreeBSD cannot be called “UNIX”, as the direct descendant of BSD UNIX , FreeBSD’s internals and system APIs are UNIX-compliant...

, and other POSIX

POSIX

POSIX , an acronym for "Portable Operating System Interface", is a family of standards specified by the IEEE for maintaining compatibility between operating systems...

-compliant operating systems. The control library is open source and is available under the LGPL for use in custom applications.

Retail packaged HDHomeRun units are distributed with Arcsoft TotalMedia Theatre.

ATSC models

8VSB
8VSB
8VSB is the modulation method used for broadcast in the ATSC digital television standard. ATSC and 8VSB modulation is used primarily in North America; in contrast, the DVB-T standard uses COFDM....

(ATSC over-the-air digital TV)
QAM 64/256 (unencrypted digital cable TV)
100Mbit Ethernet
Ethernet
Ethernet is a family of computer networking technologies for local area networks commercially introduced in 1980. Standardized in IEEE 802.3, Ethernet has largely replaced competing wired LAN technologies....

RJ45 connection

DVB model

DVB-T over-the-air unencrypted digital TV
QAM 64/128/256 (annex A/C) unencrypted digital cable TV (DVB-C)
6/7/8 MHz channel bandwidth (Australia, Europe, New Zealand, Taiwan)
100Mbit Ethernet RJ45 connection

Compatibility

The HDHomeRun can be controlled and viewed from a wide variety of DVR

Digital video recorder

A digital video recorder , sometimes referred to by the merchandising term personal video recorder , is a consumer electronics device or application software that records video in a digital format to a disk drive, USB flash drive, SD memory card or other local or networked mass storage device...

/PVR software. Official software exists for Microsoft Windows

Microsoft Windows

, Linux

Linux

, and Mac OS X

Mac OS X

Mac OS X is a series of Unix-based operating systems and graphical user interfaces developed, marketed, and sold by Apple Inc. Since 2002, has been included with all new Macintosh computer systems...

Microsoft Windows Media Center
Windows Media Center
Windows Media Center is a digital video recorder and media player developed by Microsoft. It is an application that allows users to view and record live television, as well as organize and play music and videos...

:
- Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005
- Windows Vista Media Center
- Windows Media Center TV Pack 2008
- Windows 7 Media Center
Beyond TV (Microsoft Windows)
SageTV
SageTV
SageTV Media Center was a proprietary, commercial DVR and HTPC software for Mac OS X, Windows and Linux. It requires that the host computer have a hardware based TV tuner card. The SageTV software has an integrated Electronic Programming Guide that is updated via the Internet...

(Microsoft Windows Linux, Mac OS X)
MediaPortal
MediaPortal
MediaPortal is an open-source media center software project, often considered an alternative to Windows Media Center. It provides a 10-foot user interface for performing typical PVR/TiVo functionality, including playing, pausing, and recording live TV; playing DVDs, videos, and music; viewing...

(Microsoft Windows)
GB-PVR
GB-PVR
GB-PVR is a PVR application, running on Microsoft Windows, whose main function is scheduling TV recordings and playing back live TV. This PVR also acts as a home media center with a digital video recorder, a radio station online tuner, a music and movie player, a library of images and other...

(Microsoft Windows)
EyeTV
Elgato
ElgatoSystems is a hardware and software manufacturer that makes television viewing and recording products specifically for the Macintosh family of personal computers, including EyeTV software...

(Mac)
MythTV
MythTV
MythTV is a free and open source home entertainment application with a simplified "10-foot user interface" design for the living-room TV, and turns a computer with the necessary hardware into a network streaming digital video recorder, a digital multimedia home entertainment system, or home theater...

(Linux, other Unix-type platforms including Mac OS X)
Plex (software), a software fork of XBMC Media Center for Mac OS X
Pluto (multi-platform)
TellyServer (OTA ATSC Streaming from Windows PC to iPad/iPhone)
Signal GH (iPhone App to optimize antenna performance).
VLC (VideoLAN Client media player)
VLC media player
VLC media player is a free and open source media player and multimedia framework written by the VideoLAN project.VLC is a portable multimedia player, encoder, and streamer supporting many audio and video codecs and file formats as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. It is able to...

(multi-platform)
XBMC Media Center (formerly "XBox Media Center")

Future products

On January 7, 2010, Silicondust announced that they are developing a tri-tuner HDHomeRun model with support for CableCARD

CableCARD

CableCARD is a special-use PCMCIA card that allows consumers in the United States to view and record digital cable television channels on digital video recorders, personal computers and television sets without the use of other equipment such as a set top box provided by a cable television company...

Official sites

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