Product Details
- Size: One Size
- Color: Black
- Brand: SiliconDust
- Model: HDHR3-CC
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 1.00" h x
7.00" w x
4.00" l,
1.50 pounds
Features
- Compatible With: Windows Media Center (for use with encrypted or copy controlled content),
- Works with existing HDHomeRun Units, HDHomeRun PRIME can be added to your existing,
- TV sources: Unencrypted digital cable TV, Premium digital cable TV
- Three Tuners: Anywhere on Your Network QAM64/256
- Works with popular DVR software
SiliconDust HDHomeRun PRIME CableCard TV 3-Tuner HDHR3-CC (Black)
Product Description
The HD HomeRun Prime CableCard -Three Tuners: Anywhere on Your Network: Watch TV from any computer on your network. Record full 1080i broadcast resolution, Watch, Pause, Record & Rewind Live TV, Schedule and record all your favorite TV shows, Expand with multiple HDHomeRun devices. TV sources: Unencrypted digital cable TV, Premium digital cable TV. Works with popular DVR software: Watch, Pause, Record, & Rewind Live TV, Record all your favorite TV shows by name, Integrated TV guide (provided by the DVR software). Works with existing HDHomeRun Units: HDHomeRun PRIME can be added to your existing, HDHomeRun device set up to allow for additional tuners on your home network. Allows multiple signal input sources on the same network. Compatible with: Windows Media Center (for use with encrypted or copy controlled content). Other Popular DVR Programs (for use with copy freely content) Specifications: 3 digital tuners supporting QAM64/256, 1000BASE-T high speed network (Gig-E), Multistream CableCARD (M-Card) slot, 1 year warranty Requirements: Dual core recommended for HD playback, 2 GB RAM recommended, 1-4 GB per 1/2 hour of DTV recording, Subscription to applicable digital cable programming tier, PC running Windows 7 Home Premium, Professional, Ultimate, or Enterprise, Multistream CableCARD (M-Card) device from your cable provider, Tuning adapter/resolver from the cable provider.
Customer Reviews
Most helpful customer reviews
118 of 124 people found the following review helpful.
By D. Baker
I've been following this product since it was first promised earlier this year. I read all the gotchas, problems, etc, and thought I would be able to use that knowledge to help when I finally got the product myself and installed it. I also have an HDHR so thought it would be similar. Here's my experience:I received it today (wonderful one-day shipping from Amazon), and had picked up my MCard (CableCard) at Cox yesterday. Hooked everything up, plugged everything in, and went through the install - so far pretty straightforward. The setup did upgrade the firmware to 20110830, however, on SiliconDust's website they've released 20110920beta1, so I went ahead and upgraded to the latest. Finally get to the part where you call your cable company, and that's where things started getting interesting. The first call activated successfully, and I thought it was done, I said thank you and goodbye. But I only got basic channels, not extended (no ESPN, CNN, etc). So I called back, and she sent "hits" and "INITs", to no avail. Finally she had me unplug the Prime, pull out the CableCard, plug it back in and re-insert the CableCard. Then she re-paired it. But in my error, I gave her the wrong codes (you give them three ID codes). I didn't know that when you unplug, remove and reinsert the CableCard, it generates a new ID for the Data code. The other two codes are static. She couldn't get it to pair up again, but strangely, I started receiving all the channels! So we assumed everything was fine, even though it wasn't activated. Sure enough, in a few minutes I lost the channels again. A third call to Cox, and I gave him the correct codes (even though he was on the verge of saying he would just as soon send a tech out), and finally, it all worked!My recommendations:1. Get the setup and card activation done before even going into Windows Media Center. Use the SiliconDust Setup and QuickTV to verify things are working. Get familiar with the Prime setup web browser, so you can get the codes and see the status of the activation. Check the logs to see if the channels are subscribed or not.2. Be prepared to give the cable company what they need - the three (correct!) codes from a web browser pointing to the Prime. Cox didn't need any special instructions for this product. The last tech kept referring to my Tivo (I didn't correct him).3. Once you've verified it all works from the Setup/QuickTV, close all of the HDHomeRun windows so you won't get tuner availability errors, then go into WMC and configure your TV Signal. This part actually worked great for me.I've been watching TV for a few hours now, both on my computer and on my Windows Media Extender, with no glitches or hiccups. Will withhold final judgement until I've gone a few weeks.(ETA, just want to say that Cox was very helpful, this was all done on a Saturday night, and the second tech even called me back after giving me some time to find the codes and so she could do some research on it.)Update 3 1/2 weeks later: So I was missing a bunch of channels, and after several calls to Cox and an onsite visit, they said I needed a tuning adapter for Switched Digital Video (SDV) channels. The tech that came onsite didn't have any, so another trip to the Cox store, and then I hooked it up at home. The TA wouldn't lock on the signal, so a few more calls to Cox, and another onsite visit finally resulted in the SDV channels coming in, but no cable channels! Finally one more call to Cox, and now I'm getting all the channels I should be getting.Other than the channel problem though, I have been recording several shows a week, sometimes two shows at a time, and have had zero problems! It has been very reliable.
68 of 71 people found the following review helpful.
By James Mccorn
HDHomeRunPrime provides cable card decryption for my Comcast TV. Converting the encrypted channels that you pay for (anything above ch 30 and above) into IPTV format.I have tested it with Microsoft Media Center and have found that it works well streaming the content real time over the Ethernet. For those who do not have Microsoft you should be glad to know that they support a variety of TV watching applications (on Linux to boot). However their is one big thing to note. If a broadcast has been flagged on TV you cannot watch or record it on any program except Microsoft Media Center. Be sure to check to see if your TV provider flags all broadcasts or leaves it off by default. Comcast (which I have) leaves about 99% of their TV programing un-flagged by default. ALSO for flagged broadcasts be sure your have a complete hdcp complaint setup as the flag requires that type of DRM.Now as for streaming stability, I have noticed that if you go to wireless and attempt to access HDTV their will be some glitches as wireless does not provide the consistent quality of service and will drop packets causing your show to stutter. Wireless N might be a possible solution to solve this issue. However all I have is wireless A and G so I cannot test N.Recording TV shows on any PC is now possible no matter its location in the house. We have three pc's and this device can send HD TV to all three without even breaking a sweat. Keep in mind if you have Ethernet over power in your home it will have the same issues as wireless. (How do you think I know that >_>Silicon Dust provides a TV preview window so that you can quickly see if the device is working when you activate it. Oh speaking of activation, if you have Comcast expect to set some time down to get this device activated as most reps at Comcast are not to familiar with cable card activations. Ah, one other thing if you pay for TV you have the right to get one Cable card from your TV provider free of charge. MAKE SURE for this product that you request a CABLE CARD M and NOT CABLE CARD S. (FYI You can get the cable card from your Comcast store.) I have a you tube video overview of the physical device (update you will need to look for it on youtube amazon removes links.)(Update 1-15-2012) Having had the HDHomeRunPrime for a while I have a few observations to bring to light. First and foremost if you have multiple windows pc's and have purchased this device you will need to get each one activated with your cable provider. Second for your machines to receive HD on certain channels you will need to know if your machine is HDCP compliant. Lucky for you Microsoft has put a testing application in media center under settings to test to see if you are HDCP compliant. <- this can save you a lot of time. On that same note if your machine has not been tested by that app it will say its not compliant anyways so use the app.*Updated 2-17-12* Finally I would like to point out that you cannot get pay-per-view television or video-on-demand on the HDHomeRunPrime through the device itself. However, their is a possible exception, if you order pay-per-view from your cable provider then you may get pay-per-view on the device. I, personally, have not tried to order any pay-per-view so I wont know if the exception works.
34 of 39 people found the following review helpful.
By SteveFromDE
Hard to believe I'm the first one on with this incredible item but here goes! I pre-ordered this item and got it this past weekend. At this moment in time, it seems to live up to all the promise.Pros-> Cable Company & Cable Card compatibilty - Great-> Hardware - Great-> Software - size was great, light on features-> Administrative / Network Connectivity - Great, but only on a DHCP enabled network. Nothing in the box talks about a default IP address to connect to a web admin screen of any kind or even direct connect to administer.-> Clients finding on network - Great-> Multiple clients - installed and had it working from multiple PCs in house, didn't seem to overwrite each other. Performance monitor did seem to show 18-33% of the 100mbps LAN connection in use when streaming/watching HD and about 2.5 GB RAM. So you can't ignore the need for a solid network connection but it was so impressive to watch reliably from one computer while the other one was recording a show or two.Cons-> Had to download client install software (but its less than 6 MB so not a big deal)-> Was initially on my private "media" network but couldn't find it due to hard coding all clients (no DHCP?). When I moved it to my main PC / Internet network the clients found it right away during setup.1. Cable Company - I am a Comcast / XFINITY customer and they were great in the process. I walked into the local service store front for my Cable Card and was able to get ONE, with HD service, without incurring any additional cost to my account, just by sticking with my Digital SD-only cable box. When I called later in the setup to pair the devices, the first tech wasn't able to do it (Saturday). The next day (Sunday of Labor Day weekend no less) I got a call from one of their techs who had used the information in the ticket to pair the cable card to the hdhomerun and was calling so I could verify it worked. It did take a little bit to run through the Windows Media Center set up screens again at that point, but it worked fine, just took time. I got the tech's call back number after my initial success with the Quick TV app that was part of the HDHOMERUN set up software so as not to tie up more time as it was taking several minutes to rescan "additional" channels etc.2. HDHOMERUN Prime didn't come with software - it had two brochures attached - one was quick set up which was pretty good for as short as it was (I'd adjust one of the Media Center footnotes to make it a step but it was there and you could figure it out so no biggie). The other was a link to the Silicon Dust website which was more of a click into our forum page that felt kind of beta. Forums were nice but I was probably one of a ton of folks that day trying to access the referenced main site because it was very slow till I went to the forums link. I ended up downloading what looked like the Beta release with a couple days old posting for the software. Kudos on size though at less than 6MB for drivers and "Quick TV" viewer. The Quick TV viewer though didn't have sound and this was addressed on their forum by some of their users. It also has no PVR features. So it was nice to see it to verify digital channels were activated. One workaround was after software install using the channels all show under a HDHOMERUN Prime Playlist in Windows Media Player. The software configuration was basic and easy, with more complex stuff available to tweak if you want but not necessary to get up and running.3. I have basic on board (shared) video for my computers I hooked up with. Windows 7 64 bit Home Premium. Quad processor AMD around 3.0 Ghz per processor with 4GB RAM. My main DVR computer is just VGA, and my HTPC has onboard HDMI and is hooked up to a 50" Plasma. I did have an issue installing with my HTPC with Media Center Cable TV readiness test, but I unplugged the VGA, ran only HDMI, re-ran System Performance which bumped me up from 3.9 to 4.1 and then it passed. After that was no issues. Picture was good on the TV. I am not sure what to expect from 1080i digital HD. I would say it was HD but not that it was brilliant and blew me away, but not sure how good to expect. It was definitely better than digital SD by a long shot, and I dont have an HD cable box to compare to (plus both PCs are Shared Video memory). I do remember seeing one of the four processors noticeably higher at around 75% use when recording in Media Center which suprised me as I thought everything balanced better now.I didn't see any issues with synch problems where voices don't match video. I did see minor pixelation (once, not regularly) on the DVR PC but I think I was running the processor hard on something else.Overall a great device for the 2 days I've used it. I love how I can upgrade my PCs over the next several years and not have to upgrade this device. I love how I can get HD on the "cheap" - I can get HD service on 3 computer/TVs and only pay for digital service with no HD upgrade fee.
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