Let me join the chorus praising the SiliconDust tuners! :-) Seriously, though, here's your decision tree: Do you want to record cable TV? If yes, you want a model that can accept a CableCard. That's the PRIME model, which can record three channels at a time . $115 at Amazon. Do you want to capture from satellite? If yes, the you don't want one of these: you need something that will take HDMI or component inputs and do something with it. A Hauppauge HD PVR 2 or something similar which can record one channel at a time. Do you want to record over the air TV? If yes, then: Do you require that you can watch it on your phone or some other device that needs to get the content via WiFi? If yes, then you must have transcoding. One can do this via transcoding on the back end (as I've been doing for years) or use the brand new option of a hardware-based transcoder in the EXTEND model (formerly known as the PLUS model) which can record and transcoder two channels at the same time. This is $195 at Amazon. If you are OK with transcoding on the back end or: Will you be watching it using frontends that can use wired Ethernet, such as an Amazon FireTV running XBMC or Kodi or a Raspberry Pi or a PC or Mac? If either of these, then you can use the cheapest model. Now known as the CONNECT (formerly known as the DUAL), this can recird two channels at the same time and is $80 from Amazon. I own three DUAL tuners. One has the newer black box and two are the older grey boxes. They are functionally equivalent. We now live in a home where I can't run Ethernet to an important room. As a test, I've purchased an EXTEND model and verified that I can watch there over WiFi. So, in selling my older DUAL tuners and upgrading to another EXTEND model. If you want to buy them, I think that $40 is a fair price. A bit about the number of devices: consider the maximum simultaneous recording channels. For OTA, you might want to record PBS, ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox at the same time. You'd need two PRIME or three over the air boxes. I've been using MythTV since 2002 and a need for five simultaneous channels has never happened to me. If you only want to record four channels at the same time, you need two devices. (I have three because I used to have a Myth box at my uncle's in Iowa. ) Hope this helps. Let me know if anyone wants to buy my old tuners. Thomas On Aug 4, 2015 12:06 PM, "Brian Dolan-Goecke" <goeko at goecke-dolan.com> wrote: > > Mike, > > The SiliconDust are great! > > I have been using one with my MythTV for years (I have also used the > native desktop app, with VLC to watch live TV from the HDHomeRun) it is the > best tuner to use with mythtv (IMHO). Easy to setup, don't need to put a > card/usb on a box, doesn't use resources of the MythTV system... > > The question is which model. I just have the basic HD Homerun connect > dual turner never had issues with it. John Frisk has been using the HD > Home run PRIME I believe, and has it connected to his cable. (If you are > going to use the PRIME you need to talk with John he will know who/how you > need to talk with comcast to get the turner card for the PRIME.) > > Good luck, happy to help if you have any other questions. > > BTW we WILL be having our annual MythTV talk at the Penguins Unbound > meeting this fall, date not set yet. Watch the Meetup or the Website for > announcement! > > Penguins Unbound Meetup > http://www.meetup.com/PenguinsUnbound/events/221124540/ > > Penguins Unbound Webpage > http://www.penguinsunbound.org > > > ==>brian. > > On 08/03/2015 11:12 PM, Mike Miller wrote: > >> I've seen a few strong recommendations here for the HD Homerun from >> SiliconDust for use with MythTV, but when I look for it, I find a bunch >> of models: >> >> http://www.google.com/search?q=hdhomerun+tuner&tbm=shop >> >> Which one should I be trying to get? >> >> Mike >> _______________________________________________ >> TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >> tclug-list at mn-linux.org >> http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >> > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20150804/4e0f9df2/attachment.html>