HDHomeRun Connect Streaming Media Player (HDHR4-2DT UK Version) - £80.29 Delivered (~ $137AUD) @ Amazon UK

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Jad on 26/12/2016 - 12:26 amazon.co.uk (341 clicks)
Last edited 23/04/2023 - 20:56 by 1 other user

A nice price drop on this unit today, down £20 to £79.99. Cheapest ever according to Camelx3.

Works out to be ~AU$137 delivered, which is a nice saving over the ~$200 local price.

This UK version is DVB-T / DVB-T2 compatible, so works fine locally. Has hit the price point for me to pick one up to try with the recently released Plex DVR functionality. Hope this is the case for some other Ozbargainers!

• Watch live HDTV on up to 2 devices simultaneously on your wired network
• Works with all popular PC DVR software so you can watch, pause and record
• Watch many great primetime broadcast channels from your favourite networks
• HDHomeRun is DLNA compatible and streams over UPnP

Edit: Some good discussion from previously posted bargain here: https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/264096

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  Whomastadon on 26/12/2016 - 12:35

  Do you need to buy a separate power plug for this. If so can you recommend one?

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    TimU on 27/12/2016 - 17:19

    The original HDHR was 5V DC, 200mA. I've had to replace the PSUs for both of mine. Any suitable 5V DC transformer with the right plug should work.

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  bwatt72 on 26/12/2016 - 12:41

  What can or what does this do?

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    Jad on 26/12/2016 - 12:48

    I've updated the post with some additional details, plus link to previous Ozbargain discussion.

    Basically it's a dual DVB-T tuner that allows you to watch DTV on supported network devices.

    For Plex Pass users there is a new DVR functionality currently in beta that is compatible with this device.
    https://www.plex.tv/blog/air-human-plex-dvr-divine/

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    pete123 on 26/12/2016 - 13:33

    +1

    You plug it in to your tv antenna and your network and it streams television over the network.

    So you could watch the tv on your phone or copmuter, or you can move your tv into a location which doesn't get good reception.

    If you have an Android TV box (Nexus Player, Nvidia Shield, Mi Box) then you can use the Live Channels App which means you don't have to switch between the tv and the smart box. It's all in the one place.

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      Jad on 26/12/2016 - 13:37

      Also, for Apple devices there is the ''Channels'' app, for similar features for iPhone/iPad/Apple TV.

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      bwatt72 on 26/12/2016 - 13:40

      I have 3 apple TVs and one android box yet to set up and also a smart tv with android?

      We can only get dtv from one tv as antenna is in another room,only way I can get dtv is from Xbox one app which uses interenet on that other tv.
      As for tv in bedroom no option of dtv on that yet that's got Apple TV as well as kids room Apple TV.

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  xioxxio on 26/12/2016 - 13:49

  +1

  These things are amazing. I love mine, great find.

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  bwatt72 on 26/12/2016 - 14:12

  -1

  Any YouTube vids

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  AlexF on 26/12/2016 - 15:15

  Was great when Windows shipped with WMC. Now, SiliconDust wants to you to subscribe to their DVR software. Third-party DVR software might work, but that's best-effort only.
  US versions have built-in MEPG4 transcoding.

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    noz on 26/12/2016 - 20:11

    I have never used SiliconDust DVR software. At the moment I used Kodi+NextPVR, and it works wonderfully well on Windows and Android devices. No subscription needed.

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      AlexF on 26/12/2016 - 20:21

      .. NextPVR, and it works wonderfully well

      does NextPVR support broadcaster's free 7-day over-the-air EPG within DVB-T broadcast, as WMC does?

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        noz on 26/12/2016 - 20:37

        +1

        I presume so. I haven't set up any EPG, and it simply works without any specific configuration.

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        AlexF on 26/12/2016 - 21:02

        @noz:
        WMC comes with MPEG2 and MPEG4 and Dolby, MPEG and AAC audio decoders. What video and audio decoders do you use?

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        noz on 26/12/2016 - 23:19

        @AlexF:
        not sure, but all stations and sounds work. When running on my PC, it decodes sound to stereo (since that is all I have). When watching via TV/Receiver the AVR detects and decodes the 5.1 audio signal when present.

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        kleung on 27/12/2016 - 00:57

        @AlexF:

        does NextPVR support broadcaster's free 7-day over-the-air EPG(acma.gov.au) within DVB-T broadcast

        Not sure about NextPVR, but MediaPortal definitely does.

        MediaPortal also supports XMLTV, so you can use anything that spits out a file in XMLTV format to grab EPG data, like WebGrab+ Plus, which has a range of templates for Australian EPG sources.

        What video and audio decoders do you use?

        MediaPortal will use whatever codecs you have installed in Windows for playback. I don't watch that much TV directly from my media PC, but I do watch the recordings from another device on my network. I know that the recordings it produces are basically just the broadcast stream dumped to disk (TransportStream). They will contain whatever audio the TV program was broadcast with - most of my recordings either have MPEG2 stereo audio, AC3 2-channel or AC3 5.1 channel audio.

        If you only want to watch live TV on PCs within your network, the free HDHomeRun software will do that just fine.

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        noz on 27/12/2016 - 07:40

        @AlexF:
        Here's some screenshots from NextPVR that may assist you:
        http://imgur.com/a/4YIrY
        http://imgur.com/a/HqiuO (see EPG column)
        http://imgur.com/a/msBGA (Kodi fetches the EPG from NextPVR)

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        AlexF on 27/12/2016 - 09:12

        @noz:
        Looks like NextPVR is mostly using open source decoders by default and those seem good enough.

        Just one more question - does NextPVR support recording of and display of broadcasted subtitles?

        WMC has served me well but it's good to know that there may be a free alternative on Windows 10.

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  TimU on 27/12/2016 - 17:20

  Expired?
  I'm seeing £99.99 & FREE Delivery in the UK

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    Jad on 27/12/2016 - 17:44

    +1

    Yes, appears to be, must have been a Boxing Day sale only! I'll mark as expired.