<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 4/5/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Willy Boyd</b> <<a href="mailto:willyboyd@gmail.com">willyboyd@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On 4/5/07, Rich West <<a href="mailto:Rich.West@wesmo.com">Rich.West@wesmo.com</a>> wrote:<br>> After reading past posts on the list and looking at the device itself<br>> (on the web page), is it as easy as it claims to be? That old phrase of
<br>> "If it's too good to be true, it probably isn't" rings through my head<br>> every time I come back to it. But, from what I have read, a number of<br>> people are using it. What are people's experiences with the HDHomeRun
<br>> and does the antenna you choose have an impact (I'm sure it does, but by<br>> how much)? Is the HDHomeRun better/worse than getting an internal HD<br>> tuner card?<br>><br><br>FWIW, I got mine Monday and set it up that night. After plugging
<br>things up and following the instructions (can be found on the wiki or<br>silicondust's forums, sounds like you've found them), it really was<br>THAT easy.<br><br>You'll have to go through your channels and put in xmltvid's, and lots
<br>of your scanned channels might not actually tune, but as far as I'm<br>aware these actions are independent of which HD tuner you end up going<br>with and would be done regardless. The real boon for me, was that<br>
this was my first foray into having more than one tuner. I put in a<br>two-way splitter on my cable line and instantly had 2 identical<br>sources to record from.<br></blockquote></div><br>The HDhomerun is very easy to set up and use. I don't know why
<span class="gmail_quote"><span class="gmail_sendername">Willy Boyd</span> says you have to</span> put in xmltvid's. I never had to do that. I can't compare the HDhomerun's tuner against any other HD tuners. I hooked it up and it gets all my local HD channels. That is all I know.
<br><br>I am a harsh critic and I rate the HDhomerun as a 9 out of 10. It loses one point because: no static ip address option, no wall mounting holes, and a wall wart AC adapter.<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>_____________<br>
Ryan Patterson