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SiliconDust Dual HD Digital Tuner
$69.99 + $5 Shipping
Condition: New

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I currently get 3 channels - two of which are in Spanish. I'm not sure this will help my situation.

Have you always wondered what Windows Media Center was all about?

Get this superior device and you too will libertate yourself from the cable and sattelite companies.

I own 2 of these units and they work great. I have 2 older units, 5 years, and they still work great.

Great Price, you cannot go wrong!

Gigs1973 wrote:I currently get 3 channels - two of which are in Spanish. I'm not sure this will help my situation.

Sounds like anything would help your situation.

what do you get in terms of channels?

also, can this be used with wifi? some reviews say yes, some say no and I'm confused.


and anyone have peanut-butter jelly time experience with these?


[EDIT:] how does M A C translate to peanut butter and jelly time?

wvtechguru wrote:Have you always wondered what Windows Media Center was all about?

Get this superior device and you too will libertate yourself from the cable and sattelite companies.

I own 2 of these units and they work great. I have 2 older units, 5 years, and they still work great.

Great Price, you cannot go wrong!

Get any of the movie (like HBO) or local channels with this thing?

Don't suppose it works with satellite, but that has more than three channels!

You'll pick up any unencrypted channels off cable (basically, your local channels, plus potentially a couple others), or, if you hook it up to an antenna, it'll pick up any channels that are available.

Hmm. How would this do with a FIOS setup?

anoted wrote:what do you get in terms of channels?

also, can this be used with wifi? some reviews say yes, some say no and I'm confused.


and anyone have peanut-butter jelly time experience with these?

Hooked up to an Antennae I get 13 Channels in HD where I live... Hooked up to my cable I get all the digital channels including the brodacasted local HD channels which is made free of charge by the FCC.

I have media center PC's and/or Extenders hooked up to my TV's No montly fees to the cable company for their boxes and super sweet PVR units.

One note: If you use a cable company who encrypts all channels, you will need the one with cable card support, this will not work for you.

Wifi works as long as your network is capable. The unit will be wired to the router and then wirless from there, hipefully you are using N Standards. Wired is just a better way to go for a more consistent connection.

crickee wrote:Get any of the movie (like HBO) or local channels with this thing?

Yes all the local channels...
Using an antennae check the your address at tvfool.com to see what you can get.

I do not get HBO. HBO is a encrypted premium service from the cable company which would requires the unit to have cable card support.

I'm wondering if anyone has any M A C experience?
(not peanut butter and jelly-time experience)

Also--how well does this work in an age when more and more channels, even the free cable ones, are going all digital?

Wow, went to bed last night after picking up some of the refurb Rokus and hoped these came up today. Get up this morning and first then I check is woot!, and these are up! Destiny - in for two!

anoted wrote:I'm wondering if anyone has any M A C experience?
(not peanut butter and jelly-time experience)

Also--how well does this work in an age when more and more channels, even the free cable ones, are going all digital?

Wish I can help you with the peanut-butter jelly time experience...

The unit only works with digital channels whether they are OTA or through the cable service. The important factor, at least with Cable providers, is whether they are transmitting unencrypted QAM.

Well you can go wrong.

Got one last week from Woot. The channel scan never finds any channels.

One I had before this one worked just peachy until I accidentally plugged the wrong power supply into it when moving things around.

Ah the smell of melting plastic... Smells like VICTORY!

The Godfather
Taxi Driver
Silence of the Lambs
Ghostbusters
A Few Good Men
Apollo 13
Hamlet
Casablanca
Back to the Future
Gone with the Wind
Reality Bites

ok...i'm going to hit the hay. I stayed up this long and was thwarted after hitting the big buy button on the Brick of Carbonite buy...the only thing I've been interested in for hours.

You know, if this was a Saturday, I'd stay up later and watch a super long marathon of The Rifleman. That's a hint, woot!

Because honestly, I'd probably be up then anyway.

This is a weird product for me to contemplate considering that I watch mostly black and white TV. And yet....

Whatever...I need to go to bed before...shoot new woot beep. Ok, that's the last one. Then I'm really going to bed.

anoted wrote:what do you get in terms of channels?

also, can this be used with wifi? some reviews say yes, some say no and I'm confused.


and anyone have peanut-butter jelly time experience with these?


[EDIT:] how does M A C translate to peanut butter and jelly time?

Channels would vary by provider. Specifically, there are two pre-reqs for this to be useful (on a traditional cable network, at least. Too lazy to research FiOS/Satellite, though I'm pretty sure it'd be even less useful with those services.)

1: You can't have switched digital video. How do I know if I have switched digital video, you ask? Are you required to have a cable box, even if you only subscribe to basic cable? Then you would probably get only a handful of channels (think over-the-air, at best.)

2: Does your provider encrypt their channels? This one is harder to determine until you actually hook it up. Although, a good test is if you already have a digital tuner (like the one that normally is already in an HDTV) - whatever you get on your HDTV is what you'll get on this thing. (edit: This also tells you what channels you'd receive if you do live in an area with switched digital video)

As for the WiFi question...I can't see why it wouldn't work. As long as you don't have some absurdly funky network setup, this shouldn't be a problem.

Got one a couple weeks ago, it is on FIOS and I get all the network channels and some others, the HD in my opinion rivals what the set top box records, however it doesn't work with HD over wifi, even in the same room as the router in my case... Each HD stream pulls about 15mbps through the wired network, which I don't under stand why a link speed of 54mbps wouldn't keep up, but it DOES NOT, very choppy HD over wifi

your problem is you will need a stronger antenna, if it has a booster you plug in, you will likely pick up more channels.

I love these tuners, I now have 2 of them on my network. Everybody in house has PC and laptop setup with windows media center and records everything they want to watch. great gizmo!