Elgato HDHomeRun App Provides Yet Another Streaming TV Solution
By Rob Scott
August 22, 2011
August 22, 2011
- The HDHomeRun iPad app from Elgato paired with one of SiliconDust’s new HDHomeRun Prime CableCARD tuners allows users to play and record cable channels that are sent without encyption or are marked copy freely.
- Currently, the $17.99 app is iPad-only and can only handle standard definition MPEG-2 channels. According to the press release, “The HDHomeRun PRIME App lets the user record programs directly to their iPad with the option of transferring those recordings from the iPad 2 to a Mac or PC.”
- Engadget reports: “…in a market suddenly flooded by CableCARD tuners maybe this extra functionality is just what’s needed to tip the balance between one device or another.”
- The post includes a brief video demo.
2 Comments
Very interesting, but I wonder how the average consumer is going to know in advance which channels are unencrypted and marked “copy freely”! I, for one, don’t know.
Very interesting, but I wonder how the average consumer is going to know in advance which channels are unencrypted and marked “copy freely”! I, for one, don’t know.
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