Beyond doubling down on cable television capabilities at CES, Silicon Dust also announced an upcoming cord cutter DVR. While the company has produced network tuners, basically forever, and been iterating on DVR software recently, the upcoming HDHomeRun Connect DUO+ is the first to merge both solutions within a single box, along with a hard drive. As such, the two-tuner Duo+ includes 250GB of storage, good for 60hrs of HD antenna recording. As opposed to TiVo or Channel Master, the Duo+ is more Tablo-like in that it’s a headless device that streams content through various platform apps, like Roku and Fire TV. Beyond claims of a mid-year release and reference to a DVR subscription fee (currently $35/yr), timing and pricing remain elusive.
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Interesting trivia - Silicon Dust partnered with Simple TV back in the day to provide similar. So it's been interesting to see them expand their software chops and now ready to execute this strategy on their own. (Will also be interesting to see if the final product is as compact and fan-free as the render...)
4 tuners would have been better, but if they have a decent price point around $199 or LESS ($149 would be better IMO) they could have a winner on their hands. Especially with guide data only being $35 a year.
Good news.
I'll be interested if it will allow for adding at least one more 2-tuner HDHomeRun OTA box (Extend or Connect) to provide a little more headroom for recording and viewing live TV.