And it was about a year or so ago when he finally cancelled cable. Yet, many of his solutions have coexisted. I’m trying to fit Adam’s progression into a linear narrative. Channels also streams to Amazon Fire TV… but picture quality isn’t quite as stellar as Apple’s presentation, even after enabling hardware decoding.
Adam’s television set-top boxes are Apple TV.
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The DVR software and recordings live on his existing Synology DS218+ NAS – but it could have been hosted by any number of computers around the house, like a Mac Mini.
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So Adam’s rocking Channels DVR ($8/mo) – “it’s as simple as it needs to be” yet powerful and fast, especially since it moves untouched MPEG-2 around the home, versus the channel changing delays experienced with MPEG-4 transcoding (hello Fire TV Recast, Tablo). Plex has had its own set of issues (many of them). So he started experimenting with HDHomeRun hardware (using the same, old reliable Mohu Leaf antenna).Īdam ultimately settled on the HDHomeRun Quatro, given his increasing deemphasis of cable and it’s been a more effective OTA tuner than Tablo - although Silicon Dust’s native software clients still don’t measure up (after one hundred years). There was more, but differing, television to be watched, including viewing from mobile devices in and outside the home. And suddenly the math changed (keeping in mind he’s a frequent gadget flipper, also like someone you know). Simple was ultimately replaced by the superior Tablo, where he happily dwelled for some time (with cable television service still periodically in play).īut, like me, Adam had a kid. He (and his family) had started off as a CableCARD-powered TiVo household but, as a fellow geek, the SimpleTV network tuner really caught eye and that’s when he began dipping his toes into over-the-air television. But his television approaches have evolved as the market has shifted and new gadgets have presented themselves. I’d call Adam something of an inadvertent cord cutter, as he didn’t wake up one morning and declare his intent to divorce cable.
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