4K OTA broadcasts are coming. I can’t wait, as it will make sports look amazing. But, does anyone know of a manufacturer that is making them? I haven’t seen a thing on them, but the antenna industry is certainly cashing in on imminent 4k broadcasts, but tuner card manufacturers appear to be silent. Has anyone seen or heard anything about them? I have used my old Hauppage card for over 10 years, and its been perfect, but it looks like they are silent.
Not a card, though.
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Plex can’t currently handle the audio from an ATSC3.0 broadcast. Their is a workaround to display both the ATSC1.0 and 3.0 streams so it can be used with Plex.
To me, Plex support would need to follow the availability of tuners. And since their aren’t any, that gets tricky. I know it is important for Plex to work on the standards, but we need cards to do the heavy lifting.
I’ll never buy a Tuner Card again.
Having a Networked Tuner near the hole in the wall where the wire comes in is so nice - I’ll never give it up.
I also like the idea of the shrapnel being localized over there near the hole, not on my desktop when God reminds us how fun lightning can be.
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I can understand that. But I went from a networked tuner to plex server/htpc so I can have access to my recordings and then compress them as I wanted. It was really nice for a certain Super Bowl I wanted to always have. I just hate giving control of my media to another box that can only last as long as the storage, or the system, can. Never again will I do a network tuner. And my HTPC sends it to every TV and other device in the house.
Plex uses my Networked tuner just fine - and it, by itself, along with Plex, can send Live TV to any TV in the house with a device or access to an HDHR App (all my TVs, oddly enough, have an Antenna Cable, for some reason, and can use the built in Tuner, but more toys is the goal, right?).
And I still keep the shrapnel localized where it won’t do too much scarring when/if it explodes.
Plex, apparently doesn’t care where your tuner is - it just has to find it. Guess it found mine pretty easily. It was on the same network the server was and Plex said: Oh, there it is… The Tuner was already set up, so Plex said: and here are the channels - and here is this crappy EPG…(I live in the sticks -lol)
The point is - there’s nothing I can find to make me want to return Ground Zero to my Desktop Server Box. <—not that it would matter much upon detonation… realistically, but the blast damage won’t be where I might be sitting.
The tuner linked above, when used with a Plex Media Server, doesn’t store the recordings. It can be used as a self-contained DVR if you attach a USB hard drive to it and use SiliconDust’s DVR service. However, when used with Plex, it just acts as a tuner; Plex performs the recording and stores them to whatever library you configure for it (just as it would with a card-based tuner).
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