If I live in the UK and buy a hdhomerun will I be able to record from US channels even though I’m in the UK
It depends…
If you have some sort of Pay-TV service (cable/satellite/etc) that provides US programming in complete free and clear, unencrypted, unprotected material - Yes (very unlikely).
Otherwise - No.
@JuiceWSA said:
It depends…If you have some sort of Pay-TV service (cable/satellite/etc) that provides US programming in complete free and clear, unencrypted, unprotected material - Yes (very unlikely).
Otherwise - No.
Thanks for replying
I’d love to be able to recommend an antenna that would receive signals from, say, New York City, but I’m afraid you’d have to build that one yourself and it would have to be as big as the United Kingdom and go on a tower that would be a hazard to navigation for The International Space Station, so it’s likely you’d run into local building permit issues…
If you had a friend in the US and that friend had excellent upload bandwidth you could ship that friend the HDHomerun device.
Then have them hook it up to their antenna and you would then just need to enter the IP Address of that HDHomerun device during the Plex DVR setup at your home.
This would be one way of giving yourself access to US TV Shows
Clever…
Another ‘work around’ is to have a friend in the US with an antenna and Plex DVR/Windows Media Center/MCEBuddy/Other with similar tastes in programming (or will do requests) then become a Guest for their Plex server wherein you will have access to their recorded material remotely.
They could, in turn, become a Guest for your server where they will have remote access to any recorded UK material you have.
All of these methods likely skirt and gently touch (the naughty bits of) legality issues, but if it happened we promise not to tell anybody.
