Your Choice: SiliconDust Streaming Boxes Price: $79.99 - 149.99 Shipping Options: $5 Standard OR $9 Two-Day OR $12 One-Day Shipping Estimates: Ships in 1-2 business days (Tuesday, Jun 03 to Wednesday, Jun 04) + transit Condition: New
So regarding the SimpleTV, I know that there is a subscription required for certain features. The previous models sold have come with a lifetime subscription. What does THIS one come with? I didn’t see anything in the description…
Can someone tell me whether I can use one of those three devices (preferably the cheapest one) in this way:
Plug my HD antenna into it (I don’t have cable)
Get the feed from that into my Raspberry Pi (via ethernet cable/home network) which is running XBMC (Raspbian).
Watch TV and record TV on my Raspberry Pi (thereby replacing/supplementing my very old Tivo.)
If so, is it pretty easy to set that up?
I want to buy this but I’m not super tech savvy but it seems like the perfect add-on to my Rasberry Pi which I just got to work a week ago and which I love.
Strange, Woot! says the list price is $250 but on the Simple.TV site the $250 price point includes a year of their Premier Subscription service.
Just to lay it out for anyone who doesn’t want to go to their site and look, the subscription adds:
Whole-planet Remote Access
Automatic Series Recordings
Pause & Resume on Select Devices
Offline Viewing for Mobile Devices (Coming Soon)
Early Access Pass (see the new features before everyone else)
Prices to add the Premier Subscription are:
$59.99 - 1 year
$149.99 - Lifetime (You can get a 1st gen unit with lifetime for cheaper on Amazon and use it for both instead.)
I’ve been looking to get a HDHomeRun for years now but I must admit I’m a little torn between the Plus and the Simple.TV.
The specs indicate the Simple.TV has H.264 encoding like the Plus, so that’s good, but they also state the audio output is only AAC stereo which (if permanent) is a deal breaker for anyone who wants to preserve 5.1 surround from broadcast signals. Some reviewers of the Plus indicate that surround audio support was added to that device with a firmware update. Simple.TV also lacks the DLNA streaming capabilities of the Plus.
I’m skeptical as to whether the Simple.TV device will continue to receive support like I know the HDHomeRun Plus will, especially if company doesn’t make it (They’ve only been selling devices since late last year and they’re already on their second gen hardware after all).
[MOD: Thanks for the callout. We adjusted the list to $199.99. We are selling the BASIC version.]