Network TV Tuner advice

Whiffle

Whiffle

Whiffle

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Has anyone on here got/had any experience with network TV tuners?

I want to replace my current TV tuners (PCI-E) with HD versions and was wondering whether networked versions were worth considering.

In particular, I was wondering whether they have the possibility of causing too much congestion on a home network.
 
Homerunner do some I believe, which intergrate into Plex if that is your sort of thing, something I will be looking at doing.
 
I did look at the Homeruns but a few reviews suggested that they do suffer from occasional blips in the video if too many HD streams are being fed from a single MUX - I assume that that may be because they only have 100MB ethernet.

Furthermore, I really need four tuners, so I would have to buy two Homeruns - not the end of the world, but I would lose two connections on my switch.

The much better choice would be the HD Homerun Expand - this is an upgraded version that has four inbuilt tuners and gigabit ethernet. This is exactly what I would need.

The critical downside is that the Expand only works with DVB-C. I even wrote to the company to ask whether they were considering a DVB-T2 version but they confirmed that they aren't.

My only other real option is this:

https://digitaldevices.de/products/network_tv_tuner/octopus_net_c2_4t/

This would seem a really good (yet expensive) options - unfortunately, it seems that it is nowhere as well supported as the Homeruns and any reviews (at least in English) are hard to find.
 
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