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https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1275320038/hdhomerun-dvr-the-dvr-re-imagined/description
Surely, through funding and the minimal $30/yr subscription fee, they can afford to get protected content DRM handling and rights for the main platforms. I am very hopeful they'll be able to do it, as the only reason we haven't seen it yet is due to platform-limitations (sorry Linux users, likely never getting copy-once support) and, ultimately, cost. All of the DVR players are low revenue in the end, so Microsoft was basically it.
I've been hoping someone would step up on Kickstarter, and I have to say, I am very glad it is Silicon Dust. Their software has been minimal, yes, but I think they can do this justice. At least, I hope so, lol. WMC is basically dead, there is no long-term plan for it.
What is brilliant is that they are even going headless, no need for Windows at all. I'll keep my Windows HTPC as a playback device but I think, if this pans out well, I'll invest in a QNAP NAS, something I had been planning on for total media and system backup support.
It'd be neat if Kodi can get copy-once support, perhaps only for Windows/Mac/Android, as that's the media center software I'd like to use, a complete package. That would fit in with the other ways I'd like to use my HTPC.
That this makes it far more ready to become a "whole home" solution makes me giddy. You couldn't do that with WMC, not cheaply, and basically not at all under Windows 8 unless you had Xbox 360(s).
Please, please pan out. I've been begging the industry to finally offer up something like this.
Surely, through funding and the minimal $30/yr subscription fee, they can afford to get protected content DRM handling and rights for the main platforms. I am very hopeful they'll be able to do it, as the only reason we haven't seen it yet is due to platform-limitations (sorry Linux users, likely never getting copy-once support) and, ultimately, cost. All of the DVR players are low revenue in the end, so Microsoft was basically it.
I've been hoping someone would step up on Kickstarter, and I have to say, I am very glad it is Silicon Dust. Their software has been minimal, yes, but I think they can do this justice. At least, I hope so, lol. WMC is basically dead, there is no long-term plan for it.
What is brilliant is that they are even going headless, no need for Windows at all. I'll keep my Windows HTPC as a playback device but I think, if this pans out well, I'll invest in a QNAP NAS, something I had been planning on for total media and system backup support.
It'd be neat if Kodi can get copy-once support, perhaps only for Windows/Mac/Android, as that's the media center software I'd like to use, a complete package. That would fit in with the other ways I'd like to use my HTPC.
That this makes it far more ready to become a "whole home" solution makes me giddy. You couldn't do that with WMC, not cheaply, and basically not at all under Windows 8 unless you had Xbox 360(s).
Please, please pan out. I've been begging the industry to finally offer up something like this.
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