While that device might be capable, I was saying that I thought that if you hook up component cables from a device that has HDCP, that it wouldn't deliver 1080 content, and instead be lower.
Anyway, seems that SD is now offering this:
So, with these NAS devices, they say no PC is required... but, how do you schedule a show to record with a NAS device? Are we talking a web interface to all this?
Imagine PC not required means more along the line of "input device not limited to PC". Either you run their pc software or an app that does the same. But since you most likely need a home network for you to connect to the tuner via app, it goes back to my earlier statement.
The client app is storage-agnostic, if you will.
The recording engine and the front-end app are separated. On supported NAS devices with the processing power, all the actual recording and execution of schedules is managed by the recording engine.
To make the schedules, and otherwise interact with the DVR in any capacity, you use the front-end app that can be used on the devices they say they'll support. Their goal is Windows, Mac, and Android (mobile and STB's like Fire TV or Android TV) for the start.
So if they are successful, you can truly have a no-PC environment.
You could set the recording engine to record to a PC or Mac or possibly any Linux box (QNAP NAS's are Linux-based, not sure about WD's My Cloud series), and then any client apps on the network can access the storage, regardless of what device you chose to use for storage.
I am curious how the My Cloud NAS devices will stand up to recording. There are Intel CPUs in the QNAP boxes, so those can stand up to the demand of recording multiple streams, but what about the dual-core CortexA9 chips in the consumer My Cloud devices? Perhaps simply recording MPEG2 streams without transcode may not be that intensive, so it may be easy enough to achieve.