The makers of Channels DVR are hoping to support the Quatro 4K and ATSC 3.0 channels. “Our DVR shouldn’t be perfect for everyone.” Fancy Bits “If people like another app better, then awesome, we want to support that,” Kelsey said. While Kelsey said the modulators required by ATSC 3.0 are more complex and expensive, cost savings comes from the fact that SiliconDust is mass-producing hardware, which no other external tuner vendors are doing yet. That’s surprising given that commercial tuners can cost up to $1,000, and that the existing Connect Quatro tuner sells for $150. Kelsey said the Quatro 4K is profitable at its $200 Kickstarter price, and he doesn’t expect that price to rise in September, when SiliconDust plans to launch the tuner more broadly. “We figured the only way to help the situation was to come out with product availability.” Getting the price down “There’s obviously a pretty big adoption chicken-and-egg problem,” Kelsey said. At least for now, SiliconDust sees the Quatro 4K as mainly for engineers and other people in the industry, along with some early adopters. While lots of companies are developing software and middleware for ATSC 3.0, the current hardware for receiving the new standard is cost prohibitive. Just don't get it with the expectation of watching 4k signals or that the 3.0 channels will be anything better than the 1.0 for the near future.Kelsey said the Quatro 4K came from a desire to move broadcast TV forward. So the Flex 4k is great for watching and recording all the OTA channels you want for football or whatever else. And there are no free ota channels that are broadcasting 4k and there is every indication it will be years before we see it (and when we do it may just be uprezzed 1080 as the workflow/sources are in 7).

Depending on where you are at, they might look a little better but given the fact that they didn't gain any extra bandwidth to broadcast on and still have to broadcast the 1.0 stations, they don't have the space to maximize. As someone else mentione dyou can use channels if you want.īut note that the 3.0 channels are still effectively just beta tests. Plex, and most other, programs are reliant on FFMPEG. It will be a bit before you can record the 3.0 versions due FFMPEG's lack of Dolby AC4 audio support. Plex and the 1.0 versions of the channels will work fine if you get this (assuming you get good enough signal at your house to get OTA).

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