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title: "SiliconDust HDHomeRun Flex 4K ATSC 3.0 NextGen TV: 2/4 Tuners HDFX-4K"
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# Full DVR support via USB drive 4 tuners (2 ATSC 3.0 + 4 ATSC 1.0) Multi-device streaming across platforms SiliconDust HDHomeRun Flex 4K ATSC 3.0 NextGen TV: 2/4 Tuners HDFX-4K

**Brand:** silicondust
**Price:** € 329.86
**Availability:** ✅ In Stock

## Summary

> 📺 Elevate your home entertainment—because buffering is so last decade.

## Quick Answers

- **What is this?** SiliconDust HDHomeRun Flex 4K ATSC 3.0 NextGen TV: 2/4 Tuners HDFX-4K by silicondust
- **How much does it cost?** € 329.86 with free shipping
- **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship
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## Best For

- silicondust enthusiasts

## Why This Product

- Trusted silicondust brand quality
- Free international shipping included
- Worldwide delivery with tracking
- 15-day hassle-free returns

## Key Features

- • **NextGen ATSC 3.0 Ready:** Future-proof your entertainment with cutting-edge ATSC 3.0 tuners delivering superior signal clarity and less interference.
- • **Whole-Home DVR Flexibility:** Turn any USB hard drive into your personal DVR with crystal-clear, no-compression recordings.
- • **Seamless Multi-Room Streaming:** Watch live TV on multiple devices simultaneously with zero lag—perfect for the connected home.
- • **Universal Device Compatibility:** Stream effortlessly on Android, AppleTV, Roku, Xbox, Windows, Mac, and more—your TV, your rules.
- • **Lightning-Fast Channel Switching:** Experience near-instant channel changes that leave traditional tuners in the dust.

## Overview

The HDHomeRun FLEX 4K is a NextGen TV certified network tuner featuring 4 tuners (2 ATSC 3.0 and 4 ATSC 1.0) that enable simultaneous live TV streaming across multiple devices. It supports full whole-home DVR functionality via USB hard drive, offers broad compatibility with major streaming platforms and devices, and delivers superior picture quality with minimal interference. Designed for the modern connected home, it combines future-ready technology with user-friendly setup and lightning-fast channel switching.

## Description

desertcart.com: SiliconDust HDHomeRun Flex 4K ATSC 3.0 NextGen TV: 2/4 Tuners HDFX-4K : Electronics

Review: Simply Awesome purchase!! Turn OFF slice view. - This is by far the best TV Tuner out there. Living close to an airport I've always had problems with multi-path interference from low flying aircraft or windblown trees so after learning about the how the new ATSC 3.0 tuners worked to alleviate these problems, I jumped at the chance to try the HD Homerun Flex 4k. It's true. The 3.0 tuners have alleviated the problem. But the thing with the Flex is the ATSC 1.0 tuners do a pretty darn good job of alleviating the problem as well. My Tv's tuner is terrible. I get breakups all the time on it. I had a Tablo that did a little better, but I hated how it took 5 seconds to change channels. I also had a Fire TV recast and its tuners were ok, but it downscaled the picture and the PQ was pretty bad. You could change channels faster, but it took a few seconds for the picture quality to get up to HD. The Tablo and Recast PQ had a compressed look to it. The HD homerun Flex 4k blows them both out of the water. The PQ is the same as if you were getting it straight from the antenna. I use the HDHomerun app, and I see no compression whatsoever. It really is an awesome picture. Changing channels is fast. The 3.0 stations take a couple of seconds longer. Right now, I don't see a reason to use the 3.0 stations because the 1.0 tuners do a fine job. In Orlando we get all the major Networks in ATSC 3.0, though the NBC station has turned on encryption. Silicon Dust says an update will be forth coming to allow viewing of DRM encrypted channels, but this isn't something you can bank on. Right now, ATSC is up in the air. It may all go away so who knows. None of the stations are doing 4k, it's all 1080. Be that as it may, I'm really happy with the 1.0 tuners on this thing. I use the HDHomerun app. People dis it all the time and use the Channels or Plex apps but those require a computer. I don't want to have a computer on. Plus, the Channels and Plex apps transcode and that can affect your PQ. The HDHomerun app does no transcoding. It's basically 4 tuners streamed wirelessly to your whole network. A decent router is required. If you can get 4k from your streaming apps you'll have no problem with this. I signed up for the $35 a year DVR and guide service. Less than $3 a month. I stuck a 256gb micro-SD card into a Micro/USB adapter and it works great. The recorded quality is a whatever the tuner received. No compression. If you use the HDHomerun app, go into setting and TURN OFF SLICE VIEW. Then you get the normal grid guide by hitting the up or down button. To close the guide hit the back button. People dis the app because of the slice view, which I admit looks pretty bad but it actually is great for touchscreens like a tablet or phone. Setting up is easy peasy. You can do it all from inside the app. Here's a hint, don't delete channels. Just click on the ones you don't want by getting to the red X. If you delete them, when the homerun does a scan, it will add them again. As you can tell I'm pretty happy with this product. I'm actually blown away. I could have gotten away with the 2-tuner dual flex for nearly half the price, but I got a $100 gift card from my employer so decided to put it towards this. If you're buying this for 4k, the tuner can do 4k, but nobody is broadcasting it. You can't really blame that on Silicon Dust.
Review: Great little OTA device - This is kind of lengthy... Previously, for the past 6 years, our household used a “Tablo” as our in-home OTA DVR solution. For that purpose, it worked fairly well. I won’t go into any of the downsides, but the final deal killer was the inability to access it remotely using Roku devices. No matter how many router tweaks and settings such as port forwarding I tried, Roku just couldn’t access it. The only thing that worked was using a smartphone. All we wanted was the ability to access our local news broadcasts and sporting events when out of town. We thought we had found a solution by subscribing to “YouTube TV” which provides local channels as part of the package. Imagine our disappointment when on our first trip out of town, we could not get any of our hometown stations but instead those of where we were at the time. Upon our return, I resolved to finally replace the “Tablo” with a SiliconDust “HDHomeRun Flex 4K”. Operationally, much like the “Tablo”, you connect an OTA antenna to the unit, connect to your home network and then power it up. One of the nice things about the “Tablo” is that you can connect to your home network wirelessly. The “HDHomeRun” requires a wired ethernet connection. This meant we would have to run ethernet cable from our router to where the unit would reside. Fortunately for us this was something we did last year for different reasons but in the process, the “Tablo” was connected directly as well which greatly improved its responsiveness and stability. Unboxing the “HDHomeRun” and connecting it in place of the “Tablo” took only a few minutes. I used the “HDHomeRun” app on my android phone while connected to the same network to finish up firmware upgrades and channel scans. The “HDHomeRun”, when connected to our attic antenna, picked up 52 local ATSC 1.0 channels and 4 ATSC 3.0 stations. Now, the main reason we selected the “HDHomeRun” was its ability to integrate with our “Plex Media Server” which we have had operating for years. Within just minutes, the “HDHomeRun” was setup within Plex which, as part of our lifetime pass, provides a guide for all of the channels the “HDHomeRun” found. Plex also provides native DVR support so no additional storage devices or fees to SiliconDust for their DVR functionality. What Plex won’t do is decode AC-4 audio (blame FFmpeg) which is what the ATSC 3.0 broadcasts come with. Not a huge problem since all of the ATSC 1.0 audio channels work just fine. We anticipate that Plex/FFmpeg will provide the AC-4 decoder eventually as ATSC 3.0 adoption picks up, but the main thing is, since Plex is a server, we can access it remotely which means all of our local channels are available remotely as well. “HDHomeRun” also has a Windows 10 app which was downloaded to test. That worked great and after downloading a couple of drivers it said it needed, including a 99 cent one from Microsoft, I was able to play the ATSC 3.0 channels with audio as well. Some users have complained about channel changes taking a long time. For us this is 2-3 seconds. I challenge anyone to go from one YouTube or Roku channel to another much faster. All in all, to date, this change over has worked out well. It picks up all of the local free channels we could ever need. Subjectively, we also think the image quality is great. If I had a wish list, it would be that the “HDHomeRun” apps provided more native info and/or metadata about each channel such as the kind of audio track being listened to and the video resolution. Kind of like YouTube providing “Stats for Nerds” on each of its videos. We’re not sure if we are future proofed on the ATSC 3.0 roll-out but that was not the only or even main part of the reason for our purchase decision. What we wanted is what we got, and it works very, very well.

## Features

- NextGen TV certified - watch live TV on multiple devices simultaneously throughout your home with our Multi room Multi user network tuner solution
- Full whole-home DVR by connecting a USB hard drive (requires paid TV guide for DVR record)
- ATSC 1.0 content is compatible with Android, FireTV, AppleTV, Roku, Sony, XBox, iPhone, iPad, Win10/11, Mac
- ATSC 3.0 DRM-free content is compatible with Android, FireTV, AppleTV, Roku Ultra 4800X and newer, iPhone, iPad, Win 10/11, Mac. Not compatible with DRM protected channels
- 4 tuners (2 ATSC 3.0, all 4 ATSC 1.0)

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| ASIN | B092GCN9NL |
| Best Sellers Rank | #5 in External TV Tuners |
| Brand Name | SiliconDust |
| Customer Reviews | 4.0 4.0 out of 5 stars (1,827) |
| Date First Available | April 13, 2021 |
| Item Weight | 13.6 ounces |
| Item model number | HDFX-4K |
| Product Dimensions | 7 x 5 x 2.2 inches |

## Product Details

- **Brand:** SiliconDust
- **Compatible Devices:** Android, FireTV, AppleTV, Roku, Sony, XBox, iPhone, iPad, Win10/11, Mac
- **Connectivity Technology:** Ethernet
- **Connector Type:** RJ45
- **Product Dimensions:** 7"L x 5"W x 2.2"H

## Images

![SiliconDust HDHomeRun Flex 4K ATSC 3.0 NextGen TV: 2/4 Tuners HDFX-4K - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51qE-u4zsLL.jpg)

## Questions & Answers

**Q: All i want is to watch ota atsc 3.0 will this work for that purpose? local station is going atsc 3.0**
A: 2 of the 4 tuners support atsc 3.0 (HEVC video format and AC-4 audio codec).   all 4 tuners work with atsc 1.0, IE current HD broadcasts (MPEG-2 video and AAC audio) so you can use lots of player apps for 1.0 (Plex Emby etc. that most smart TVs or Firesticks Rokus etc. are able to provide.    But You can only watch up to 2 simultaneous 3.0 channels (or can record 2 atsc 3.0 channels if you are using the DVR feature of the HDHomeruns)   A few of the very newest (typically OLED) TV's are able to be directly compatible to play this back (the AC-4 audio which is a Dolby format that is NOT commonly supported yet) or as others are noting, you can tune to and play the 3.0 broadcasts on most of the HD Homerun apps on some (not all) devices.   NVIDIA shield probably the best bet.   Interestingly the Channels App downloaded with NVidia sheield or several NAS (network attached storage) devices that support that application can now record/playback the format and handle the audio as well.

**Q: What is the difference between this flex model and the hdhr5-4k?**
A: The FLEX 4K is a CONNECT 4K with a USB port for optionally connecting a hard drive. With no hard drive plugged in it works exactly the same as a CONNECT 4K.

**Q: What codec is the content streamed in?**
A: There is at least one streaming player that supports AC-4 audio, the Roku Ultra 4800. It has to be the 4800 model, as that is the only Roku that supports AC-4 audio.

**Q: I have a 1 tb hdd, 3 non-smart tvs with firestick, 3 avr audio systems with hdmi, and 100+ gb/s wifi. what else do i need to make this work?**
A: You need 1) an over the air (OTA) antenna, 2) an ethernet cable to connect the HDHRun to your router or ethernet switch (no WiFi), and 3) Your hard drive needs to be connected to same home network if you intend to use it to DVR OTA TV programs. Keep in mind the HDHRun is an internet dependent system.  If your internet goes out, the HDHRun unit won’t work at all.  I have both the Tablo dual, and an HDHR 4k flex unit. I prefer the Tablo since I can watch live and recorded TV while the internet is down (home network must be running though). You also connect your hard drive directly to the Tablo via USB, and it can use either WiFi or ethernet hardwire to connect to the app. The Tablo app you download from the app store will find and connect to it - same as the HDHR appa. I haven’t tried AirTV yet. It looks promising, and will interlace the OTA broadcast with Sling.  
The HDHR is a good quality device, but has several aspects I find annoying.
1) I already mentioned that it MUST be connected to the internet before the home screen will come up. 
2) Hardwire ONLY connection to your home network.  3) Access to the channel scan utility is not within the app. You access the channel utility through the device’s IP address.
4) You have to pay Silicon dust a subscription ($30/yr) to use the DVR function.  Tablo only requires a subscription to get a 2 week grid guide - else you only get 24 hours look ahead. 
Hope this helps.

## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Simply Awesome purchase!! Turn OFF slice view.
*by L***S on March 16, 2023*

This is by far the best TV Tuner out there. Living close to an airport I've always had problems with multi-path interference from low flying aircraft or windblown trees so after learning about the how the new ATSC 3.0 tuners worked to alleviate these problems, I jumped at the chance to try the HD Homerun Flex 4k. It's true. The 3.0 tuners have alleviated the problem. But the thing with the Flex is the ATSC 1.0 tuners do a pretty darn good job of alleviating the problem as well. My Tv's tuner is terrible. I get breakups all the time on it. I had a Tablo that did a little better, but I hated how it took 5 seconds to change channels. I also had a Fire TV recast and its tuners were ok, but it downscaled the picture and the PQ was pretty bad. You could change channels faster, but it took a few seconds for the picture quality to get up to HD. The Tablo and Recast PQ had a compressed look to it. The HD homerun Flex 4k blows them both out of the water. The PQ is the same as if you were getting it straight from the antenna. I use the HDHomerun app, and I see no compression whatsoever. It really is an awesome picture. Changing channels is fast. The 3.0 stations take a couple of seconds longer. Right now, I don't see a reason to use the 3.0 stations because the 1.0 tuners do a fine job. In Orlando we get all the major Networks in ATSC 3.0, though the NBC station has turned on encryption. Silicon Dust says an update will be forth coming to allow viewing of DRM encrypted channels, but this isn't something you can bank on. Right now, ATSC is up in the air. It may all go away so who knows. None of the stations are doing 4k, it's all 1080. Be that as it may, I'm really happy with the 1.0 tuners on this thing. I use the HDHomerun app. People dis it all the time and use the Channels or Plex apps but those require a computer. I don't want to have a computer on. Plus, the Channels and Plex apps transcode and that can affect your PQ. The HDHomerun app does no transcoding. It's basically 4 tuners streamed wirelessly to your whole network. A decent router is required. If you can get 4k from your streaming apps you'll have no problem with this. I signed up for the $35 a year DVR and guide service. Less than $3 a month. I stuck a 256gb micro-SD card into a Micro/USB adapter and it works great. The recorded quality is a whatever the tuner received. No compression. If you use the HDHomerun app, go into setting and TURN OFF SLICE VIEW. Then you get the normal grid guide by hitting the up or down button. To close the guide hit the back button. People dis the app because of the slice view, which I admit looks pretty bad but it actually is great for touchscreens like a tablet or phone. Setting up is easy peasy. You can do it all from inside the app. Here's a hint, don't delete channels. Just click on the ones you don't want by getting to the red X. If you delete them, when the homerun does a scan, it will add them again. As you can tell I'm pretty happy with this product. I'm actually blown away. I could have gotten away with the 2-tuner dual flex for nearly half the price, but I got a $100 gift card from my employer so decided to put it towards this. If you're buying this for 4k, the tuner can do 4k, but nobody is broadcasting it. You can't really blame that on Silicon Dust.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Great little OTA device
*by R***N on July 11, 2022*

This is kind of lengthy... Previously, for the past 6 years, our household used a “Tablo” as our in-home OTA DVR solution. For that purpose, it worked fairly well. I won’t go into any of the downsides, but the final deal killer was the inability to access it remotely using Roku devices. No matter how many router tweaks and settings such as port forwarding I tried, Roku just couldn’t access it. The only thing that worked was using a smartphone. All we wanted was the ability to access our local news broadcasts and sporting events when out of town. We thought we had found a solution by subscribing to “YouTube TV” which provides local channels as part of the package. Imagine our disappointment when on our first trip out of town, we could not get any of our hometown stations but instead those of where we were at the time. Upon our return, I resolved to finally replace the “Tablo” with a SiliconDust “HDHomeRun Flex 4K”. Operationally, much like the “Tablo”, you connect an OTA antenna to the unit, connect to your home network and then power it up. One of the nice things about the “Tablo” is that you can connect to your home network wirelessly. The “HDHomeRun” requires a wired ethernet connection. This meant we would have to run ethernet cable from our router to where the unit would reside. Fortunately for us this was something we did last year for different reasons but in the process, the “Tablo” was connected directly as well which greatly improved its responsiveness and stability. Unboxing the “HDHomeRun” and connecting it in place of the “Tablo” took only a few minutes. I used the “HDHomeRun” app on my android phone while connected to the same network to finish up firmware upgrades and channel scans. The “HDHomeRun”, when connected to our attic antenna, picked up 52 local ATSC 1.0 channels and 4 ATSC 3.0 stations. Now, the main reason we selected the “HDHomeRun” was its ability to integrate with our “Plex Media Server” which we have had operating for years. Within just minutes, the “HDHomeRun” was setup within Plex which, as part of our lifetime pass, provides a guide for all of the channels the “HDHomeRun” found. Plex also provides native DVR support so no additional storage devices or fees to SiliconDust for their DVR functionality. What Plex won’t do is decode AC-4 audio (blame FFmpeg) which is what the ATSC 3.0 broadcasts come with. Not a huge problem since all of the ATSC 1.0 audio channels work just fine. We anticipate that Plex/FFmpeg will provide the AC-4 decoder eventually as ATSC 3.0 adoption picks up, but the main thing is, since Plex is a server, we can access it remotely which means all of our local channels are available remotely as well. “HDHomeRun” also has a Windows 10 app which was downloaded to test. That worked great and after downloading a couple of drivers it said it needed, including a 99 cent one from Microsoft, I was able to play the ATSC 3.0 channels with audio as well. Some users have complained about channel changes taking a long time. For us this is 2-3 seconds. I challenge anyone to go from one YouTube or Roku channel to another much faster. All in all, to date, this change over has worked out well. It picks up all of the local free channels we could ever need. Subjectively, we also think the image quality is great. If I had a wish list, it would be that the “HDHomeRun” apps provided more native info and/or metadata about each channel such as the kind of audio track being listened to and the video resolution. Kind of like YouTube providing “Stats for Nerds” on each of its videos. We’re not sure if we are future proofed on the ATSC 3.0 roll-out but that was not the only or even main part of the reason for our purchase decision. What we wanted is what we got, and it works very, very well.

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