The nice thing about the new Celeron is that it supports Intel QuickSync, which means we can do hardware video transcoding.
Thanks, Tim! After looking a little closer, seems like the DS916+ might be the better option? I’d like a 4-bay, and it has a quad core.
The 4-bay is nice because you can have more space, and you can use RAID5 for redundancy instead of just RAID0 or 1 with the 2-bay models. Both are Intel processors and support QuickSync (thanks @tmm1 - I forgot about QuickSync support) so either way you go should be great for Channels.
I think this pricing works if replacing cable but not so much if using it to record OTA. I was hoping to replace my EyeTV setup to continue to record OTA channels. Channels looks great and would be wonderful to use on the Appletv.
Currently I am paying $20 per year for TV guide data with EyeTv. I would have loved a discounted yearly cost or paying a lifetime fee up front.
I second that. I have been using windows 7 for free OTA guide data, and would be hard pressed to pay almost $100 a year for this DVR.
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I recently dropped my DirecTV subscription and moved to Charter with a HDHR Prime and Channels. I must say I enjoy it quite a bit. My biggest complaint is the remote, but you have no control over that.
I plan on dropping my DVR with Charter and switching to this, but I was wondering if this supports watching a recording before it has completed. I know the Plex DVR does not offer this option, but was hoping that you do.
I have an older Core 2 Duo Computer that I hope to be running this on, will this work, and what kind of storage are we talking about per hour of TV?
Thank You for your awesome work!
It does. When you pick a channel to watch, and it’s already recording that channel, it will prompt you and ask if you want to watch it from it’s start or tune in live.
This should work fine. You should expect around 8gb per hour for HD video.
With the ability to watch before a recording completes, could we just stream live outside the home, or would we have to start a recording, and then play it back?
When out of home support is working, it will work just like it does at home.
Definitely agree with this.
I am all OTA and looking to replace SageTV with Channels ( so far the Channels app gives me the live TV, SageTV just records to a volume accessible by Infuse - very workable, albeit clunky)
adding back a monthly fee isn’t something i want to do, but with the auto-updates, i see how you programmed yourself into that pricing structure.
i have a synology rs815+ …does anyone know how good it works?
I have a MyCloudEX2Ultra two bay , and tv os I’m hoping the DVR will work on my NAS. any ideas anybody ?
You have the same CPU as my DS1815+. It works great, but transcoding will be very limited.
I’m excited to hear that the DVR engine can be on a NAS; I have a
QNAP-TS 653 which is a quad core 8 GB RAM beast; you mention
hardware based transcoding at the ATV4 ; could I not take advantage
of the transcoding ability of my QNAP? How will the software know where
the encoding is done? Streaming content to the ATV4 in my living room
implies that the ATV4 does the conversion from mpeg2 to mpeg4? Bit
confused on how the NAS DVR software fits overall…
Wow. something must be going on there. I have a older i7 and have no problem with 4 1080p streams at once.
I all ready have a lifetime Plex Pass so it should be free to me too. I have not tried the Plex DVR beta yet but if it saves $8/mo will definitely go that route. I would gladly do a similar lifetime deal with channels if they would support a reasonable lifetime pass price as well.
Price wise & feature wise it will come down between the offerings
of SD versus those of Channels; SD supports multiple viewing
clients like MAC Win10 and Android…a big plus for me; if I go the
Channels DVR route I’ll have to use PLex to see recorded content on these
other platforms; I like the fact that the Plex library and that of Channels can co-exist
on my QNAP NAS; I’m retired and on a tight budget but will find a way to
shoe-horn in another $8/mo; can’t remember…is the Channels subscription itself
for the ATV4 a yearly fee?
Pricing is very disappointing. I had such high hopes for the program. I have been using Channels for about a year and was really thinking it was the program that differentiated the Apple TV from NVIDIA shield and other Android streaming devices. The original DVR functionality with silicon dust actually worked pretty well for me and I was upset to lose it. Before moving to Apple TV I was using Windows Media Center so I had full DVR capability for free, but I really liked the Apple TV interface and with Channels I would have all the same functionality. I expected I would have to pay some sort of fee to use the DVR and I was happy to pay the 1 time fee for the Channels app, but I really didn’t expect this high of a recurring cost. I have 5 OTA channels and really only want to use it to record some NFL games so I can time shift and watch the game in an hour vs 3 hours. bummer.
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any recommendations on other rackmount nas to use ? is transcoding a huge deal or will the rs815+ do just fine?
It’s not an issue for me. If you want a replacement you might want to wait a bit since the RS817+ will probably come out this year with a newer CPU. I’m waiting for a DS1817+.