An HDHomeRun with CableCard?

GeekTonic caught this one before us. We’re big fans of the SiliconDust HDHomerun Dual Tuner. SiliconDust has great support, and is well supported under Linux and Windows.

The HDHomerun streams video, once tuned, over the network to your device. Even without the SiliconDust, we think this is part of the future of video. If this device added a decryption device, it would decode the stream and then stream it unencrypted to the computer, allowing access to all channels.

Hopefully, there aren’t any more restrictions beyond that, and they aren’t forced to limit it to Windows only. We could imagine they’d have trouble convincing Cable Labs that Linux users would honor the broadcast flags, but if it does what we hope it does, we’d have one on pre-order the day they came out.