Yeah, that's what I figured. The only reason I was hesitant to do that, buy from Silicon Dust, was I had read that people using Mac's were having issues with the ones they sell as they were PC based. And it was recommended the HDHomeRun be purchased through Elgato along with their software to avoid those issues. In other words, it sounded as if their were 2 "flavors" of the same thing. So maybe Silicon Dust made some changes to where the same unit is compatible with both PC and Mac.
Do you stream the recording from the HDHomeRun to your Mac using wifi? If you do, how well does it stream and is your Mac CPU heavily taxed by doing it? I have heard that recording a show with this setup is slow and CPU intensive.
I have the HDHRs and an iMac *cabled* through a 4th gen airport extreme.
The HDHR doesn't do any recording - it's just a tuner. With InstaTVPro on my phone or iPad I can watch live tv by hitting that tuner on my network. Performance is good.
I went away from the Elgato EyeTV app to InstaTV Pro because I was seeing some bad resource hogging from EyeTv when streaming. When you stream to your phone or iPad from EyeTv, it's transcoding just about live...I was seeing CPU use spikes and frame drops that made streams unwatchable.
However - shows recorded and/or viewed on the iMac were perfect.
The big difference is - InstaTVPro will talk directly to the HDHR tuner, not going through EyeTV. No problems with EyeTV not being able to keep up with the streaming show transcodes.
I stream recordings from the iMac to my Apple TVs after they've been transcoded and dumped into iTunes. Performance there is just about flawless.
Recording shows is real time using EyeTV on my iMac to schedule, record, transcode and export to iTunes automatically. Transcoding afterwards to dump the shows into iTunes takes a while. I purchased the Turbo 264HD stick, which speeds things up just a bit. Your average half hour HD TV show takes about that long to convert and dump into iTunes ready to view on Apple TV.
To my knowledge, there is no difference in the HDHR box - it's just a networked tuner. The firmware is the same no matter the OS you're using to pull streams in. I just bought a second dual tuner directly from SiliconDust and have had no trouble using it in my setup.