Been over a year since I checked the firmware on my tuners, so I downloaded the update tool and ran it:
I have the older HDHR3-US model, current version is HDHR4-2US. Looking at the firmware changelog I see that not much changed for my model since the 20140121 firmware:
- Release 20150406 - HDHR3-US/DT/EU models: Fix reboot when DNS returns multiple IP addresses.
- Release 20141124 - HDHR3-US/DT/EU models: Channel map automatically applied to both tuners.
There's also a new HDTC-2US model that has an interesting feature - it transcodes the content to H.264, which makes it work better with portable devices like my iPad. Another benefit, per this comment over at MacRumors, the H.264 recordings are about 1/4th the size of the MPEG2 recordings - so the 5.6 TB of content I currently have recorded would have only used up 1.4 TB of disk space. Might be worth considering instead of getting larger drives, though I do wonder how good the picture quality is
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