Review on 📺 Enhance Your TV Experience with the Hauppauge WinTV-quadHD PCI Express TV Tuner Card 1609 by Quinton King

Good thing Linux Mint Mate 18.3 with kernel 4.15 has drivers ready to use (plug and play). The Plex Linux server detected two dueling tuners and searched for stations. Tested on multiple live stations and everything was fine until I tried the HD 720 station, the audio/video was out of sync for a few seconds. This seems to be a known issue with Plex Server and this tuner card as it uses MPEG-2. Plex has transcoding issues when streaming HD 720 A/V as the audio is streamed directly and the video is re-encoded. I found a workaround by recording and then Plex Server optimized the recorded show or movie for streaming directly to the client, audio and video were in sync. All SD videos worked fine in Plex and at the moment I blocked HD channels on these tuners with HDHomeRun EXTEND to stream and record HD 720. Final Thoughts: I've been using the HDHomeRun EXTEND streaming tuner for Plex for a while and it transcodes on the fly. , but LAN bandwidth can be an issue for some home networks. The HAUPPAUGE WinTV quadHD tuner added a more direct path to Plex without using additional LAN bandwidth to watch or record live OTA TV. For now I'm keeping HDHomeRun EXTEND in play until Plex fixes HD 720 audio/video sync issues in upcoming server updates. Four stars, the card works well. Newer Linux kernels understand this, but there is no current HAUPPAUGE Linux software to play with. MythTV should work and I can play with it later. I'll try to update the review in a few months for any hardware issues that come up.