Users can now take advantage of USB tuners from Hauppauge and Avermedia, for example, among several other brands. Today, with the added support for live TV, Plex is also expanding its lineup of supported vendors for digital tuners beyond the HDHomeRun.

The company, whose background is in organizing users’ personal media collections, expanded to go after the cord cutter market last fall with the introduction of DVR capabilities for recording over-the-air TV.Īt the time, however, Plex required users to buy a digital antenna and an HDHomeRun digital tuner. To be clear, Plex only offers channels that you can get over the air – that means, broadcast stations like ABC, NBC, CBS, FOX, PBS, CW, Univision, etc. The result is a low-cost, do-it-yourself version of a live TV streaming service – a popular new category in the streaming market, which offers a pay-TV live experience over the internet. Plex is doubling down on its support for capturing over-the-air signals from digital antennas this morning, with the announcement that it will now not only let users record TV programs, it will also allow them to watch live TV.

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