The HDHomeRun is pretty slick in that it will stream video over the network to any PC, and that stream can be tuned by VLC (a free video player). So, simply by installing VLC on my wife's laptop, she can watch TV on her laptop.
It's a dual ATSC <ref>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATSC_Standards</ref> / QAM tuner network device. It's about the size of a small hub or VHS cassette, has 2 <abbr title="coaxial cable">coax</abbr> inputs and an ethernet port. You plug it into your antenna and/or cable and then into your home network and you can stream HD to any computer on your network and it even streams perfectly via WiFi. It doesn't have WiFi built in, only Ethernet. Currently on TigerDirect.com, you can get this for $150. Some may call it the open source Slingplayer, and although there are some similarities there is no Slingplayer with a ATSC tuner.
Since it has two tuners, I'm going to plug one into my Comcast cable box to receive whatever QAM they make available. The other one I'm going to connect to a home-made HDTV Antenna I was amazed to find out that you can build a HDTV Antenna out of coathangers that works better than the ones you can buy in the store. <ref>http://www.tvantennaplans.com/</ref>
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| 4GB Shared Dual Channel (2 x DDR2 667MHz SO-DIMM 2GB)
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