4th Gen 4-Tuner Over-The-Air (OTA) DVR – Watch, Pause & Record Live TV, News, Sports & Movies Throughout Your Home Over Wi-Fi – Pairs w/Any TV Antenna – 50+ Hrs Recording – No Subscriptions
$139.95
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WATCH, PAUSE, RECORD, & REPLAY LIVE TV: Enjoy live TV from major networks, including ABC, CBS, FOX, and NBC(1), as well as a curated selection of free live streaming TV (FAST) channels. Channels and Content are subject to availability in their area. TV antenna range may vary based on topography, obstructions, and other variables.
WHOLE-HOME ACCESS: 1 DVR pairs with any TV antenna to let you watch TV on multiple compatible devices at once, including smartphones, tablets, as well as smart TVs & streaming players from Roku, Amazon Fire TV, Android TV, Chromecast w/ Google TV, Apple TV, Samsung TV, LG TV. For a full list of all compatible devices, view the product carousel image or download the User Guide (PDF) from Product guides and documents section. Tablo is not compatible with non-smart TVs, specific TV models, computers (PCs) and Apple TV Voice over. Please check compatibility before making the purchase.
EASY SETUP: Connect the Tablo DVR to the indoor TV antenna with the included 6′ coaxial cable; connect Tablo to your home network via Wi-Fi or using the included Ethernet cable; download the Tablo app on your mobile device and follow the setup instructions (4). Scan the QR code on the included Quick Start Guide (Installation Manual) that will guide you through the entire product setup. HDMI cable or TV antenna are not included with this Tablo device.
NO SUBSCRIPTIONS OR HIDDEN FEES: Pay once for the Tablo device and watch and record your favorite live, local TV shows, along with free streaming TV channels without contracts or ongoing fees. Tablo OTA DVRs are designed for homes with Wi-Fi-enabled routers and a consistent high-speed connection to the internet.
RECORD MULTIPLE SHOWS: 4 tuners within this device allow you to record one live TV channel while watching another for viewing flexibility. Watch, pause, record, and replay up to four channels at once with 50+ hours of onboard storage.
RECORD 50+ HOURS: Never miss a moment with 128GB of onboard recording storage; add up to 8TB of external USB storage(2) to record even more
GET MORE TV CHANNELS: Access more than 100 additional free streaming channels you can’t get with your TV antenna alone, enhancing your endless free-TV experience. High-speed internet service and separate TV antenna purchase is required. Channels and content are subject to availability in your area. Recording of some free streaming channels may be disabled due to licensing restrictions.
TIME-SHIFT VIEWING: Start watching in-progress recordings—perfect for catching the action from the beginning or skipping to the good parts
WI-FI CONNECTIVITY: The only OTA DVRs with Wi-Fi, Tablo devices let you position your TV antenna wherever it can get the best signal reception, then wirelessly streams live and recorded free TV content throughout your home to compatible devices.
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Lewis A Edge Jr –
Tablo TV is Saving Me $95/month After This Investment
In December of 2020, I bought an RCA Compact Outdoor or Attic Yagi HD TV Antenna from Amazon and used it temporarily in our TV room to watch local channels. I also used a clumsy system to record our local channel network evening news, but having an antenna in our TV room was unsightly. I ultimately retired the antenna, stashed it in our attic and switched to the HULU streaming service that included our local channels and could record live programs in the cloud. Unfortunately HULU kept increasing their monthly charges until they reached $95.00 per month.The final straw came when HULU’s system began malfunctioning and not recording programs I had selected. Although I knew that it would be a hassle to mount my antenna in the attic and route 50-feet of coax from our attic through a wall and into our first-floor TV room, the promise by Tablo TV that it could eliminate my monthly charges and simultaneously record up to four channels at a time was not only appealing, it would be cost-effective. Exercising my faith that Tablo TV’s fourth generation unit would perform as promised, I ordered one from Amazon. It was heavily discounted for Black Friday after I bought it, but I was finally motivated to properly install my antenna in our attic, knowing it had already worked OK from the first floor of our home.My home is located about 20 miles from our area’s TV station’s broadcast antennas. My RCA antenna and 50-feet of Reliagent RG6 coaxial cable I ordered from Amazon working along with a Philips signal booster, I was able to snag 33 digital HD-TV channels with interference-free signals. Although my Tablo TV app was not compatible with my Sony 2025 OLED TV, Amazon was selling its newest Fire TV stick for half price, so I bought one, plugged it into the HDMI1 input on my TV and then ran the Tablo TV app on the compatible Fire TV stick. Adding the Internet channels that my new Tablo TV was able to supply via my home’s WiFi connection through the Fire TV stick, I now have about 170 commercial channels to view without paying a dime in monthly charges for those channels. That setup worked so well that I bought two more of Amazon’s newest Fire TV sticks, installed them on our other two TVs in and used them to run Tablo TV on those sets.In accordance with the setup instructions, I did the initial installation of Tablo TV from my Motorola Android phone, which also allows me to watch and record my 170 channels at home as long as I’m connected to our home’s WiFi. The Tablo TV box comes with some internal memory that allows recording about 50 hours, but I also bought a tiny 1 TB SSD hard drive from Amazon, shown in my photo, plugged it into the Tablo’s USB port, formatted it and added countless more hours of recording capacity. I found Tablo TV’s user interface to be simple, reliable, easy-to-follow and similar to the streaming services with monthly charges.Since Tablo TV shares its signal to the apps on all of the three Fire TV sticks wirelessly, I’m able to watch any of the 170 channels on any or all of my three TV sets without needing antenna connections and view any TV shows that I have recorded. Instead of paying HULU $95.00 per month, I now pay them ZERO dollars per month, yet have more channels to watch and am able to reliably record and play any of my Tablo TV channels on any of my TVs. Setting up Tablo TV, I found both their phone and on-line support helpful, but they could not fix their app’s incompatibility with my circa 2019 Fire TV stick, which is why I bought Amazon’s newest versions.
PSL –
No PC access to Recordings and The App for Android TV ruins the experience
I have been using this Tablo for 6 months now and wanted to share my experience with it. Do I have a faulty one? Not sure.Tablo works well in terms of recording my shows. Great. This is job #1 for this device. I can schedule shows to be recorded from any app that’s connected to the device. This is nice, sometimes it’s easier to schedule a show to record from my phone instead of booting up the TV. However, I cannot connect a PC to the Tablo. I have had Tivo’s, Home built PC DVR’s and (going way back) ReplayTVs. All of which provided PC access to their recordings. But this Tablo? Nope. Even older Tablos had this feature and they removed it for this generation device. A head scratcher.My experience using the the various apps to control the Tablo varies significantly based on the platform. I bought this device to watch recordings on my 2 Android TVs. (I also have a Roku and the experience I share below for Android TV is almost exactly the same as Roku) What I have found is that the Android app on my Pixel phone or Pixel Tablet is reliable and will almost always bring up the interface, as long as the Device itself hasn’t crashed. My device crashes every couple of weeks. Acceptable? Not really. But my Tablo is very hot to the touch so I’m not really surprised about this.The problems really start when trying to connect to the Tablo using an Android TV. I have a Sony and a Hisense – both run Android TV and both have the same issues with Tablo. Most of the time when I want to use Tablo, the app won’t even launch. I just get a blank screen with a spinning arrow (photo). Wait several minutes to see if it will eventually launch and then I start my process of debugging the issue. It is slightly more reliable when I use the back button over and over again to exit the app every time I use it. This is time consuming and sometimes it still fails to launch maybe every other day. At this point, it could be a problem with the app or the Tablo itself has crashed. If I have my phone handy, I’ll bring up the app there to see if the device has crashed. If so, I will reset the Tablo with the button on the bottom. If I reset it and it still doesn’t launch. I have to navigate to the app properties tor the Tablo app on my TV (no small feat!) and do a clear cache / clear memory on the app. This fixes it most of the time. But I have had cases in the past where I had to reboot my TV to get it working again. It might be slightly little more reliable lately in the past month or so, but it updates automatically and I don’t know when it is updated and I don’t see a way to view release notes to see if anything was improved or fixed.Then there is the issue with the channel guide. I receive >150 OTA channels, which is great, but I only want to see my favorite 10-15 channels in the channel guide instead of the scrolling through all 150 of them. So I setup my ‘favorite’ channels in Tablo and setup the channel guide so it only shows my favorites. Nice feature, but every time I launch the app, the channel guide is blank below the first 3 channels (photo). I have to scroll up and down a bunch of times and eventually a few of the lower numbered channels start showing up with data, but for the rest of the channels, data never shows up. I have to switch it back to the full channel guide with 150 channels to actually see what it currently being broadcast. Maybe it’s just me, but it’s still a huge annoyance.Anyway, I’m 6 months in and I am desperate to find something else to use instead of Tablo. This was was a huge letdown after using consistently good DVR’s for the past 20 years. I hung around for a while thinking the manufacturer would fix these issues, but nope. Not yet. Time to move on.