Tablo (4th Generation) Over-the-Air [OTA] DVR

Love this unit. Fantastic performance with a good antenna and ours is setup with WIFI. Fantastic video all around. Also love bring able to record shows and watch them later.

The antenna is about 50/50 at best. Clear sunny day and I can`t watch my local channels. Always telling me it can`t decode audio and video. It works on some televisions and not on others. All on the same Wi-Fi.

Streaming is good but watching broadcast on your TV essential. Each network broadcasts content you want. One place to get it all and watch legacy TV is TABLO. One antenna (Channel Master FLATenna $39 on Amazon) in the any best place in the house or attic plug it in and every TV has perfect HDTV through home WiFi. No coax to connect to as many other TVs in the house. No more fading signals was you walk around. Get the 4 ATSC tuner model. Use an old HDD or SSD (1-2TB) and plug it in to get near infinite storage time. Use your Roku box/thumb as the APPs make TABLO integrated and simple with the Roku Remote. Purchasing a new Roku LCD TV with everything embedded can make everything easier. If you live far from local broadcasters you might want the Antennas Direct ClearStream 2V. Also on Amazon for $69-99! I would say buy both antennas and return the one leftover after you scan for channels at your home. Look up before you start to see what you can receive at your home. https://www.fcc.gov/media/engineering/dtvmaps
Realize each channel has 4-8 watchable channels. The channels below total 48 programs on all the time. Exciting cheap opportunity for adding great entertainment. This TABLO is ATSC 1.0. In a few years there will be ATSC 3.0

I wish I would have found Tablo sooner. I would have saved myself $100 a month for the last 15 months. The system is great easy to setup and use. I now get 205 local channels for free. I only had to pay the one time price for the Tablo, which was a bargain. I now get to watch and record all my local live tv channels. I don't have to worry about prices going up each month. It took me a few tries to get my indoor antenna in the perfect spot. But that was ok. The best thing is the antenna doesn't have to be near my tv just on my home network. My indoor antenna is in an upstairs room out of the way. I can watch all my local channels on my TV, tablet or phone (not on my computer no app). No more YouTube TV, Hulu+live TV, directv, and cable fees. I highly recommend Tablo to anyone cutting the cord or looking to get free local channels.

We love Tablo. We record the price is right and watch in the evening together. With no problem EVER. We use are Rv ant. Works great.

You are making tv fun again.
Thank you
Mikel

I've had the Tablo (Legacy) system for a number of years now. I really like how the OTA channels are distributed over my home network and Roku devices. I wanted to upgrade to the 4th generation device as I read it has a better tuner. So, I purchased the 2-tuner version from Amazon with the optional flat antenna.

I was pleasantly surprised at the improvement on all the channels! including the previous most troublesome one. What really impressed me was the setup on the iPhone Tablo app guiding me each step. To get the best reception I custom 3D printed 2 antennae mounting brackets. It is a 60-degree angle to the bathroom wall. The app broadcast app helped me figure that out. A+!!!! Great product

Omg. I love Tablo. Any negative reviews you see are probably from their old app. This current app is flawless and seamless. It's the best money for the best ota dvr. Currently nothing compares.

Not very happy with Tablo part of the time. Many times at night or if the day is windy the Tablo disconnects or can't find a live program. Sometimes I give up on live programs and go to an alternative streaming. the professional person I had install our antenna and hook up the Tablo thru Ruko did a great job. He talked to Tablo HELP line. All connection are fine : internet and WiFi. NOT completely happy with Tablo. Sometimes a message would be to press the Reset button on bottom of Tablo. This NEVER accomplished ANYTHING.

Tablo gets five stars from me because it is the best recorder for over the air antenna TV programs that I've owned. I've tried several stand-alone HDTV tuner boxes. None of them lasted more than a couple of years. I used different Hauppauge TV tuners for my PC with some success. But nothing beats Tablo.
I purchased the 2 tuner model since it meets my home's needs. The interface is very easy to use. The standard storage is enough to record my 10 different recurring TV shows. I watch them and then delete them.
My only complaint is when recording shows that get delayed after sporting events that go beyond normal scheduled times. A difficult problem to solve since the schedule is never updated to account for over time games. The only way to get it right is to manually start recording as soon as the event is over.
I mounted my Tablo along with my other Media equipment in my laundry room.

I really love the idea of the Tablo, and when it’s working, it’s fantastic. The user interface is very easy to navigate and looks clean. The problem is that it’s hit or miss if it’s actually going to work. I find myself having to reset it probably 40% of the time that I use it. Still, I really appreciate being able to “stream” free channels and not have to pay for increasingly expensive streaming services.
Also, it would be a HUGE upgrade if it would allow some sort of streaming away from home. I understand that’s not how it was designed, but the old Tablo had that feature and it would be a game changer if this one could do the same in the future.

It's true! You buy it and that's it! No monthly or annual fees! (Well, you do need internet for the Tablo to work right, that's how it gets its daily "Guide" updates, which is really important).

We already had a Firestick, and the Tablo works just like any other streaming app on that, sweet!

I did buy a 1TB SSD (Solid State Drive) to upgrade the DVR (Digital Video Recorder) memory, and added a rooftop Omnidirectional antenna, and with those I get over 300 FREE CHANNELS, and have a ton of recording space! We LOVE IT, and will NEVER go back to satellite or cable! They can keep their overpriced service, and we will keep our money!

Thank you Tablo!!

The recording and playback functionality work great. The live TV function keeps returning an error.

Even though I'm an early adopter of YouTube TV, as well as a big fan of just about everything Google and Disney, this latest spat between the two was the last straw for me, so my solution to their problems was Tablo TV and ESPN Unlimited. This lowered my monthly TV bill from $105 to $30, which is a huge savings. My wife and I had been discussing for years now how we just never really use YouTube TV for anything other than ABC, CBS, NBC, FOX, and ESPN, but there's no way to get just those 5 things without paying a lot more for channels we simply neither want nor watch. And yes, I realize that there is the initial device cost of Tablo TV, but even factoring that plus the $40 attic antenna I ended up with is less than the price of two months of YouTube TV.

I encountered no issues with installing Tablo TV, and the process was very simple. I put the Tablo TV device in the 2nd floor loft room, mounted it to an interior wall, and then placed the included flatenna (flat antenna) on a nearby window facing west. This resulted in 185 channels, specifically including a full signal from the ABC, CBS, NBC, and FOX affiliates which are 17-19 miles away. I then moved the flatenna from the window to same internal wall that the Tablo TV was mounted. This resulted in 205 channels (also including the 4 main networks). Even though I felt this was excellent results, I was worried about how well the flatenna would do on an interior wall during fog, rain, etc., so I decided to invest in a better antenna design and installation location. As luck would have it that same interior wall is shared on the other side with a walk-in bedroom closet that has an attic access panel in the ceiling. So I was easily able to pass the antenna cable in/through the wall, through the ceiling to the attic, where I was able to grab it and connect it to a really nice GE Pro Yagi style antenna that I mounted just inside the attic access opening. This antenna yielded 230 channels due to quite a few of the fringe channels moving into the yellow or even green reception. So, I put this install/system to the test with our usual college/NFL football this past weekend, and everything worked virtually flawless! Could not be happier!

Regarding the network side of things, I have ethernet connectivity in every bedroom, as well as our office, great room, and loft. So, our Tablo TV device is connected to our main router by wire rather than wi-fi. However, our 7 TVs (even the outside one) is connecting to the internet (and therefore he Tablo TV device) via wi-fi. I am a career network engineer, so my whole house and yard is rather well covered by wi-fi, so if your house is not or you're relying on everything connecting to a single router centrally located in your home, then you might have a very different experience than me. I firmly believe that most people who have problems with Tablo TV it's because of their home network, specifically their wi-fi.

While all four tuners were in use, I checked the temperature of the Tablo TV device with a laser thermometer and it never got any higher than 97F. This was the outside of the Tablo TV device casing -- not the internal circuit board, processor, heat sink, etc. The normal temperature for the Tablo TV device when not in use is the same general temperature of the house (72F).

I love it! Couldn't be happier, and I'm very pleased to not be paying $105/mo anymore for a bunch of channels that I simply never watch. I'm also actually very happy with ESPN Unlimited as well, because we now have access to basically all collegiate sports, including wrestling, gymnastics, hockey, etc. Still, once football season is over, if we find ourselves not watching ESPN Unlimited much, we can always just cancel it again until football starts up again in the Fall.

Tablo is. Very good alternative for local TV. It has very good picture quality and provides DVR service. I live in the boonies so I don’t get as many stations as I would like but that is a normal trade off.

I am tired of all the media subscriptions being nickeled and dimed to death! With one Tablo device I can now watch and record my favorite shows on all my devices. Set-up was a snap. We had bad weather and the NBA game was crystal clear and hot enough to melt the snow falling outside. Watching a full season of O’reillys Racing on the CW-check. Fox Big East and Big Ten basketball check. Mlb game of the week check and check. Olympics, check. I should have walked away from cable sooner.

For the most part I'm thrilled with Tablo. It does almost everything claimed, making it a strong product. Here comes the but: I spent more than two months trying to get it working with my ethernet network, including writing about a half-dozen emails back & forth with Tablo's tech team. They explained to me Tablo struggles with some MESH routers and suggested I should upgrade my router. Even after a Tablo firmware update that supposedly helps with MESH routers, ethernet still does not work. However, all other ethernet connected devices work fine so spending $ for a new router that may or may not correct the issue doesn't make sense. Tablo works fine with wifi, but that forces me to take my smart TV off ethernet. And yes, all the usual port/cable/outlet/reboot, etc. tests were done to ensure there wasn't a problem with hardware somewhere along the way. If you're planning to use ethernet, I'd suggest writing Tablo in advance to find whether your specific router has been confirmed to not to conflict with your ethernet.