I bought the lifetime Tablo subscription, and I pay extra for the
commercial skip. It's worth it IMO, even with the limited amount of
time I spend watching OTA.
On 5/18/20 9:59 AM, Bill Prince wrote:
Tablo has a 1-day program guide without subscription. The Channel
Master has a 2 week program guide (and a search function), but is not
a network recorder. I think the capability to be a network recorder is
in the Channel Master, but they've never exploited it.
bp
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On 5/18/2020 9:55 AM, Mathew Howard wrote:
If I remember correctly, Tablo has a subscription fee... last I
looked the Amazon thing looked the most promising for a multi-tv system.
I have an AirTV and an AirTV player (although I'm not sure if they
still make that or not). The airtv obviously has some problems... the
AirTV Player has the same interface, but it's not a networked tuner
(it's basically just an AndroidTV box with a USB tuner) and it seems
a lot more reliable, and it can pause live TV.
On Mon, May 18, 2020 at 11:43 AM <ch...@wbmfg.com
<mailto:ch...@wbmfg.com>> wrote:
I will wait for someone else to try Tablo and report to us.
*From:* Bill Prince
*Sent:* Monday, May 18, 2020 9:01 AM
*To:* af@af.afmug.com
*Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] OT OTA receivers
Lewis, your "Amazon OTA DVR", is that the FireTV you're talking
about?
Has anyone looked at the Tablo? It looks like it has 4 tuners,
and is described as a "whole house DVR". It has no HDMI;
presumably you need a smart TV or some other thing to stream
things over the local LAN. It does require an external drive, but
does not require a subscription (unless you want to stream from
off-site). It also says it has "automatic commercial skip".
bp
<part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com>
On 5/18/2020 5:24 AM, Lewis Bergman wrote:
I have several Channel Masters with the external drive. Probably
what Walmart sells rebranded or something. Send me your address
and I'll ship you one. It has a smart TV app. In the end I think
it was that it was a per display thing we replaced them for. I
have 4 of these I don't use. I want to say they were maybe $95
each, then add the external SSD of whatever size added another
$85 or so.
We use Aamazon Alexa to a great extent and have liked the Amazon
OTA DVR. Having said that, it seems to require rebooting about
every 6 weeks when the streaming locks up. I should get a simple
timer device to reboot it at 4AM. Other than that, I like the
whole thing and its integration to Amazon Prime is handy if you
already use that. It is simple enough for the wife to use, which
counts for a lot.
On Sun, May 17, 2020 at 11:59 PM Trey Scarborough <t...@3dsc.co>
wrote:
I have used HDhomerun for years now you can run the
recording software on a PC or it integrates with most DVR
platforms MythTV, Plex, Kodi, etc.
On 5/17/2020 7:39 PM, ch...@wbmfg.com wrote:
I had the tivo for quite some time until it quit working
and I didn’t want to spend the money for another one.
I switched to airTV and then converted it to Sling. It is
buggy. Does not always record what you tell it to, it will
not allow fast forward on local channels and the audio
level is much higher than all my other hdmi inputs like Roku.
So looking again for an ATA receiver. Walmart has a really
low cost unit that can record if you connect an external
drive. It allows time shift etc.
Does not stream over you network, you will have to have it
connected to your display. And you will have to feed it an
RF TV signal. But the whole streaming over the network by
Tivo and Sling/AirTV has not exactly been flawless.
Anyone using anything else they really like? One of my
larger spots in the house to watch TV has a large monitor
with no F connector. So I need something there. I would
like something with a channel guide so that is one thing
Sling does for me.
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