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Re: Anyone using Tablo TV to record over the air HDTV?
I bought one from Newegg and sent it back this week. I liked the idea behind the device, but it had way too many problems with both the hardware and software. Here are just some of the problems I saw with the Tablo I had. Definitely not for channel surfers because it took 12-15 seconds to allow buffering to switch to a different channel and it was plugged directly into a router. It wasn't even close to the 5-6 seconds like some people were saying. Using Wi-Fi took even longer and I could tell I was going to have to upgrade to a faster wireless router. Very thin feet on bottom of case did not raise it high enough to allow adequate ventilation from the 2 vent areas on the bottom. I picked it up and I didn't want to hold it more than a few seconds because it was that hot. I could only imagine how hot it would get in my RV cabinet. I had other feet I could have used to put on it, but it was stupid that it didn't already have them on the cabinet. Program guide did not work for my location. Web interface had no times across the top of the guide to know what times programs were playing. Of course that really didn't matter since I had no guide and I had to select whatever channel I wanted to watch. My Roku 2 XS could see the Tablo, but said there were no channels. Running the Tablo Android app on my Nexus tablet was slow and it had a few problems, but I was able to watch TV and it had a good picture on my tablet. Rescanning TV channels would hang sometimes and you had to reboot the device. What was really stupid is that you had to do a factory reset if you wanted to connect to a different network. There were a lot more things, but after 8 frustrating hours and just seeing how much trouble it was going to be to use even if a lot of things were fixed, I boxed it up and mailed it back. I didn't try to get it to work with the Chromecast, but I already knew from reading that you had to tell it to reconnect to the Chromecast every time you changed the channel. The hard drive you connect to it had to be formatted in a way that could not be read by my computer running Windows. TV programs recorded on the drive could not be converted to watch on any other device. That feature is supposed to be coming. IMHO, this device was rushed way too fast to market. I'm not sure why there were a lot of good reviews saying things which I found out not to be true. The last 3 reviews on Newegg are all negative reviews so something tells me the good reviews were not from real customers.687Views0likes0Comments
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