Looking to capture old-fashioned, over-the-air video? Then the latest Tablo device may be for you.
Tablo OTA tuner/ DVR MSRP $140.00 Score Details “The latest Tablo box is the best choice for watching free, over-the-air TV.” Pros Cons Streaming is the undisputed future of video. Full stop. But there still is a place for old-fashioned, over-the-air video. That is, free TV. Yes, it’s ancient. Yes, it requires just a little work to get going. Yes, it has far fewer channels than the live-streaming services.
In that sense, things haven’t really changed all that much all these decades later. The broadcast networks — think ABC, CBS, Fox and NBC in the U.S. — still shoot out shows over the air and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future, under the auspices of the federal government . If you buy a new television today, you’ll find that it still has a “tuner” built into it that allows you to scan for over-the-air channels and watch them as you’d watch anything else.
Now? The fourth-generation Tablo looks exactly what you’d want this sort of thing to look like in 2023 and beyond. It’s much smaller, shaped like a 1-inch-thick disc that’s about 6 inches across, and it’s roughly the same size as a Nexus Player from nearly a decade before.Take it out of the box and you’ll find the power cable and a little run of Ethernet cable, with the latter being a nice inclusion, though we’ll discuss its usefulness in a second.
It’s worth spending some time in the settings section first. And you can do so from either a phone or tablet, or in the TV app. There’s a lot worth playing around with in there that will make your overall experience better, from channel options to LED settings and external storage. And because the older Tablo devices were transcoding the video format on the fly, it led to a much slower live experience, where channel flipping was painful. The fourth-gen Tablo does MPEG2 natively, so things are nice and speedy this time around. No complaints of lag from my end.
Recording shows is simple — just tell it to record. This is another time when it’s worth flipping through the settings, because there’s an option to extend recordings beyond their scheduled length. That’s important for things like sports. And playing back recorded programs was entirely intuitive, and speedy enough, with playback beginning within 5 seconds.
It’s a mess, and Tablo isn’t yet taking part in that mess. At least not yet. A PR rep told us that work on the fourth-gen Tablo began “at a time when key portions of the ATSC 3.0 standard with respect to recording and playback of DRM programs were still undefined,” and that the cost of ATSC 3.0 components also was a factor. The rep also said that “we are still actively working towards a product that is fully compliant with all ATSC 3.
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