Tablo 4th Gen 2-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

WOW!! THIS TABLO™ TV BOX WORKS G-R-E-A-T!! While waiting for delivery, watching a YouTube video or two on installation and user "tips" BEFORE installing, really helped. Following the directions in the manual, the Tablo™ software installed on my iPhone® XR™ and three TVs with ease! ... and it also allows a user to watch TV on the phone! A REALLY NICE PICTURE on a 36" screen! During the scanning phase, it found OVER 120 CHANNELS!! Sure, there are always a number of undesireable channels, like foreign languages, shopping, religion etc., but it's good to know it can receive EVERYTHING available! The "guide" can be customized, so that any unwanted channels won't appear in the "2 Week" listings guide! Setup and update downloads took a total of about 5 minutes. I chose the "wireless" set-up with my wi-fi, but there is an option to connect directly to your router via ethernet cable if you wish. It can also be placed in ANY room in the house! AND, with 50 HOURS of DVR memory available right out of the box, you can record too!IMPORTANT NOTES:1) This Tablo™ TV unit DOES NOT include an antenna. Unless you spend a decent amount of money on an "INDOOR" antenna, you will most probably get LOUSY reception on most of your channels, most of the time. In the past, I have purchased these indoor antennas ($15-$30), including rabbit ears, window-stickeing antennas, high tech-looking antennas, and they ALL sucked! You end up having to get up every 5 minutes to find a better spot for it, or twisting it this or that way to find the best reception!! Having an antenna on your roof is T-H-E BEST way to go. If you HAVE to purchase an indoor model, spend the money for a "PRO" indoor antenna - about $150+. Remember, a one-time purchase of a GOOD indoor antenna, probably cost less than ONE MONTH of your current monthly subscription fees! ... and it will save you from a TON of frustration.2) This Tablo™ TV unit DOES NOT include a remote control. That is because it is NOT directly connected to your TV. It works perfectly by using your own TV's remote, after going to the "App Store", then downloading and installing the Tablo™ remote software onto your FireStick, Roku, or other "smart" device. These Tablo™ TV/Remote downloads are SEPARATE, and are NOT to be confused with the original Tablo™ app you downloaded to do the original installation.I'm a "HAPPY USER!"

Riddled with bugs and has the most user hostile interface that I’ve encounter in quite awhile. Just bizarre interface choices as to where the menu choices lead one to and the non-stickey nature of the Live grid.E.g., one can tell the Live grid to display only Favorite channels, but it isn’t sticky in that when one comes back from watching a channel the grid defaults back to all channels. E.g., when in the program grid, if a show is chosen to watch, then when the grid is returned to one is placed at the beginning rather than where one was before picking the show. Makes channel surfing in an already clumsy interface even more involved. E.g., if there is a scheduling conflict for recording shows that conflict is tagged on only one of the shows. Since, on the Library screen, scheduled recordings are grouped by shows rather than by time slots finding a conflict can be difficult in a longer list of schedules. Although not tagged as a conflict on the channel grid, conflicting shows can be found if one goes to the appropriate day.I could go on.Also, under Roku one needs to reboot the device as something Tablo is doing really messes with Roku’s head in that either Roku or Tablo consistently lock up.Table is obviously a hardware company (the device’s tuner is better than the one in my Sony TV), but the software acts like it has never been tested or that any thought was given as to how someone might use it.My solution is to split my antenna input between Tablo and my Sony and use the Sony tuner most of the time and Tablo only to record/watch a recorded show. Of course, I lose the free channels, but that's a choice I make to keep my sanity on a day to day basis.Football season is coming.The above comments refer to Tablo on Roku. Tablo on FIre TV has different, but equally annoying flaws. Perversely, the software interfaces across the Roku, Fire TV and my iPad are maddeningly different in subtle ways.Additional edit: So many software bugs and weird design choices continue to manifest the longer I use the device, but two bugs have occurred that I can't live with.The device does not record reliably. Often an episode, in this case a scheduled football/soccer match is split into two sections. Sometimes the entire match can be found thru both sections and sometimes not, but even then they often won't play and there is no scrub bar to move thru the recording.Out of the blue, Roku and also Fire TV couldn't find the Tablo. I rebooted the Tablo, Roku and Fire TV. I deleted and reinstalled the software. I assigned a reserved address to the Tablo in my router. All to no avail. My iPad can still find Tablo, so I know it isn't a problem with my network.Device runs hot enough to fry an egg, which is probably at the root of some of the issues.I wrote mainframe and Windows software and managed software engineeers for many years. If this software were written and/or beta tested by anyone on my team they would be terminated with prejudice. It acts as though it was writen by a summer intern.Unit sent back for refund.Edit #2: It occurs to me that a great deal of the interface problems can be resolved by running Plex on top of the Tablo hardware, but since I sent the unit back I can’t test this out. I bought an HDHomerun tuner instead and Plex works in addressing the ugliness of HDHomerun interface. Next stop is to run the Plex server on an Nvidia Shield and remove the need to have my PC on all the time. FWIW.