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He really is not liking Tablo anymore. Mine my data for the little TV I watch LOL.
I like the free guide and shall live with Tablo’s quirks.
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A good Tablo experience depends on good signal reception, a solid — and preferably wired — home network and a streaming device capable of properly processing Tablo’s stream. Any weakness in any of those leads to a dissatisfied customer who blames Tablo. My experience has been spotted with some letdowns, but overall I’m happy with Tablo. Tyler’s emphasis on its shortcomings is misplaced.
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Too many recordings gave me a lot of frustration with too many crashes.
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I just recalled I posted here last August on Tyler withdrawing his recommendation of Tablo after that Big Outage.
Time flies it feels like that was years ago. I do think those weeks of outages led to many improvements that were long overdue.
The main problem with Tablo IMHO is that it is advertised as Bam! Easy Peasy 
All of us here no that is not the case. You have to be willing to trouble shoot and fine tune it. Then Tablo 4th Generation is a nice piece of equipment. Personally, since the major outage, the unit has been functioning well. Knock on wood 
Now Tablo when is the remote scheduling going to be online.
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I watched Tyler’s video and I follow him to learn. I of course have looked at his two highest mentioned units and physically held one of them.
For me a “fossil” in Tablo world ---- > I have a damn good unit that skips ALL the commercial ads on my primetime TV shows and I mean 99% of the time commercial skip flawless. When the day comes that Tablo would ever remove that feature from me I will re-visit what hardware I determine would be best. Right now my Tablo Quad is almost flawless.
I do have a keen interest in ATSC 3 and have no problems connecting my LAN if required. Watching as tech progresses.
No matter what you “get” with regards to ATSC 3.0 (authorized devices), removing commercials will not be allowed. Even the ability for “community solutions” for this is unknown at this point.
I find it a bit problematic to make “best dvr” recommendations without talking about the critical “external” elements that go in to making any of these devices work well.
Availability of OTA in your specific area in the first place, extent of RF antenna/amplification/distribution required to get reliable RF signal into your home and to your devices, and in the case of network distribution … quality/capability/reliability of your home network all matter big time. None of these dvr’s can do anything to overcome issues in these areas. All will be unreliable and frustrating to use.
I’ve beat this horse for several years now with both the Recast and now the Tablo. Both have their internal software/hardware quirks. Both are awful if they don’t have solid external elements (RF signal and network). I’m willing to bet the other similar devices out there are much the same.
There is a love/hate thing going on in our house with the Tablo. However, for better or worse it is the centerpiece of our current OTA “experience”, and it works well most of the time. My wife records multiple programs to “power watch” later, and she is pretty good at handling the random quirks that come with the “experience”. I usually watch “live”, and just flip over to the tv’s internal tuner if the Tablo acts up.
Given the future of OTA is a moving target (eg ATSC 3.0, encryption, paywalls, etc), and the Tablo works fine for us now, I have no interest in starting a new fight with someone else’s box that will likely have it’s own issues and then be obsolete anyway.
IMHO, the Tablo remains an inexpensive and viable dvr solution for now (assuming the other necessary elements are there). Who knows about tomorrow.
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Well said!
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Who even cares what this guys thinks, IMO him and Lon are the main cause of all the confusion about ATSC 3 and I would not care a thing what either says anymore.
I have 2 Tablos, 2 Zapperboxes and a TiVo Bolt and all work fine and have their own advantages and disadvantages. Like the ZB can not stream but one of the only DVR’s that does work with ATSC 3 DRM. TiVo IS and always will be the best DVR by far, just not making them anymore. 
I don’t think it’s fair to say the confusion is because of Lon and Antenna Man.
They are just trying to break down a somewhat complex situation where the goal line keeps changing and a situation that wasn’t designed thinking about the consumer as a shareholder, as evidenced by the DRM that has been implemented.
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That’s because the consumer (as in TV watcher) is not a “shareholder”. The shareholders of the group of companies pushing all of this are the shareholders. I suppose some consumers might also be true shareholders, but I bet if they are they want their shares to have big returns!