Here’s an example of my Tablo 4th Gen Quad’s video sync issue on a few channels, especially the Houston ABC affiliate (ABC13 Houston). Tablo’s recording is unwatchable. The audio’s fine, but notice with Anna Navarro’s answer, “What are bears?”, the video is waaaaaaaaaay behind the audio. The recording is completely unwatchable, and it gets worse and worse the longer you try to play it back.
The same TV show from the same antenna (via a splitter) recorded on my AirTV Anywhere is just fine. (I keep restarting to get rid of the unwanted graphical message “Press DOWN to browse more channels” at the bottom of the screen.)
You’ll notice with the Tablo recording at the beginning, I always start the recording 10 minutes early, so I can check it and restart the recording if it’s out of sync. Last night, I fell asleep before the show started, so I didn’t have that option. The only solution is to delete the damn Tablo recording and watch it on my AirTV. AirTV is MUCH more reliable than Tablo, but I prefer Tablo’s playback experience, but only IF the recording is a good one.
I’ve complained to Tablo for over a year now about this issue, and they’ve yet to fix it. I suspect Houston’s ABC13 sometimes switches to a different codec that Tablo doesn’t recognize quickly enough to handle, so it records in a way that can’t play back in real time without video hesitation. The AirTV software engineers are obviously much smarter, because I’ve never once had an audio/video sync issue with AirTV.
I’m cross posting this also to the TabloTV and AirTV groups that I own on Facebook. Note: TabloTV is such a crappy product, that I now have 2,026 members in my Tablo group seeking solutions to their own issues, compared with 102 members in my AirTV group.
I’m also recommending to all my Houston social media contacts that they do NOT buy any TabloTV products if they want to watch the channel 13 ABC affiliate.
Note: TabloTV has blocked me on Facebook due to their embarrassment about all the issues I’ve warned prospective buyers about. They’d rather sell their inferior product to an unsuspecting public. That’s fine, because they’ll join my group for help eventually.
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