Changing from 2 tuner to a 4 tuner Tablo

Support & Troubleshooting
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You can watch 1 live TV channel without a hard drive. 

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I don’t understand. Why do I need a hard drive to use the second tuner (viewing from another device)? I was never very good at math.

https://www.tablotv.com/blog/tablo-tuner-math/
Thanks,
Tom
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I think it was done that way to encourage people to buy hard drives.  It is a DVR after all.  :)


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The way we’ve designed Live TV is to provide the pause/skip functions which means that Live TV is always (temporarily) stored in memory. Without a hard drive Tablo can only keep enough memory on its onboard flash for 1 stream. 

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Interesting. Thanks for the explanation.


Tom

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Installed my 4 tuner Tablo tonight. AC adapter is larger. Feels slighty warmer but not hot. So far no recording conflicts. I capture about 20 GB each day. Old TV shows/movies and news. Sending the 2 tuner back to Amazon.

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