Hello! I have the legacy tablo duo and subscribed to the Electronic TV Guide schedule. If I stop my subscription - can my legacy tablo still record based on the TV Guide? Or am I screwed and I am left to just manually scheduling to record a program based on its normal schedule? I am pissed with my recording schedule in that if a NBA basketball extends into a scheduled recording, Tablo does not adjust the recoding schedule. It records the extended NBA game and cuts the scheduled program off too soon before it ends.
Or, you can choose to extend times of shows set to record that begin after an extended sporting event runs over the allotted time. We record some shows after weekend basketball, baseball, and football games and will usually extend these recordings by 30 or 60 minutes. Football is notorious for this.
There may be a thought process for you guys but for the really long term folks on legacy doing that would mean forfeiting the âcommercial skipâ feature, which is beyond amazing. All my OTA Prime shows get watched without a commercial or remote needed to skip them manually. Without that feature I may consider swapping but not now.
ClarificationâŚ
Subscriptions are free for Tablo gen 4, and, whenever the hopefully optional Tablo OG (legacy) firmware update arrives.
The catch is the ad supported streaming channels.
Thatâs how they benefit from free subscriptions.
The ability to subscribe to the commercial skip feature went away when Scripps bought Tablo. Since Scripps makes money by selling commercial time on their stations, I wouldnât expect to see commercial skip ever be offered again as long as Scripps owns Tablo.
I can tell you that on the 4th Gen, for fully recorded programs (not live or partially recorded programs) when you fast forward or skip ahead you have thumbnail images to guide you. I find this very convenient and can very quickly skip past commercials and restart your program.
As I understand it, the thumbnails are created when Tablo âcloses outâ a recording, which is why you donât see them when the program is still live. You can still RW/FF when live, you just donât get the thumbnails.