Electronic TV Guide Subscription

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.

Thanks for any advice.

No, sorry.
Subscription = Guide

Manual recordings is the only option with no subscription for legacy Tablos.

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.

When my legacy subscription was near expiration, i cancelled and bought the Tablo4.

It only cost a little more than the annual subscription fee.

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There may be a thought process for you guys but for the really long term folks on legacy doing that would mean forfeiting the “commercial skip” 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.

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Even more so it would require forfeiting the lifetime guide subscription.

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Clarification…
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.
That’s how they benefit from free subscriptions.

Understood, but I was referring long-term. We have no idea if the Tablo ATSC 3.0 will provide a free guide subscription.

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 wouldn’t expect to see commercial skip ever be offered again as long as Scripps owns Tablo.

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Given how easy it is to skip ahead on the Legacy Tablo, not having commercial skip is no big deal for me.

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Me too! My subscription is without the commercial skip.

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 ‘closes out’ a recording, which is why you don’t see them when the program is still live. You can still RW/FF when live, you just don’t get the thumbnails.

On the scrubbing thumbnail thing, after the recording (post thumbnail processing) is true of the OG Tablo devices as well as other DVRs, like PlexDVR.

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