Hi @cg409, welcome! What @3rdRockOKC said is absolutely correct. As well, the whole Tablo team, including developers, are local to Tablo HQ in Ottawa, Canada. The unit is only manufactured in China, but all planning, engineering, development, testing, customer support, marketing, and more is done locally. And we definitely do read this forum regularly! Many of the features now in Tablo have been requested on this forum over the years.
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Hi @TabloForumAdmin It is nice to hear this is a āhome grownā company! Sounds Like you are the "Eh-Team! 
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Hi goopa here Just got this and having hard drive trouble
Im 69 happily married live in Portland Oregon and kinda love it
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Hi @goopa, if youāre still having trouble you may want to start another thread or possibly contact Tablo Support.
Seeing this thread, I wanted to introduce myself. My name is Norm and I am from the Jackson, Mississippi area. I have been using TiVo DVRs since cutting the cord in Spring of 2016.
However, my Roamio OTA 1TB unit appears to have at least one faulty tuner and has encountered the āProblem getting tunerā message on two occasions now. Based on my research, that problem is not fixable and will get worse over time.
Given this, I just ordered the Tablo Quad streaming DVR from Amazon, which should arrive sometime during the day on Tuesday. Although I have a Channel Master Flatenna 35 with no amplification, I have a clear line of sight to the towers for 3/12/16/29/35/40 located roughly 24-26 miles away in South Jackson/Raymond, MS and expect to get the subchannels to them with no issue. It will be interesting to see if the Tablo can get a marginal signal of WRBJ 34 located between Raleigh and Forest, MS like the Roamio does, but if not, thatās ok. The stations that matter are the ones mentioned above.
I want to thank management for eventually adding Dolby Digital 5.1 Passthrough, as it was the only reason I did not pick Tablo over TiVo back in the Spring of 2016. It will be good to have all of the TVs in the house able to watch the recordings now
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Hi everyone, Iām Tom, live in Oshawa ON.
Nice to see there are a few Canadians on here.
I was a Bell Satellite customer since before bell bought dish network Canada.
But I was OTA enthusiast as the transition to digital and eventually HD was happening.
Cut the cord over 8 years ago. I get OTA from the Toronto and Buffalo markets, but with Buffalo across the lake, itās hit and miss.
I had a channelmaster DVR, then and DVR+, then disappointed when the guide quit working.
Got a Tablo Dual HDMI over a year ago.
Sometimes it worked. But mostly would lock up with any and every little bit of interference.
Live or recording. I started Calling the light blue screen of death.
Looked for other options, but kept reading others didnāt have that problem.
So finally ordered the Tablo Quad network.
Disappointing that my Samsung Tizen TVās didnāt have the Tablo app, (misleading Tablo advertising)
I bought a Roku first, recommended by Tablo, and a Firestick for 2nd TV.
Returned the Roku, waste of time and money, got another firestick.
Mostly works good, just canāt stop it from jumping to live when the screen saver comes on.
And, itās gonna cost me 2 more Firesticks for 2 bedroom TVās
Hi from Montreal Quebec, Iāve just gotten a Table Quad streaming through the Apple TV 4K and I love it! The Tablo streams crisp clean recordings over ~40 channels many from northern US. Iād been looking to replace the Tivo I had that was giving me a raft of grief and Iām so very happy with Tablo. Thereās no way Iām going back! Much more channels, much better quality. Thank you Tablo!
Iād like to Auto-next multi-episodes, but I donāt see the option in settings. If Iām missing something, let me know!
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My name is Christine, and I live in Manchester, NH. I cut the cord in April 2022. Comcastās equipment is overpriced junk. And I learned that a good portion of what I was paying for cable went toward carriage fees for OTA channels. Being a good 50 miles from Boston, I was not sure if Iād have any luck picking up much of anything OTA. I purchased an inexpensive antenna, the Channel Master Flatenna. Itās an indoor antenna that can be attached to a window for best results. I was AMAZED as to how many channels I could pull in with this thing. It was insane to be paying for stuff that is free and legal.
I needed a DVR, and unfortunately, I did not know about Tablo at the time, so I went with another brand that could stream the OTA channels to my bedroom TV that has a Fire stick and the living room TV, which is an Amazon Fire smart TV. The optimal place for reception is in a window in an upstairs room that i seldom use, and running cables all over the place is awkward. But I had s lot of annoying issues with the one I had, and there was little to no useful online support. Last week, in saw a TV ad for Tablo and decided to check it out. I decided to give it a try, it came less than a week later, and so far, so good. It is a vast improvement over the other one, much more user friendly and a much more attractive interface, It is much better than even the Comcast DVR I was paying too much for.
I still have Comcast for internet, but that equipment is junk, too. I decided to stop paying $14/month for an older gateway that I had to constantly reboot, and that Comcast refused to upgrade for me. So I bought my own, it works way better and I am saving even more money by owning all of my equipment, not leasing it.
I supplement my OTA TV with a few streaming services. I get Peacock Premium for free because I am a Comcast customer. I am also a member of Walmart+, which I use for grocery delivery (I am disabled and do not drive), and now they include Paramount+ with the membership. I also have Amazon Prime, for both free fast shipping and the video content. Plus there are a ton of totally free streaming services. I have Pluto, Freevee, Xumo, Tubi, Crackle, and The Roku Channel (no Roku device needed, they have apps). Itās amazing how much there is out there that is completely free and legal!
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Welcome to Tablo, Christine.
Like you, I use the Channel Master Flatenna (without the amplifier) and it works very well pulling in Jackson, Mississippi locals from 25 miles away with a 100% clear line of sight to the TV towers near South Jackson/Raymond. I switched to Tablo from TiVo in June 2022 when one of the four TiVo tuners started malfunctioning after 3.5 years.
I actually would have adopted Tablo back in early 2016, but it didnāt have Dolby Digital 5.1 surround passthrough supported back then. That was added in summer 2018, if I recall correctly.
Hello, I live in Contra Costa County and I am a cat person with four cats (Caroline, an undersized short-hair Classic (aka Butterfly/Bullseye) tabby who is deaf (named after the song āSweet Carolineā and she really is), Pip and Joey who are brothersāPip is long-hair Black, Joey (in my Avatar) is long-hair Siamese, and Shoshana who is short-hair black.
Caroline and Shoshana were rescued from the street, Pip and Joey were from a family friend who had to find a new home when her son had to move back in with a dog that is aggressive towards cats.
I am a fan of both PBS documentaries and Science Fiction shows, and Iām a bit of a GNU/Linux geek having used it since 1998.
We donāt yet have a TabloTV in the house but it has been planned since 2020 when I installed a whole-house coaxial network for ATSC. The TabloTV would be used just for DVR purposes, except maybe on Sundayās during football season when we may have one game on the TV and the other streaming on a Tablet so we can know when to switch channels when needed.
When I wired the coaxial network, I put in a jack specifically for TabloTV where it would have an easy uplink to our LAN. That jack has a stronger signal than the other jacks as we want a 4 tuner (basically first split is balanced three-way, one of which goes to that jack and the other two go to four-way splitters for televisions around the house).
Iām also a big field herpetology fan - I donāt keep any reptiles or amphibians as pets, but I love to observe them in the wild.
Well, thatās me.
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Hi folks,
Pleasure to be part of this community.
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Hello, welcome to the Community!
Just moved your post here where it fits better.
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Hi. Iām old to Tablo. I have the old black Legacy Tablo and more recently bought a round white Tablo.
I was wondering where to post a question to help me get Remote Connection working for my Legacy Tablo. Which board is the appropriate one for that? My router is Verizon Gateway g1100
Thanks!
Hello, @Lmurphy !
You can just make a new post and use the āSupport & Troubleshootingā category for it.
I hope that helps.
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I am Jim, a television broadcast engineer, spending most of my time in the maintenance of very expensive high power television transmitters until I retired after 30 years. Located in Northern Kentucky 10 miles south of Cincinnati, Ohio. In the late 1970s I began the process of learning computer programming, advancing to C in the need for software speed in those early slow hardware personal computers. Still do a little programming in C and Objective C on my Apple silicon Mac.
I installed my Winegard Antenna in the spring of 1980.The antenna was pointed a little more toward Dayton than Cincinnati. It is still functional with all of its elements intact and is currently feeding a 4-way splitter without any amplifiers. I pick up the Cincinnati television stations and most of the Dayton Ohio stations about 50 miles away. I use about 42 of the available program channels, some only rarely.
I have been a cable customer at times over the decades but I finally cut the cord in about 2000 after noticing that they had raised my rate by 50% over the previous 5 years.
I had used a VCR to time shift programming and missed that ability after 2009. So in 2018 I purchased a Tablo Dual, a Firestick and a Netgear Nighthawk router.
Lightning struck a power transformer about 1 block from me in 2020 and the transient created on the high voltage line made it back down the line , thru my pole mounted power transformer and took out the Tablo Dual, the Firestick, and an Ethernet switch. The cheaper Ethernet switch died saving my router! I purchased a Tablo Lite, an external hard drive, a Roku Ultra and a surge protector mounted in the Electric Meter case.
I have become ancient doing work that I enjoyed and a retirement with just enough challenges!
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Greetings Jim, welcome to the group!
New to forum.
Using my second Tablo.
Originally used Legacy HDMI 4 tuner.
Rather than paying annual subscriptions, I updated to the Gen4 four tuner.
Currently having trouble receiving mpeg4 subchannels.
We have Roku Ultra and Roku streambar.
Iāll search for relevant topics.
Thanks for letting me add to forum
Phil
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Hello my name is Brandon. Iām from Maryland I also live in the city. Iāve been using my Tablo 4th generation 4 tuner for a while now havenāt really had any complaints. I run it with my Roku Smart TVs 3 to be exact. If it wasnāt for Tablo I would have to run multiple antennas throughout my home. I bought my Tablo almost a year ago for the convenience of using only one antenna to broadcast to all my TVās. Iām glad Iām apart of this community where Tablo users have a place to talk about pros and cons of the units. How it changed peopleās lives watching OTA television or how it was not for them personally. Hopefully for the many years to come Tablo will evolve and continue to innovate with the times and lead into the future.
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