Another nit, Tablo has “tuners”, but you need to view them not as tuners, but as processors. Anything Tablo does (and it does a lot) requires a “tuner”. Thus if you buy the 2-tuner Tablo, you may find Tablo “busy” doing things when you need it the most. For example, if remote, and you are fortunate enough to get rate limited remote viewing working (more later on that)… that process requires a tuner. Thus to watch ONE program remotely at (for example) 1Mbps, requres two actual tuners. Creation of those thumbnails mentioned earlier requires a tuner, etc, etc.
On remote viewing at reduced bandwidth… anything but Direct (no reduction) is sort of a crap shoot. You’ll get a mysterious message on your phone saying Unable to Play Stream or something like that (except maybe the first time). This is especially true if you’re trying to “slow surf” via the mobile device when watching “live TV”. Even if you know that no tuners are in use (though it’s possible that tuners are in use, you can’t know on the Tablo). There’s many posts about this… there is no “fix” yet.
Also there is no surround sound, hopefully you know about this. Closed captions do not work on all frontends.
Not trying to make you change your mind, just want you to know the problems up front. Too many people get excited about the Tablo and are quickly dissappointed by some of the items I list. Doesn’t mean it’s a “bad” device, but you might want to lower your expectations, just a bit…