Received my DUAL HDMI - Initial impressions

TV-Connected DVRs (like Tablo DUAL & QUAD HDMI)
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Didn’t you have to do that with your DVR+? I do with ours.

And will you be able to use the lifetime subscription with the Tablo HDMI? I believe it comes with a free month of guide service, so maybe that is what you are on right now. Was there any confirmation when you purchased the subscription that you would, in fact, be able to use it with the Tablo HDMI?

Another thing I found out recently is that in order to stream the HDMI to other TV’s on your network, you need to have the Premium Service. Do you know if that’s true?

Thanks

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Didn’t you have to do that with your DVR+? I do with ours.

Maybe, was it with a pop-up window though? Don’t remember already…but it seemed less annoying

Was there any confirmation when you purchased the subscription that you would, in fact, be able to use it with the Tablo HDMI?

I see 188.99$ on my credit card statement and Lifetime Guide Subscription CAD (CAD) in my account portal.
Only tablo product I have ever purchased. I do not have other smart TVs so can’t see if it works with other TVs

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I agree 1000%. The DVR+ would allow ANY screen to be an overlay over whatever you were playing at the time, recordings, complete screen grid, settings, etc. I loved that feature.

Each unit has pros and cons software wise and I haven’t got to that part yet.

I just want the Tablo to work… First things first.

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Did your DVR+ guide stop working completely? Ours is still mostly working- just missing some programming slots (especially with all the changes to sporting events due to COVID). I was hoping the Tablo HDMI would be a good replacement. But based on what I’m hearing here, I think we’ll stick with the DVR+ a while longer.

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Not completely but most of the time more than half of time slots would be unknown. I do not have performance issues with the Tablo HDMI but I’m using only 12 out of 29 scanned channels. Overall it works ok, just needs some getting used to

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Hopefully this is in active development… you find find post after post from TabloTV how “things are on their way” :clock1: :clock130: :clock230: :clock3: Aug '15 - Apr '15 - Mar 13 - May 4 - Dec '19, for example, then nothing :frowning:

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NO, you don’t need the Tablo Premium Service you do need the Tablo TV Guide Data Subscription

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Also when I click on a channel I just want to watch it and not click ‘watch’ everytime.

Just select the channel number itself (not the show) and it should play immediately

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That works, thanks

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Any delay when switching channels? (since there is no need for transcoding buffering)

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Yeah, 3-5 seconds

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As with other DVRs, there’s still a moment as it writes to disk*, so as to be able to pause live TV, before it plays it back.

*or RAM if no drive attached, although not confirmed if this follows the new generation supporting this.

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That’s much more tolerable than 8-15 seconds.

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I’d like to see a video of this, I just figured it’d be instantaneous, especially for the TV directly connected via HDMI.

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https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-OmJeah5Yys9mIFFSpwavNGHSKMRg7t9/view?usp=drivesdk

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Not bad speed, but that remote is loud af lol

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Haha yes a bit…it’s new

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Yuck… I can’t go back to 2 tuners!!! Hopefully they have a 4 tuner model in the works. lol

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Or integration with existing 4 tuners would be da bomb…

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Do you even understand the difference between the “Network DVR” and “TV connected DVR” (aka DUAL HDMI)?