>> Need surround sound by start of football season!! Its bad enough I have to watch 24 in two channel right now. No NFL in 5.1 is a serious first world problem.
Will current recordings be AC3 playback capable when the firmware update rolls out or will all recordings prior to the firmware update be forever 2 channel?
+1 for surround sound passthrough!
+1 for surround pass through. It’s the only thing standing in the way of my purchasing a Tablo and cutting the cord on my cable. Also, very important for football season
Any updates on getting this feature added? Its been three months with no word on if or when it’ll be implemented. Its a real dealbreaker for me.
Hey folks - We’ve got a laundry list of requests that need to be implemented and we’re working to prioritize things that will benefit the largest amount of users.
While there’s a vocal minority of folks like you who really want surround sound, it’s a LOT of work for a feature that is less popular than say, adding iOS and Android phone apps.
That’s not to say we’re forgetting about it or that it won’t ever get implemented, but in terms of prioritization, it’s unfortunately not going to be done for this football season.
I would like to see it as well as my fellow Tablo’ers.
I brought it up from the get go, but I’ll post in this thread too. While it’s not a deal breaker, per say, it is the feature I miss most from my cable TV.
I’d take it over any new apps as well
I’d prefer it over phone apps too. I just use the web interface on my phone. I’d love to have surround sound.
Surround sound is a definite for me too!!
Surround Sound HUGE want. So huge I joined the forum.
Surround sound is the last thing I need to get rid of my TiVos, and with a big tv with 5.1 sound, it would be nice if more speakers were working
I have surround sound capability but my wife never lets me use it, It’s too loud
What!!! To hear it won’t be worked on this season as it is not a priority is quite frankly ridiculous! I love your product and have been spreading the word to others, but may just stop if this doesn’t get moved up the food chain. HD Digital picture and Digital 5.1 sound go hand in hand. Pardon me, but Please knock some sense into the development team or whoever is stalling this. While smartphone apps are a nice, as another user stated that is what the web app is for. Love this product, in fact Great product, but man, 5.1 not important L-)
I’d definitely make 5.1 surround a priority. I can get it over the air. It should not be reduced to stereo through any device.
I know it’s bad form to bump my own thread but here goes anyway. I’ve seen comments that AC3 passthrough is a low priority and I consider this unfortunate. I realize there is a big push for streaming to mobile devices but for many cord cutters (including myself) our primary viewing will be at home on “traditional” display devices. I’m using Roku 3s to view Tablo content on my plasma as well as on the big screen in my home theater. I want to have the same experience I had in the past just without paying an outrageous Cox bill and that means surround sound as well as HD.
I vote for surround sound also as I use two Roku 3’s and stereo is OK but I sure like 5.1 =D>
Not good. I just sent you a RFI on this. I had last read the thread, prior to your delay post… I vote for Surround Sound as a priority. It would be the only function your product does not provide, which I require. Planned to order within the week, but the bump down in priority is not comforting. Within the year is perfectly fine, maybe sometime after everything else, is well… not what I need to make my cord cut perfect.