Mine Too. They have a lot of content.
Tubi is owned by Fox. They have never had any trouble streaming the event with the Fox app, so I imagine they will be able to handle it.
Tubi doesn’t offer a dvr service. Dvr really isn’t needed for on demand services since the movies and shows can be called up any time, if they can be found. It would be nice to record tubi or Pluto content to the Tablo so we wouldn’t have to search for it.
Who records the Super Bowl to watch later? Your gonna know who won from every news outlet or person you know like 5 minutes later.
It’s Chili and hot dogs, Nacho Bar, Cheese Wiz, Mas Beer and Debauchery at my house baby.
It’s junk food day.
And go 3 peat. I am from New Jersey, but Northern New Jersey so no love for the Eagles. That’s a South Jersey thing.
I learned something today. I did not know Fox owned Tubi.
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If you start late you can skip all the commercials and the halftime show.
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Recording is a good option for those of us who can’t watch it live. That’s the only way we get the pleasure of yelling at the refs over a bad call or the coaches for calling bad plays.
Are you kidding? I am going to be away and unable to watch the game. I don’t have a dog in this race, so I am recording it strictly for the commercials.
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I am not a football fan but I do appreciate the tech resources that go into the coverage. Most skilled camerawork in the business and I sometimes watch a few minutes of golf for the same reason.
Will record SB so that I am doing my part to contribute to network and Tablo overload stress. 
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The pre 4th gen TabloTV units still work fine without internet, so no this not the case at all.
The ONN Google streamer was advertising it too.
I do, I typically start watching about 75 minutes after kickoff. I commercial skip, and it works fine. I am not so addicted to my phone that I let it force me to watch ads every weekend. My friends know I do this and they don’t bother me during the game.
Any time I see people talk about NOT time shifting to avoid commercials, I assume they are 70 years old, and have tons of extra time to piss away. I say this as a very busy 57 year old, my time has value, and I don’t want to waste it watching ads.
Tyler Durden said it best -
“We buy things we don’t need with money we don’t have to impress people we don’t like.”
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Context. Discussions were everywhere, people were talking about “the future”. The context is with regards to ATSC 3.0, not the current ATSC 1.0. People complaining about current difficulties (or now, past difficulties) with regards to DVR usage and Internet requirements… I was pointing out that in the future, you won’t have a choice.
I prefer the NFL game highlights on YouTube. Every game summary in 20 minutes or less.
For example…
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I do watch them occasionally, but for out of market game, I tend to watch the NFL+ condensed replays have every play ( the service cost $100/yr, but includes RedZone ). The highlights tend to skip about 70% of them. The only upside is that they do have replays on some big plays, but the trade off is the broadcasters talk too much, and the edits are for that, not the plays.
While I get your point, the reason 3.0 isn’t a real thing already is that most people won’t support half of the crap the industry wants. Things like always online, encrypted signal, and DRM are massively unpopular. Most reasonable people think that if they want to continue to use public airways for free, the content had better be in the clear. The 3.0 standard was proposed in 2013, and many of the local stations still haven’t recouped the costs of their 1.0 equipment.
Until the locals see an advantage for themselves, there isn’t much support to upgrade. Typically every infrastructure upgrade just hurts the smaller market broadcasters that don’t have the capital ( just like the network upgrade did for cell phones ).
Many large markets already have the bandwidth to push 4k video, and have rebranded as NextGen TV, but all it really means today is they can transmit 1080p at 60 fps, not sure how much is actually sent out like that. The Omaha market is branded as NextGen TV and most of our local affiliates still transmit 1080i @ 30fps just like they did 20 years ago ( Fox still does 720p @ 60fps ), but they have added HDR on a few of them.
If the industry wants the DRM and encryption, they have Brendan Carr as FCC chair now. He is anti tech and opposed to net neutrality, which are both bad for consumers. That said, I think the networks are more worried that Amazon or Netflix are going to get a Superbowl, which could be an existential threat to them.
I do want to acknowledge that the gen4 Tablo actually seems to have survived a Superbowl Sunday, which I got the impression hasn’t happened before. I don’t know if they finally fixed the front end apps, or upgraded the servers, but this was a highwater mark for them. If they spent a bit of money on better, more fault tolerant software, it would be an easy product to recommend.
I paired it with a cheap ONN Google streamer, because the Roku app crashes a lot. I wish they would put as much into the software for it, as they do likely did for the Emmitt Smith ads for it.
I’m a full Roku home (7 devices) with 1 Onn 4k Box. I do not have any issues with the Roku’s.
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I was too, until I bought a 4th gen, my old one 1st gen died finally. The 4th gen Tablo crashes frequently on 3 of my 4 Roku players. The only one that typically works well for the new Tablo app, is the built-in on a cheap TCL TV. The old app was fine on all 4 of them, this is only new one for the 4th gen.
When I realized that the Android app was working better than the Roku app, I tried the ONN 4k streamer, and other than the occasional loading issues that Tablo has ( typically around big events due to their backend not keeping up, like this thread topic ), I haven’t had problems with it.
I will also point out that the NFL+ app is a bit more stable on Android too, so I think some of this might be their development process. The same thing happens all the time throughout software development. It could be as simple as there are good emulators for Android, and not for Roku, so the dev testing is less hassle to setup, and it gets more attention.