Pricing aside, I continue to use my Tivo Premiere in addition to Tablo.
Tivo is superior when it comes to live watching a show due to being able to FF/RW using thumbnails, whereas Tablo waits until the end of the show before generating. This means Tablo is out for things like football or when a show is being watched in “near” real time (like morning news shows with more commercials than air time).
Tablo wins out on watching shows on my iPad and phone devices and on all TVs with Roku and FireTV.
The Tivo commercial skip is darned great and accurate too. I still haven’t gotten a Tablo update yet, so can’t compare the two.
And Roamio compares with Tablo way, way better than Bolt does from a technical standpoint–unless Tablo suddenly gained the ability to show streaming services at 4K resolution…
Roamio is discontinued.
It cost $400 because they built in the guide service.
It connects to ONE TV.
To add a TV you need a TiVo Mini VOX at $179 (I used a Roku Streaming Stick+ at $59)
To do 4 TVs you’d need to add 3 TiVo Mini VOX at $179 each.(or $537)
Current TiVo models are Bolt for Cable, Bolt for OTA, TiVo Mini. That’s it.
Bolt OTA with “All in”(lifetime guide service) will set you back $500. And it connects to one TV (see above)
I don’t think that’s equivalent when the Tablo supports streaming to multiple devices, with no extra purchase necessary if you already have one of the myriad of devices that are supported for playback. And if you don’t, a number of those devices are cheaper than a TiVo Mini.
