Ah, before end of life policy! even before engineered obsolesce.
Then we discovered free[dom] and open software!!
…and you paid for it too I bet.
Absolutely! Yes, we’ve progressed, but the functionality and the 3.5 inch disks I paid for in Egghead at midnight are still mine. No monthly fees.
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You have described my situation exactly. I was under the same impression, probably, in part, because it was included in the lifetime subscription that I had with Tivo.
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I already signed up.
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Unfortunately we only have 3 OTA channels here in NS! 
That is the CS I get. Weak signal, program not eligible, or skip failed. Then watch the program with supposed weak signal, not a single interruption. Only record very few programs that the CS would be beneficial. So not bothered losing CS, but not getting the thumbnails, happens to often. No reason given!
I’ve passed on the CS feature. I didn’t even use it during the beta, had no interest in the feature whatsoever. I am more than content with pushing buttons on a remote when I remember having to walk to the TV to change channels. hahaha
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No, the service isn’t worth it. And I did not expect to have to pay any monthly fee after paying for a lifetime charge. I will just fast forward through commercials.
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Already subscribed.
me too, on my prime Tablo only. (The other grabs news and PBS only).
Yes, I have decided to opt in. It works fine for me giving that I usually wait a day or so to watch recordings. The money isn’t an issue for me, it’s more about the convenience. Tablo and cord cutting is saving me a boat load of money to begin with, a couple more bucks is no big deal for a feature not available directly through cable or satellite.
EDIT: Also I won’t have to replace batteries in the remote as often!
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Same here. I just jumped from TiVo to this and bought the lifetime sub…and now it isn’t as much better deal than I had since it fails to upload half the time and is wrong 1/2 the time it does complete the upload.
Did you have the lifetime service on your TiVo(s)?
No. I didn’t think it worked all that well anyway. Even if it did, not paying the $$ to have it.
As a user, I probably wouldn’t. I don’t watch all that much and the price seems a little bit steep for how well it works (and the Canadian exchange rate is really awful compared to actual market rates).
However, as a guy who has a third-party app that supports it, I probably will, because I’ll need to follow the feature changes and make sure it works in my app.
So… um… a qualified yes 
I turned off the commercial skip. It did not work well any ways. Not worth the extra money.
My experience was it did not work over half the time. I am not sure why beta was pulled without a reliable feedback. If it worked reliably there still should be a lower price for lifetime subscribers.
I would if they offered lifetime subscribers the ability to upgrade once for a lifetime assuming the price was reasonable and they covered all my tablos and not just one of them. I paid for a lifetime because I didn’t want either a monthly or annual fee
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I am in total agreement with allegator1 on the subject of lifetime subscribers to commercial skip annual fee. For information, I actually switched to a more expensive higher speed ISP because existing ISP could not provide enough speed to accomodate commercial skip and affected my VOIP phone service. Thanks, R. Baesler
I am in complete agreement with how the Tablo folks are handling the fee.
- It is just $20 a year, less than the price of a tank of gas.
- By charging a yearly (or monthly for some users) fee, it allows the Tablo folks to have a predictable flow of money that can go to paying Amazon to host the servers for years to come. A one-time fee really hurts that model.
- This is not something new. The Tablo already has a non-lifetime, recurring fee for Cloud DVR.
- This is a completely optional feature of the Tablo and is not needed in any DVR. A premium service should have an extra cost.
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