Customer Ratings & Reviews

I'd had the previous gen Tablo for years and loved it. This new 4th Gen locks up all the time, and the tuner is not as good as our old one. Sorry I 'upgraded'.

I have been using Tablo for years. I absolutely love my older version. I am a little disjointed this new version doesn't allow remote viewing when your not at home anymore. Although they say they are working on it. That really would be the only thing I don't like about the new model. Otherwise it is excellent for recording multiple channels. oh wait. I also don't know if they are working on it or not, but the previous model would do commercial skip as well. Again though I love Tablo and it is really easy to setup and use. I never miss any shows.

I received the unit setup was straight forward and uneventful. One day my tablet started taking too long to load the Tablo home screen. I rebooted the unit. That seemed to fix the issue. A few days later i tried to sccess the Tablo and couldn't connect. Upon further examination I found that the unit was powered off. Nothing i did got the unit to power again. I returned the unit.

Set up was so easy. Only took about 15 minutes and DVR ran channel scan and found 79 channels. Not counting the 30 or so streaming channels that they include with the DVR. Tablo put everything in a guide easy to understand easy to record and you can pick the channels you want to keep or the ones you want to delete. Would definitely recommend this for anybody that wants an over the air DVR.

Lots of lag, went through 2 units in less than a year. Cheapest option for OTA dvr

I have owned a 1st Gen Tablo Quad tuner device for 5 or six years. It has worked great and I wanted to upgrade to this new 4th Gen unit because development has been halted on the old unit. I have had no issues with this new unit. I added an external hard drive so store the shows I wanted because I knew that the onboard storage would eventually not be enough. The guide works nice and the setup was very easy. I will recommend that you connect this device via ethernet if you can to your network or at least have a very strong wifi signal for it. I have it connected via ethernet and have had no issues watching my shows on any of my tvs (via roku devices) in my house.

Once I added a signal booster this works great for the broadcast stations in our area. It occasionally shows some pixelation but not bad. My cable had more issues. setting recording is easy.

My friend loves hers so we tried it. Returned. The power cord was faulty-would not work at all. It just so happens that I also purchased one for my mom. I took the power cord from her box and it worked fine. Then I tried for a week to gwt it to connect and never could. Returned both.

I have an antenna but I like the product because it lets me record whatever I stations I can get if I need to sometimes the reception doesn't come in really well but I realize that's probably the antenna placement chance to win a $400

Works wonderful, excellent dvr, easy to add additional storage. Seldom connection issues, requires reboot.

This actually replaces a unit I bought five months ago. Took the defective unit back to Best Buy and they got me another, no hassle. The second unit works fine. I had added an external hard drive a few weeks before the original failed. The extra storage space is much appreciated. I'm liking the Tablo much better than my Amazon Recast box that failed after five years. Amazon acknowledged they had a problem, but never fixed it or kept me in the loop.

I have had the two channel version of the Tablo Tuner/DVR for a couple of years, so when they came out with the 4 channel unit, I bought one immediately. The Tablo tuners are sensitive and work well as long as you have a decent antenna. The one I bought came with an antenna but I replaced it with an even bigger flat antenna for even more receiving area. I get about 30 over the air channels in my area which is central Texas and I’m about 50 miles from the transmitters to my southwest. In addition the Tablo will record most of the provided internet channels. A few don’t record, apparently because it isn’t allowed, but most do record and play well. So I have a 2TB flash drive attached to my Tablo and I can records lots of programs for later watching. The only thing you should consider is that recording the internet channels requires a pretty fast internet connection, so my 25MBps internet connection won’t record four internet channels at the same time. Maybe two, but not four. This isn’t the fault of the Tablo, just my internet speed. Overall I have found the Tablo is very useful. Recommended.

I have been very happy with this cord cutting TV DVR. I had the 3rd gen model too, but overall I like this one better. I can record all of the programs I get over-the-air, the signal seems good and it integrates very well with my Chrome Google TV device. Save a ton of money using over-the-air. We have a few service in addition, but this hits the spot just right.

I got the 4 tuner Tablo so we avoid any recording and watching conflicts. Recently cut the cable cord and this allows me to record all my network shows so I can still watch at my convenience and fast forward thru commercials. Also glad it gives me a guide for what is on tv. Added a fire stick to this and wished I cut the cord ages ago.

I have a rooftop antenna and all our local TV towers are only 3 miles away. The local signals all come from one direction and my antenna is a yagi directional which is pointed directly at the towers. I can literally see the TV towers from the antenna location. After the tablo channel scan, all of our local channels register with 4 green dots showing they are all getting the best reception. Nonetheless, many OTA drop-outs including "recording error(s)," pixelation, and total failure on multiple occasions and channels. Furthermore, the additional free streaming channels had many recording errors as well. Of course, Tablo support will blame your antenna or ethernet, yet we don't have any problems when antenna is connected directly to TV and our internet is a fast 500MB+ service without any problems on any other devices. If it worked, I would have loved it, instead its was a chronic exercise in extreme frustration. DO NOT BUY!!

Great little unit that works very well. I definitely would recommend this unit especially if your looking for a unit with multi room DVR for up to four televisions.

works great easy to set up. 103 channels.no issues with the set up.

Easy to setup. Very handy DVR with Tablo Guide for your over the air channels and Tablo streaming channels. Customer service is very responsive and helpful. You can watch any channel within your residence via your WiFi on your HDTV with Amazon FireTV or Android phone with the Tablo App, even different channels at the same time.

Works okay but needs more storage space; have to delete often. Sometime, for unknown reason, it doesn't record the program.

It doesn’t always receive the wi-fi signal…if it did I’d rate it 5 stars