Customer Ratings & Reviews

Great when it works but it needs to be rebooted quite often. The first one I bought died after one year but was covered under my BestBuy extended warranty. This replacement is slightly better but often needs a reboot because the app can't connect to it

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.

I waited a while to do a review so it would be accurate. I have owned the Tablo DVR for over 1 year. Two important things is you need a good home network and a quality antenna. I have a mesh network which has great coverage in my house and I use a Televes outdoor antenna. With these two things, the Tablo is fantastic. It's fast and reliable. There are a few low powered channels that doesn't have guide data. This is primarily because lower powered channels don't have to share their data with Gracenote, the service Tablo uses for guide data. There are times when the device will develop bugs in its operation. For the most part, when updates to the app are released, many of the bugs are solved. It's not perfect, but it's getting better with time. Originally we used several different streaming devices. We had horrible results with Roku. In fact we stopped using Roku because of issues with Tablo and several other apps like Plex. My understanding from the Tablo forums is Roku operates much better than it did. I get a lot of channels where I live. I get over 100 channels after eliminating religious, infomercials, Spanish speaking, and duplicates. On top of that, Tablo continues to add FAST channels.

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.

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.

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!!

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

We can now watch and pause live tv. Also can record our favorite shows easily.

Bought this product thinking they improved it and in some ways they did. However it lost support for windows and Tablo connect. So if those features are important to you best skip this product. Very very disappointed would return if I hadn’t started using it.

I needed something to replace my dying Fire Recast, but didn't want to pay outrageous sums of money. It also had to be easy to use for the older members of my household. There was a bit of a learning curve coming from the Fire Recast, but we seem to have mastered the app. The Tablo was fairly easy to set up for use with my Firesticks. I also have it set up for use with my Roku, but we use the Firesticks more. I was pleasantly surprised by the Tablo app's home screen and that I can record the FAST channels included by Tablo. The guide works well. My main beef is probably more with Amazon than Nuvyyo because the Fire tv live guide doesn't pull in the guide data from Tablo. The Tablo guide data is easy enough to find and navigate, though. I marked this 5 stars for value because I use it every day, both just for watching and recording to watch later. I know that some people will knock off a star or 2 because it isn't ATSC 3.0 compatible. However, that's not as important to me. Stations will continue to broadcast at the current standard for several more years, so I'm sure I'll get my money's worth. YMMV. Overall, it's been a good experience for me.

You can't go wrong with this. I installed an outdoor antenna and it only took a few minutes to install. I now have over 90 channels available and a lifetime free onscreen tv guide and can record 3 shows at a time. It doesn't get better than this.

I dearly wish that BestBuy sold a more reliable DVR. This quad tuner is the flakiest appliance that I have ever bought in my life. You have to constantly deal with its myriad glitches, gotchas, failures, ad infinitum. My wife is tired of me cussing up a storm each time I've reached my limit of frustration. I'm generously giving it 2 stars, because if you can jump all the hurdles, and if you're lucky, it actually can work as advertised. I'd be delighted to pay double the price for a DVR that actually worked 100% of the time without any agony at all. Note to BestBuy: Please find another, more reliable DVR supplier. I also have the Aluratek DVR, but it's just a single tuner. Works 100% of the time. If they had a 4-tuner DVR, I'd buy it in a heartbeat.

had to reset tablo and reinstall 2 times to get it working. I have to use a ROKU as Vizio smart TV does not support app

Love this little gem. Great for recording the shows.

this works great for recording over the air programming and is pretty easy to use

Giving this 4 stars simply because there is no Apple TV app for this Tablo yet. The Tablo works very well as a DVR, both recording and playback of live TV. Quicker to transition than the old Tablo's, and great screen resolution. Very happy with it. Now the downside. Finding a streaming box that works well with this wasn't easy for me. I'm an Apple TV guy, so being off on Roku's, Chromecasts, and Fire TV's hasn't been painless for me. What's worked the best for me is the Chromecast with Google TV 4K. Next, I'd say the Fire Stick 4K MAX, and last, the Roku. Can't stand the Roku UI, so I'm not going there. The Chromecast 4K is pretty close to faultless, but the Chromecast HD didn't make the cut...seems underpowered for the Tablo. I don't like the Fire Stick 4K MAX UI much either, too much surface area in the UI and too many ads. Anyways, if you're not an Apple TV user that can't give it up :-), I'd recommend the Tablo wholeheartedly. Great piece of hardware, waiting for some of the software pieces to fall into place. I'll wait a certain amount of time for the Apple TV app, but after a point I'm going be giving up on it and going back to Youtube TV where I can use the Apple TV. I would go to the HDhomerun, except that I don't want to deal with Plex or the Channels app, both of which cost $'s.

Easy to use and provides a DVR experience equal to streaming options.

Tablo is great pared with HD antenna and a hard drive you get lots of channels all your locals and can record no charge. The guide auto updates and is easy to set recordings even from your phone,

Easy installation. Great support staff. Tablo App is not available for all smart TVs. I f you have Roku, Fire Stick, or Android TV you are all set. If you have a Samsung Smart TV, the app is still in development. Since one of my TVs is Samsung that is the reason for 4 Stars rather than 5.

Its been a short time using the gen 4 which has been better than the original jnit i have. It wasnt playing back recodings now today it was working. Just make sure you buy some additional coax to directly attach your antenna to tv also. I dont like that it no longer works with Samsung or LG.