Price: $149.99 - $128.98
(as of Nov 22, 2024 16:21:08 UTC - Details)

Tablo DUAL LITE is a network-connected OTA DVR that sends live and recorded over-the-air (OTA) HDTV from your digital antenna to any screen, anytime, anywhere using the Tablo app. Unlike traditional DVRs, Tablo DUAL LITE does not come with its own remote or HDMI connection, instead, it plays or records up to two OTA TV channels like ABC, CBS, fox, NBC, the CW or PBS (Channels are subject to availability in your area), simultaneously to the device you are already using to enjoy TV services. Tablo is the only whole-home OTA DVR that allows you to use either Ethernet or dual-band AC Wi-Fi to connect your TV antenna to your home network so you can place the DVR and TV antenna (TV antenna sold separately) in the best location for OTA TV signal reception. Tablo is controlled by apps that are available for iOS/Android mobile phones and tablets, Computers, streaming media and gaming devices, including Roku, Fire TV, android TV, NVIDIA shield TV, and Apple TV. Tablo's tuners include an internal amplifier to mitigate signal loss from its internal splitter, however some weaker channels may not show up on Tablo that would appear on a TV. Video Format - H.264 (HLS: HTTP Live Streaming). Automatic Commercial Skip Feature is no longer supported. USB Hard Drive required, sold separately.
Watch, pause, and record live antenna TV (TV antenna required, sold separately). Browse upcoming shows, schedule and manage recordings. Fast-forward and rewind recordings
Whole-home networked OTA DVR: Browse, record, and stream live over-the-air (OTA) HDTV to any device, any time, anywhere. (USB Hard Drive required, sold separately)
All basic live TV recording and playback functions are supported without a subscription
Catch your favorite network TV shows from CBC, CTV, CITYTV and GLOBAL
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Reviewer: Richard Steiner
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Exceeded my expectations in almost every way. I love this little box. I have two now. 🙂
Review: The Tablo is a little box with 2 or 4 TV tuners that pulls TV signals from a TV antenna and presents them to you for either (1) live viewing or (2) recording for later viewing.This particular unit, the Table Dual Lite, has two (2) tuners for recording and live viewing, and will allow for six (6) concurrent streams from recorded content.I think it is FANTASTIC.Yes, there some currently some mild issues with the iPhone and Android clients you can use to view Tablo content (a delay is require at startup to sync schedule data), but the Roku app doesn't require that, and if you use the app on a regular basis the delay is only a little bit annoying.One the app is ready to go, it's brilliant. It shows a fairly standard rectangular TV guide (24-hour guid is free, 14-day guide is $4.99/month), and the guide contains information about the show, the indivual episode, and when it first aired. Recording is fairly straightforward, and you can record individual episodes or entire series (all episodes or only new episodes), you can limit it to specific channels if you have dupes with different signal strengths or episode runs, and you can choose how many to save. You can add a hard drive (an external drive to this unit via a USB port) to save your recordings locally (I use a $60 2TB drive on each of my Table Dual Lite units), or you can choose to use Tablo's Cloud storage ($4.99/month for 64GB of space).One caveat ... the specific antenna you choose, and how you position it, can greatly influence your level of satisfaction with these boxes. Low or no signal means unhappiness. :(I live in an east-facing house in the western Atlanta suburbs, and most of the towers are between 15-20 miles away from me and between 90 degrees and 110 degrees according to tvfool.com. I've tried three different antennas myself, and each produced different results.The first was a flat antenna that I hung in an east-facing upstairs window, and it picked up 22 channels, but a couple of the key network channels I wanted were not coming in very clearly and would pixelate.The second antenna was another smaller but somehow better antenna that pulled in 43 channels, and it was mostly ok, but it make me realize that the specific antenna in use made a fairly large different even in the same location.So I picked up a third antenna ... a GE model 33692 attic antenna. After spending around 25 minutes to assemble that weird little bugger, I put it in the window. 73 channels. At least 50 of those are consistently solid. Whoa.My first Tablo Lite was very happy, but with only two tuners and lots of shows I wanted to record, I found that there were times when I couldn't watch TV because both tuners were busy recording Stuff I Really Needed, so I just picked up a second one from Table (refurb) just so I could guarantee a free tuner whenever I wanted. I used a splitter and a pair of 3-ft cables to connect both to the same GE antenna, and they seem to both pick up around 70 stations with very little loss compared to just one Tablo. So I'm very very happy.Note: I mainly watch TV these days using a projector and an Andriod box or Roku, so I am not really able to see a lot of artifacts in the signals due to an inherently crappy picture on my 100" screen, but I'm more interested in an immersive 480p screen than a smaller screen with 4K. 🙂 Because of this, I can't really comment on quality except to say that I generally don't notice anything annoying in terms of image quality except few 480p stations (1080p and 720p stations apparently downscale quite smoothly on my projector). I have a new larger conventional TV arriving soon, so I can make some more meaningful comments at that point, but so far I'm very happy, especially with the main local network channels which are quite clear. Even when it's raining outside.

Reviewer: Richard Claiborne
Rating: 1.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Hard to do wifi setup
Review: Very difficult, frustrating wifi setup. Finally did what instructions said not to do (I put my phone in airplane mode and then turned on wifi. Finally connected and finished setup. Great device for using my Rokus to watch and record OTA channels. Seems to work fine so far. Test recording via wifi was fine. They need to create app so you can use laptop for setup. Having to use a phone wasn't great. But again finally figured it out.Two year update. I've lowered my original rating from 4 to 2 stars. My first experience with their customer service was very good but since then they have done nothing to fix the persistent issues with incorrect channel information in the guide. With my antenna hooked to my TV I get 53 channels. Hooked to the Tablo I get 48. The missing channels are ones I would like to see on the Tablo. There are still two channels that scan into the Tablo with no guide information. There are 6 others that have the wrong guide information and/or are not the channels they say they are. I've tried using other zip codes within the area. In fact if I use my own zip code it's much worse. In two years they have done nothing to improve the situation and now when I contact them they just say it will be fixed in future firmware updates but that never happens. I would NOT recommend the Tablo. Yes, it is the least expensive OTR DVR sort of. But you do have to purchase your own hard drive to add to it. To me the AirTV is a better value and has more features for the money and it works. I'm very disappointed in the Tablo.Update to original review: PLEASE DO NOT BUY THE TABLO. I've now had mine for a long time and the issues get worse instead of better. On my TV tuner I get several channels the Tablo doesn't pick up. I have numerous guide errors and missing guide data. I've contacted customer service. First time they helped and fixed some of the issues but they won't do this now. They just tell me they'll be fixed in figure firmware updates. Honestly? How hard could it be to be able to give the user the ability to unmatch and repair guide issues? And why are there channels with NO data? I get guide data on my TV tuner and they're all correct.

Reviewer: D. Fairbairn
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Two things have kept me from cutting the cord. Slow internet and we PVR everything. Well we finally got true high speed internet here on the farm and the Tablo takes care of the PVR issue. Bye bye Sat TV and all those useless channels we were force to pay for but never watched.My set up is a 2020 Newest Amplified HD Digital TV Indoor/Outdoor Antenna, KKUYI (50 kms from tower, thru thick trees), plugged into the Tablo, ethernet to a (5yr old) D-Link WiFi router, USB to a 1T WD hard drive, Wifi to a Roku Premier, HDMI to a 65" dumb TV. All but the TV bought from Amazon.ca. It all works fantastically.The Tablo was quick and easy to set up. The Tablo interface is similar to the Sat TV PVR so catching on to it was also quick and easy. If you want a 2 week channel guide instead of a 24 hour guide it will cost you $6 a month. If you want the commercial skip function its another $3 a month. The Tablo functions just fine without either of those so if you don't want/need those services you pay nothing extra.Note: I used a Chromecast between the Tablo and TV but the Roku is 100 times better in this application. You can even add the Tablo and Prime Video as channels to your Roku line up control everything via Roku. It works really slick. I highly recommend these components.

Reviewer: pierre bouchard
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: livraison rapide et facile à installé.

Reviewer: Daniel M.
Rating: 1.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: not working right in Canada, freezes up all the time, waste 0of money !Had this purchase last november and have been triyng to make it work since january, parked it for several months because it keeps freezing up on channels tried it again this month and still same issue.moved the antenna, installed it neat my WiFi router did all imaginable things to get it to work and it still wont!!!i need to kknow how to return this piece of crxp........ very frustrated with time wasted ...

Reviewer: André
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Très bon produit en général. Toutefois, les 2 syntoniseurs (tuners) de l’appareil sont moins sensibles que celui de mon téléviseur. Ils requièrent un signal plus puissant et ne captent donc pas toujours toutes les stations que mon téléviseurs réussi à bien capter. Il peut donc arriver qu’un enregistrement échoue parce que le signal de la chaine concernée n’était pas suffisamment puissant au moment de l’enregistrement. Si le signal de votre antenne est puissant et constant, vous n’aurez probablement pas ce problème. Enfin, l’interface utilisateur de l’application n’est pas bien francisée partout et certaines fonctions pourraient facilement être améliorées/introduites. Pour le reste, je suis très satisfait du produit.

Reviewer: Angus C.
Rating: 3.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: It's difficult (and bug-ridden) to install, the requirements on supporting hardware are expensive (and bug-ridden), the software is slow, awkward, and counter-intuitive (and bug-ridden), and the price does not reflect the budget-grade cost you would expect from such a product. So why did I give it 3 stars? Because you can't really do better right now and at least I got it to work well enough (unlike my last 2 attempts at DVRs). I dunno, it seems there isn't much of a market for OTA DVRs right now so there's not a lot of R&D money to make one that works well, is easy to use and affordable.If you have the patience and technical know-how to install and use such a device, this DVR might be worth your while and you will get something acceptably usable and as well as have a decent viewing experience. If not, you should probably forget about getting a DVR for now.