Tablo 12+

I purchased the TABLO gizmo to cut the cord and use an antenna to view local stations. While I’m able to very some stations regularly that’s not the case with others even if they have a strong antenna signal. I have also checked my WiFi signal where my TABLO unit is located and it is very good. Some stations with very strong antenna signals at times visually freeze and only the audio plays. Some times they drop off completely and immediately the unit takes me to the station guide. If I select the same station using the guide it plays instantly for a period of time only to drop off again. Some stations also seem to buffer frequently and then drop off. Seems like others have had issues with TABLO. While it may work for some without issues, its my opinion that these units are finicky and need all the stars aligned in a given manner for it to work without interruption.

I have been a Tablo subscriber for almost 5 years and everything was working almost perfect until the last update to the legacy app. I bought the new tablo white thinking it would solve my problems but unfortunately it didn’t. It just brought more frustration. The quality of the image is excellent but it takes forever to stream and in most cases it freezes. Neither could I record complete shows. It just records four small fragments of 4 minutes each. You can’t program to record a show for the next day or even for the next four hours, the app gives you a message, “program was not found.” I really wanted Tablo to work because I am very familiar with it. I will wait a couple of weeks hoping that they fix the app, if not I will donate it to Salvation Army and I will move to a different company. Sorry.

It works well as long as it’s not windy. There’s a lot more channels than I expected. The tv app works well but the default should be the live channel lineup. I don’t want to go to the Home page. When you select the live program you want, it takes you to another screen with the description and there you have to select that you want to watch it. A small pop up that gives options (Live, Start from beginning or record) would be preferable than an whole other screen that takes its time to load.

In the mobile app. You can’t multitask with it. For apple users if you ask Siri to do something, it pauses the show but when Siri is off, the show doesn’t automatically restart and you have to pull up the live menu and select the show you were watching and then it will unpause.