Not what it used to be
I have been using Tablo for over a decade. I was once able to record shows or events while away from home as well as watch them through the app, but that has seemed to change and you can no longer do that. What a step back for the company. What was once an awesome product is now not so good
Way too buggy
I had the old Tablo, which was perfectly reliable. I got the newer hardware and the new app. When it works, it’s neat. But it was a major pain to install. Worse, it’s almost 100% that I can’t watch a recorded show without turning everything off and then on again, often more than once. I wish I had the old “legacy” system back.
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Works good so far!
Setup was easy. Reading some of the other reviews, it seems like they’ve made a lot of improvements. I had no issues setting up the app, scanning for channels, updating firmware, or downloading the schedule. Large TV in the basement may be ever so slightly a little bit glitchy, but not sure if that’s the TV or Wi-Fi. Works a little better on tv on main floor. Using Apple TV on both. Basement tv is older model.
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Bring the old app back!
The new app is cluttered with issues. It will not load; no one that has a Tablo cares about free streaming shows and movies which seem to be degrading this new app. If the company that created this product cares at all about what the users want go back to the old app.
Absolute trash
I stopped using this app a few months ago but every once in a while, I’ll fire it up and see if it got any better.
Nope.
Nope.
Unusable app
The new app has a very unintuitive UI. Finding recordings is painful. Finding new shows is nearly impossible.
Needs a lot of work…
Terrible
Horrible waste of time and money
Do NOT buy, download, use nor waste your time nor money as I have.
Useless. Doesn’t work!
Useless. Doesn’t work!
Horrible App
If you are ready for a TIVO like ability to record your favorite shows, have them available anytime. If you love being able to skip ads, manage your own library and use on all communicating video in your home, and if you like having a brain aneurysm every time one attempts to access these things because of just horrible coding and written app, the Tablo is for you. Don't take that $100 and bet on Lebron or Ohtani! Use it on a Tablo, where the odds are off the spectrum if you will easily be able to access the Tablo at any given time. Great concept, so was the 8 track. For a week
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Do Not Buy
Don’t buy Tablo device on Amazon. Despite it being TabloTV storefront they won’t honor the warranty when in dies in six months.
Needs a Whole Lot of Work
Had to download today. This is so basic it’s terrible. The old app has so much more functionality. The old app is much better organized in every aspect.
The library on the new is absolutely useless. It’s a disorganized mess!!!!!!!
The library on the new is absolutely useless. It’s a disorganized mess!!!!!!!
You have to start issuing refunds; or fix detrimental bugs
Bugs within your UI leave your product unusable. These are introduced after an update. An update, conveniently after most could return the product. The Apple TV app will not play CBS NBC or ABC, but we’ll play every single channel coming over the airways. These channels all work on a mobile device, but not via the Apple TV app. Furthermore there’s a scrolling bug within the UI where an order to scroll vertically up and down through the TV show shows and listings your phone. You have to scroll right or left before you can scroll up or down thus exiting the bug.
You have to fix your product so it works the way you advertised or the lawsuits will be following.
You have to fix your product so it works the way you advertised or the lawsuits will be following.
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Don’t bother
Don’t bother with this junk. Great idea, but just doesn’t work. App on Apple TV crashes constantly.
Buggy
On iPad the guide is stuck in portrait mode causing you to constantly rotate the pad. Channel guide lacks information on 3 of my 12 channels. Support is unresponsive. Support is unresponsive concerning auto rotate mode.
Works fair on Apple TV HD hardware but…
Works fair on my Apple TV HD, some staccatoing still.
But other than that product works as advertised.
Recent firmware fixed audio playback on Roku devices.
If you could work out that software/hardware problem that would be good.
Also would be nice to have a local channel only toggle mode just like it does when there’s no Internet, I’m not interested in the other Internet channels.
Thanks
Also looking for a place to submit channel guide mismatch, where is that? Hero’s and icons doesn’t show any channel guide, channels without a guide cannot be added to favorites or recorded, please fix.
Also need ability to view on local desktop browser, not everyone owns an Apple TV or Roku, that’s unseen extra cost for your device.
How do I reboot the device from my couch, I had to physically go up to the attic and unplug and plug in the device, there should be a restart option from the software
But other than that product works as advertised.
Recent firmware fixed audio playback on Roku devices.
If you could work out that software/hardware problem that would be good.
Also would be nice to have a local channel only toggle mode just like it does when there’s no Internet, I’m not interested in the other Internet channels.
Thanks
Also looking for a place to submit channel guide mismatch, where is that? Hero’s and icons doesn’t show any channel guide, channels without a guide cannot be added to favorites or recorded, please fix.
Also need ability to view on local desktop browser, not everyone owns an Apple TV or Roku, that’s unseen extra cost for your device.
How do I reboot the device from my couch, I had to physically go up to the attic and unplug and plug in the device, there should be a restart option from the software
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Not a fan
If I could give it a zero I would. The app works on several devices but it doesn’t work on my new iPad Air. It doesn’t recognize my Tablo account information and their support is awful. I gave up. The frustration wasn’t worth getting the app to work on my new iPad.
Continuous downslide
Why is it that the Legacy app is still more stable and easier to use than the one being forced down our throats? I won’t go into how features have been stolen from the original promise of this product that we all paid for and just concentrate on this latest pile of garbage. This app crashes constantly. You can never rewind any show without going all the way back to the beginning and the MOST annoying part of using it on an iPad, is that the main menus flip back to portrait view and then back to landscape when you watch live. What the heck?! Are the people writing the code for this mess working on their first project after leaving basic computer class. If you can’t program something as simple as landscape/portrait, then I think the rest of the app is clearly over your head. Please hand it off to someone who is capable of doing the job.
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Problems with legacy Tablos
I have spent hours with support trying to connect this app to my legacy Tablo. Apparently its network protocols are very different from the original app. Finally gave up and deleted it even though the old app is no longer supported.
Pretty useless on an iPad
The interface to select content (live or recorded) ignores device orientation. Makes it pretty useless when it is used on an iPad that is using an Apple keyboard (or any o the many keyboards that set up the iPad for landscape access). The old version respected orientation so I could use it easily in the default orientation. The actual videos respect orientation, but the control interfaces ignore it. The interface is much more cluttered than it was in the previous version, with adds for shows taking up most of the screen when I come into it. I preferred the list of categories to choose I wanted to got to (Live, Recordings, etc.) when I came in instead of a screen of adds for content.
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Taco sucks!
This is the worst device ever created. Whoever created it doesn’t know how to create or how to test to see if it even works! Total rip-off!! Scammers!!
