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edisonprime

Last reply May 22, 2019 · posted in Over the Air Television By RabbitEars.Info

The Tablo with commercial skip looks great, but...

I'd love to get a Tablo with 4 tuners and enjoy the commercial skipping automatically but here's a few things that have me hesitant for a Tablo device and sticking with my TiVo Bolt...

1. You have to buy the hard drive separately.
2. Tablo doesn't have Quickmode as far as I know.
3. Tablo doesn't give show suggestions.
4. As far as I know, I still like the TiVo interface better.

But the fact that Tablo skips commercials on ALL PROGRAMS without the user doing anything is intriguing.

That's just my opinion. Feel free to correct me on something if you see that I'm wrong on something. And if you like Tablo better, all is good. TiVo is just my preference.

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harshness

Mar 29, 2019

There are several QWERTY keyboards that will run an AndroidTV box for a fraction of the cost of a Harmony remote. I have a Harmony Companion in my bedroom system but I use an Rii keyboard w/trackpad with my Android (not AndroidTV) box.

I haven't rigorously checked the support for AndroidTV boxes on the Logitech website but I suggest you do so before deciding that's your dream path. IIRC, the nVIDIA Shield remote on the Harmony phone app doesn't have a keypad.

If your primary criteria in selecting a streaming device is to be able to directly enter complex TV channel numbers, I think you may be disappointed. It appears that a guide and voice control methodologies are the recommended methods of choosing channels.

edisonprime

Mar 29, 2019

harshness said:
There are several QWERTY keyboards that will run an AndroidTV box for a fraction of the cost of a Harmony remote. I have a Harmony Companion in my bedroom system but I use an Rii keyboard w/trackpad with my Android (not AndroidTV) box.

I haven't rigorously checked the support for AndroidTV boxes on the Logitech website but I suggest you do so before deciding that's your dream path. IIRC, the nVIDIA Shield remote on the Harmony phone app doesn't have a keypad.

If your primary criteria in selecting a streaming device is to be able to directly enter complex TV channel numbers, I think you may be disappointed. It appears that a guide and voice control methodologies are the recommended methods of choosing channels.

That's great, except for the fact that I don't have an Android TV. Did you say something about an Android box, though? I'll have to look into one sometime.

ncted

Mar 30, 2019

edisonprime said:
That's great, except for the fact that I don't have an Android TV. Did you say something about an Android box, though? I'll have to look into one sometime.

From the Tablo website:

"Smart TVs leveraging the Android TV operating system offer excellent flexibility.

Benefits
- Access to all Tablo screens and filters including settings
- Supports setting manual recordings
- Access to a wide range of popular apps and games from the Google Play store
- Manufacturers include Sony, Philips and Sharp
- Available in the US and Canada

Drawbackshttps://www2.nvidia.com/en-us/shield/android-tv/
- Older models may not have the processing power or memory required to run the Tablo app

We Recommend
We have not tested all makes/models of Android-based Smart TVs, but Sony generally offers good quality televisions. However, the in-app navigation speed is generally slower than Android TV set-top-boxes."

JohnC

Apr 6, 2019

I purchased a used 4 tuner about 6 months ago and I love it. Added a 4 TB external hard drive for essentially unlimited storage. We live about 45 miles from the Atlanta TV transmitters and use an external Wingard antenna to receive all the Atlanta channels and subchannels perfectly and have recorded programs from most of the channels without a glitz. It is very easy to set recordings up and to watch them. We have our Tablo in our basement next to our router that sends a strong signal to all of our TCL Roku TVs. Really looking forward to the auto skip feature that is supposed to be released this month. We get most of the normal Cable channels through a cheap add on to our Comcast internet, but no DVR function is available without greatly increasing the cost so we watch recorded programs from our Tablo and also from a $20 Philo subscription. Our Tablo TV Guide subscription costs $50 per year, so our total cost is about $45 a month (Comcast + Philo + Tablo TV guide )instead of about $100/month with discounted Satellite service.

fayrich

May 9, 2019

Was able to use the new "commercial skip" version of Tablo last night. Love it!!

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MikeD-C05

May 22, 2019

It works well when it works. Sometimes I get failure to record due to weak signal. I get 100% on all my networks on DISH meter and on the Tablo I get all the green dots filled on all my channels ,so I think that is a blanket excuse they post when the commercial skip fails to deploy. The good thing is even when it will skip sometimes the ending of shows I can hit skip back and still catch it.

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satnewb

May 22, 2019

MikeD-C05 said:
It works well when it works. Sometimes I get failure to record due to weak signal. I get 100% on all my networks on DISH meter and on the Tablo I get all the green dots filled on all my channels ,so I think that is a blanket excuse they post when the commercial skip fails to deploy. The good thing is even when it will skip sometimes the ending of shows I can hit skip back and still catch it.

It's worked well for me so far with one exception. I got that same error message, but the commercial skip worked fine on another channel recording at the same time, and something on the same channel in the next time slot worked fine. Overall not a big deal, more of a curiosity to me.

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MartyDe

Last reply 15 minutes ago · posted in Over the Air Television By RabbitEars.Info

ATSC 3 converter boxes

Interesting article about the work being done to develope an ATSC 3 converter box. Yes it does mention affordable.

Pearl TV Issues Progress Report on Low-Cost 3.0 Converters in Advance of NAB Show New York

Group has secured lower pricing from key tech players to make less costly boxes available

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navychop

Oct 20, 2026

DEATH TO NEXGEN!

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primestar31

Wednesday at 7:29 PM

navychop said:
DEATH TO NEXGEN!

It's dead, they just don't know it yet. They killed it by forcing DRM on it, and that TOTALLY botched implementing it.

There is absolutely NO compelling reason for anybody to switch to ATSC3.0. They only want it as a total and complete money grab.

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navychop

Wednesday at 10:37 PM

I truly hope you are right.

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Mister B

Thursday at 7:43 AM

What bothers me is the total waste of broadcasting spectrum in this very crowded market. It has been almost three years now since KFOX converted their broadcast tower to ATSC 3.0 and moved all of their channels to other towers causing noticeable degradation of the picture quality.
I have a Sony TV with 3.0 capabilities but still use the 1.0 version of locals due to the fact that one or all of the 3.0 channels are often missing or unwatchable. In this city of 800K I doubt that more than a few hundred even know about ATSC 3.0.
The only thing that could motivate me to be interested in 3.0 would be if all of the minor networks (diginets) could be in at least 720P rather than blurry ultra-compressed 480i.
Three years is long enough to waste one of the few available RF frequencies in the area for this trial.
It is time to either move on with this experiment or call it quits.

navychop

Thursday at 4:31 PM

Mister B said:
In this city of 800K I doubt that more than a few hundred even know about ATSC 3.0.

They might notice the hand going into their pocket for their wallet.

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navychop

Thursday at 4:31 PM

Mister B said:
It is time to either move on with this experiment or call it quits.

QFT. Of course, my preference involves a curb and some kicking.

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slow_poke_pete

15 minutes ago

primestar31 said:
It's dead, they just don't know it yet. They killed it by forcing DRM on it, and that TOTALLY botched implementing it.

There is absolutely NO compelling reason for anybody to switch to ATSC3.0. They only want it as a total and complete money grab.

WHAT ABOUT THE INTERNET PART OF IT. NO ONE WANTS A BOX CONNECTED TO THE INTERNET EITHER.

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TRG

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Last reply 17 minutes ago · posted in Local Radio Discussion

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dishdude

Sep 18, 2026

It's probably been 2 decades since I've listened to an AM radio station. Very rarely listen to FM any more.

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Jimbo

Today at 8:35 AM

I am 1 that wants the AM to Stay ....
That said, since '08 I have had Sat radio available to me ... I think I have turned on AM 3 or 4 times, just to see if its still there.

Fwiw, if theres a Major disaster or bad weather or whatever, the chances of me finding out about it by going to the AM side of the radio is SLIM and None.
Even FM, I haven't really had on since '13ish, I may turn it on from time to time, just to see if its still there.

harshness

Today at 10:10 AM

Jimbo said:
Fwiw, if theres a Major disaster or bad weather or whatever, the chances of me finding out about it by going to the AM side of the radio is SLIM and None.

Automation has seen to that. You can't get evening drive traffic reports where I live, much less disaster reports.

dishstaller

Today at 10:41 AM

dishdude said:
Very rarely listen to FM any more

That goes for a lot of people. I've been advertising on radio for more than a decade now and am very familiar with this subject. While it is still a valuable tool, it has far less impact than it did just a few years ago. The best reaction I get is from a local Country music station....they play a mix of older and newer music and have a very big footprint.

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Jimbo

Today at 11:03 AM

dishstaller said:
That goes for a lot of people. I've been advertising on radio for more than a decade now and am very familiar with this subject. While it is still a valuable tool, it has far less impact than it did just a few years ago. The best reaction I get is from a local Country music station....they play a mix of older and newer music and have a very big footprint.

Do you do any Ad's on Satellite ?

If Not, why not, because it's not Local ?

dishstaller

Today at 12:29 PM

Jimbo said:
Do you do any Ad's on Satellite ?

If Not, why not, because it's not Local ?

No, just regular FM stations. One is the country station I mentioned and the other is a Talk Radio station which used to get fantastic results but honestly, since the death of Rush Limbaugh, talk radio just doesn't do as well. There were two guys who had an early morning show which was hugely popular here in the southeast but one of them retired a couple years ago and the show just doesn't garner the same numbers as it used to.

slow_poke_pete

17 minutes ago

Haven't listened AM or FM in years

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Bobby

51 minutes ago

Rest in peace.

JSheridan

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Last reply 54 minutes ago · posted in DISH Network Support Forum

All DMA's now Western Arc

I know HipKat said that they were working on conversions but we got the official news yesterday right from Dish that starting next month all DMA's will be on the western arc, and all customers will be assigned to that. That's gonna mean a lot of customers around here aren't gonna get Dish unless there are exceptions. Too many mountains and trees.

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Strega

Friday at 10:01 PM

Even if you are broadcasting old SD-only shows, I would think advertisers would still want their commercials to look good.

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Jimbo

Friday at 11:17 PM

Strega said:
Even if you are broadcasting old SD-only shows, I would think advertisers would still want their commercials to look good.

Advertisers on SD channels are probably Far and Few, very hard to find, they have very few viewers to watch them.

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Mister B

Saturday at 7:35 AM

Jimbo said:
Advertisers on SD channels are probably Far and Few, very hard to find, they have very few viewers to watch them.

I watch mostly SD channels (H&I, Start and ION, etc.). There are plenty of advertisers, this time of the year it is mostly Medicare Advantage plans, auto extended warranties and the occasional walk-in-tub. They know who is watching.

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Yesterday at 10:40 AM

Mister B said:
I watch mostly SD channels (H&I, Start and ION, etc.). There are plenty of advertisers, this time of the year it is mostly Medicare Advantage plans, auto extended warranties and the occasional walk-in-tub. They know who is watching.

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charlesrshell

Yesterday at 11:23 AM

slow_poke_pete said:
can't forget the little blue m&m's

That's what my wife calls my Viagra!!

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telstar_1

Yesterday at 8:12 PM

Why didn't Charlie end up launching starlink

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Foxbat

Yesterday at 9:01 PM

telstar_1 said:
Why didn't Charlie end up launching starlink

Because he didn't have a fleet of reusable rockets. Starlink works because SpaceX is able to launch hundreds (thousands?) of their Starlink satellites for what a single geostationary Internet satellite costs to build and launch on a disposable launcher.

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telstar_1

Today at 12:08 AM

But how is it reusable if it's disposable

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slow_poke_pete

Today at 2:09 AM

charlesrshell said:
That's what my wife calls my Viagra!!

My gf is 29 years younger than me :shh

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Almighty1

Today at 4:04 PM

telstar_1 said:
Why didn't Charlie end up launching starlink

He does not have the resources aka $$$ compared to Elon Musk as in reality, Elon can eat Charlie for lunch or even mop the floor with Charlie if he wanted to.

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54 minutes ago

ment to 20 yrs dam phone

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Today at 4:09 PM

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osu1991

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Last reply Today at 4:03 PM · posted in Movie Talk

Dune (2020)

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long_time_Dish

Jun 4, 2024

Also watched part 2 about a week or so ago after rewatching part 1. It's not as faithful to the book as I was hoping for. Part 1 stayed fairly faithful to the novel, but part 2 took some liberties that I felt were rather excessively non-novel. It looks like a prequel series will happen before part 3. My issue is: there's no prequel that was written as a novel, so what will it be pulled from? Or will it just be "based loosely" on the novel?

klang

Jun 4, 2024

long_time_DNC said:
Also watched part 2 about a week or so ago after rewatching part 1. It's not as faithful to the book as I was hoping for. Part 1 stayed fairly faithful to the novel, but part 2 took some liberties that I felt were rather excessively non-novel. It looks like a prequel series will happen before part 3. My issue is: there's no prequel that was written as a novel, so what will it be pulled from? Or will it just be "based loosely" on the novel?

There is a bunch of other Dune written by Kevin J Anderson and Brian Herbert (Franks son). I think the series in production is taken from one of their books about the Bene Gesserit.

long_time_Dish

Jun 4, 2024

klang said:
There is a bunch of other Dune written by Kevin J Anderson and Brian Herbert (Franks son). I think the series in production is taken from one of their books about the Bene Gesserit.

Correct. I've read all of them (yes, it took awhile, better part of a year, in my spare time). And they can't really consider or classify a series about the Bene Gesserit as a prequel. Sure, I suppose they can call it that, if they want to, because it begins before the time of Paul Atredies, but it's still a stretch. It's a Dune-related novel, not a prequel as we generally think of prequels...

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Today at 3:41 PM

Big finish coming:

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Today at 4:03 PM

Well, it looks good! I just hope they stayed close to the trilogy, but it doesn't look like it.

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