#Tablo atsc 3.0 tuner full#
#Tablo atsc 3.0 tuner software#

#Tablo atsc 3.0 tuner full#

While the Commission’s rules require that full power and Class A TV stations that convert their existing facility to ATSC 3.0 provide an ATSC 1.0 simulcast signal that covers a station’s entire community of license, the Commission recognized that in certain circumstances such an arrangement may not be viable. The 5 year ATSC 1.0 simulcast waiver has alway been built into the FCC ATSC 3.0 rules. Let’s face facts - most TVs being produced don’t have ATSC 3.0 tuners right now…unless you have major bucks to shell out for it… SiliconDust has always been a “cutting edge company”, who has taken risks, and sometimes those risks panned out, and other times they failed.ĪTSC 3.0 DVRs will happen, it just might not happen in the next 2-3 years. Until the standards & bugs are worked out, and actual 4K programming is released OTA, I doubt many companies would step up and mass produce the DVRs.

#Tablo atsc 3.0 tuner software#

What happens if they change the ability to record programs, and the hardware of the DVR or software of the DVR won’t work? Could you imagine the flaming of a company that produced something for $200 or more, and it is basically a “brick”? Why mention that - the final broadcast standards are not decided. When the broadcasters get their game together, and actually start adding channels to the mix (they are usually testing with a few of their channels, not the complete lineup of channels which can be done), and it becomes more reliable, then it may be worthwhile to discuss actually creating a DVR that works. The HDHomerun is basically a “gadget” that I play around with, and I prefer the Tablo almost all the time. All of my recordings are with my Tablo DVRs. Often after tuning an ATSC 3.0 station, it breaks the audio for the ATSC 1.0 stations, and the app has to be rebooted.Īdd in the problems with the broadcasters (they are in “beta mode” right now), and ATSC 3.0 isn’t ready for prime time. Sometimes the AC-4 audio works (it doesn’t work at all on my Roku devices, is intermittent on FireTV sticks/cubes, and crashes frequently on Windows/Xbox).

The biggest gain is ATSC 3.0 - but that being said, all the ATSC 3.0 stations are basically a rebroadcast of the ATSC 1.0 signal with AC-4 audio. I think their DVR screen is substandard compared to the Tablo, but their tuning (changing channels) is a lot faster. It works comparable to the Tablo in overall performance.

I have the SiliconDust tuner, and I love the diagnostics screen.