[…]show while recording another, or record two shows at the same time. The Air TV’s sister product, AirTV Anywhere has an internal 1TB drive and four tuners, allowing you to record up to four shows at once. AirTV works in conjunction with the Sling app, but you don’t need a paid Sling subscription to use it; you can sign in for free. Note that SLING TV L.L.C. and AirTV L.L.C. are wholly owned subsidiaries of DISH Network Corporation. Although the AirTV 2 is a capable product, overall I recommend the Tablo Gen 4 for most people. If you want to […]
[…]corner of the app. Next, click “Local Channels”. Click “Connected Devices”. Click “My AirTV”. Scroll to the bottom and click “Remove AirTV”. This is the key step of the whole process! I wasn’t able to get the unit to recognize the drive without doing this: Do a factory reset on your AirTV by pushing a paperclip in the RESET hole in the back of the unit (keeping the unit powered on). When the unit resets, go through the setup process again, then plug in the drive. You may need to wait a few minutes for the app to recognize your […]
[…]in the corner of my screen, while doing other work. The best DVR brands for doing this are Tablo, AirTV 2, and HDHomeRun. 7. Watching TV While Away From Home The AirTV is great for watching TV on your mobile device even when you’re AWAY from home (or more specifically, your home Wi-Fi network). This can be great if you want to catch a local sporting event while you’re traveling, for example. Tablo used to have this feature, but unfortunately, with the latest Gen 4 Tablo, you can’t watch your recordings or live TV through your device when away from […]
[…]software, with the DVR functionality requiring some research online to get working. 3. AirTV 2 / AirTV Anywhere The AirTV DVRs from Sling (which is owned by DISH) have good tuners, are completely wireless, and have no channel guide subscription fees. The AirTV 2 has two tuners to allow viewing or recording of two broadcast TV show at a time. It requires an external USB hard drive for recording. Note that it only uses the first 2TB of drive space, so don’t buy a bigger drive for it. The AirTV Anywhere has four tuners and 1TB internal hard drive. They […]
[…]TV. In its default mode, the picture fills the whole screen with no controls visible. If you click anywhere, you see the player controls and a feed on the right showing other channels, which they call the “Live TV Slice Guide”. I personally really like this innovative interface! A great feature of the Live TV Slice Guide is that you can filter it to show only sports or movies by clicking the icons in the upper right. Very cool! There is also a channel guide view similar to what other DVRs offer: It’s simple and gets the job done. I […]
[…]could be a huge bummer. I haven’t encountered this limitation on other DVRs I’ve tested like AirTV and Tablo. Watching TiVo in a Browser I had to Google around to find the website for viewing my Tivo recordings. It is online.tivo.com. Once I found that, I brought up the site in my Chrome browser only to be presented with this message: Apparently, there is some security issue preventing the app from working in Chrome (somehow other DVRs don’t have this limitation). Luckily, there’s an easy fix: just use Firefox. Once you get it working in a non-Chrome browser, it looks […]
[…]these drives are perfect to use with a Tablo, which is what I’m doing, or another DVR like the AirTV 2 that accepts USB hard drives! It works great in both of these DVRs, and I no longer need a separate power supply for my drive, making the whole thing less cluttered. The drive gets power right from the USB port and is really quiet! It’s kind of fitting that I’m using the hard drive from one DVR as the hard drive for another! I’m also going to hang onto the power supply and fan in case I can use […]
[…]and coax cable. Each unit picked up exactly 145 channels. Next, I did a channel scan on my AirTV 2, which previously was able to find more channels than my Tablo Dual Light, but this time the AirTV 2 was only able to lock onto 105 channels. Notably, it wasn’t able to find the local ABC station while both Tablos were. It’s hard to draw firm conclusions from these somewhat contradictory results other than to say “your results may vary” and that all of these units were able to pick up a ton of channels. Or perhaps Tablo has made […]
[…]not as flashy as the channel guides on some of the more refined DVRs out there like the Tablo or AirTV. Those are much easier to set up recordings on, or even record whole seasons (however they require Internet access to display the guide). The Homeworx unit only shows one channel’s shows at a time. And note, you can’t record one show while watching another since the unit only has one tuner. But, as I mentioned, at this low price, this box is worth it just for the converter functionality. I see the DVR as a bonus that you may […]
[…]Tablo TV Guide Data Service. A Network-Connected Tablo gives you the flexibility to put your Tablo anywhere in your home, not just right next to your TV. This might be really appealing if you have your antenna in your attic, and you don’t want to run coax all the way to your TV. Instead, you can just put your Tablo in your attic, the watch it using Rokus (or other devices) on your TVs! A Network-Connected Tablo also lets you watch your recordings on your mobile device from anywhere, as long as you subscribe to the Tablo TV Guide Data […]
