@stephenlovely I am a LONGTIME fan of the DVR+. The $250 retail price is routinely discounted. Last Black Friday, you could buy two for $300 and the year before they were $175 each. You can get open box units for $175 if you watch their Twitter feed or Facebook page. Also the $220 Tablo TV DVR price does not include their monthly service which adds $150 to the price for a lifetime subscription. For those interested in Sling TV, you can get a DVR+ for $50 off when you prepay for three months of Sling TV. I HIGHLY recommend the model with no internal disk. It’s less expensive to add your own external disk, not having a disk in the box keeps things really cool, and external disks can be cold swapped – it’s like having 2T VHS tapes! The DVR+ supports a PSIP-powered Electronic Program Guide. The PSIP guide only goes out a few days, but the data comes in through your antenna so you do not need ethernet at all. That can come in handy when camping in a remote location or during an extended internet outage. PSIP support is required by law. If Rovi (which owns Tivo and powers the DVR+’s guide) goes out of business, your DVR+ will continue to work. We’re all disappointed with the lack of OTT apps. Prime and Netflix have been teased almost since launch. On the other hand, Sling TV includes the ‘cable’ programming which is not available over the air – sports programming, premium channels, and news channels. CMTV continues to ‘brim with potential’, but it’s far from unfulfilled. ABC News, Bloomberg TV, Newsmax TV, Newsy, Twit TV, Vevo, and WeatherNation TV are all very good streaming channels. They are linear, not on demand, so you can tune in and watch. RT USA often covers topics too ‘politically sensitive’ to be carried on domestic news channels. Finally, the DVR+ competes with TiVo, not Tablo TV. Anyone who has used a remote DVR via a Roku or Fire TV appreciates the performance of the set top DVR. When you change channels on a remote DVR, you send the command which sends the command to the DVR which changes the channel, buffers the new channel, streams that to the set top streamer, which buffers the channel and sends it to your television. Reply
Wow! Thank you very much, Leonard, for your very insightful comment! I will ping Stephen so that he will notice it as well. Reply
channel master plus i get all my over the air channels in my guild. but 5 channels says weak signal. but my cheaper box an my tv gets all the channels an no weak signal what is wrong with my channel master tuner Reply