“For the better part of 15 years, pundits have predicted that cord cutting was the future,” MoffetNathanson states in a research note it released earlier this month. “Well, the future has arrived.”
The firm’s analysis was based on the very poor showing virtually all the major traditional pay TV operators had to face up to in Q1 2017 as they shed significant numbers of video subscribers. Comcast was the notable exception as it actually added 42,000 video subs, and execs in its earnings call pointed to options such as advanced content offerings and voice control for X1 as some of the reasons consumers are taking up the service in an era of cord cutting.
Consumers with their scissors at the ready are continuingly being offered a plethora of new choices, including an option revealed by Nuvyyo on Wednesday. The company, which already makes Tablo DVR for cord cutters, announced Tablo Dual, a two-tuner OTA DVR. Nuvyyo says it is the first networked OTA DVR to include onboard recording storage and it makes it even easier for users to discover, record, and stream live broadcast programs from their HDTV antenna.
Tablo Dual is reportedly redesigned with a 20 percent smaller form factor and adds 64 GB (approximately 40 hours) of onboard HD recording storage to the live TV streaming and recording features of the original Tablo two-tuner OTA DVR. There’s also an option to connect a USB hard drive to boost the recording capacity up to 8 TB. Other features of Tablo Dual are that it can stream or record up to two OTA TV channels at once, and it uses Ethernet or dual-band WiFi to connect the user’s antenna to the home network. This is said to make it easy for users to optimize placement of their antenna for optimal OTA signal reception and also allows Tablo Dual to deliver live or recorded TV programs to a wide variety of devices.
“We are making it easier than ever for unhappy cable and satellite customers to make the switch from expensive cable to free antenna TV,” Nuvyyo CEO Grant Hall says. “By incorporating WiFi network connectivity and onboard storage, the Tablo Dual is the best and most flexible choice for cord cutters seeking a whole-home DVR solution to record and stream today’s most-watched TV programs.”
Tablo Dual will be available in the United States on June 4 for about $250.
