FireTV Recast

[bclenney]

So, this is a new thing...

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B074J1GPB8/?tag=aftvn-20&th=1

[pjpjpjpj]

Just saw that this evening, along with the upcoming Echo Auto (voice commands for inside the car through your phone).

Looks like a really viable option for folks like me who are primarily OTA. If you have Echoes or other Amazon devices, you can control your playback to any video device with either the Amazon video app, or a Fire TV/stick.

I could see this some day replacing Sage in our house (or some similar thing by another brand which will likely follow if this shows any success)...

Limits/questions I see:
- You can only watch two shows at once. With Sage you can watch on more than two extenders/locations at once.

- It would be nice if it could be tied into a home network and access locally-stored media (there's not really any word on any network compatibility, that I can see).

- Does this box have hard drives in it or is it saving everything in the cloud? It doesn't say. It's tied to the internet with an ethernet port so it would have a fast wired connection for streaming out, but this could also be for uploading recordings to the cloud if that's what they are doing.

[stuckless]

I guess it competition for TabloTV.
https://www.tablotv.com/

[bclenney]

Internal hard drive. More tech info here: http://www.aftvnews.com/video-record...ire-tv-recast/

[bclenney]

I wish it could take external drive space.

[SHS]

Originally Posted by stuckless

I guess it competition for TabloTV.
https://www.tablotv.com/

Haha I think TabloTV has all ready won this round
Watch and record up to four shows at once.
Stream to up to six devices at once.
Up to 8TB
Now has 5.1 Surround
vs
Record up to four shows at once.
Stream to up to 2 devices at once.
500GB 2 tuner or 1TB with 4 tuner model

Originally Posted by bclenney

I wish it could take external drive space.

Your still better off building your own PC and SageTV will still rain king over all of the other DVR out there and yes know it cost more

[patja]

I am assuming these have zero capabilities in the way of automatic commercial skipping.

[pjpjpjpj]

Originally Posted by SHS

Haha I think TabloTV has all ready won this round
Watch and record up to four shows at once.
Stream to up to six devices at once.
Up to 8TB
Now has 5.1 Surround
vs
Record up to four shows at once.
Stream to up to 2 devices at once.
500GB 2 tuner or 1TB with 4 tuner model


Your still better off building your own PC and SageTV will still rain king over all of the other DVR out there and yes know it cost more

All true for folks like us but the average consumer wants to plug it in, turn it on, set it up, and have it work flawlessly within their Amazon ecosystem without needing any tech knowledge whatsoever.

[bclenney]

More news regarding the device - external USB storage support is on the way too.