papakatz45 Loc: South Florida-West Palm Beach

Any recommendations for an over the air DVR? I use three antennas for my tv reception fed to a 3-1 mixer.

dadamia Loc: Portland, OR

We have used a Tivo for years. (https://www.tivo.com/)

CaliforniaDreamer

I also have used TiVo's for years. I think they are great. They have many great features including a single point for all OTA and streaming shows. In their "My Shows" you can request to record OTA shows plus you can include shows you want to stream. It also has a one button push commercial skip for many programs.

papakatz45 Loc: South Florida-West Palm Beach

They will work with just an antenna input?

CaliforniaDreamer

Yes it does. When you set it up it askes for your zip code and then sets the unit up based on the possible channels you can receive. It includes both the primary channel and the "dot 2,3,and so on". It will even record duplicate channel numbers if they are on different frequencies (for example we have access to two channel 10's). It will do a channel scan looking for reception on the channel list it created based on zip code and "activate" the ones it finds. You can then go through the channel channel list and select (add or delete) the ones that you want to record from. The unit has a feature called "OnePass" where you can tell the unit the shows you wish to record via either a search and it will find them or you can press record when you are watching a program and set up OnePass then. The unit knows when a program will be on even if it is not in its regular time slot and if requested will record it. The unit that I have will record up to 4 channels at a time. And of course it allows the watching of live TV. There are many additional features that are very easy to access but to numerous to mention. Just all in all a great unit.

CaliforniaDreamer

BTW I didn't mention but it also needs an internet connection. That is how it maintains it's program guide and does possible updates to it's software.

papakatz45 Loc: South Florida-West Palm Beach

Thanks you for the information.

DaveJ Loc: NE Missouri

Tablo. Been using for about 2 years now and works well.

papakatz45 Loc: South Florida-West Palm Beach

Thank you.

DavidM Loc: New Orleans, LA

Get either a tablo or Fire TV Recast. They have two sizes of each. Two tuners or four tuners which allow more recordings while watching recorded material. They both work with antenna and broadcast over wifi to multiple TVs.

You will need a fire stick for each tv if using the Recast to receive the signal. Tablo needs a streaming device to use the tablo app which connects to the tablo DVR over wifi.

aphelps Loc: Central Ohio

Sling air tvII. It record ota programs to an outboard hard drive. Work very well.

aphelps Loc: Central Ohio

What do you use for the 3-1 mixer?

Rusty69 Loc: Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Look for a Homeworx converter on Amazon. Only costs less than $40, but needs an external USB storage drive. It does NOT need internet. Records in high res from OTA signals (Converter is a bit of a misnomer).

papakatz45 Loc: South Florida-West Palm Beach

It is just a small amplifier\mixer\splitter which will take 3 inputs and combine them into one output to be able to connect the three antennas to the TV.

papakatz45 Loc: South Florida-West Palm Beach

Thanks