Amazon has big news for cord cutters and it’s the new addition to the Fire tv family. It’s called Fire TV Recast, it will allow users to access there recorded over the air content anywhere for free, so no monthly fees all you have to pay for is the equipment.

Fire tv Recast is similar in functionality to the Tablo Dvr which operates the same but there is a fee to use it. But the unit itself  is over $100 cheaper than Recast. Now you can do some math a find the best option for yourself but lets look at it right quick. Tablo’s costs are $49 per year or $4.99 per month for 1 year plus the cost of the unit and Amazon is $279 for the unit and that’s it.  Recast offers up 1tb of memory while with Tablo you have to buy your own and  it will support up to 2 terabytes of memory. Recast will not support external memory devices.

Most of the complaints about the Tablo dvr is that it dosent intergrate well with other sevices such as Hulu and Slingtv. With Fire tv Recast working through Fire tv you will still have access to the other apps that are currently on your device .

Fire tv Recast is set to ship out November 14th 2018 and will have  2 tuner and 4 tuner versions