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Amazon Fire TV Recast review: This over-the-air DVR is frustratingly close to great

Amazon Fire TV Recast review: This over-the-air DVR is frustratingly close to great

Posted on November 14, 2018August 27, 2023 By Jarvis

While it nailing the little details, this box whiffs on some important things.

The mere existence of Amazon’s Fire TV Recast is a testament to how popular cord-cutting has become.

Over-the-air DVR was once the domain of geeks whose living rooms ran on Windows Media Center. But as more people have dropped cable TV, we’ve seen more user-friendly approaches from the likes of TiVo, Tablo, Plex, Channels, and AirTV. Those options presumably helped inspire the Fire TV Recast, a $230 box that records free broadcast TV channels from an antenna and streams the video to Amazon’s popular Fire TV devices.
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