The Channels DVR app using TVE as your tuner does this.
Sort of -- it records from the TV Everywhere site for each channel, rather than from the OTT service, which is just used for authorization (cable and satellite can also be used for auth). Not every channel is available, and the quality varies.
What's the difference? TVE is still OTT, and it's the same stream that's being accessed to aggregate them all together via those OTT services such as PS Vue, SlingTV, etc. if I'm not mistaken.
You're mistaken. PQ on a service like YouTubeTV can be substantially better than the same channel via its TV Everywhere stream. (I'm not saying it's always that way; again, it's highly variable.) The reverse is also possible, although I haven't seen that with YTTV so far.
That's great, but definitely not my experience. I will say, it's not hard to beat the QAM PQ of a service like Comcast, which maxes out at 720p and offers many channels only in 480i. Nevertheless, some of the TVE channels actually failed to rise to that baseline, IME.
I'm not mistaken in my case. I have PSVue, Spectrum and just recently cancelled DirecTV, all of which I have been able to compare with Channels DVR with TVE on AppleTV. I stand by my assessment.
Not about PQ -- you're mistaken in saying "it's the same stream that's being accessed to aggregate then all together via those OTT services". It's not. The OTT services have different sources for the channels than what the TVE sites provide (typically, I think, much higher-quality sources), which they then reencode (possibly downscaling) to meet their own needs.
It's possible they will sell both a 4 tuner and 6 tuner cable model, with the six tuner not for sale yet.
I was going by this fact on the order page, as stated by seaninde, just guessing why they stated 4 tuner cable model.
Go to Tivo orders page and see what your order states.
Its is moderately disappointing that the 4 tuner version doesn't support cable as well....
