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

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. The Fire TV Recast is the most mainstream attempt yet at over-the-air DVR, and it shows in Amazon's simple and polished software.