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Wednesday, October 16th, 2019 1:00 PM

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dvr storage

 we have an Xfinity X1 dvr.  It doesn't seem to hold much.  Our DISH dvr held hours of recordings and we never reached 75%.  We only have tv shows on this one and are already at 97%.  First, can you change the dvr to record in SD?  and if yes, how?  is there a larger memory capacity dvr available to purchase?  We did find out that we can't add a hard drive to this particular dvr 😞

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6 years ago

How many tv shows?
You would need to delete the HD recording and set it up on the SD equivalent if available.
All DVRs have a 500GB hard drive, only way to increase recording space is additional dvrs.
Do you have a physical DVR or do you have Instant TV (big difference in space available)

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6 years ago

adding... sd is recorded in mpeg2 while HD (non-local) is recorded in mpeg4. the size of an hour's file in each format will now be approximately the same. do you have a physical DVR in your home? the cloud DVR has only last 60 hours. there are two people in our home but 4 DVRs to have more space.

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6 years ago

Why is it only 500 gig that is silly i have hard drives over 10 years old that hold that much. Why have these dvrs not caught up to the times

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6 years ago


@Lovestofish69 wrote:

Why is it only 500 gig that is silly i have hard drives over 10 years old that hold that much. Why have these dvrs not caught up to the times


comcast has upgraded all equipment so that cable channels now are in mpeg4 that for HD uses 1/2 the space on the drive effectively doubling the space. the local broadcast channels are in mpg2. 

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