Terrible quality on Cloud DVR?

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@Jbost188 wrote:
I think it’s the Pace and Sisco Xid Xi. But i can’t find anything that was actually recorded to a DVR, everything appears to be replay from the cloud. How can i tell if there’s anything recorded to DVR?

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while playing press the down button on remote. does it say 'DVR' or does it have a cloud icon in front of the "DVR" letters? what is the type of TV (flat panel? 1k? 4K? is your output of the DVR in 720p?

It may depend on your location and plan, but you should be able to swap your box for one that has a DVR.  If you have an xfinity office nearby you can pick them up to swap yourself and have a month to bring the old one back - if not they should ship you one for self-install.  On my plan there is a 'dvr' fee separate from any device and the same individual fee per device whether it is a dvr or not.  This may be a recent change and not the same everywhere, though.    Also, I'm not sure I could tell the difference between a cloud or local recording, but I haven't looked closely at something like a sports event where you want quick response to pausing and replays.

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@lesmikesell wrote:

It may depend on your location and plan, but you should be able to swap your box for one that has a DVR.  If you have an xfinity office nearby you can pick them up to swap yourself and have a month to bring the old one back - if not they should ship you one for self-install.  On my plan there is a 'dvr' fee separate from any device and the same individual fee per device whether it is a dvr or not.  This may be a recent change and not the same everywhere, though.    Also, I'm not sure I could tell the difference between a cloud or local recording, but I haven't looked closely at something like a sports event where you want quick response to pausing and replays.

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the cloud DVR has the same feed recorded as was recorded by the home DVR. the cloud DVR server transcodes the video just-in-time for delivery to a stream device depending on the quality of the signal to the device and that includes any throttling by cell data providers or wifi data providers (does not apply to your in-home wifi).

Signed up, and came from DirecTV. DVR box in house. Picture is horrible....ugh.

normal live TV isnt much better. FOX is the worse! I’m on my second DVR box and it’s just as bad.

think I will have to go elsewhere...... to bad directv is double the price.

im happy with Comcast internet though

i also have top of the line Panasonic plasma TVs and they were almost perfect picture wise.

Which DVR box do you have?  When I first did the self-install on the 4k dvr I thought it looked worse than the old 1080 one, with a lot of motion blur but then found that I had to use HDMI 2 or 3 only on my TV and enable an 'enhanced' setting to make 4k/hdr work.   After the changes and restarting both the TV and box, everything looked good.   I'm not sure why it worked at all with mismatched settings though - I would have expected no picture instead of a slightly bad one.

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@Sobeit69 wrote:

Signed up, and came from DirecTV. DVR box in house. Picture is horrible....ugh.

normal live TV isnt much better. FOX is the worse! I’m on my second DVR box and it’s just as bad.

 

think I will have to go elsewhere...... to bad directv is double the price.

 

im happy with Comcast internet though

 

i also have top of the line Panasonic plasma TVs and they were almost perfect picture wise.

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please resist cross-posting problems so that there is one place that the users/employees can assist your issues.