A

Visitor

 • 

5 Messages

Monday, June 6th, 2022 6:20 PM

Closed

What is the maximum amount of cloud DVR storage you can purchase?

I was told by Xfinity employees at the stores that you get 150 hours of cloud storage for every X1 box you rent.  Theoretically, how many X1 boxes can you rent with 150 hours of cloud storage each?  I am already paying the extra $20 a month for additional 300 hours of cloud storage.  What is the absolute maximum number of hours of cloud storage a customer can have? 

Also, your DVR service in general is unreliable, glitchy, and an endless source of anxiety and headaches.  I can't believe I'm forced to pay this much money for a service which auto deletes saved programs after a year and randomly deletes any number of programs at any time unannounced, which is absolutely ridiculous.  A customer's recordings should stay on the DVR until that person decides to delete them, it shouldn't be up to Xfinity's bots.  Customers like me pay your salaries, you literally only have jobs you have because of us.  I've lost literally hundreds of programs over the past couple years.  That's right.  Hundreds.  And yet I keep paying my bill every month. 

A "network outage" on the northwest side of Indianapolis, Indiana this past Saturday, June 4, caused me to lose all access to the items in my "recently deleted" folder, so I couldn't retrieve any of the cloud programs I wanted to restore.  I couldn't perform a "system refresh" because of this network outage.  I've been putting programs older than one year into the "recently deleted" folder to evade the auto delete, then restoring them individually every day. Then I delete them again to put them into the "recently deleted" folder until the next day, then restore them the next day...a cycle I was performing every single day until this past Saturday's "network outage".  That's the ONLY WAY to make sure programs older than 1 year aren't auto deleted.  But I shouldn't have had to go through that trouble every single day to begin with.  But because of this "network outage" in my area, I lost HUNDREDS of old programs I was manually deleting and restoring individually every single day.

You people need to improve your DVR service.  Have a payment plan for UNLIMITED STORAGE like YouTubeTV.  But have NO TIME LIMIT for saved programs. Don't auto delete programs after a year.  Have saved programs STAY on the DVR a long as the customer wants.  THAT is the service us paying customers DESERVE.  Of course, nobody at Xfinity cares about giving the customers what they actually want, they just want to milk us for every penny they can. 

Gold Problem Solver

 • 

7.2K Messages

3 years ago

Hi Jamie, You can record approximately 150 hours of HD programming on each X1 DVR TV Box. You have two options to protect your recordings:

How to Keep Your Recordings

Save the recordings that matter most by marking them with Save for One Year. Learn how with step-by-step instructions for your X1 remote, Xfinity Stream app and Xfinity Stream portal.
To make space for new recordings, delete recordings that you have already viewed or no longer need.
If you have upcoming scheduled recordings, you may want to reduce your number of stored recordings further to ensure you have space for your new recordings.
If your stored recordings were getting full, a letter was sent to you with a target % to get under to make sure you don't lose your recordings.
To see your current storage %, press the xfinity button on your remote, then click Saved, then Recordings. You will see the % full at the top-right of the screen, listed above your recorded programs.

Visitor

 • 

5 Messages

@XfinityAmir​ I already know all this.  I know more about your DVR idiosyncrasies than you and literally any Xfinity customer service rep out there.  My family has had Comcast/Xfinity since the early 1980s, and I've been using your DVR boxes since September 2009. What I need to know is what the absolute maximum number of cloud DVR hours is for a single household.  How may X1 boxes can I rent at once, and will each box mean I get 150 hours per box?  What is the limit of X1 boxes and cloud hours per household?  450 hours?  600 hours? 900 hours?  How many maximum?  I want an exact number for the limit one can have.

Official Employee

 • 

2.3K Messages

Thank you for choosing Xfinity! Could you please send our team a message with your full name and full address? Our team can most definitely help review your Xfinity equipment and service options. Thank you! I also wanted to share this link about X1 Cloud DVR.
To send a "Peer to peer" ("Private") message:
Click "Sign In" if necessary
• Click the "Peer to peer chat" icon
• Click the "New message" (pencil and paper) icon
• Type "Xfinity Support" in the "To:" line and select "Xfinity Support" from the drop-down list which appears. The "Xfinity Support" graphic replaces the "To:" line
• Type your message in the text area near the bottom of the window
• Press Enter to send it

I am an Official Xfinity Employee.
Official Employees are from multiple teams within Xfinity: CARE, Product, Leadership.
We ask that you post publicly so people with similar questions may benefit from the conversation.
Was your question answered? Please, mark a reply as the Accepted Answer.tick

Visitor

 • 

5 Messages

@XfinityThomasA​ I know more about your DVR and cloud service [Edited: "Inflammatory"].  I've lost well over 1,000 recordings since May.  Xfinity refuses to give me more storage capacity and the cloud service randomly deletes recordings whenever I get to 87%, not even past 90%.

Again, I know more about the limitations and idiosyncrasies of your DVR [Edited: "Inflammatory"].  

Here are my demands.  These aren't passive suggestions, these are hard demands that all Comcast/Xfinity customers DESERVE for the the money [Edited: "Inflammatory"].   I'm offering my expertise to you people so you can improve your service [Edited: "Inflammatory"].  It's a PRIVILEGE for you people to have us as customers, NOT the other way around.  [Edited: "Inflammatory"]  Okay?

1. Have a payment plan for UNLIMITED cloud storage.  YouTubeTV does it.  Why can't you people?

2. Don't let the cloud DVR automatically delete recordings after 1 year.  Absolutely no Xfnity customer wants this as a mandatory feature.  Many of us WANT to hold on to our recordings indefinitely, that's why we recorded them in the first place.  Many of the recordings - like sporting events - are never aired again or are available for streaming anywhere.  Let there be a feature to turn the "Delte recordings after 1 year" OFF for the entire system.

3. Don't let the DVR delete a recording WITHOUT PERMISSION of the customer.  If we're low on space but not at 100%, DON'T OVERWRITE EXISTING RECORDINGS AUTOMATICALLY.  Simply prevent new recordings from beng recorded without overwriting the old ones if the DVR is at 100%.  Again, ONLY DELETE PROGRAMS IF THE CUSTOMER DOES IT MANUALLY.

These 3 demands are reasonable and should be implemented immediately.  I'm not asking, and I'm not begging.  I'm telling you people to improve.  I've been extremely stressed out and infuriated by Xfinity randomly deleting my programs, and I've been traumatized by everything I've lost.  [Edited: "Inflammatory"].  My monthy bill is over $370 because my 2 year contract ran out in May, and Xfinity refuses to offer another 2 year contract to lower my bill.  So basically I"m paying almost $400 every month for an unreliable service which randomly deletes my programs even though I'm only at 87% max.  It won't let me get past the 87%.

[Edited: "Inflammatory"].   and the only reason I don't switch to another service is because I have around 900 programs saved on my DVRs and on the cloud and I'm not willing to give them all up.  Again, implement my demands immediately.  I will copy and paste my demands and keep posting them every single day on this forum until you people improve your service.  That is all.

(edited)

Visitor

 • 

5 Messages

@XfinityThomasA​ You people need to improve your DVR service.  Have a payment plan for UNLIMITED STORAGE like YouTubeTV.  But have NO TIME LIMIT for saved programs. Don't auto delete programs after a year.  Have saved programs STAY on the DVR a long as the customer wants.  THAT is the service us paying customers DESERVE.  [Edited: "Inflammatory"]

(edited)

Expert

 • 

24.6K Messages

I had 4 X1 DVRs in the home at one time (now 3). The audio on home DVR recordings is original of the recorded show. Cloud recordings are audio 2.0 only. If Comcast ever fixes cloud recordings to have original audio, I'll return 3 of the 4 DVRs and buy more cloud storage. As you probably know, the original reason to have multiple DVRs was to increase tuners available for simultaneous recording and to increase in-home storage space. The new direction of Comcast technology is to have no in-home DVR at all and just use cloud DVR allowing increase in hours storage 150 at a time for $10/month each. Comcast encourages use of your own equipment from my point of view.

I am not a Comcast Employee.
I am a Customer Expert volunteering my time to help other customers here in the Forums.
We ask that you post publicly so people with similar questions may benefit from the conversation.

Was your question answered? Please mark an Accepted Answer!tick
forum icon

New to the Community?

Start Here