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10/06/2026 1:24 AM

DVR Doesn't Allow Rewind or Fast Forward

I DVR'd Monday Night Football and the meter that shows how far into the game we are is all the way to the right with no option to rewind or fast forward. It was doing this last week, too, and I assumed ya'll might notice and fix it. I'm on a Windows 11 laptop fully updated with the Windows updates. It also does it on my Android phone with the Stream App for Android.

So it shows I've been watching 4 hours and 30 minutes on the meter but it's basically the end of the 1st quarter right now. And it starts at the beginning of the football game when I started recording near the end of the 1st quarter. And I can't fast forward or click "live" to get to where it's live. 

Ya'll need to stop breaking things at Xfinity. See my picture below. The game started at a little over an hour ago Pacific time, and it shows I'm at the 4 hour 30 minute mark. LOL


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Official Employee

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3.9K Messages

13 days ago

 

jdawg90. I can certainly understand your frustration, especially when you're trying to watch a live sporting event, and the DVR controls aren't functioning as expected. Based on the behavior you're describing, where the progress bar is showing an incorrect playback position and rewind, fast-forward, and "Live" functions are unavailable, this does sound like a known issue we've seen affect some Xfinity Stream users across multiple devices. Since you're experiencing the same behavior on both your Windows 11 laptop and the Xfinity Stream app on Android, it does not appear to be isolated to a specific device. We appreciate you sharing the screenshot and detailed description, as that helps confirm what you're seeing. Our engineering teams are aware of the issue and are actively working toward a resolution. While I don't have a specific timeline to provide, I can assure you the reports are being investigated. We apologize for the inconvenience, especially during live events like Monday Night Football, and appreciate your patience while our teams work to correct the problem. 

 

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This has been a known issue for WEEKS and the Xfinity engineers apparently have no solution. It only occurs when you're trying to watch a program that is being actively recorded. Once the whole program is recorded, navigation controls function properly. However, if you try to navigate through a program that is being live-recorded, the navigation controls are disabled and the progress bar circle is shifted all the way to the right. It's a problem for video clippers who record live programming and need to toggle back and forth to review clips or for routine watching when you want to fast forward through segments or commercials. Unacceptable for this to remain unfixed for so long. 

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I’m with you!!! So ridiculous… the reason I record is so I don’t have to listen to the stupid commercials and half time!!!

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115 Messages

15 days ago

At least the error is honest LOL. Now I deleted that recording and started a new recording. And it starts from the same soup commercial but the meter works. But I had to fast forward to the point in the game I'd left off. Normally, when I hit "record" at 6:25pm, it starts the recording at 6:25pm. I guess now it loads the entire football game from the beginning? That's fine, maybe has something to do with the ESPN app we get "for free" through Xfinity, but it's got issues figuring itself out.


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Now I closed my browser to do some tasks and cook dinner, went to watch again, and I'm getting this error. It was being unwatchable again so I thought "I'll just delete it and fast forward to the 2nd quarter if that works" and it won't even let me delete it saying it's in use in another app! But it's not...that's the interesting thing. 




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115 Messages

14 days ago

It seems, given reading through the threads on this forum, this *should* be a known issue to Xfinity? That your web-based Xfinity Stream is fully dysfunctional and not working? 

Contributor

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33 Messages

7 days ago

this issue remains unfixed since August 26th (or earlier for some users who posted prior).  and now it looks like posts "here" were deleted by comcast.  only jdawg90's posts remain under this topic.  one post that i was notified about by "following" this thread, suggested hiring a lawyer to get someone at comcast to care about this enough.  that post has been deleted.  hmmmm...

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6 days ago

It's been two weeks and dvr on computer browsers still won't fast forward or rewind. Are y'all going to do something or do I have to switch cable companies?

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1 day ago

Please issue a credit for one month of service to my account.  

Official Employee

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Once the issue is resolved, we would be happy to look into a potential adjustment for the cost of the DVR service on your account during the length of time the issue has been prevalent for you.

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33 Messages

20 hours ago

this post has been marked with "Community Best Answer" BUT it is still unresolved.  whomever marked it this way, please undo that if possible because it "appears" to newcomers that this issue/problem has been resolved, when it definitely has not been resolved, or even described in technical detail to us unhappy users as to what caused the problem and why it is NOT being fixed at all for WEEKS, for windows users on a browser in the xfinity.com/stream website.  thank you to all who keep posting about this live-recording playback control problem on windows/browsers.

New Poster

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15 Messages

15 hours ago

For what it's worth, I've been having the same issue with the streaming app since August too.  I suspect everyone has this issue!

-MikeCR

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26 Messages

12 hours ago

Xfinity's handling of this known issue can only be labeled as DISGRACEFUL. I have been a Comcast subscriber for over 30 years. 

Frequent Visitor

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11 hours ago

Pathetic, incompetent, dishonest, disgraceful and uncaring.  I’ve been promised calls from Support that were never made.  I’ve been told repeatedly that my issue has been resolved when it hasn’t.  I’ve had my support tickets closed out multiple times when absolutely nothing was fixed.  And then someone BOT there has the gall to ask me again what isn’t working.  

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