There is a good reason that Comcast wants to leave the "Box" on, many do not realize that coming soon to most areas is "The Cloud". With the X1 platform and future Xfinity DVR's more people will be expanding where they will be watching the programs they have recorded, whether its on your TV, you tablet , computer or smartphone. To enable your ability to watch your recorded programs as you record to your DVR the program is also recording to the cloud. you can delete the program after you have watched it and if you have not used up all your space on your hard drive you can usually restore it and watch again. With the cloud it won't matter, it will retrieve it just the same as if you were watching an on demand program and you will never know the difference. This is one of the reasons Xfinity Wi-Fi hot spots are rapidly expanding across the country. I do not work for Comcast, I just happened to get a tech that had this knowledge when he replaced my X1 box after many bugs in the system that kept bugging me. Tex
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