HowAboutThisOne wrote:
Rustyben wrote:
m45warrior1 wrote:
Rustyben wrote:I hope this isn't true. The limits of cloud DVR storage was stated in https://customer.xfinity.com/help-and-support/cable-tv/x1-dvr-overview/ as 60 HD or 300 SD but this was in mpeg2 days.
An HD mpeg4 takes about 1/2 the space of an mpeg2 so of course we assumed that as the conversion to mpge4 progressed that effective storage would increase and it did. However, it appears that the Cloud DVR gods have decided to limit cloud DVR space not to 'size' but to hours (in this case 60 hours per DVR) of storage and not by size. The effect of this is now showing up in other threads where 'mysteriously' the cloud DVR is full but the local DVR has plenty of room. Hopefully somone will clarify this for us (confirm/correct/ or say it is wrong information).
Another question is when the cloud storage is getting full and begins to delete things to make space for new recordings will it be deleting from the DVR also? Hopefully each space is managed seperately. We record a lot in SD so we can record more than 60 hours.
in another thread in last day or two a user got a comcast reply that their cloud DVR was full so no further recordings would happen there. since you can't delete cloud recordings without deleting them on the home DVRs - well that'a an issue too.
That thread was asking about why recordings were no longer occurring on the Cloud DVR. Probably because the user had all recordings marked Save "For 1 year". That still doesn't answer the question if they change the Save option to "Until space is needed", and they don't purposely delete anything, what happens when the system makes room for the next recording? Does it also delete the physical DVR copy, or just the Cloud copy, leaving just the physical DVR recording. If it also deletes the physical DVR copy, then isn't it creating a limit on the physical DVR that isn't necessary (especially if space still exists on the physical hard drive)? And, if it leaves the physical DVR copy, now you end up with a situation where recordings will be lost if you have to do a DVR swap. Seems like a can of worms.
I myself have never approached the DVR limit since I don't use the DVR as an archive, so I can't even test this out.
Nor do we. I just record a lot to watch in timeshift.