Re: [TV orNotTV] Technician's Corner

2020-08-10 Thread M-D November
If you've got recordings that are more than 1 year old, chances are they will not be available on the Cloud DVR service, but you can check - log into the Xfinity Stream app and see if they show up under "recordings" there. If yes, you're good. -- You received this message because you are sub

Re: [TV orNotTV] Technician's Corner

2020-08-10 Thread Adam Bowie
If I'm understanding correctly, I think this is less about "transferring" and more about re-downloading things you previously recorded from your service provider. I would definitely make a list and then try to check in advance.I know that this side of the pond, many shows drop off Cloud DVR service

Re: [TV orNotTV] Technician's Corner

2020-08-09 Thread davesik...@gmail.com
Thanks. Many of my recordings are more than a year old, so I'm wondering if they'd transfer. --Dave Sikula On Sunday, August 9, 2020, 8:23:22 PM PDT, M-D November wrote: 90% of what was on the old DVR’s HDD was available on the new box via Cloud DVR; we only lost a few older (12+mo)

Re: [TV orNotTV] Technician's Corner

2020-08-09 Thread M-D November
90% of what was on the old DVR’s HDD was available on the new box via Cloud DVR; we only lost a few older (12+mo) PBS musical theater specials. The new box also inherited all of our scheduled recording/series recording settings. On Sunday, August 9, 2020 at 2:34:10 PM UTC-4 Dave Sikula wrote: >

Re: [TV orNotTV] Technician's Corner

2020-08-09 Thread Dave Sikula
I’m a little confused. Do you mean things that had been on the old DVR’s hard drive or just new material? —Dave Sikula Sent from my iPhone > On Aug 3, 2020, at 8:55 PM, M-D November wrote: > > The X1 DVR is backstopped by Comcast’s cloud DVR. I swapped out my DVR about > a year ago (the ne

Re: [TV orNotTV] Technician's Corner

2020-08-03 Thread M-D November
The X1 DVR is backstopped by Comcast’s cloud DVR. I swapped out my DVR about a year ago (the newer models don’t have the very-tempting-to-a-toddler power button on the front of the box), and save for some *very* old recordings, everything was available on the new box via cloud DVR after the upg

Re: [TV orNotTV] Technician's Corner

2020-08-01 Thread Adam Bowie
The notes here about the files being encrypted doesn't surprise me. I'm sure a lot of the underlying technology in all these boxes is similar. But I've yet to come across a box that lets you just copy the files across and then do something that lets you watch them. There may be some kind of decrypt

Re: [TV orNotTV] Technician's Corner

2020-08-01 Thread Melissa P
First, I should say that I'm almost 100% technically illiterate, so I probably shouldn't even be posting. I'm probably posting information you've already thought of. I also have a Comcast DVR. Anything I record on it is playable -- and downloadable -- on my other devices, e.g., laptop, iPad, iPh

Re: [TV orNotTV] Technician's Corner

2020-07-31 Thread Adam Bowie
I don't know the ins and outs of your box, but I suspect that your recordings have some kind of encryption on them. I'd be looking at using a combination of an HDMI splitter and an HDMI capture card. The "splitter" which you can find cheap on Amazon and eBay needs to be one that removes the HDMI e

[TV orNotTV] Technician's Corner

2020-07-31 Thread 'Dave Sikula' via TVorNotTV
I have a technical issue that I'm hoping someone can help me with. Long story short: we weren't receiving some stations on our Comcast/Xfinity system, so the guy came out to fix it (as much as he could; apparently, there's some issue with the box on the pole across the street). When he re-hooke