DVR deletes some programs on its own
Searching the forum, I see this has been a fairly common problem. My DVR is at 59% so that's ruled out. I have some programs on there from 4 years ago so it's not deleted those automatically. There i...
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And to come back to my original question, I have a local hard drive dvr. So it's limited by its capacity. Which is why it shows you a percentage used.
The only "official" documentation I could find is in the Xfinity X1 manual:
Keep Your Recordings: You can keep your recordings for up to one year, but you may need to erase some recorded programs from time to time in order to make room for new ones. You can change the recording option to For 1 Year if you want to be able to watch them over and over again. Choose Record Options, Modify Recording (if it's a series, you’ll also have the option to modify just the episode or the series), then save For 1 Year.
The aggravating part is no reasoning.
