I've never heard of network programs being blocked from being recorded. It sounds like the individual at Cox you spoke with was misinformed or you misunderstood what they told you.
There are reasons why scheduled recordings may have failed. An episode could have been pre-empted by other network programming or the recording could have failed because it conflicted with another higher priority scheduled program.
All season 25 episodes of "The Voice" are available On Demand except the Tuesday hour long episode 4 on March 5. You can watch all but one hour of season 25 On demand for free.
I don't watch "Abbott Elementary", but all season 3 episodes broadcast so far (1-10) are available On Demand. You didn't have to pay for Peacock to watch missed episodes of either program unless you really want to see that one hour of "The Voice". But, while an episode did air that night, whatever made it unavailable On Demand may have made it unavailable on Peacock too.
Note: All On Demand availability referenced is for Cox TV. If the program episodes aren't available On Demand for Contour users, that would be a different issue.
Another possibility is the missing episodes were recorded but were deleted from the DVR during a nightly update. This is a known issue with some Contour receivers.
I'm often having the same issue of missing scheduled recordings as well, (typically from CBS and NBC channels). I shouldnt have to pay an additional $2.99 per missing episode (after paying so much for Cox cable services) because those episodes are also skipped in the On Demand free for me section. (ex: Law & Order: SVU S25 has ep 1-8 available, skips 9,10 and 11, then 12 and 13 are available in the On Demand. Most of the season did not even record although I've had it set to record for the past 4 seasons and it (mostly) recorded all the episodes until now).
If episodes are deleting due to the nightly updates, that's a problem I should not be having since I'm paying all this money to Cox for.
Hello Cytet. We'd love to help you with this issue. Please reach out to us at cox.help@cox.com for assistance.
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Recorded programs deleted from Contour boxes during nightly updates was an issue for some users in the past. But, I haven't seen it reported recently. If you don't know of specific episodes that were recorded and later disappeared, that's probably not your issue.
When missed episodes aren't available On Demand, look on the Contour website https://watchtv.cox.com . If episodes aren't there, look on the network's website. In the case of "Law & Order: SVU", season 25 episodes 1-8 are available on the Contour website. Episodes 9-13 are available on NBC's free website https://www.nbc.com/law-and-order-special-victims-unit. Episodes 1-8 are available too, but those are locked unless you link to your provider. I didn't test that since I didn't actually want to watch the episodes and they're already readily available on the Contour website anyway.
I did test one of the unlocked episodes on NBC's website and it worked the first time but failed later with an error. It works with Chrome. There's probably a browser site setting causing the error using MS Edge. I don't need the website and could use Chrome if I did.
BTW, all 13 episodes of L&A SVU season 25 are available On Demand for Cox TV. I've said before that if all you want to do is record, playback and watch live TV, Cox TV is superior to Contour. Apparently, it's better for On Demand too.
