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Originally Posted by retiredguy123
I don't know what you mean by a hardware DVR. I have the Xfinity DVR service, but the recorded digital programming is stored on a remote server, not on a hard drive inside the Xfinity cable box, like it used to be years ago. Basically, the same way the streaming services do it.
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Xfinity X1 DVR stores BOTH on cloud and on DVR itself but mainly on the DVR for home watching. You can tell if it stored on the cloud if there is a tiny CLOUD ICON on the playback bar. 100% of what I currently have saved is on the physical DVR. Every once in a while 1 ends up on the cloud (usually Colbert's show for some reason). I have found anything stored on the cloud (with Xfinity X1) is horrendous because most of the time the 30second skip doesn't work well , the pause doesn't work and response is horribly slow. I have about 100 hours stored and it is all on the physical DVR. There is a 500GIG hard drive in the DVR. You can download most of your DVR programs to the cloud to watch off-site. They were trying a 100% cloud based DVR called the X2 about 5-6 years ago in certain areas but I don't think it was ever released other than test areas The "cloud" portion of the X1 is mainly used to allow you to stream programs on your other devices like cell phones. The X1 I have is the newer 4K version, however the original X1 has the same HD config. The 4K version X1 is about 1/4 the physical size of the standard X1.
X1 Cloud DVR FAQs
https://www.xfinity.com/support/articles/x1-dvr-overview
Stored Recordings
Storage Capacity: Currently, your X1 DVR can record
approximately 150 total hours of HD and/or SD programming
on the hard drive, and 60 hours of cloud DVR storage per X1 DVR (150 hours in some locations).
You can see the 500gig hard drive here on the X1's "secret menu". The "external" is the cloud currently "empty" and the internal has data.