DVR Capacity
judyd_10
Newbie

I am a new customer. Does anyone know how many hours of recordings the DVR will hold? Also, how many shows can you record at once? Can you watch a recorded show on another TV while recording one or more shows on the DVR?

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Re: DVR Capacity
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@judyd_10 wrote:

I am a new customer. Does anyone know how many hours of recordings the DVR will hold? Also, how many shows can you record at once? Can you watch a recorded show on another TV while recording one or more shows on the DVR?


How many hours depends on the type of show (HD or SD) and the model of the DVR (Motorola 7216, 7232, or Cisco - don't know the mode number). The 7216 has a 160G hard drive and will hold about 20 hours of HD and 80 to 100 hours of SD.  These are estimates as it will depend on the bitrate of the program being recorded (varies channel to channel and show to show).  The 7232 has a 500G hard drive and will hold about 3 times as much.  Don't know the drive size of the Cisco.

You can record up to 2 shows at once (there are 2 tuners in the current DVRs and keep in mind that a video on demand [VOD] counts as one of the tuners).  You can still record up to 2 shows while playing back a previously recorded show.

Re: DVR Capacity
Hubrisnxs
Legend

the cisco's are also 500gb. 

the Motorola manual notes record times as such

 7216 = 160 gb

 7232 = 500 gb

 cisco dvr = 500 gb


Motorola Guide
Table 1  –  DVR Recording Time Guidelines
Internal Drive Estimated Recording Hours For:


 Size      Standard Digital Channels     HDTV Channels
160 GB         55 to 100                14 to 21
250 GB         80 to 150                20 to 30
320 GB        110 to 210                30 to 45
500 GB        175 to 222                45 to 73


All times are approximate. The actual hours a subscriber can record are a function of program bit rate, the IPG type, and the reserved buffer space