How much DVR space do you currently have free?
 

The Holiday TV hiatus is coming to a close and hopefully most of you got caught up on some or most of your backlog over the break.

I know I did. Went into the Holiday break with roughly 12% free and after several binge watch sessions, I managed to now free up 51% now.

This is all watching and not deleting anything because I was too lazy or unmotivated to watch it.

What about all of you? Are you still severely backlogged?

For the record, I have a Directv Genie and it can record 5 shows at once and can store up to 200 hours of HD content.

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My DVR ends up storing hundreds of movies I probably will never get around to watching. I usually record anything that I don't think will receive a Blu-ray edition or other suitable presentation.

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I'm around 10%.

I keep a bunch of those Disney parks travel shows on my DVR. Family members like to watch them before we take a trip. So those stay on forever. And that's about 30-40% of the DVR space.

I've also got some of those Hallmark Channel Christmas movies that I haven't gotten around to watching yet. If I don't watch them in the next couple weeks, I'll probably just erase them. That's another 40%.

The rest is a few odds and ends like some Teen Titans Go episodes for my niece when she visits. I don't record current TV episodes for myself. I watch TV shows on streaming (Hulu or Vudu).

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70-80%. I kind of wish I had more space, when I moved I kept the same cable provider but they replaced my previous DVR with an older one and I swear there's much less space.

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45% after watching the last few episodes of Hawaii 5-0.

Is there a way to add storage to boxes provided by the cable companies? I have UVerse, and with my kids' stuff being recorded and the stuff my wife and I watch, it gets eaten up quick.

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I'm down to 99% free. I typically amass crap on the PVR between April and October, when I'm away much of the time, then spend the post-October weeks and months rifling through all that stuff, FFing through and erasing the chaff and watching the wheat.

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I have 40% free right now. I record a lot of documentaries from History Channel, NatGeo, and a couple of other channels. I will probably watching some of those on the weekends and then delete them.

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Probably nothing after the Godfather Epic is finished recording on HBO tonight.

7+ hrs

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98 percent but I just added an external 3tb drive to my DirecTV genie

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If you add an external hard drive to the Genie, that takes over as the hard drive of record right?

Is it just as easy and plugging it in the USB port? You would lose your current recordings if you put it in before the current drive is cleared out?

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I've been about 15% free since the holidays, though I need to watch and delete yesterday's NFL highlights.

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I want to know this too.

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I have about 7% free right now. It's a constant battle to keep free space to record what I want to watch on a given day. I keep a backlog of comedies that I only watch on Friday and Saturday to help me relax before I have to go to bed and get up at 3am for work.

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I'm not backlogged, but still only have about 10% free. My problem is that each member of my family has one show they like to "keep" throughout the season. That results in 22-24 episodes of an HD show...multiple times!

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Western Digital use to make a DVR Expander. Just plug it into the USB or eSATA port. I'm not sure what made this model any different from the standard WD My Book external drives.

http://www.amazon.com/Book-Expander-...dp/B003MVZ60S/

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Direct TV-60 %
Charter #1-61 %
Charter #2-80 %
Charter #3-94 %

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I just got a new box last week, so it's completely empty. I've watched everything I've recorded with it so far.

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I'm just a hoarder by nature. I'm always sitting somewhere between 85-99% full no matter what.

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I'm not sure what good a percentage number is without knowing the size of all hard drives on someone's system.

Is anyone on Comcast system where they've switched to MPEG4 already? That should bring a reduction in the size of recorded shows.

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Around 9% free.

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I'm about 82% free right now (with a 500G drive). I'm only that full because I keep about 30-40 episodes of standard def NCIS at all times for my wife to binge on (she doesn't seem to notice the difference between standard and HD).

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What DVR?

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:up: :lol: Didn't record it for this exact reason.

I'm sitting at about 10 hours. Binged a couple Netflix shows over the Holidays which prevented me from making a bigger dent.

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Just use a PC and a cable-card-based multituner so DVR space isn't an issue.

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This is what my system is but space is still definitely an issue! I keep having to buy hard drives to keep from deleting shows.

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40% free on an AT&T UVerse box.

Except for all 18 eps of Freaks & Geeks, everything else is movies. We've finally caught up on our day-to-day TV.

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I'm pretty much caught up. The only thing I'm saving to catch up on is s3 of Blacklist. I'm still in the middle of S2 on disc. As soon as Blindspot and Castle come back on it will start to grow again.

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I got through most of my backlog over the holidays but now that shows are back on I am about 87% free.

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I had 9% before the Godfather Epic but surprisingly 3% after it was done so not as bad as I thought it would be.

I have a lot of saved NFL games which are cutting into a lot of space.

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It takes over and internal drive becomes deactivated. You do not lose what is on there, but you can not access it unless you unplug external drive. You also have to set up everything again because it is like starting new. You plug it into an esata port, not USB. It is easy to do once you have drive, enclosure and the right cable.

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I'm a digital hoarder and it takes me at least three months to fill up a 5TB hard drive with HDTV recordings. I can almost double that if I convert the recordings from MPEG-2 to H.264. At least 5TB hard drives go on sale for under $120 and the prices of 8TB drives are dropping.

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I just got a Tivo Roamio Pro, so that sucker has 95% free, and my Tivo Premiere in the living room now has about 37% free (at one point I was up to 95% capacity, but some bingeing, catching up on Hallmark films, and deleting some stuff gave me the 37%).

51%. I have got to figure out some way of archiving my stuff that's within my budget besides VHS tapes :lol:. And soon :eek:

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It will not damage or freeze your DVR and reduce the life span?

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I used to use an external hard drive and once after a sudden reboot (maybe a power outage) it ignored the external drive and reverted to the internal drive. I was able to restart it but I recall I lost a lot because when it re-pairs with the DVR it re-configures the hard drive.

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Forgive if a stupid question, but when you "unplug" the eSATA drive are the original programs available for normal viewing on the internal drive? More importantly, if you were to do this and then "plug" the external drive back in, would all of its contents be there?

I am looking for a solution, never having more than 10% free. It is all matches, many of which I wish to keep. a 3 TB drive would work, but not sure if it is a good solution, especially depending on the answers to the above.

Are there other good answers for archiving? Hauppage and a PC?

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I'm right about 60% free.

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I've got about 40% free on my main DVR. I don't know about my secondary one, but it likely has less than that.

I'm about at the point where I'm going to just delete a few shows that are sitting there, but it won't free up all that much. My problem is recording movies, especially off TCM. Never enough time to watch everything.

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I used to fight wit the family for digital space, but our cable company (a local outfit) recently upgraded our dual-tuner boxes (old one got fried, lost some stuff we wanted to keep). We now have a whole house system with an 8-tuner DVR. I'm not sure how big the storage is, but we are floating around 9 to 12 % full (88 - 91% free) now.

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i can't imagine why it would. you are essentially deactivating the drive inside, which isn't drawing power or heat anymore. if anything, it would make sense that it would expand the life. i've had zero issues since i've hooked up the new drive.

was it directv? if so, maybe that is how it worked it the past, but not anymore. this drive is married to the dvr, no differently than the drive inside was. if it reboots, it will do the same thing the drive did before. run the checking settings, then return to the menu when done.

i don't know the answer to that question. i'm not going to unplug mine to find out. as i understand it, it is formatted specifically for that one dvr. the drive inside just deactivates. it doesn't reformat or anything. it just shuts off. so i assume i can unplug and view those old recordings again, but i'm not totally sure on that.

FWIW, DTV doesn't recommended plugging and unplugging drives repeatedly. esata ports aren't like usb ones, designed to be used frequently.

here's their info about the whole process: https://support.directv.com/app/answ...r-or-hd-dvr%3F