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Thursday, October 23rd, 2025

Watching pro sports

I asked this question over a year ago and I need to know if anything has changed...

I am an avid watcher of baseball, football and basketball and an Xfinity customer with

a DVR that has a hard drive. I record every game I watch.  Last season and this season, Xfinity purposely caused all NFL 

games to be Cloud versions instead of going to my hard drive. This year , they also started doing this

with the NBA. I fear next year, they will start doing this with MLB, which will be my red line.

Many times I need to speed through a game, and watching Cloud versions - which causes playback problems that Xfinity

denies even exists.  Xfinity has never explained why they are doing this. So I would like to know,

if Directv has started doing this also?

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5 hours ago

DirecTV (satellite) still works with DVRs with a physical hard drive. The satellite service has no cloud based DVR. All they have is optional On Demand from the internet. That design hasn't changed in decades.

Any streaming-only service doesn't have physical hard drives.

With the new owner and the growth of their other streaming-only services (DIRECTV STREAM, DirecTV via Internet, etc.), we don't know if that will ever change in the future.


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