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Sunday, July 5th, 2026 12:04 PM

DVR recordings corrupt AND HORRIBLE service from Xfinity

I'm having multiple issues with our DVR both while watching on the TV and using Xfinity stream on MacBook. After doing system refresh and restarting the box etc I chatted customer service online. While investigating the problem I was disconnected three times from the agent. After the third time I gave up. The service is terrible and they should be ashamed.

Some of my recordings are unwatchable. I start the recording and it immediately says I have already watched it and asks if I want to delete it. When I say no I get an error code. Often while watching a recording when I try to fast forward or do the 30 second forward it will either restart or go to some random place in the recording. When I try to stream a program the same thing happens. Even if I try to pull a slider bar to a certain place (eg the 30 minute mark) it won't let me. Instead it will to another time mark like 47 minutes. It is extremely frustrating and I am not sure what to do about it. Calling the "support" number is ineffective. They just want to troubleshoot using a bot and ask me to do the reboot/refresh which I've already done.

Perhaps someone online here can assist....

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2 days ago

Same issue here but it only seems it's happening with ESPN 

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@user_n9dd0x We appreciate your time in reaching out here on our Xfinity Forums. I'm sorry to hear that you are having DVR issues specifically with ESPN. Can you tell me more about what is happening, what error codes you are getting and any troubleshooting steps you may have tried already?

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2 days ago

Mine are with misc. channels. Wonder if anyone will respond....

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Hi there, @user_a0f600. Thanks for reaching out to us here on the Community Forum and sorry to hear about the DVR trouble, and poor experiences calling in. We would like to assist with figuring this out. You mentioned you were getting an error code, could you share the code and what text appears? 

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