Herbaldew wrote:These are all scheduled recordings. I am not questioning why a show is recorded where.
The point is that when watching on my SD TV, the shows that are physically stored on the DVR it is connected to are fine but the shows that are stored on the DVR my HD TV are connected to are shrunk. Shows stored on either DVR are fine on the HD TV.
This issue is ONLY with the shows stored on DVR #1 when played back on the SD TV connected to DVR #2.
I think you fully missed what I was saying and that is probably my fault. There is no way you know what is recorded where on your DVRs other than "HOT" recordings. since you have 2 you can test this by unplugging one and then seeing the shows listed on the remaining DVR connected TV. Then plug it in and unplug the other one and see the shows (only) on that DVR. Cloud DVR would have both. The 'recordings' are same format no matter which DVR the scheduler puts them on.
example: say you record NCIS. one week the recording may be made on DVR "A" and the next week DVR "B". unless you unplug one of the DVRs you can not tell which it is on.
If your cloud DVR is active you will see all recordings you have on the two DVRs if the recordings are also on the cloud DVR. The only way to know which is on the local DVR in this case is to begin to play each one and press the OK button. bottom right corner of normal status bar will say DVR (or top left of comcast labs new status bar). If you see a little white cloud symbol next to the word DVR then you know you are actually playing the cloud DVR copy of the 'asset' on the current DVR and that the real copy is stored on the now unplugged DVR.
Hope that makes sense, probably too much information at this point.