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How large are video recordings in terms of file size?

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How large are video recordings in terms of file size?

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This depends on the quality at which recordings are made. As an example, using the default MPEG-2 recording quality (MPEG-2 Fair), a 1-hour show will be stored on disk as a 1 gigabyte (GB) file. See more information on MPEG-2 qualities here. Recordings made in HD will take up about 7 GB per hour.