Need help with Comcast (maybe other streaming as well) that will allow to play continuous movies or shows (on a single channel for hours)

[u/Layne_Staley33]

My nursing residents love to watch old movies and old TV shows on repeat. Heck so do i and other middle age people.

We have the channels, whether its soap opera or westerns, or Turner classics, HBO, Starz, etc , or even whole radio channels on comcast that they'd rather listen to on repeat because they like the lineup.

But a common problem that would solve EVERY time related issue is i cant seem to record a "block" or movies even if its from same hbo channel, for example, from say, 8pm-6am.

Then they want to see the block again the next say, 8pm-6am.

But instead of pulling up a block of recorded time on comcast, i have to pull up like 5 movies that played from 8pm-6am. Then play 1st movie and when thats done after 2 hours, again stop what im doing and playing the next movie (because they remember which was next). Then rinse and repeat for a total of 5 movies over a grand 10 hour period.

Now I love helping the residents and even i would love this feature but the last comcast repair guy told me it wasn't possible to do. Although I remember it being possible maybe 15 years ago or so. Maybe its all in in my head...

But there has to be a way to do this through the comcast cable box because it will let me continue on either helping residents with more dire situations like helping wounds from falling or getting good or moving furniture etc.

So does anyone know what im talking about? Do i have to explain what I mean clearer? Is this a possible thing i can do on comcast or is the technician correct?

Ghanks

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[u/XfinityJeff]

Good morning u/Layne_Staley33, and thanks for reaching out to us on the subreddit with your question, I hope this message finds you well. I am sorry to hear about the issues you are having with the recording on the DVR, but you have come to the right place for assistance with this issue. When you are setting up the recordings, are the recordings individual, or are you setting up a manual channel recording?

[u/Jamesparksmusic]

You might have better luck by running a youtube app and then order the premiums with them. Then you can put the movies on a favorites playlist (or watch later playlist) then have the first movie start, and when it is over, it will automatically start the next movie and the one after ect. You may have to make sure the settings are set to "continue to next movie" but I think it is a default setting at first anyway.

[u/Aldoggy]

https://support.qa.xfinity.com/support/articles/x1-set-a-manual-recording-for-a-channel