Systems and methods for networking digital video recorders

receiving a status update from one of the plurality of digital video recording when a change occurs in a: associated with the execution of an application on a proxy system digital video recording, comprising the steps of procedure resource, eg change memory capacity or updating information of the electronic program guide; storing the status update received in a database; consolidating information from the program guide of the plurality of digital video recording; presentation guide information consolidated customer programming; and receiving requests for viewing, recording or browsing client.