System and method for monitoring whole home digital video recorder usage for internet protocol television

A method, comprising:

• determining, by a processing system comprising a processor, a bandwidth configuration of a plurality of customer premises equipment that receive services from equipment of a video head-end office of an interactive television network;
• receiving, by the processor, a request for a video stream from among the services from a first equipment of the plurality of the customer premises equipment;
• receiving, by the processor, an indication of a conflicting event based on a received indication that supplying the video stream to the first equipment would exceed the bandwidth configuration of the plurality of the customer premises equipment;
• determining, by the processor, a number of times that other conflicting events were created by the first equipment responsive to the indication;
• and
• updating, by the processor, the bandwidth configuration based on the number of times responsive to the indication.

A non-transitory machine-readable storage medium, comprising executable instructions that, when executed by a processing system including a processor, facilitate performance of operations, comprising:

• receiving a bandwidth configuration of a customer premises for customer premises equipment that receives services from equipment of a video head-end office of an interactive television network;
• receiving an indication that a first equipment of the customer premises equipment requested a video stream exceeding a first bandwidth configuration of the plurality of the customer premises;
• determining a number of times that the first equipment of the customer premises equipment requested a video stream exceeding a limit of the first bandwidth configuration of the customer premises;
• and
• updating the bandwidth configuration to an updated bandwidth configuration responsive to the indication and based on the number of times that the first equipment of the customer premises equipment requested a video stream exceeding a limit of the first bandwidth configuration of the customer premises.