Media content recording and healing statuses

A method comprising:

• receiving, by a content processing device associated with a user and communicatively coupled to a media content distribution subsystem by way of a network, at least a subset of a media content program from the media content distribution subsystem;
• recording, by the content processing device, the at least a subset of the media content program, wherein the recorded at least a subset of the media content program comprises one or more recorded portions and a defective portion;
• healing, by the content processing device, at least a subset of the defective portion with media content associated with the defective portion and stored on another content processing device associated with the user or another user and communicatively coupled to the media content distribution subsystem by way of the network;
• and
• providing, by the content processing device, a recording status indicator for presentation to the user, the recording status indicator identifying the one or more recorded portions and the defective portion,
• wherein at least a portion of the healing occurs concurrently with the recording, and the method further comprises dynamically updating, by the content processing device, the recording status indicator as the recording and the healing progress.

A method comprising:

• receiving, by a content processing device associated with a user and communicatively coupled to a media content distribution subsystem by way of a network, at least a subset of a media content program from the media content distribution subsystem;
• recording, by the content processing device, the at least a subset of the media content program, wherein the recorded at least a subset of the media content program comprises one or more recorded portions and a defective portion;
• healing, by the content processing device, at least a subset of the defective portion with media content associated with the defective portion and stored on another content processing device associated with the user or another user and communicatively coupled to the media content distribution subsystem by way of the network;
• providing, by the content processing device, a recording status indicator for presentation to the user, the recording status indicator identifying the one or more recorded portions and the defective portion;
• and
• identifying, by the content processing device, the defective portion, wherein the identifying of the defective portion comprises generating a local checksum for the recorded at least a subset of the media content program, and comparing the generated local checksum with a master checksum for the media content program maintained by the media content distribution subsystem.