I am switching back to DIRECTV-can I use my old Hughes DVR to record?
3 years ago I had a non HD Hughes DVR-I believe it is called a series 2. It has 40 hours of non HD record time. I upgraded to an 80 hr HD DVR for a year-and when DIRECTV tried their classic-and illegal-practice of charging a monthly lease fee for a DVR that they made me buy-I told them -well you can guess-and when they refunded my purchase price I THEN returned the DVR and went back to Commiecast for a year. Commiecast almost doubled price so now I’m returning to DIRECTV-without the HD OR DVR. I still have a 5 LNB dish and I’m wondering if I can use the old Hughes to just record. I realize they will supply me with a receiver/tuner only-I don’t see why I can’t somehow use the old recorder. Somewhere I read that DIRECTV can supply me with a card that will make it work? Can someone enlighten me or give me a URL that explains this stuff? I DON’T TRUST DIRECTV (or Commiecast) as far as I can throw them.
Good question. I’m wanting to bet you can, but I was going to say you might need a card for it, when I saw your comment.
Come to think of it, doesn’t the new DirectDeceive box have a coax output for a second TV? The output would already be decoded, and may work.
I will have to ask my friend if you can program the standard box to change channels at given times, If you can program the Hughes to record at different times on the same channel, it might work that way without a card.
Of course, you could always do it manually, as long as the Hughes will accept the filtered feed without a new card.
Here is DirectDeceive customer service technical support, they claim to answer emails in 24 hours, of course I claim to have made love to over 5,000 women.
http://www.directv.com/DTVAPP/global/contentPage.jsp?assetId=1100070
By the way, I can throw a CommieCast box pretty dad-burned far, it’s very stress relieving.
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