Need To Purchase HR20-700 - Own It, No Lease, Install Myself

[boltjames]

Anyone know where I can get one sent to my home to own, not lease, that I can install myself? I have an HR10 already, have a 5LNB dish, and have another room with 2 coax cables.

Just want it sent to my home for me to own and hook up myself.

Any third party companies (Weaknees?) perhaps?

TIA

BJ

[Michael D'Angelo]

Anyone know where I can get one sent to my home to own, not lease, that I can install myself? I have an HR10 already, have a 5LNB dish, and have another room with 2 coax cables.

Just want it sent to my home for me to own and hook up myself.

Any third party companies (Weaknees?) perhaps?

TIA

BJ

I believe the only place you can get it to own it would be through Directv. They charge $800 for it and I am not sure if they will send it to you or not. I think it still needs to be done by a installer. But you would have to call them and check.

[boltjames]

Call DirecTV they will sell it to you for $800

I'm the guy from over in the Tivo forums that lives in NH but DTV thinks lives in NY. I'd like to buy an HR20-700 off a third party site (or eBay if needed) to get one that's lease-free and can be sent to my NH home. I can then have the access card sent to my NY home (mom) and be all good to go.

Can you or anyone else point me in the right direction? DTV wants to send someone to my house to do the install (can't happen).

TIA

BJ

[boltjames]

I believe the only place you can get it to own it would be through Directv. They charge $800 for it and I am not sure if they will send it to you or not. I think it still needs to be done by a installer. But you would have to call them and check.

My issue is that the DTV customer service people wouldn't send an HR20 to my mom's house; they say they need an installer to show up with it.

So I need to get an HR20 somehow to either NY or NH without an installer. I don't care about the lease fee.....happy to pay it if I have to.....just want to get the box out of state without an installer showing up.

BJ

[bobnielsen]

If you can find one at Best Buy or Circuit City (it would be leased), you can take it home yourself.

[boltjames]

If you can find one at Best Buy or Circuit City (it would be leased), you can take it home yourself.

Is that a fact? Will I have any issues if the point of purchase (NH zipcode) and the service address (NY zipcode) are hundreds of miles apart?

BJ

[Michael D'Angelo]

Is that a fact? Will I have any issues if the point of purchase (NH zipcode) and the service address (NY zipcode) are hundreds of miles apart?

BJ

Directv will not know were you purcahased it from unless you tell them.

[maryjef]

I purchased my HR20-100 from Ebay about a month ago Directv told me I own it when I activated it . Jeff

[boltjames]

Directv will not know were you purcahased it from unless you tell them.

Thanks! And the card that will come in the Best Buy machine, I'll be able to activate it in NH on the spot? Or will they have to send a card to my mom's house? Also, will Best Buy ask me for my DirecTV information (address, phone number, etc?) which could cause me a problem with the out-of-state scenario?

BJ

[MikeW]

There are tons of boxes on E-Bay. I'd go that route.

[CCarncross]

Whats with all this cryptic stuff? IS this to avoid some sales tax, or some other issue, like your service address really isnt your service address, etc..?

[carl6]

... like your service address really isnt your service address, etc..?

He said as much. NY service address, NH physical address.

I would go for a leased unit, either buying it at Best Buy or Circuit City, or on-line. If you don't already have a 5-LNB dish, you will need that also, and that can be ordered on-line (www.solidsignal.com). Any new HR20 (owned or leased) will come with an access card.

Do your install yourself, call and activate the unit.

Carl

[boltjames]

He said as much. NY service address, NH physical address.

I would go for a leased unit, either buying it at Best Buy or Circuit City, or on-line. If you don't already have a 5-LNB dish, you will need that also, and that can be ordered on-line (www.solidsignal.com). Any new HR20 (owned or leased) will come with an access card.

Do your install yourself, call and activate the unit.

Carl

Thanks. Just got back from Best Buy, so that's fine. Found a salesperson who took my cash and asked no questions.

That "slimline" 5LNB dish; any downside to that? If I'm trying to get, say, the NY RSN's up in Maine on the fringe of the spot beam, any logic that says the bigger dish gets a better distant signal?

BJ

[Tom Robertson]

Thanks. Just got back from Best Buy, so that's fine. Found a salesperson who took my cash and asked no questions.

That "slimline" 5LNB dish; any downside to that? If I'm trying to get, say, the NY RSN's up in Maine on the fringe of the spot beam, any logic that says the bigger dish gets a better distant signal?

BJ

If the transponder frequency isn't in use by another location between you and NYC, bigger will be more likely to get. The slimline might get it for you, if not you may have to wait for manufacturers to develop larger dish systems for the 5lnb. At least I haven't seen any larger ones yet.

Good luck,
Tom

[boltjames]

If the transponder frequency isn't in use by another location between you and NYC, bigger will be more likely to get. The slimline might get it for you, if not you may have to wait for manufacturers to develop larger dish systems for the 5lnb. At least I haven't seen any larger ones yet.

Good luck,
Tom

Thanks Tom.

I'm right on the ocean on the southern coast of Maine, so I intend to bring the HR20 up there for summer HD Yankee viewing on YES HD and then back to my primary home in NH once the summer is over.

I know that the Maine situation is a stretch to the spotbeam but I'll give it a try. I was told that even if I can't get the YES HD feed that far north that I'd still get the YES SD feed (as I do now on my T-60). That's correct, right? The MPEG2 signal will still hit the new 5LNB dish and feed my new HR20 the SD signal I'm receiving now, correct?

I don't want to risk losing YES altogether just for the sake of a longshot on the HD feed.

Thanks again.

BJ

[bonscott87]

Thanks Tom.

I'm right on the ocean on the southern coast of Maine, so I intend to bring the HR20 up there for summer HD Yankee viewing on YES HD and then back to my primary home in NH once the summer is over.

I know that the Maine situation is a stretch to the spotbeam but I'll give it a try. I was told that even if I can't get the YES HD feed that far north that I'd still get the YES SD feed (as I do now on my T-60). That's correct, right? The MPEG2 signal will still hit the new 5LNB dish and feed my new HR20 the SD signal I'm receiving now, correct?

I don't want to risk losing YES altogether just for the sake of a longshot on the HD feed.

Thanks again.

BJ

The YES-SD feed is on a national beam (called CONUS). So yes, you'll get it just fine, even if you took your receiver to Texas. YES-HD is on spotbeam right now but is anticipated to go on CONUS with the new sat. At that point you'd get it no problem in Maine (or anywhere) assuming your receiver is authorized for it (which it sounds like it is).

[boltjames]

The YES-SD feed is on a national beam (called CONUS). So yes, you'll get it just fine, even if you took your receiver to Texas. YES-HD is on spotbeam right now but is anticipated to go on CONUS with the new sat. At that point you'd get it no problem in Maine (or anywhere) assuming your receiver is authorized for it (which it sounds like it is).

Thanks! Now I just need to figure out how to sneak a Sony 40" V2500 past the wife :)

BJ