Well the rumor of the HR24-100 model retirement because of its fan issue is no longer true. As my HR24-100 with a defective fan was just replace with another HR24-100. But they don't want the defective HR24-100 back. I even had to convince 'em to send out an envelope for the access card.

Hey everyone! This is my first time posting here and hope someone can help. I have a broken HR24-100 Directv let me keep (was deemed unfixabel by tech support and replaced with an HR24-200). I want to build a media player that uses the touch panel but have hit a wall. There is an ic labeled...

Last night went to see waht was on HGTV and had a black screen. Same for a few local channels, foodtv and a few others. Anyone else having an issue? EDIT: I'm a dumba$$, checked my other receiver after this post and had the channels. Rebooted my HR20 and the channels came back. Should have...

As a long standing DTV customer with 2 HD and 4 SD receivers scattered around the house, I was wondering if upgrading one of the standard def boxes to HD would be as simple as buying a cheap one from EBay/Craigslist, resetting it and putting my card in. Or am I completely wrong and it would...

I have one of the 1366x768, 720p, Samsung DLPs. I had previously set it so my HR20-700 always output at the 720p resolution. I have read some discussions though saying that doing so makes the tv have to upscale it which is worse than letting it downscale a 1080i picture. Does anyone know if...

I currently have a HR20-700 which is getting a bit long in the tooth (frequent sound skips, and occasional video jumps) Anyway, going online, I see the HR24-500 is now out, with decent reviews. I went to the nearest Worst Buy, errrr, I meant Best Buy, to check the unit out. :) Much to my...

I'm going to hook my receivers up to my router and use on demand. I was thinking I'd just get a router and run some ethernet wires to my receivers but now I see these kits on the DirecTV website. It doesn't really say what you get though? It shows a plugin for a wall outlet? What would that be...