Two DirecTV SD-DVR40s Free to anyone who wants.

I hope this does not qualify as spam to the admins.

This forum has saved us with our original DirecTV SD-DVR40s when they had power supply issues, and expanded the disk capacity of one unit and installed the hacked/unlocked version of TiVo. This forum has been really great.

Well we have moved to comcast cable (ack! I know! I hate their DVR, but there were other factors motivating this). So these units are of no use to us.

I am not even going to try and sell them.

But I figure they may be of use to some people wanting parts. So we are giving them away free. You just pay the shipping.

One unit has extra capacity hard drives (two) and had new capacitors replaced on the PSU.
I only have one remote.

Send me a PM.

-rob

 

Yes, one is setup and ready to go. It has larger capacity hard drives and the unlocked Tivo software and features.

I feel I must say the following as a disclaimer:

I installed a public domain version of Tivo 'Unleashed'.

In order to get it to work on your account, my understanding is that you would have to call DirecTV to pair your access card with the unit's serial number. I have never done this (it was the original box setup with my account). Maybe someone on the forum here can enlighten.

Also, I never had the box "phone home" so, no updates/info from DirecTV have been installed (it was not recommended with this version of Tivo software). If it were to phone home, I am not sure what would happen.

In the last year or two of ownership, the grid guide filtering started acting wierd. I suspect this is due to DirecTV having tweaked their guide data over the satellite. Wasnt a problem, just a little annoying.

Otherwise, it has worked great. The expanded disk capacity is very nice.

The other unit, which I got from a friend, appears to work and boots/powers up just fine. It has the original software and has no hardware mods. Standard recording capacity. I never paired it with my access card and thus cannot vouch for the dish/tuner's operability.

Just to be clear, both of these are the original Hughes SD-DVR40s.

Both are yours if you want them.

Let me know.
-rob

 

No real bites on this yet.

I will be taking these to the electronics recycler in a few days unless someone wants them.

PM me within a few days.

 

Sorry, I haven checked the forum over the holidays.

The units are still available.

The hacked one has a repaired power supply, Tivo 'Unleashed' and 400GB hard drive. Was working fine when we disconnected it. It has the remote.

The other one is a standard DVR-40. It boots fine, but I have never connected it to my account. It was bought at a garage sale for parts (primarily the power supply). It does not have the remote.

Free for the cost of S&H to anyone who wants them.

I have a couple PMs waiting for a response, but if I dont hear anything in the next coupe days, whoever pms me next can have them.

Disclaimer, if you wish to use the units for your directtv account (rather than for parts), you need to call DirectTV to pair your account smart card with the S/N of the unit. Putting the smart card in the tuner alone will not be enough to tune DirectTV.