the easy way to get an hr34 @runninnak3d, is to find a directv tech on the street, get his attention, offer to hand him 20bucks for an hr34, call up directv and say hey my tv dont work... keep saying nope still not working.... have them generate a service call, hopefully you have the protection plan and itll be free, ask for and write down the ACTIVITY NUMBER give this number to your tech, pray to god he doesnt work for halstead and need to generate an SO from mobile pro out of the activity number, the tech swaps your hr24 into an hr34, calls the job in 'bad box' done. you can buy anything in this country, just need to know whose selling it lol. I traded my tech a lot of supplies as i work for comcast and hes a contractor for directv, we did this, and he got like 2 boxes of cable, some fittings and screw clips.