Old HR44-500, can i be repurposed???

[ellocld]

Hello, I have an old HR44-500 with the 1000GB Hard Disc Drive. Can this receiver be repurposed as a stand-alone home media server? It does have a network card and can be hardwired. Each time I try and connect it to a

monitor, it keeps awaiting a signal from DIRECT TV. It is such a great piece of hardware; I would hate to just throw it out.

 

[AZ.]

Hello, I have an old HR44-500 with the 1000GB Hard Disc Drive. Can this receiver be repurposed as a stand-alone home media server? It does have a network card and can be hardwired. Each time I try and connect it to a

monitor, it keeps awaiting a signal from DIRECT TV. It is such a great piece of hardware; I would hate to just throw it out.

sell it

 

[jdspencer]

Your best bet would be to remove the HDD and istall it in an external case.

 

[TheTechGuru]

Keep the hard drive and toss the receiver. I've collected a lot of cheap hard drives buying DirecTV DVR's from GoodWill and SalArmy.

 

[Jimbo]

Hello, I have an old HR44-500 with the 1000GB Hard Disc Drive. Can this receiver be repurposed as a stand-alone home media server? It does have a network card and can be hardwired. Each time I try and connect it to a

monitor, it keeps awaiting a signal from DIRECT TV. It is such a great piece of hardware; I would hate to just throw it out.

1st. Call them again and Confirm that they don't want the HR44 returned ...
That was a very nice piece of equipment, had one that I liked very well, unfortunately I had to retire it in order to get 4K, another Genius Idea to build a new recvr at that time that didn't do 4k.

 

[Booboy]

Does directv still require you send back hr20 and h20


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[detuch254]

You can repurpose it this second by hitting me up and posting it to me lolol.

 

[raoul5788]

Does directv still require you send back hr20 and h20


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I've heard of an occasional HR24 being returned, but not anything older.

 

[TheRatPatrol]

Save yourself hassles and just return it, drop it off at any FedEx or UPS store, they will ship it back for free.