I have Direct TV but did not buy their DVR. I was at an estate sale and saw a dvr in a pile of Direct TV stuff. I didn't look closely enough and assumed it was Direct TV like all the other stuff so I bought it. Got it home and it turns out to be a Dish Echostar DV3 mpeg2. Is there any way I can get this to work with my Direct TV receiver?
btouch you may have noticed that DVR works much the same way as Tivo. The main difference is Tivo is a brand name DVR service, while DVR is just a generic term for the hardware, and while Tivo will work with any service, Dish DVR only works with Dish Network, and the same holds true for DirecTV.