Second hand DRX890 boxes. Why are these being bought?

[Purity]

I'm a member of a number of buy/sell sites, and I see certain people requesting to buy DRX890 and equivalent Sky boxes?

What are they doing with them, and why these specific boxes?

I have no interest buying them myself I'm just interested to know what they are doing with them?

Anyone know?

 

[Abu Baniaz]

Pull HDDs out of them is one reason. As they are PVR HDDs, they don't have error checking, fine for saving media.

 

[alimac]

yip apart from the drives cant see any other use for the crap

 

[turner brown]

maybe doing cheap service calls as sky take a few quid for replacement boxes and call outs

 

[trevortron]

As you say it's strange it's those specific boxes they're after- there are plenty of other ex-Sly HD boxes around with SATA drives.:err: Why not advertise one yourself & ask when people phone for it?

 

[dar1437]

Maybe Sky are buying them on the cheap to replace all the SD boxes and put a final nail in CS. lol

 

[digi247]

I would say the main reason is that the DRX-890 still includes the RF/RF2 output which is needed to run the Magic Eye extensions. Where as the newer Wi-Fi equipped receivers negate this and you then need to spend around £30 on a I/O adaptor just for magic eye use