If you had an HR10-250 no matter what went wrong with it and you wanted it replaced DIRECTV would consider it an ungrade since the HR10-250 only get's 3 or so HD channels.
Surprisingly no.
According to policy even the HR10-250 if dead is supposed to be order under pro plan code for replacement, and not the hd swap upgrade code.
I should know as my modem died on my HR10-250, ( which is important for employee acccounts since any on employee we have to have the phone line pluged in. ) They replaced with an HR22, and when I activated it it was marked as owned.
It is one of the few ways to get a hr2x box maked as owned any more.
also had a DVR40 have a bad drive and replaced with R16-300 again replacement marked as owned.