No he can't be deleted, it only shows up on demo machines, Directv is saying you cannot take it off because it recognizes that this is a demo machine, but there has got to be a way because I somehow accidently did it for the last three months, it wasn't until I hooked up the Sat C kit that I had to reinitiate the unit and he came back. If a big magnet will delete the harddrive I will do it but won't that mess up the machine pretty bad too?