Product description Watch and record live High Definition TV on your PC with this Hauppauge WinTV HVR-1800 PCI-Express TV Tuner card! The Hauppauge WinTV HVR-1800 is a dual tuner TV board with analog (NTSC) and digital (ATSC/QAM) tuners with high-speed next-generation PCI-Express x1 interface. It also features a built-in MPEG2 decoder that allows for the best system performance by offloading work from your CPU.The ATSC tuner supports up to the highest resolutions, up to 1080i, and listen in crystal clear audio with Dolby Digital AC3 audio support. The NTSC tuner is 125-channel cable ready and includes dbx-TV stereo decoder.If you already have a set top box, don't worry, the WinTV HVR-1800 also includes Composite audio and S-Video inputs! This dual tuner TV card is perfect for Windows Media Center PCs and is Windows Vista Premium certified. Get yours today! Order now! .com The Hauppauge 1128 WinTV-HVR-1850 includes dual TV tuners to let you watch both digital and analog television on your PC, in a window or full screen. With PVR software and built-in hardware MPEG-2 encoding, you can also record television onto your computer for viewing later without slowing down your computer. The Hauppauge 1128 WinTV-HVR-1850 offers: Dual TV tuners to watch digital and analog television signals. Compatible with ATSC and QAM digital TV, and analog cable TV signals. FM tuner built-in. Dbx-TV stereo decoding for spectacular sound. Built-in hardware MPEG-2 encoder. Dual tuners lets you watch both digital and analog signals. View larger. View ports.Watch High-definition Digital TV and Listen to FM Radio on Your Computer With dual format TV tuners, the WinTV-HVR-1850 lets you watch ATSC digital TV as well as QAM digital TV and analog cable TV signals. ATSC digital TV, which typically requires an antenna for reception, is the over-the-air HDTV standard for North America. ATSC broadcasts range in resolution from standard definition up to the high definition 1080i format. (To check the ATSC digital transmissions in your area, input your zip code at titantv.com) The WinTV-HVR-1850 also lets you watch and record clear QAM channels, which are unencrypted digital channels broadcast by your local cable operator. If you don't have access to digital television channels yet, you can also watch regular analog cable television. In addition to high-definition video, the card also features a dbx-TV stereo decoder for great TV sound. The card has Composite/S-Video and audio inputs that allow for connecting VCRs or cable/satellite set top boxes. With a built-in FM radio tuner, you can also sit back and listen to top 40 hits or your favorite talk radio while you are working on your latest project. Your Own Personal Digital Video Recorder With the included software, you can easily record TV shows to your hard disk using MPEG-2. Several recording options are available depending on your playback needs; higher quality video requires more disk space. Generally, 5 gigabytes of disk space is used per hour of ATCS digital TV recordings. Thanks to the built-in hardware MPEG-2 encoder, your PC continues to run at full speed even while recording. The WinTV application offers an elegant interface to watch TV in a window or full screen. View larger. With the WinTV v7 scheduler, you can easily schedule the recordings of your favorite television shows daily, weekly, or just once. You can then play back the recordings at your leisure, burn them onto CD or DVD for playback on another computer or your television, or with video editing software (not included), you can edit the shows. This is great for saving favorite movie clips, or of your favorite teams dramatic last-second win or your favorite player's grand slam.Windows Media Center Compatible with Included Remote The Hauppauge 1128 WinTV-HVR-1850 plugs into a PCI-Express x1 or x8 slot, and is compatible with Windows 7, Vista, or Windows XP, and Windows XP Media Center Edition. With Windows 7 and XP-MCE, you can add the WinTV-HVR-1850 as either the primary or secondary TV tuner. Microsoft's Windows Media Center application supports up to two TV tuners so you can watch one channel while recording another. Included in the package is a Media Center certified remote control that allows you to have all your digital entertainment within easy reach, even while you are lounging on your couch. What's in the Box WinTV-HVR-1850 PCI-express card, Media Center Remote kit, CD-ROM with WinTV software.
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DenBroncoFan
Working great on Win 7 64 bit. Didn't use drivers that came on disk. Went to Hauppauge website and downloaded the most recent "Windows Driver Only" (Win 7 64 bit drivers) along with the "Windows Media Center remote control receiver/blaster configuration utility". You have to install and run the remote configuration utility to 'turn on' the remote control. I'm not using WinTV 7, doing everything in Media Center. I have basic cable that has some clear QAM HD channels. There's also instructions on the Hauppauge website for mapping any clear QAM HD channels that Windows Media Center doesn't put in your guide. You can also search online for instructions. I now have a wonderful tuner and PVR! At first, I didn't have any guide information for the clear QAM channels that I manually mapped, but then I learned how to copy guide info from the equivalent analog channel to the clear QAM HD channel, so I can set PVR recordings just by highlighting and selecting. BEAUTIFUL! I highly recommend this product. The only thing I might do differently is get the dual digital tuner model (2250), but it was unavailable at the time. Not sure why but it's sold out at several sites. So far I haven't needed a dual digital tuner, but I could foresee the need. I can't record one clear QAM channel while watching another clear QAM channel.Also, I had to put in a splitter to split my cable source into the analog input and the digital input. The card has separate input for each. I also think the 2250 doesn't require this. I think the 2250 card itself will split the signal, but I didn't research it extensively since it wasn't available. Bottom line: I love the tuner!
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Could have saved money by buying a cheaper model
I bought this Tuner/DVR because it had good ratings, would allow me to convert my many videos from tape (VCR and Digital) to editable computer files and would allow me to record TV shows and copy them to disk if I wanted. Let me say initially that it installed very easily and was recognized by my Win 8 OS.So far, I've used it very successfully to capture old videos from tapes. The captured video does seem to be a bit darker than the original, but I think I can restore some or all of that with my video editing software.The TV capabilities are hit and miss. I have Time Warner Cable (TWC) services and so I ran a cable to the card and that was that. I went to the Hauppauge web site and downloaded the most current version of Win TV and drivers. After installing them, I began the setup program. I was able to tell the software that I was using TWC and it downloaded a TV Guide. But when it scanned for TV stations, it could only find 7 stations. And they were stations that I did not recognize and when I tried them, I got nothing. I read at a forum where some one else had this problem and they suggested going to the edit function for the guide listings. Sure enough more stations showed up there. But then it was a case of trying each one and trying to identify the station by its content. Not exactly automatic. And while I get probably 40 stations now, they do not include AMC, FX, any of the ESPNs, TBS, TNT, etc. etc. My experience using Windows Media Center was similar. And in neither case was I able to set a recording for a show using a TV Guide like I do with the TWC cable box DVR. Like I said, it leaves a lot to be desired. It is possible that if you do a lot of research and spend a lot of time trying to make the system more user friendly, you will succeed. But I don't have the patience for that - I need a more plug and play approach.So that is why I feel that I wasted money buying a two tuner card. I don't believe I get anything more than I would with a much simpler and cheaper card. Perhaps if Hauppauge provided more guidance, this would have been a more useful product and worth the money.
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Second Hauppauge I've bought first failed just before 2 years hope this one last longer
Installation was easy, an update was available from the web so I installed that too right away. I'm using this as a DVR for DISH network so it's a two step process program Dish to go to channel, set up schedule on WINTV. Picture quality is good, I record at Good setting and a two hour recording is about 4.6 GB a one hour show is about 2.2 GB.I'm am using this on a dual boot PC with Windows 7 and Windows XP, works the same on either OS. I prefer Windows 7.The only con I have is a personal use item, I like to copy the recordings to a USB drive then play it via my Blue Ray player that has a USB in port. the 4.6 GB file is too big for the USB FAT32 format so I have to run it through a DIVX converter. The quality looks the same to me but the file size drops from 4.6 GB to 1.8 GB. This process takes a while to run but then it is small enough to also copy to SD on my Android and watch the movie on a plan trip. I'll have to try a lower quality setting and see if the size will drop below 4 GB so conversion is not required. I'm sure th lower quality will look good on a 10" tablet but may not be what I want for watching on a TV.So all in all I am liking this WINTV I have not tried it with Media Center but the way I'm using it works good for my needs and I do not have to pay the monthly DVR fee or upgrade the dual DISH receiver I already have. One last note if you want Android or Sony Blue Ray player to play the file select the advanced option to always convert the .TS recordings to .MPG. My devices do not play the .TS files.
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