Product Description

Watch and record TV in a window or full screen using high quality MPEG-2 / NTSC and ATSC Tuners / VISTA Ready Record ATSC digital TV to your PC's hard disk using high quality MPEG-2. TV recordings will typically consume 5 Gb of disk space per hour for ATSC high definition Optional HDTV antenna required for ATSC over-the-air HDTV reception

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1573 in Consumer Electronics
• Brand: Hauppauge
• Model: 1178
• Dimensions: 3.00 pounds

Features

• PCI card has dual TV tuners to let you watch both digital and analog television on your computer
• Supports QAM, ATSC, and analog cable signals
• Built-in hardware MPEG-2 recorder
• Remote control included
• Includes Personal Video Recorder software for scheduled recording of programs

Amazon.com Product Description
The Hauppauge 1178 WinTV-HVR-1600 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 for MPEG-2 encoding, you can also record television onto your computer for viewing later without slowing down your computer.

The Hauppauge 1178 WinTV-HVR-1600 offers: Dual TV tuners to watch digital and analog television signals. Compatible with ATSC and QAM digital TV, and analog cable TV signals. Dbx-TV stereo decoding for spectacular sound. Built-in MPEG-2 hardware encoding.

Dual tuners lets you watch both digital and analog signals. View larger.

Watch High-definition Digital TV on Your Computer
With dual format TV tuners, the WinTV-HVR-1600 lets you watch ATSC digital TV as well as QAM digital TV and analog cable TV. 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-1600 also lets you watch and record 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. And with the included remote control, you can control your cable TV or satellite set top box.

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.

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-Scheduler software, 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.

The Hauppauge 1178 WinTV-HVR-1600 plugs into a PCI slot and is compatible with Windows Vista, XP with Service Pack 2, and Windows XP Media Center Edition. With XP-MCE and Vista, you can add the WinTV-HVR-1600 as either the primary or secondary TV tuner. The Microsoft Media Center application supports up to two TV tuners so you can watch on channel while recording another.

What's in the Box
WinTV-HVR-1600 PCI card, IR remote control receiver, IR Blaster (remote control), CD-ROM with WinTV software.

From the Manufacturer

Watch Hi-Definition ATSC Digital TV on Your PC! Analog Cable TV, too!

• Dual format TV receiver for your PC. Watch ATSC digital TV or analog cable TV, in a window or full screen.
• Watch and record all ATSC formats, including the highest definition 1080i format!
• Includes TV scheduler, the new Hauppauge remote control and IR blaster to control satellite and cable TV set top boxes.

WinTV-HVR-1600 Also Includes These Great Features

• Watch and record ATSC high definition digital TV or analog cable TV on your PC, in a window or full screen! ATSC HD is the over-the-air high definition TV standard for North America.
• Two tuners on board: a 125 channel cable ready TV tuner and an ATSC digital TV tuner. Connect both cable TV and ATSC digital TV to the WinTV-HVR-1600 at the same time.
• Includes Hauppauge's WinTV2000 application. Our WinTV2000 application allows you to toggle between cable TV and ATSC digital TV channels.
• Includes an IR blaster to change the channel on your satellite or cable TV set top box. Connect your set top box to the WinTV-HVR-1600 via S-Video.
• Bundled software includes a TV scheduler plus ULead's DVD MovieFactory authoring and burning software.

Digital ATSC HD TV Features

• ATSC over-the-air digital TV receiver built-in. Supports all ATSC formats, up to the high definition 1080i format!
• Record ATSC digital TV to your PC's hard disk using high quality MPEG-2. TV recordings will typically consume 5 GB of disk space per hour for ATSC high definition.

Analog TV Features

• 125 channel cable ready TV receiver built-in. With dbx-TV stereo decoder, for great TV sound.
• Composite/S-Video and audio inputs, for cable or satellite set top boxes or VCRs.
• Record TV shows to your PC's hard disk using the built-in high quality hardware MPEG-2 encoder. While recording, the hardware encoder does all the work so your PC continues to run at full speed! 1-2 Gigabytes of disk is used per hour of recorded video.

System Requirements

• Processor requirements: 2.2 GHz P4 or equivalent (minimum) required for displaying ATSC high definition TV.
• Microsoft Windows XP Home, Pro or Media Center Edition. Also Windows Vista Premium certified.
• Available PCI slot.
• Graphics with 64 MB memory (or greater).
• Sound card.
• DVD or CD writer for burning Video CD's, S-VCD's or DVD's (optional).

• WinTV-HVR-1600 PCI bus card with 125 channel cable-ready TV tuner, ATSC receiver, hardware MPEG-2 encoder, dbx-TV stereo decoder, S-Video/composite and audio inputs.
• IR remote control receiver.
• IR Blaster (infra-red remote control transmitter), to control satellite and cable TV set top boxes.
• WinTV-HVR-1600 CD-ROM includes:
  • WinTV2000 application for TV in a window plus TV recording, pause and playback.
  • WinTV-Scheduler for scheduling your TV recording, and with link to TitanTV.com.
  • WinTV MPEG editor for high quality cutting and pasting of your standard definition video movies.
  • Ulead DVD MovieFactory, to create your own videos on DVD or CD.

Customer Reviews

The Record feature doesn't work in Vista
Beware buying any Hauppauge product for Windows Vista. Everything works except for Record, which crashes. The hardware may be good, but the software/driver seems to have been an afterthought.

A good idea
I installed this device into a airly powerful desktop with plenty of RAM and a 256 Mb Video card. The images were ok, a little jerky, but not really watchable. This may, however, be more user error than hardware quality...

Poor Tuning Quality
i bought this with the thought of having a higher quality tuner card for DVR purposes. I already have a $20 Sabrent that i use for broadcasting to pick up the signal from the internet. The Sabrent actually blows this tuner away. For some reason the Hauppauge does not have the power to convert as clean a signal as the $20 Sabrent. I will be returning this item.