Hauppauge Computer Works is the worldwide leading developer and manufacturer of analog and ... more
digital video, TV and data broadcast receiver products for personal computers. Hauppauge's products allow PC users to watch television on their PC screens,
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With the WinTV-HVR-3000 universal triple mode TV card, you can now receive satellite, ... more
terrestrial and analogue television on your PC. You can also listen to FM and DVB radio. In addition, you could record your personal videos in the MPEG-1 and MPEG-2...
Postage & Packaging: £9.89 Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days...
With the WinTV-HVR-3000 universal triple mode TV card, you can now receive satellite, ... more
terrestrial and analogue television on your PC. You can also listen to FM and DVB radio. In addition, you could record your personal videos in the MPEG-1 and MPEG-2...
Postage & Packaging: free Super Saver Delivery Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days...
Advantages: Watch TV on your PC! Record TV programmes with your PC! Record your home made videos onto your PC! So ruddy cheap! Disadvantages: Needs PC to work, sound is mono, has to be PCI version to be cheap.
. Now how does a child like him manage to get a TV Card with his sort of pocket money and get good quality for his money? Simple! He went and bought himself a HauppaugeWinTV Express card.
This card is an analogue type card (meaning that it isn't digital) that arrives in a rather large box unbefitting the contents that are contained within. You get merely the TV Card, audio cable to link the card to your sound card, manual and software CD. You can hear it rattling around inside the box as you shake it, the box blatantly wasting precious card with all that space. But although I mourn the trees' wasted timbre (ish), the card itself is a very high quality piece of equipment.
Unpacking the card was a cinch seeing as there wasn't much packaged in the first place. Installing it was easy as pie as well, requiring you to dismantle your PC ...
Advantages: Ecellent picture quality & ease of use Disadvantages: Bit pricy
found on the internet cheaper than this. I have seen it on one site for £80+ pounds sterling, with returned units being sold from around from £60+.
Considering the Video Capture unit I was about to buy would have cost me £80, and my existing internal TV card cost me around £30 a few years ago, I did feel it was a reasonable purchase.
I have to say I am impressed with the quality of TV image I receive, it is far superior to what I have been used to from my existing internal card, and I now have an encoder to allow me to capture my old camcorder videos too.
The unit is made by Hauppauge and is called WinTV, PVR2, personal video recorder.
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Advantages: It's cheap, teletext feed. Disadvantages: it's really, really hard to install.
I should start by saying that I'm a PC enthusiast. I work with them all day. The PC on which I'm writing this was built by own fair hand, and when new was the fastest and best computer I'd used. Even three years later I've had no real urge for any upgrades save a doubling of RAM I installed for good measure.
Then came my nemesis. It arrived through the back door of a broken TV, and a careless visit to PC World. The language of the World I lived in shortly afterwards was anything but PC.
The box clearly states that the card works with Windows 2000. Which is still my operating system of choice. The instruction booklet even leads you step by step through the win2k installation. Which as a confirmed "plug and play" happy go lucky kinda guy I was a little disgruntled resorting to. However I then came to the quite amusing conclusion ...
Product Information for "Hauppauge WinTV HVR-3000" »
Video
Type
TV tuner
Form Factor
Plug-in card
Interface Type
S-video input, composite video input
Analogue Video Format
SECAM, PAL
Analogue video Signal
S-Video, composite video, HF TV Signal
Digital Video Format
MPEG-1, MPEG-2, DVB
Audio Input Support
Standard
Audio input
Type
Digital radio tuner / FM tuner
Miscellaneous
Compatible with Windows 7
"Compatible with Windows 7" software and devices carry Microsoft’s assurance that these products have passed tests for compatibility and reliability with 32-bit and 64-bit Windows 7.
Hauppauge Computer Works is the worldwide leading developer and manufacturer of analog and digital video, TV and data broadcast receiver products for personal computers. Hauppauge's products allow PC users to watch television on their PC screens, videoconference and create both still video images and digital video movies. PRODUCT FEATURES: Tri-mode TV receiver for your PC! Watch and record digital satellite, Freeview digital and analog cable TV on your PC; Listen to FM radio, digital DVB-T or DVB-S radio; Schedule your TV recordings using high quality MPEG-2. Also includes free 7-day EPG for Freeview DVB-T; Includes analog A/V inputs and SoftPVR, for video recording from VCR or camcorders; With ergonomic remote control.
