Hauppauge WinTV NOVA-S-Plus

Hauppauge WinTV Express PCI Version

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 Hauppauge WinTV 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 ...

china_wolf 19.12.2004 · Read full review
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Review of Hauppauge WinTV Express

WinTV-PVR-Digital TV and video on your PC.

Advantages: Ecellent picture quality & ease of use
Disadvantages: Bit pricy

and with a built-in stereo FM radio receiver. TV can be viewed n a resizable window or in full screen. This can allow you to watch TV in a small box as you continue to do something else on the computer at the same time. However, what has this got to do with hardware for capturing analogue video? Initially I went to buy a device to do just that, to capture video from my camcorder. However for a couple of pounds more, I ended up with a device which did just that that and can do much more. Win TV PVR stands for Windows TV Personal Video Recorder, and that is exactly what this is. This unit has the ability to allow Video camcorders/Video recorders etc to be connected to it via S-Video, or Composite Video connections, and has stereo connections for sound. This unit allows real time capturing of analogue video which can be compressed into various ...

blackbeard 12.01.2005 · Read full review
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Review of Hauppauge WinTV PVR-usb2

WinTV GO... erm stopped. With mono sound.

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 ...

dr_toast 31.03.2004 · Read full review
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Review of Hauppauge WinTV GO