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Nice card shame about the software

Advantages: Hybrid tuners, onboard hardwarde mpeg encoder
Disadvantages: Awful Hauppauge software

An excellent card let down by clunky outdated software. Hardware-wise it's hard to beat as it has both and analog and digital terrestrial tuners as well as a hardware mpeg encoder on the analog side to aid in the transfer of home movies from Tape to DVD. Hauppauge's problem is that it hasn't updated the WinTV200 software since God was a boy and it is a complete pain to use. I'd highly recommend this card but if you are considering it, allow yourself ...

jjbreen 23.11.2007 · Read full review
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Review of Hauppauge WinTV HVR-1300

It took a long time to WinTV

Advantages: Inexpensive and useful
Disadvantages: Does not install on all motherboards tried

<installation> I 1st installed this on a Vista machine with an Asus K8V SE motherboard The card was seemingly installed OK but after scan I could not receive any freeview channels, only analogue so I rang the help desk because the analogue system has no future. They said they have information that the card, for some inexplicable reason, does not work with some motherboards, something to do with power supply available they thought. So I tried ...
...PC with a Winfast motherboard and XP professional. Tried every slot on that - still no joy. After several phone calls to this excellent help line and waiting for their USA division to update the drivers they offered to replace the card just to see if it was faulty. This they did, although it did take a few weeks because apparently the person dealing with returns was on holiday? On receipt of replacement - again no joy so I abandoned the whole ...

rbell5ciao 27.10.2007 · Read full review
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Review of Hauppauge WinTV HVR-1100

TV on your computer

Advantages: Obvious: Watching TV from your computer
Disadvantages: slight difficulties in set up

The Hauppauge WinTV was given to me as a gift and I can therefore not comment on its value for money. However i can comment on its overall performance. The first thing I noticed was that when i pulled it out of the box it was incredibly over packaged! The box was approximately 50 cm by 30 cm for just a small card. However this was not a problem to me. The card itself was very easy to install. Just simply to screw it in and boot up the machine. The ...
...The next step was plugging in the arial. As the TV was on my computer it was not aimed to be the main TV in my house. I therefore plugged in a small arial which stands on the top of my monitor. It was then simply a case of pressing scan for new channels. It soon found all 5 which i was suprised about. and with some moderate tweaking some good reception was seen on some channels. However it was vey much a balancing act and when some channels were ...

jakspencer 27.07.2004 · Read full review
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Review of Hauppauge WinTV Nova-t

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.

...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 ...
...software and hardware integration by Hauppauge indeedy! But of course there are the little annoying nittys that seem to hop out of it and into your face if you use it long enough. Being an analogue TV Card means that the quality of the received channels depends on the aerial and the position it is in. A cheapo crap aerial placed in an area with immense interference is obviously going to have you tearing your hair out. Even with a good quality aerial, ...

china_wolf 19.12.2004 · Read full review
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Review of Hauppauge WinTV Express

A TV TV!

Advantages: Portable(ish), cheap, good value
Disadvantages: Needs an external aerial, viewing software is buggy

...PC TV tuner producer, the Hauppauge WinTV USB is essentially a glasses-case sized box of magic which allows you to transform your PC or laptop into a TV.. Executed in translucent turquoise plastic, the unit features a 2 foot long USB lead at one end for connection to your computer and a standard coaxial port for connection to an external aerial at the other. On the side of the box are three further ports; two 3.5mm audio jacks for connecting external ...
...sound. A dig around the Hauppauge support website revealed that there is a newer version of the viewing software available which allows the USB lead to carry both video and audio signals. Once downloaded and installed it was time to try again. Once the software is installed, firing up the WinTV2000 application reveals the aforementioned interface. Clicking the label marked "Menu" provides a menu from which various options are available. Initially ...

ben-lloyd 09.03.2006 · Read full review
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Review of Hauppauge WinTV USB