Advantages: Watch Analgue and Digital Freeview TV on your PC, Record TV Disadvantages: Need to OPEN PC to slot in PCI card, Need a free PCI Slot
...Card.
Having visited the Hauppauge website and reading reviews on this product I couldn't believe how good and cost effective this PCI card was.
I brought the PCI Card for around £45.00. You get an Instruction Manual with the PCI Card so even the novice computer Hardware person (like me) is able to install the PCI Card.
Well enough about that Lets Talk about how EXCELLECT this PCI Card is.
You are able to 'Watch' and Record analogue TV shows ... ...NEED FOR A TV IN YOUR ROOM.
Not just TV you can watch you can also watch FREEVIEW digital TV which you could also Record. You are even able to schedule your recording.
The PCI Card includes the Hauppauge's WinTV2000 application which is used to watch and record TV, in a window or full screen.
YOU EVEN GET an IR remote control, for easy control of watching TV.
You are able to change channels, adjust audio volume and even start a recording.
THE ...
qasem121 12.07.2007
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Ciao members have rated this review on average: very helpful Review of Hauppauge WinTV HVR-1100
Advantages: Inexpensive and useful Disadvantages: Does not install on all motherboards tried
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
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Ciao members have rated this review on average: helpful Review of Hauppauge WinTV HVR-1100
Advantages: Digital Picture quality if tops! Disadvantages: WinTV sucks, Channels numberrs not ordered up, EPG sucks, No Teletext
If you are like me and want to watch TV whilst doing stuff on your PC, this is the card for you. It takes up one PCI slot (do check if you have a spare slot as new motherboards don't include many spares one)
The (Freeview) picture quality is "SUPERB" on this card and you will not regret. However, the software (WinTV2000) is a big let down. Forget the snazyy photosnaps on Hauppague's web site that is just marketing. The software is awful. I have ... ...support the card or it is crap. And I have been waiting for 1+ year for a decent update from Hauppague (Oct 2007)
When watching digital TV it does take up processing power. So if you don't want to overload your PC, I suggest you get an Analogue TV card such as ATI TV Wonder (with Dscaler) and then hook up an external Freeview box (maybe a Freeview recorder). I have looked around at other Freeview cards for the PC, but there are not any other goods ...
rajeshk4u 24.10.2007
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