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| Hauppauge 1178 WinTV-HVR-1600 Internal Hybrid TV Tuner/Video Recorder |
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List Price: $99.99
Our Price: $85.94
You Save: $ 14.05 (14%)
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
Manufacturer: HAUPPAUGE
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Binding: Electronics
Brand: Hauppauge
EAN: 0785428011783
Feature: PCI card has dual TV tuners to let you watch both digital and analog television on your computer
Is Memorabilia: 0
Label: HAUPPAUGE
Manufacturer: HAUPPAUGE
Model: 1178
Publisher: HAUPPAUGE
Studio: HAUPPAUGE
Warranty: 1 year warranty
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Features
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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
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Editorial Reviews:
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WinTV-HVR-1600 is a 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! WinTV-HVR-1600 includes TV scheduler, the Hauppauge remote control and IR blaster to control satellite and cable TV set top boxes.
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Poor product, poor support
Comment: I bought a Hauppauge WinTV-HVR-1600 last year. It works, but very poorly. Using an indoor HD antenna I can pick up only three local HD stations. The high definition picture is decent, but nowhere as good as on a HD television. I would like to point out that I am using a high-definition Samsung monitor with my computer.
Meanwhile, analog stations, coming in through cable, are much, much worse. The picture is fuzzy, expecially when watching in full-screen mode.
But my main gripe is that I can't pick up any digital stations through my cable provider, Comcast. The Hauppauge card with it QAM ability is supposed to let you do this. But I pick up zero digital stations through this card. However, I have a Toshiba HD television and it picks up many digital stations from my cable.
A year ago I wrote to Hauppauge to complain about this and I received a reply saying, "Our engineers are aware of this problem with Comcast and are working on it." Well, a year later I wrote to them asking for an update, and other than an initial e-mail asking me what software I was using, I have not received another response from Hauppauge support, even though I have written them many times.
It is clear to me that they do not want to take any responsibility for their defective product. I will never buy a Hauppauge product again.
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Summary: Excellent tuner for Media Center
Comment: Everything was easy to install and it works great. We use it with our Xbox 360 to record TV shows. It is an excellent buy!
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Summary: A very poor tuner for standard-def analog video
Comment: I own the WinTV-HVR-1800, the PCI Express version this card. For both cards, the recording quality for standard-definition video is very, very poor compared to previous Hauppauge tuners I've owned (like the WinTV-PVR-500, which unfortunately I sold too quickly).
Additionally, its ClearQAM recording capabilities do not work with Media Center, which effectively means that the feature does not exist.
I would not recommend this card to anyone.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Good product, good value, software is clunky
Comment: I bought this to add tv tuner capabilities to my desktop workstation. It works quite well for watching and pausing live tv. The software for viewing, planning, and storing automated recordings is quite clunky and awkward to use. My suggestion: Try http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10053173-1.html?tag=TOCcarouselArea.0 when it is available. It is packaged with a nearly identical Hauppauge tuner card, or you can use your own card and just buy the software.
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Summary: TV card not performing as expected
Comment: I installed the Hauppauge 1178 WinTV-HVR-1600 Internal Hybrid TV Tuner/Video Recorder in my Windows 64 bit Vista machine and it only works PART OF THE TIME. It works fine at times, but other times the signal is broken up and lots of pieces come up missing. I've tried EVERYTHING TO FIX the problem only to wind up in defeat. I wish I had gone another route. In all fairness, the company did offer to refund my money (or exchange it whatever) but I kept it and tried some more tricks, only to wind up again with the same mess from time to time. Oh well, live and learn. Works great WHEN IT WORKS.
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