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| Hauppauge 1183 WinTV HVR-1600 Internal PCI Dual TV Tuner/Video Recorder Media Center Kit |
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List Price: $129.99
Our Price: $98.95
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Manufacturer: HAUPPAUGE
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Binding: Electronics
Brand: Hauppauge
EAN: 0785428011837
Feature: PCI card with dual TV tuners to let you watch both digital and analog television on your computer
Is Memorabilia: 0
Label: HAUPPAUGE
Manufacturer: HAUPPAUGE
Model: 1183
Publisher: HAUPPAUGE
Studio: HAUPPAUGE
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PCI card with dual TV tuners to let you watch both digital and analog television on your computer
Supports QAM, ATSC, and analog cable signals
On-board MPEG-2 encoder allows PC to run at full speed while recording analog cable TV directly to hard drive
Includes dbx-TV stereo decoder for great TV sound; Composite/S-Video and audio inputs for connecting to VCRs or cable/satellite set top boxes
Includes WinTV-Scheduler to schedule television recordings and Windows Media Certified USB remote control transmitter and receiver
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Summary: You must be kidding
Comment: I dont know what has happend with TV card makers but they just cant seem to get it wright.
I owned some WinTV cards back in the old Windows XP early days and they worked perfectly.
Lets start with the installation.
Installed included software on Vista. The driver did not get installed properly and I would get an error each time I installed the software.
I went to the manufacture web site and got the latest software and installed it. What a mess. two different apps fighting. Any way after a system restore (I allways create a restore point now) I install the new software. OK it worked kind of. The Docs stink and the overhead the software has for HD is crazy. With a Dual 3Ghz system with Nvidia 9300 graphics card the thing eats 50-80% of the CPU. This is a sign of very poor Vid capture system. I have tried others and the same video will eat 15% of the CPU.
Lots of lock ups and very poor docs. I took it back. Skip this one if you are smart.
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Summary: Product did not work as adverstised; Hauppauge Technical Support is horrible. Do not buy Huappauge products.
Comment: At the outset, I want to say that I am generally non-judgmental and easy-going.
A month ago, I upgraded my Windows Media center PC to Windows Vista Premium 64 bit operating system. The existing TV tuner that came with the original hardware did not work. So I decided to upgrade to a new TV tuner. I saw that Hauppauge, the maker of my old TV tuner had a new product that I could install and be able to view HD TV on my TV. I bought WinTV-HVR-1600 MCE Kit Bundle. I removed the old tuner and replaced it with the new tuner. I followed all the instructions including the latest device drivers and the PC properties/device driver said that the device was working properly. So, I decided to go to Media Center and followed the channel tuning steps. This is where the trouble began. The HD Digital TV scan identified the local channels that transmit digital signal and then started the signal intensity scan. At the first pass it showed signals that had 4 green bars. Then it went through them again and changed the strength of the same stations to 2 red bars, etc. and the scanning kept going on and on and on forever and every time it kept changing the number of green bars. Then, when I stopped it manually and went to view a channel, I got the message "TV signal not available, etc."
I called Hauppauge and their Tech Support person did not know what was going on. He asked me to download a driver file which I had already done in the first place. Then, he said that he would forward my problem to their engineer. The engineer e-mailed me asking me to send him screen shots without being specific about which ones and why. I e-mailed him back asking to be more specific. That was 3 weeks ago. I have not heard back from Hauppauge tech support.
Bottom line: I wasted about $80 on the tuner, $40 on a powered antenna and I cannot yet get any signal and the Hauppauge technical support seems to be one of the worst operations I have encountered in a long, long time. Hauppauge should be investigated for false claims and bad customer service.
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