Hauppauge 1178 WinTV-HVR-1600 Internal Hybrid TV Tuner/Video Recorder
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Product Description:
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.
Amazon.com Product Description:
The Hauppauge 1178 WinTV-HVR-1600 includes dual TV tuners to let you watch both digital and analog television on your PC, in a window or full screen. With PVR software and built-in hardware for MPEG-2 encoding, you can also record television onto your computer for viewing later without slowing down your computer.
Watch High-definition Digital TV on Your Computer
With dual format TV tuners, the WinTV-HVR-1600 lets you watch ATSC digital TV as well as QAM digital TV and analog cable TV. ATSC digital TV, which typically requires an antenna for reception, is the over-the-air HDTV standard for North America. ATSC broadcasts range in resolution from standard definition up to the high definition 1080i format. (To check the ATSC digital transmissions in your area, input your zip code at titantv.com.)
The WinTV-HVR-1600 also lets you watch and record QAM channels, which are unencrypted digital channels broadcast by your local cable operator. If you don't have access to digital television channels yet, you can also watch regular analog cable television. And with the included remote control, you can control your cable TV or satellite set top box.
In addition to high-definition video, the card also features a dbx-TV stereo decoder for great TV sound. The card has Composite/S-Video and audio inputs that allow for connecting VCRs or cable/satellite set top boxes.
Your Own Personal Digital Video Recorder!
With the included software, you can easily record TV shows to your hard disk using MPEG-2. Several recording options are available depending on your playback needs; higher quality video requires more disk space. Generally, 5 gigabytes of disk space is used per hour of ATCS digital TV recordings.. Thanks to the built-in hardware MPEG-2 encoder, your PC continues to run at full speed even while recording.
With the WinTV-Scheduler software, easily schedule the recordings of your favorite television shows daily, weekly, or just once. You can then play back the recordings at your leisure, burn them onto CD or DVD for playback on another computer or your television, or with video editing software (not included), you can edit the shows. This is great for saving favorite movie clips, or of your favorite teams dramatic last-second win or your favorite player's grand slam.
The Hauppauge 1178 WinTV-HVR-1600 plugs into a PCI slot and is compatible with Windows Vista, XP with Service Pack 2, and Windows XP Media Center Edition. With XP-MCE and Vista, you can add the WinTV-HVR-1600 as either the primary or secondary TV tuner. The Microsoft Media Center application supports up to two TV tuners so you can watch on channel while recording another.
What's in the Box
WinTV-HVR-1600 PCI card, IR remote control receiver, IR Blaster (remote control), CD-ROM with WinTV software.
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.
Amazon.com Product Description:
The Hauppauge 1178 WinTV-HVR-1600 includes dual TV tuners to let you watch both digital and analog television on your PC, in a window or full screen. With PVR software and built-in hardware for MPEG-2 encoding, you can also record television onto your computer for viewing later without slowing down your computer.
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 Dual tuners lets you watch both digital and analog signals. View larger. |
With dual format TV tuners, the WinTV-HVR-1600 lets you watch ATSC digital TV as well as QAM digital TV and analog cable TV. ATSC digital TV, which typically requires an antenna for reception, is the over-the-air HDTV standard for North America. ATSC broadcasts range in resolution from standard definition up to the high definition 1080i format. (To check the ATSC digital transmissions in your area, input your zip code at titantv.com.)
The WinTV-HVR-1600 also lets you watch and record QAM channels, which are unencrypted digital channels broadcast by your local cable operator. If you don't have access to digital television channels yet, you can also watch regular analog cable television. And with the included remote control, you can control your cable TV or satellite set top box.
In addition to high-definition video, the card also features a dbx-TV stereo decoder for great TV sound. The card has Composite/S-Video and audio inputs that allow for connecting VCRs or cable/satellite set top boxes.
Your Own Personal Digital Video Recorder!
With the included software, you can easily record TV shows to your hard disk using MPEG-2. Several recording options are available depending on your playback needs; higher quality video requires more disk space. Generally, 5 gigabytes of disk space is used per hour of ATCS digital TV recordings.. Thanks to the built-in hardware MPEG-2 encoder, your PC continues to run at full speed even while recording.
| The WinTV application offers an elegant interface to watch TV in a window or full screen. View larger. |
The Hauppauge 1178 WinTV-HVR-1600 plugs into a PCI slot and is compatible with Windows Vista, XP with Service Pack 2, and Windows XP Media Center Edition. With XP-MCE and Vista, you can add the WinTV-HVR-1600 as either the primary or secondary TV tuner. The Microsoft Media Center application supports up to two TV tuners so you can watch on channel while recording another.
What's in the Box
WinTV-HVR-1600 PCI card, IR remote control receiver, IR Blaster (remote control), CD-ROM with WinTV software.
Features:
- 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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Customer Reviews
Average Rating:
Rating: 
- HDTV watch only, analog TV burns to dvd
As the other reviewers have said, this product has good to great hardware and very poor software.The tuner is very good, especially for HDTV, but the recorder software fair for analog TV only and it is useless for HDTV.The two are just not matched up to work together.The recorder software is a stripped out trial version of Corel's "Ulead MovieFactory 5".A free trial version of "Ulead MovieFactory 6" is still available on the www.corel.com website.
The selection of pci tuner ... Read More
Rating: 
- Does not pause live TV
Does not record sound when recording live TV.Can't watch a show on one station and record on another station.You can find cards for cheaper that have better package software.
Rating: 
-Hardware great; software weak
I'm setting up a PVR to gradually take the place of my multi-VCR system, and to be able to record some of the broadcast digital HD channels. The 1600 lives in the same system with a Hauppauge 950Q, on a WinXP dual-core system. WinTV 6 has trouble tuning the digital stations and won't handle multiple tuners (i.e. the 1600 + the 950Q). Hauppauge has a newer version of WinTV that is supposed to handle multiple tuners. Though it recognized both tuners, it wouldn't let me do anything useful with them ... Read More
Rating: - Easy to Setup TV Tuner
I am currently using this on a Vista Home Premium home-made system. Media Center picked it up and using Microsoft's channel guide, I have an easy to use PVR. I'm using the analog input for now as this is the cable I have. I'm sure the digital input will work as well. Great buy on Amazon.
Rating: 
- Nice product hard to configure.
It does what it needs to do but the description is misleading.
This is not for digital cable but rather for QAM only (HD signals).
It was confusing how to set it up with BeyodTV product but there are very good forum out there that helps.
If anyone wants a card for digital cable - please note that most channels on digital cable are SDV (Switch demand Video) and this card does not support that.
It is very hard to configure the QAM channels and gives very little benefit.
- HDTV watch only, analog TV burns to dvdAs the other reviewers have said, this product has good to great hardware and very poor software.The tuner is very good, especially for HDTV, but the recorder software fair for analog TV only and it is useless for HDTV.The two are just not matched up to work together.The recorder software is a stripped out trial version of Corel's "Ulead MovieFactory 5".A free trial version of "Ulead MovieFactory 6" is still available on the www.corel.com website.
The selection of pci tuner ... Read More
- Does not pause live TVDoes not record sound when recording live TV.Can't watch a show on one station and record on another station.You can find cards for cheaper that have better package software.
-Hardware great; software weakI'm setting up a PVR to gradually take the place of my multi-VCR system, and to be able to record some of the broadcast digital HD channels. The 1600 lives in the same system with a Hauppauge 950Q, on a WinXP dual-core system. WinTV 6 has trouble tuning the digital stations and won't handle multiple tuners (i.e. the 1600 + the 950Q). Hauppauge has a newer version of WinTV that is supposed to handle multiple tuners. Though it recognized both tuners, it wouldn't let me do anything useful with them ... Read More
- Easy to Setup TV TunerI am currently using this on a Vista Home Premium home-made system. Media Center picked it up and using Microsoft's channel guide, I have an easy to use PVR. I'm using the analog input for now as this is the cable I have. I'm sure the digital input will work as well. Great buy on Amazon.
- Nice product hard to configure.It does what it needs to do but the description is misleading.
This is not for digital cable but rather for QAM only (HD signals).
It was confusing how to set it up with BeyodTV product but there are very good forum out there that helps.
If anyone wants a card for digital cable - please note that most channels on digital cable are SDV (Switch demand Video) and this card does not support that.
It is very hard to configure the QAM channels and gives very little benefit.
