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Manufacturer Limited Warranty period (labor): 720 days
Hauppauge turns your PC into an HDTV with their WinTV-HVR-1800. This PCIe X1 card has three tuners: FM radio, NTSC, and ATSC/clear QAM. The NTSC tuner is a 125 channel cable ready tuner for all of your standard over the air broadcasts or regular cable TV. The ATSC/clear QAM tuner supports all 18 ATSC formats including 1080i. You can watch the programming live or record it to disk as an MPEG-2 program stream.
There is also an S-Video input with coax audio inputs so you can attach a VCR to copy your old tapes onto DVD. An S-Video to composite adapter makes it possible to use a wider range of machines with the card.
Pros: having this in one of the pci-e slots is great (haven't had a use for those 1 4 and 8x slots yet!). Vista Media Center works great with it. All the stations look great, have very fast channel changing. S-video and audio in, great for running my wii through the system (my pc serves as my tv, movie, game center through a projector), however it took a bit of searching to find the right program that would allow the s-video to just play through instead of being 5 seconds behind for live-tv pausing.. good stuff.
Cons: None
Other Thoughts: I endured the 'tuner not found' message while trying to set this up in vista mce.. not the card's fault, but after 6 hours of google-ing, I finally found this.. give it a go if you get that blasted message: 1. Press Start+R buttons on keyboard. 2. Type "services.msc" without quotes in box. 3. Scroll down to Windows Media Center services (should be 4 or 5 of them). 4. Make sure they are all set on "Automatic" and enable all of them. These services have to be enabled in order for WMC to work properly.
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it's a good tuner card
Reviewed By: rev jjcale on 12/28/2007
Tech Level: high - Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
Pros: Easy to install and setup Works great with media center in Vista
Cons: Can't get FM radio tuner to work in Vista x64 Provided WinTV software tends to go bonkers when you start scrolling through paused TV, to skip commercials and what not.
Other Thoughts: I use this card regularly to tune over the air HD television (ATSC). Picture quality is outstanding. I definitely would recommend this card to others
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Cons: Software is iffy but overall with a little tweaking the card works great.
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still kickin
Reviewed By: cwild on 1/28/2010
Tech Level: somewhat high - Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
Pros: after almost a year since my 1st review (n/a 5/20/09 7:57 am "works fine", yeah i know i forgot to put in nickname) and upgrage to win 7 x64 i thought i would take a peek back and see whats going on. Still kicking and not having a single problem, well 1 problem but its not 1850 or Bill's fault. (see cons)
Cons: it seems the reason i can only get a 1/4 the QAM Comcast offers in my area is because the cable that runs to my house is almost 30+ yrs old. When I asked can they be replaced, I got a very strange look from the Tech they sent. Cant fault Bill or Hauppauge for that so Comcast can kiss me........ Seems since my upgrage to win7 x64 the channels changing got a lil slower, but I have to go with what i said earlier, if your not willing to wait another 1/2 sec then your standards are too high.
Other Thoughts: tried using the av slots to record gaming with wintv, but that was a serious waste of time. Just bought an HDMI capture card and solved that problem instantly. For those whom even think of trying to use Wintv, you need to stop and just use Media Center for your recording and so forth, or try another way to move those VHS tapes of Aunt Vicky and the Kids running around the park to the computer, cause wintv just is not going to cut it. I found using free apps like fraps and other screen capture utilities that use the wintv structure worked a lil better but I would try using a dedicated PVR card for that purpose as this card was built as a tv tuner being its 1st purpose. It will work using wintv but its a headache. & also dont use the disc that comes with it always download the newest drivers from the maker, you would figure ppl would know that by now!
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Reviewed By: on 1/23/2010
Tech Level: high - Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
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Pros: Captures digital cable well. The picture is very good, as well as the recording.
Cons: Does NOT come with the WinTV software as advertised on the Hauppauge website. The tech rep I contacted refused to send it at first, but he relented after I asked him to speak with his supervisor. Once I received the software it still didn't work due to a .NET error. I plan on buying Windows 7 and bypassing the software entirely(currently using XP).
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Model
Brand
Hauppauge
Model
1128
General
Type
Tuner Card
TV Tuner
Hybrid Tuner
TV Standards
ATSC / ClearQAM / NTSC
FM Tuner
Yes
Remote Control
MCE Remote Included
Interface
PCI-Express x1
Features
Windows Vista
Certified for Windows Vista
Features
Watch and record ATSC high definition digital TV or analog cable TV on your PC, in a window or full screen! ATSC HD is the over-the-air high definition TV standard for North America.
Watch and record 'clear QAM' digital TV channels. Clear QAM digital TV channels are TV channels which are broadcast "in the clear" on your cable TV network.
Two tuners on board: a 125 channel cable ready TV tuner and an ATSC/QAM digital TV tuner.
New! WinTV-HVR-1850 board is now shipping!
The WinTV-HVR-1850 board adds on-board Media Center and WinTV remote control receiver/blaster. Now you can get IR receive and blast for both Media Center and the WinTV v7 application, without needing an external "beanbag". All of the other features of the WinTV-HVR-1850 remain the same as the WinTV-HVR-1800.
Technically speaking:
WinTV-HVR-1800 is a PCI Express X1 board. It contains two tuners: a digital TV tuner to receive ATSC and QAM channels plus a 125-channel cable ready TV tuner. For ATSC and QAM digital TV, all 18 ATSC formats including 1080i can be watched or recorded to disk as a MPEG-2 Program Stream. A highly integrated MPEG-1/2 hardware encoder based on the Conexant -418 is on-board for recording analog cable TV to disk. The playback of the recorded ATSC and QAM digital TV and MPEG-2 encoded analog programs are done through a software MPEG-2 player.
Specifications
Video Encoding
Hardware Encoding
Video Format
MPEG-2(DVD)/MPEG-1(VCD)
Ports In
Analog Cable TV input ATSC / QAM Digital TV input FM Radio input S-Video / Composite input Left / Right Stereo Audio input
System Requirements
Processor
2.2 GHz P4 or equivalent
Graphics Card
Graphics with 64 MB memory (or greater)
Available Slot
Available PCIe X1 or X8 slot
Operating Systems Supported
Microsoft Windows Vista (any version), Windows XP Home, Pro or Media Center Edition. Windows Vista Premium certified
Others
Sound card DVD or CD writer for burning Video CD's, S-VCD's or DVD's (optional)
Packaging
Package Contents
WinTV-HVR-1850 PCI Express card with 125 channel cable-ready TV tuner, ATSC/QAM tuner, hardware MPEG-2 encoder, dbx-TV stereo decoder, S-Video/composite and audio inputs. With FM radio Windows Media Center certified remote control On-board receiver and blaster. Compatible with Windows Media Center (all versions) and the Hauppauge WinTV v7 application. IR Blaster (infra-red remote control transmitter), controls channel changing on satellite and cable TV set top boxes. WinTV-HVR-1800 CD-ROM includes: WinTV-HVR-1800 driver for Windows Media Center
Manufacturer Warranty
Parts
2 years limited
Labor
2 years limited
Introduction
Hauppauge turns your PC into an HDTV with their WinTV-HVR-1800. This PCIe X1 card has three tuners: FM radio, NTSC, and ATSC/clear QAM. The NTSC tuner is a 125 channel cable ready tuner for all of your standard over the air broadcasts or regular cable TV. The ATSC/clear QAM tuner supports all 18 ATSC formats including 1080i. You can watch the programming live or record it to disk as an MPEG-2 program stream.
There is also an S-Video input with coax audio inputs so you can attach a VCR to copy your old tapes onto DVD. An S-Video to composite adapter makes it possible to use a wider range of machines with the card.
Highlights
Advanced TV Tuner Loaded with the latest in digital TV technologies, the Hauppauge WinTV-HVR-1800 MCE lets you receive ATSC high definition digital TV, QAM TV and analog cable TV, all on your computer.
Your Personal Digital Video Recorder With the Hauppauge WinTV-HVR-1800 MCE, capture live TV shows directly to your PC's hard disk or record high definition digital ATSC and QAM in the original digital quality, and schedule the recordings of your favorite analog or digital TV programming using the WinTV-Scheduler.
Hardware Video Encoding The Hauppauge WinTV-HVR-1800 MCE features a built-in MPEG-2 hardware encoder to record high-quality analog cable TV without occupying CPU resources.
Remote Control With the full-function remote control, access every feature on the Hauppauge WinTV-HVR-1800 MCE from across the room without tangling wires.
Reviewed By: Steve in Reno on 1/21/2008
Tech Level: high - Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
