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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.
The included Hauppauge WinTV2000 application lets you toggle between tuners so it is easy to watch what you want. Or, Windows Vista Media center will let you use the card as one of its tuners for seamless Vista integration. To make it easier to use there is a full function remote control included.
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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Pros: It installed with no real issues and it works. The software it comes with is sufficient for scheduling while I figure out how to get WMC to control my DirecTv set top box (more about this in the cons). Allows me to watch TV and do homework with my dual monitor set up.
Cons: I ordered the 1800 but was sent the 1850 and now I see they have changed the title accordingly to reflect this change. only thing is, it doesn't really seem like an upgrade since it is missing features from the old model. it even comes with a couple cables that it can't even use, including the IR Blaster. and to add insult to injury, the software isn't all that good.
it does work so i try not to be too hard on it but the recording quality is just ok. the recorded videos are in a weird aspect ratio with a full box around the video and an hour long show usually pushes 2.5GB. i'm not sure if there is a setting i could use to fix all this but i have yet to find it if so. the size isn't a huge deal since i have a whole lot load of hard drive space (close to 3TB) but it is annoying that the quality is bad on a file so big and it may be an issue for people without as much HD space as i have.
i won't say i have buyers remorse, but i'm certainly not 100% satisfied with its performance.
Other Thoughts: the plan was to eventually move from XBMC to 7MC but i have been dragging my feet on it since i couldn't get the IR Blaster to work. XBMC is in my honest opinion a better 10 foot media player than MC, but the discovery of a couple plugins and the fact it does TV is making me make the switch. i'm sure once i have a chance to sit and get it all up and working right it will be fine, but so far, it's really hard trying to find out how to set this thing up. i'm pretty tech savvy but i can't even find a tutorial anywhere about to use DirecTv with this tuner through Media Center.
i guess i imagined a Tivo like set up where i could tell it what i like and it would do the rest, but that hasn't happened yet and i'm still missing shows cause i have to remember to set it.
so yea, this tuner is ok but i just don't feel like it was worth the money i paid for it since it even comes with less stuff than advertised (at least when i bought it).
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Well worth it
Reviewed By: RiffRaff on 11/16/2009
Tech Level: somewhat high - Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
Pros: Easy install, comes with everything. Runs flawlessly.
pair it with windows 7 Windows Media Center for all your TV needs. I record my tv shows. stream them upstairs via my xbox and me and my roomies are living the dream. now we only need girls
Cons: the given software is garbage.. ignore that or upgrade to WinTV 7 for free and its decent
Other Thoughts: I love it. get it
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Reviewed By: RiffRaff on 11/16/2009
Tech Level: somewhat high - Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
Pros: Easy install, comes with everything. Runs flawlessly.
pair it with windows 7 Windows Media Center for all your TV needs. I record my tv shows. stream them upstairs via my xbox and me and my roomies are living the dream. now we only need girls
Cons: the given software is garbage.. ignore that or upgrade to WinTV 7 for free and its decent
Other Thoughts: I love it. get it
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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.
Includes Hauppauge's WinTV v6 application, which allows you to toggle between analog cable TV, QAM and ATSC digital TV channels.
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
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.
The included Hauppauge WinTV2000 application lets you toggle between tuners so it is easy to watch what you want. Or, Windows Vista Media center will let you use the card as one of its tuners for seamless Vista integration. To make it easier to use there is a full function remote control included.
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
