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Manufacturer Limited Warranty period (parts): 720 days
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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Works Great
Reviewed By: JesseYoung on 7/21/2009
Tech Level: high - Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
Pros: Works great, fits just perfect between my two nvidia 8800 gt and doesn't cause any spikes in heat on either card.
Picks up regular television, digital television and digital cable at 1080.
The remote was probably the best deal. A nice MCE remote goes for about 30 bucks this was tossed in for free.
I have used this card on Vista 32 bit and 64 bit as well as Windows 7 64 bit all of them work amazing in media center. Media center is able to use all of the features of the card including the FM tuner.
No issues with installation was just plug it in and windows did the rest, no need for any installation discs.
Cons: None that I can think of.
Other Thoughts: This was the third tv tuner card that I purchased the first two under 50 dollars. This one FAR surpassed the others in functionality as well as picture sound. One of the nicest products I have purchased from Newegg
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Cons: Windows XP MCE 2005 compatable? Media Center Roll Up 2?
Despite my computer meeting and exceeding all the basic requirements, their faulty drivers nearly crashed my system, made media center unstable, and if my system restore didn't cut it, I'll have to wipe my whole comp to undo the damage.
Their tech support is a joke. I sent pages of info on what was going on, and I never got a response even hinting at a way to solve the problem.
Other Thoughts: I got my return approval instantly from Newegg. I'd much rather have a functional digital card for my PC, but at least I'll get a majority of my money back for this exercise in creating stress.
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Worst hardware ever
Reviewed By: Twin on 7/18/2010
Tech Level: average - Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
Pros: Derek Jeter, Hideki Matsui
Cons: The way it was packaged. It didn't pick up digital channels, it didn't pick up analog channels, it can't pick up from a set top box even if I wanted to, the software is the worst software I've ever seen. The support is useless and neither the automated support or live support can help you in any way. It's pure level 1 support and their automated support is simply an FAQ that tells you to check that things are plugged in. Yes, the software is failing because I didn't turn on the computer.
Do not buy this expensive TV tuner thinking it can do any of the things it says it can. Take $100 and eat it.
This card does nothing that it is supposed to do.
Other Thoughts: I am horrified that Hauppauge is an American company. I couldn't dream of worse product.
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was sent old version
Reviewed By: on 7/14/2010
Tech Level: somewhat high - Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
Pros: fast shipping
Cons: flickers on the digital channels very annoying, was supposed to get the 1850 version as ADVERTISED got the 1800.
Other Thoughts: This item is basically useless to me now, I switched to direc tv and got rid of the cable pig. (comcast)
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Model
Brand
Hauppauge
Model
1128
General
Type
TV 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 7, Windows Vista (any version), Windows XP Media Center Edition
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
