Pros: This device works great with windows 7 64bit and integrates seamlessly into windows media center. you can watch one show while recording another, pause live tv or even back up if you missed something. It has a lot of recording options, set it to record a whole tv series or just one show. Windows finds the card and installs the drivers for the tuners

Cons: The tv app it comes with crashes a lot and is just not worth the time to install. Windows does not see the IR control at first, sometimes you will need the install disc. You will also need the install disk to upgrade the software if you use it.

Overall Review: I just don't understand how a company can make such a good TV tuner and not write a good program to go with it. Also why not support mac os x? How hard can it really be

Pros: I'm not all digital yet, so I didn't want to buy a fully digital card and miss most of my lineup still. But I sure didn't want to buy a pure analog card that's obsolete shortly. Another option is a card that has one analog tuner and one digital tuner--which still feels like a waste once the analog options are gone. It's like being left with half a card. The 2250 has two hybrid tuners. That means you get two tuners that can each tune in digital or analog shows, note however that that doesn't mean you can record 4 shows at once, just two. Once I go completely digital, I'll have access to the same number of tuners as I do now. The only thing going to waste is the mpeg2 hardware encoder (since digital recordings don't need to be encoded--they already are), but that's pretty small potatoes.

Cons: There's only one coax input for both hybrid tuners--it has an internal splitter. Looking at the picture of it, some people might think that the second coax input is for the second tuner, but that's for FM (is there really a big demand for FM in tuner cards?). The practical problem with this is that you can't record both ATSC (over the air digital) and analog cable from the same card. So be sure to check with your cable provider to see what QAM options there are, and google for the experiences of others in your local market (surprisingly, I quickly found other people in my relatively small market describing their selection via google). The release drivers gave lots of people trouble with QAM reception. Hauppauge has since corrected this, but the new drivers are, I think, still pre-release, and thus harder to find. Google for "2250 prerelease drivers", and you should find the good stuff.

Overall Review: GBPVR is a free recording and viewing app for windows with incredible support and great features. I've been using it for years, and was pretty psyched with the level of support from both the developer and the community when I upgraded to the 2250. The developer was the one who found the newest prerelease drivers for me. This version (1213) comes with a remote and USB IR sensor. The drivers don't play well with XP Home, but you can fix it by adding a line in irbus.inf to include your device's vid. After doing that, it works fine for me. Google (exercising reasonable caution--if you're not tech savvy, have a friend do it) for detailed steps.

Pros: Works great with WMC. I go to family diner at my in-laws every Sunday and have missed animation domination for 2 years, until I bought this card. The dual tuner with on card decoding lets you record in the back ground with out and any CPU or GPU slowdown at all!! You can record your show while watching your wife's show with her, with no problems at all. The video capture let me turn all my VHS into DVDs. Not to mention the remote that starts WMC controls the volume and every thing else you expect a remote to do!! I am so happy about this card I can not even begin to give all the pros!!! I can put my HTCP to sleep and the card wakes the system up to record my shows!! I don't have to worry if my PC is on or not to have my programs recorded. It gets more channels then my digital HD 1080p TV tuner does, that impresses me! I have not used this option but you can hook your cable box up to your HTPC through the card as well, and do all the features I described and some more.

Cons: I had to install the WinTV software to use all the features of the card has through WMC. Which after the first restart I uninstalled and was still able to use all of them. Tried this twice just to make sure that that was the issue. If you only install the W7 drivers you can't utilize the card fully. This is easily resolved by installing the cards software then restarting W7 and then uninstalling the program.

Overall Review: I love this card, to think I almost stated paying for cable just for the options this card has!!! Like record TV settings; record series, single show, or new shows only. Also pausing live TV for about ten min so you can fast forward through the commercials.

Pros: Hauppauge made a true winner when they developed the 2250 model. I used one in Vista x64 Ultimate and it ran quite well. However, the latest version of the 2250, combined by Win7 x64 Ultimate AND their very new (10-09-09) software version: WinTV v7 1.2a, is Fabulous! Also, the PCIe 1x interface resolves all hardware and software conflicts that might arise without and trouble to the owner.

Cons: The card is still a bit pricey, but better products usually cost a few bucks more.

Overall Review: If you're looking for a first-rate TV Tuner card, this is the one to use with Win7.

Pros: I bought 1 of these to replace the Hauppauge hybrid tuner that came with a refurb HP pc near end of 2008 to be able to continue to record 2 channels from OTA broadcasts (due to switch to all digital broadcasts). So happy with it, bought another so I could record 4 channels, same time. Simple (mostly) plug-n-play with Windows Vista 32bit WMC. I never bothered to use WinTV. Once you've used WMC's program guide, you'll never go back. Nice to be able to record a series as 1 selection. When the pc's built in IR receiver began to fail, simply plugged in the included IR receiver to a BACK usb port and functionality restored using the original remote from HP. Have never used the included remote; HP remote still working. The 1 antenna cable in (rg6 coax) for 2 tuners very nice, better than the hybrid's needing 2 antenna inputs.

Cons: Every now and again, WMC will flag a NON-existent conflict, saying not enough tuners. But this is a WMC flaw, not these cards. If building a SMALL HTPC, make sure you have the room. While these cards are not that big, better to have air flow around them. I use a mini-tower, so not an issue.

Overall Review: Can't really comment on tuner sensitivity, given I live line of sight to the tv transmitters. Hauppauge also sells a cheaper "white box" version that comes only with the card, no remote. I will build a new HTPC this year with Win7 64bit. Seems that driver bugs have been solved, so both cards will move to new HTPC. These cards really work great for OTA (over the air) broadcasts, allowing you to time shift with ease. While it's a SMALL hassle having to open up a case to install a card, I like these better than an external usb device.

Pros: It works with its own software or with Windows Media Center. I spent a week trying to get Media Center to work properly, then installed the WinTV software that came with it The WinTV is a little more labor instensive to set up, but performs as well as Media Center and it allowed me to put my recorded programs on Drive D rather than on Drive C on the Windows 7 64 Bit computer I am using as a DVR. The software on the supplied disk is good, but the updated version of the Hauppauge website is better. There's also some additional software you can download to help with and improve the installation and setup.

Cons: The directions that came with the 2250 left a bit to be desired. I still have not found anything that completely describes the functions of all the buttons on the supplied IR Remote.

Overall Review: If you want to save and play your recorded television from a drive or directory other than Drive C:\Users\... then use the WinTV software. Media Center allows you to set it up to save and play your recordings from wherever you state, then sticks them on Drive C:\Users\... and that is the ONLY place it will find a recording when you're trying to play something. This is NOT a fault with the WinTV card or drivers. It is totally a problem with Microsoft's Windows Media Center - What a surprise...!!!!!

Pros: Simple to set up using included software.If using with Media center- install the card after computer has been run and internet is connected. This will automatically download drivers fom Microsluff.Then install software included or from Hauppage. This new software will allow 2 video windows or picture in picture (PERFECT} FM card works perfecty.

Cons: Asolutly none!!

Overall Review: Using the TV EXTEND that is available-Can stream HI-DEF on my home network {wired} Ihave two of these cards from Newegg and 1 Purchased from Hauppage. Tried over 30 devices from other companys ofer 6 years and this is THE BEST!

Pros: Works great once installed and configured. Runs smoothly with HD shows. Able to pick up all my QAM channels.

Cons: Does not scan QAM channels properly, might be due to cable company, had to manually enter the channels in. Huge bug in my card, I gave it 3 eggs because of this: the hardware ID does not match drivers. When I first installed it, I thought I had a DOA device. But it turned out that the hardware ID written on this card does not match the drivers Hauppauge has. It is a known issue, if you do a google search you will find it. Luckily I was able to get the card working by the modifying the inf driver file. Others might have just given up and said its DOA.

Overall Review: For anyone that encounter this issue I had. If windows detect it but cannot install drivers for it, saying it can't find it. What you do is run the driver install program. It will create a folder C:\Hauppauge. Goto the drivers folder, find the hcs89.inf there is another for 64 bit OS also. Open it in notepad. In there replace all instances of 88800070 (correct Hardware ID) with 00001131 (incorrect one on board). Now run the driver installation program again and this time it will find it, since you have made the INF file match the ID with the hardware. Wish Hauppauge would get off their behinds and add this entry themselves. I mean its not hard, all they have to do is copy the two lines of code and make another entry for Hardware ID 00001131.