Hauppauge 1196 WinTV HVR-1250 PCI Express Hybrid High Definition TV Tuner Card
- Watch, pause, and record digital and analog TV on your PC
- Compatible with ATSC and QAM digital TV, and NTSC analog cable TV signals
- Dbx-TV stereo decoding for spectacular sound
- MPEG-2 software encoder for analog TV
- Includes remote control and Personal Video Recorder software for scheduled recording of programs
Product Description
The WinTV-HVR-1250 from Hauppauge is a dual tuner analog and high definition digital ATSC PCI Express card internal TV tuner for PCs. The WinTV-HVR-1250 has separate tuners for analog NTSC and ATSC digital TV. Ships with full height bracket installed, and includes low profile bracket as well. Includes remote control. Certified for Windows Vista.Features Includes: Watch, pause and record TV on your PC, in window or full screen, uses Hauppauge¿s SoftPVR to record analog TV programs to your computer¿s disk drive, receive ATSC digital TV or Clear QAM digital cable TV, up to 1080i format, receive NTSC analog cable TV with the built-in 125 channel cable-ready TV tuner, Dolby-TV stereo decoder, Schedule TV recordings with WinTV-Scheduler software, Compatible with Windows XP and all versions of Windows Vista.Amazon.com Product Description
The Hauppauge 1196 WinTV-HVR-1250 lets you watch, pause and record both digital and analog television on your PC… More >>
Hauppauge 1196 WinTV HVR-1250 PCI Express Hybrid High Definition TV Tuner Card
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5 comments
Dan Wills on December 10, 2009 at 2:23 am
I guess it is a good product, it does not work on Windows 2000, so it is just setting on a shelf.
John J. Malone on December 10, 2009 at 4:05 am
Spent four hours trtying to make this card work in my Itanium Windows Vista PCIE system.
Like I am, you will likely be sending this card back.
I could tell the whole story here, but four hours is enough.
William D. Crase on December 10, 2009 at 6:32 am
I ordered this so I could hook my satellite box to my computer. I wanted to watch the news while I’m on the computer. I run Windows Home Premium with an Intel E2140, 2GB ram and a PNY 8500GT graphics card.
What I get is a mid-quality black & white picture. A T.V. connected to the same cables gives a color picture, but when the 1196 is hooked up, black & white.
I then hooked it up to a cheap set top antenna. The picture quality of the digital channels is very good, but I bought it to watch satellite T.V. on my computer. And at that it fails.
Maybe I just got a bad card. Maybe I just got what I paid for.
Vijaye Raji on December 10, 2009 at 7:28 am
After plugging the new card and cable in my Vista PC and letting Windows install the driver from the CD, I fired up Media Center (MC) and let it scan for a signal. After about a minute, MC came back and said it can’t find a signal. At first I thought it was MC that was reporting wrong. So, I proceeded to install the rest of the software on the CD. Bad Move. The installer silently installed about 14 programs on my PC. Things like Guide Scheduler, Infra-red config, etc. Programs I don’t care and don’t want on my PC.
Anyways, long story short – WinTV failed to get any signal too. So, I uninstalled all the software one by one, rebooted my machine and then carefully installed just the driver and the WinTV software. This time, WinTV found a bunch of Analog channels, but they all came out in Black and White with poor signal. To rule out the possibility of a bad cable, I plugged an older card from my other PC. My older card, PVR150 worked just fine with MC, and showed crystal clear picture.
To save myself from further frustration, I packed it and took it back to the store.
Eric on December 10, 2009 at 9:47 am
Nowhere was it mentioned that this card DOES NOT HAVE A HARDWARE DECODER!!!! Do not bother with this card. Research more and find one that includes a hardware decoder or you will use 100% CPU just to try and watch a jerky unwatchable hdtv channel.