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| Hauppauge WinTV-HVR-2250 | Tv Tuner Digital TV ATSC HDTV QAM tuner Analog VideoIn MPEG2 hardware |
Win95? Win98? Win2K? WinXP Vista NT4? MAC? Linux? *based on user reports. |
PCIE | $250 | 7.3/10 4 votes |
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| Dual everything!
Two analog tuners and hardware encoders. Two digital TV receivers for ATSC or clear QAM. All on one half height PCIe board! * Dual tuner TV board for your PC: two analog / digital TV tuners: o Dual built-in hardware MPEG-2 encoders for recording analog cable TV, for the best system performance. Watch and record two cable TV programs at the same time! o Dual digital TV receivers for ATSC or clear QAM. Watch and record two digital TV programs at the same time. Watch and record all ATSC and QAM formats, including the highest definition 1080i format * Windows Vista Media Center compatible. * Single slot PCI Express (PCIe) X1 board, half height WinTV-HVR-2250 * Watch and record two TV programs at the same time: two analog cable TV channels, two digital TV channels or one analog cable and one clear QAM digital cable TV channel. * When recording analog cable TV, the dual built in hardware MPEG-2 encoders let your PC run at full speed. * Watch and record 'clear QAM' digital TV. Clear QAM digital TV channels are TV channels which are broadcast "in the clear" on your cable TV network. * Includes Hauppauge's WinTV v6 application, which allows you to watch analog cable TV, QAM and ATSC digital TV channels. ATSC over-the-air digital TV features * Dual ATSC over-the-air digital TV tuners. Supports all ATSC formats, up to the highest definition 1080i format! * Watch one ATSC digital TV program while recording another ATSC program to your PC's hard disk using high quality MPEG-2. TV recordings will typically consume 5 GB of disk space per hour for ATSC high definition. * Built-in antenna splitter allows you to make one connection to an ATSC antenna but watch and record up to 2 channels. * Supports Dolby Digital AC3 audio. Analog cable TV features * Dual built-in high quality hardware MPEG-2 encoders, so your PC continues to run at full speed while watching, pausing and recording analog cable TV * Dual 125 channel cable ready TV tuners built-in. With dbx-TV stereo decoder, for great TV sound. * Built-in cable TV splitter allows you to make one connection to cable TV but watch and record 2 TV programs at the same time. * Composite/S-Video and audio inputs, for cable or satellite set top boxes or VCRs. Clear QAM digital cable TV features * Dual clear QAM digital cable TV tuners. Supports up to 1080i! * Watch one clear QAM digital cable TV program while recording another program to your PC's hard disk using high quality MPEG-2. * Built-in cable TV splitter allows you to make one connection to cable TV but watch and record 2 TV programs at the same time. * Note: If you are using digital cable TV which broadcast the local ATSC channels on their cable TV network, you can receive these QAM channels with the new WinTV v6 application. Note: not all cable TV networks send clear QAM channels Note: Windows Media Center does not currently support clear QAM TV channels. Exterrnal audio/video input features * Two sets of A/V inputs are included: one on the back panel bracket of the WinTV-HVR-2250 and one on the "A/V Cable set" which requires a chassis slot * S-Video, composite video and stereo audio supported on both inputs * Record external audio/video with dual built-in high quality hardware MPEG-2 encoders |
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I have two 2250's in my HTPC running Win7 64 and have no issues recording 4 shows at once from my cable's clearQAM signal. It can also do analog, but there's very little out there anymore. My issues are setup of the remote - it took a bit of digging to get the right drivers, and its still not perfect in Windows Media Center. I don't like their WinTV software, but there's no reason to use it with Windows Media Center. The single input for two tuners is a plus for me, as I already have a three-way splitter (one for each card, and one for the TV). Comments posted by cwsqbm from United States, January 22, 2011: Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K? WinXP? Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 8 of 10. |
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This card shows its true capabilities only under Windows 7 Media Center. Contrary to a previous post (which was currect under Vista), the 2250 can tune any combination of 2 programs- 2 analog cable, 2 QAM, or 1 analog cable + 1 QAM, on the fly, with Windows 7 MCE. I replaced an existing HP combo tuner (1 analog + 1 QAM) with this card, and it was really a process of swapping out the cards, then reconfiguring tuners in Media Center. If I had a second free PCIe slot (one is covered by my fat video card) I'd probably also install the Avermedia AverTV HD Duet to get another two ATSC / QAM tuners. I briefly had that until I decided to reinstall that HP OEM to tune my local cable channels. One area that both the AverMedia and the Huappauge share a weakness (and a strength?) in is that each has a single coax for the television signal, splitting it to the two tuners internally. Why would that be a weakness? If you wanted to tune ATSC (digital antenna) with one tuner and use the other for cablem neither of the two cards can do it. On the other hand, most dual tuner cards DO have separate coax inputs per tuner, requiring an external splitter and cables, which also results in signal reduction (roughly 3.5db loss). So the single connection simplifies the wiring if you don't plan to connect more than one source using coax. Overall, I'd rate the Huappauge an 8 out of 10, subtracting points for the XP MCE / Vista MCE issues with NOT supporting the full hybrid capabilities (though responsibility for this lies more with MS than Huappauge), as the first single card dual hybrid solution. Are there others out there now? I don't know, but I also don't care- this one works great! Comments posted by USA1fan from United States, June 24, 2010: Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K? WinXP? Vista NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 10 of 10. |
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Bottom Line: My usage: Capture cable TV 2 channel Analog or 2 Channel Digital including Clear QAM. CANNOT mix and match Analog and Digital at same time meaning 1 Analog and 1 Digital. Captures in Best Quality DVD MPEG2. I use MPEG Wizard to cut commercials and save resultant MPEG2 file in Tivo folder to download wirelessly to my Tivo series 2. The quality of the 2250 is better than the native Tivo series 2 recording. Finished file for Tivo download is MPG2 720x480, 16x9, ~6000kbps, AC3 6 channel 448 kHz. This 2250 card is about my 6th TV card over several and by far the very best of the bunch. Pro: -Works great with Windows 7 Pro 64 bit and Windows XP Pro 32 bit -Download newest software from Hauppauge Ver 1.3 (as of today) -Great video and audio quality -WinTV program works fine for viewing TV Con: -Hauppauge 2250 Windows 7 MCE file WTV / DVR-MS file format converted to MPG2 is always off in video or audio -TitanTV recording links work fine but are manually intensive to record a program series. Meaning you cannot differentiate between New or Rerun programs. -Would like to have more control of recording format, size, quality, etc. Overall: Highly recommend the Hauppauge 2250! Comments posted by T_Bear from United States, March 01, 2010: Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K? WinXP Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 10 of 10. |
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Software on included CD does not work. After obtaining "secret" software from Hauppauge support I discovered that video capture is only supported on one of the channels (the card has two channels, the extra expansion card is completely useless). Does not support VFW or WDM. Your only choices to use this card are with the crappy and buggy Hauppauge WinTV7 or WinMC ... I haven't tried Windows MC. Comments posted by hectorh from Canada, October 07, 2009: Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K? WinXP Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 1 of 10. |
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more technical information.New comments= New comments since your last visit. New Card= New Capture Card since your last vist. Feature What kind of main capture features it supports Analog VideoIn = Analog composite or/and SVHS video input Video Card = If it is a Video Card/Graphic Card Tv Tuner = Built-In TV-Tuner Digital TV = Built-In Digital TV-Tuner DV/Firewire = DV/Firewire/i.Link input DV Converter = Analog composite or/and SVHS video input and converts to DV video MPEG1 hardware = Capture directly MPEG1(VCD) video using hardware* MPEG2 hardware = Capture directly MPEG2(SVCD and DVD) video using hardware* MJPEG hardware = Capture directly to MJPEG using hardware* MPEG4 hardware = Capture directly to MPEG4(DivX,Xvid) video using hardware* * = Most capture cards can capture to this format using software but it usually requires a very fast computer, if it supports realtime capturing it uses the capture cards hardware and it doesn't require a very fast computer and you may get better quality but less options/settings than software capturing. Compatibility What Operating System our users have reported that it works on, Win95=Works Cnx = Connection What type of connection the capture device has to the computer, PCI, AGP, USB1/1.1/2, DV or PCMCIA. Price The price in US dollar. Rating The first rating is based on a weighted rank (the true Bayesian), it requires at least 5 votes to get a weighted rating. The second rating between the ( ) is a normal average rating. Comment User comments, click on view to view them or add to post a own comment. We can not gurantee that this list is 100% correct. Don't forget to read the User Comments for more Info about each Capture card. If you find any features that are not correct contact us instead of posting a comment about it. |
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