Hauppauge WinTV-HVR2250 Dual TV Tuner Board

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This card, like Hauppauge's classics does what it is supposed to and records video with no fault. Good small PCI-E card. MCE receiver/blaster dongle flat out does not work. I have installed the hvr-2250 in two fully diverse computers now and have by no means been capable to get either the IR receiver or blasters to perform reliably, even soon after Hauppauge technical help sent me a replacement receiver/blaster dongle. Save your self the headache and get the non-MCE HVR-2250 and a excellent MCE remote/receiver/blaster kit. You will be as content as I am now due to the fact it will just work.

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Nice card works wonderful. But it appears to be much less of a television tuner and a lot more of a interface betwean your tv tuner and your pc. I actually got some a single for USA. for there tech help. That alone nearly gave them five EGGS The directions had been not all that excellent. But I admit it was my initially time ever installing 1. They utilized acronims I never heard of. Also you want a television turner to make it perform. two television turners to do 2 channels. So it is far more of a inter face then a turner. The remote that came with it is horrable. If far more corporations put there help in the USA or Cannida each a single wins. I don't mind paying more for that sort of assistance. So all in all I would say it performs and good tech help. I use it on Direct tv with no complications.

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Worked proper out of the box. Installed it a new Gateway DX 4300 and I was recording more than the air digital Television signal in HD. Beautiful picture. So far there is no support for Linux. It works nicely in Windows 7 but I would choose to run it in Ubuntu.

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Dual tuner! Can record two applications at after. None. I just bought a new desktop Computer and needed to get a new tuner card (old one particular applied PCI slot and new Pc had only PCI-Express). Earlier tuner was Hauppauge and worked great as well. Getting the dual tuner is so amazing. There have surely been occasions where we had been needing this function. We may be recording one plan but watching live Television. No problem with this card!

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I purchased this device less than 1 week ago and i gotsome 60 analog channels. To get HD channels i phonedmy cable firm (Comcast).. They brought a small attachment, a DTA-P device and connected it to theWin Tv - 2250 card, which i installed days earlier. Asplitter was connected to the modem to complete theimage. Thoughts you the DTA-P device is rented for onlyŪ.00 per month, which we can easily afford. I hopethis will assist you with your problem. None for now.

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I have owned several Tv tuner cards, and this is by far the best. The card was quite easy to set up, and performs good. I really like that I can watch 1 channel and record from an additional. No complaints whatsoever!

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Two tuners, excellent picture high quality, hardware encoding. WinTV 7 is awful. Incredibly clumsy to use. Crashes every single couple of days. The software program appears unaware of the 2nd tuner. SageTV is considerably far better (not best) but you have to shell out more funds.

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The card itself is quite straightforward to install, I'm not making use of the WinTV software but this operates excellent by means of Win7 Windows Media Center, each the Television and radio. The included remote is worthless. When I initial employed it, it kinda-sorta worked, barely would adjust volume even with remote 2" from IR receiver. Tried reinstalling drivers, changed batteries, tried loading the WinTV software, absolutely nothing worked. Ended up buying AVS Gear GP-IR02BK remote for ส and it functions wonderful! I'm building this computer system for my daughter out of state and didn't have time to RMA this Tv card, otherwise I would have returned it and purchased the 2250 card without remote. Apart from, the S&H to return would have price a lot more than the ű difference amongst the 2.For the card itself, I give it 5 stars. For the fact that the remote didn't perform and I had to waste time acquiring a new 1, it gets three stars.

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Very good sensitivity and good quality. Comfort. The second video input doesn't operate, has no suppose with the drivers. It was confirmed by developers. I tested a lot of different brands and models and can say that this a single is truly great. WMC is in a position to use each receivers at the similar time recording two channels, and I can watch a different record with no troubles though it's recording. Remote control is a quite addition to this set. Hardware compression is able to reduce the major CPU usage. It functions in background and I can do my usual stuff with no difficulties. Despite the fact that a owerful machine is nice to have.

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HD looks excellent with antenna. Integrates with windows media center nicely. Easy record solution with wmc tv guide. Remote performs wonderful most of the time.By no signifies should this or any other pc television tuner be a direct replacement for a standalone dvr or tivo. All the issues that you may possibly have with your pc will now also contain your television recorder. I use it for more than the air HD programing. Thats it. Free Tv no monthly dvr service fee. Some are petty. Ought to download new software. Paper directions are not written in book format so its tough to follow. No directions for remote. (still dont know what some button are suppose to do). FM does not function in WMC. Remote gets slow to respond at times (-1 whole egg). ( i want to break the mo fo) I want two ir. 1 for computer in 1 roomǗ for second monitor or 47" television in other room. That would be ideal. Wake concerns. Wakes for no purpose occasionally. It may possibly just be a tweak i will need to do. I could not get remote to perform for the longest time. Turns out you need to push connector in till it clicks. (stupid me) I actually like how WMC performs. I incorporated some films i have in ISO format. You need to mount those to a virtual drive in order for WMC can read it as a DVD. Overall Hauppauge would be the only pc television tuner a person must buy.

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This card is wonderful. Top quality is good. Dual Tuner is good. Functions nicely with Windows 7. Remote is a little cheap feeling but not bad. I couldn't get the remote to perform in WMC. I learned that you have to install the WinTV off the disk. As soon as I did that all was properly.

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Operates wonderful with my SageTV DVR software program. I am not having any troubles. It functions as expected. The included software program is weak. I don't assume most individuals get this card for the software, although. The software program did involve a neat utility app to measure OTA signal strength. I have only used this device for digital OTA tuning. I am 3 to 4 miles from the OTA broadcast stations.I wouldn't use the included software package. Making use of DVR software program such as SageTV, MythTV, Freevo, or WMC would be excellent with this device - or any tuner truly.This is the first tuner hardware I have owned, so I have no frame of reference.

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This factor functions fantastic with windows media center on Windows 7 and a QAM cable providor. You just go repair up the settings on WMC to get each the digital and analog channels (as required), then you download the Guide in WMC so you know what to record. It works good. I was very pleased with the dual tuner recording 2 shows at once or watching a single whilst recording a different. I have had this product for about 9 months and have had no reliability difficulties with it. Just a warning for these who are not quite tech savy (not seriously a con). If you are thinking about acquiring this card and you have COMCAST or some company that calls for a cable box (set leading box) then you are in all probability hunting at the incorrect item. Read below. I moved and now I'm a COMCAST customer. Now I'm not so content any much more. If you have COMCAST then if they have not already moved away from QAM encoding in your region then they will soon. I can get all of the typical channels in digital (fox, nbc, abc, cbs, cw, pbs) but for the rest of the channels they have to go by way of the COMCAST cable box. I think if I got a non digital cable box that I could nonetheless really record things to this card via a splitter coming out of the cable box. But all the recording would have to be manual (I think).

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Fantastic card in my HTPC. The included computer software is funtional, but leaves a lot to be desired. I also use this card with GBPVR & DVB Viewer. DVB Viewer tends to make the best use of the dual tuners. GBPVR does OK too, but doesn't give as substantially flexability.If you want to capture via the s-vid or composite ports, the included software program handles that pretty excellent.I've been utilizing this card just a handful of days brief of a year now & I'm very happy with it. Included software program. But like I stated, there are 3rd party selections that use this card extremely effectively. Although the DVB Viewer proggy I talked about isn't no cost... it is low expense (whatever the exchange rate is on 15 euros at the time). But DVBV recognizes each tuners on this card as person tuners. This allows for recording 1 even though watching another (or much more if there are sub channels on the identical stream).For these that care, I'm running this on 32 bit XP.

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Good TV tuner card. Works great with Win x64WinTV software is ok but it crashes often.Using it with NextPVR with great resultsRemote is almost not needed.

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Don't know, can't use it. Bought more than a month ago. Came in a great sealed box, with everthing but the low profile bracket that I will need. Contacted hauppauge correct after I got it, they were going to send me missing bracket. Right after a month of nothing in the mail, I contacted them again. No response this time.

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<ol><li>Receives ClearQAM <i>and</i> analog signals.</li><li>Integrates seamlessly with Windows Media Center</li><li>This specific iteration is packaged with a remote</li><li>Remote can be applied with Xbox 360, if you're using it as an extender.</li></ol> <ol><li>As has been stated quite a few instances, the remote is a bit on the affordable side.</li><li>The included IR blaster is just terrible and renders the remote useless for about 20-30 seconds at random intervals. When I say random, I mean like once just about every three-4 minutes. This is right after checking the connection and updating all drivers.</li><li>Using this card in a 64bit Windows 7 machine - the card randomly "unplugs" and lists itself in device manager as "Media Controller." When this occurs it is nearly impossible to reinstall the device devoid of formatting the hard drive. Do a swift search and you'll see this is relatively widespread and Hauppauge reports it is an issue with the functionality of some unidentified group of motherboards. In twenty years of making use of computer systems I've by no means noticed a device that randomly unplugs itself and becomes uninstallable.</li></ol> This device gets a poor general evaluation since of the "unplugging" concern. The remote is negative but this it to be expected to some extent. It's a shame since it actually is a wonderful product when it performs. For the time being I'm left holding a useless piece of leftover hardware.

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Clear Picture, extremely small CPU usage, worked right away by just installing the drivers, can be controlled by my harmony remote Had to install WinTV computer software in order to get the IR to function with my Harmony remote. I like the picture excellent on my 58" screen and was surprised that the FM tuner got such clear reception devoid of even hooking an extra antenna on the card.For me it was worth the additional couple bucks to have the capacity to use my existing universal remote.

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Effortless to install with current drivers off the assistance website. Worked nicely with Windows Media Center On Windows 7 64bit. Fantastic video image high quality on QAM HD. Documentation is a little sparse for the supplied components. I have not gotten the second tuner to work with video however. My Charter set-top box doesn't have S-Video just component-out so I'm attempting to use the S-Video splitter thingie for the component output - have sound but no video. Their WIN Television 7 appears a lot lamer than their older software that came with my PVR-150 Turns out I didn't will need two tuners. I had a Hauppauge 150 (analog) in one particular XP box and a 1250 (digital) in a Win 7 box and wanted cable and off-air in one particular box. Turned out that the HD QAM on the Charter cable gave me what I necessary when using a single full function analog and digital tuner. I truly dislike Microsoft's recorded video format and hope the Hauppauge recorder produces much more usable formats....

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Plug and play! Seriously. You put this card in your method, throw on the drivers, fire up Windows Media Center and tell it you have a Television Tuner card. Voila! You have recordable Television!One particular cable online connection and it can record up to 2 channels with 1 input! I believed I have to split it or anything. Nope. Quite cool. The only con I have is, I wish the remote was a bit far more larger top quality. Feels kinda light and cheesy. Eh, it's a minor gripe.

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A lot of connection options. Wish I could say additional. If you have Win7 64bit and attempt to install this card, there is a 50% likelihood that it will not be recognized. Windows will display the card as an unknown multimedia device and when you try to load the drivers no matter whether it is from the CD or Hauppauges web site, it will tell you COMPATIBLE HARDWARE NOT Identified. Search those words and HVR and you will discover numerous other persons complaining about this and some of the other HVR series cards. Hauppauge nevertheless has no answer for this and I can only assume that they consider it a non-concern. I have owned other Hauppauge cards and have had great fortune with this organization. This a single is a dud for my method although. Soon after two weeks of scouring the internet, I have gotten nowhere with either of the 2250s I purchased.

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operates excellent remote infared receiver sucks

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Straightforward install with SageTV, stable, fantastic picture on channels that worked I was unable to choose up ClearQAM channels below 6, which contains my local NBC HD feed. Had the cable guy out and the QAM signal is plenty powerful, but does bump up against neighborhood FM station. 88.5FM comes in just fine even with no an antenna so it is likely an interference concern. Tech support wasn't any aid. Since I don't will need analog stations or FM I replaced this with an AverMedia Duet and it works wonderful. Less expensive too.

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It works great capturing signals received on cable tv in clear signal (unencrypted) form. It functions extremely nicely with Windows Media Center. Remote control and IR blaster do not work. Drivers for remote manage and IR Blaster are pitiful. I was not able to get them to work following following technical guidance and suggestion to no avail. Read evaluations and found it is common. The resolution is to invest in Windows Media Center certified remote manage with USB. Just get the video card with out remote manage and IR blaster to save a couple of bucks. Or keep pestering Hauppage to update remote control/IR blaster drivers for Windows 7 32-bit and 64-bit operating systems.

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Almost everything! This was a snap to set-up in my win7 computer employing mc. I began operating out of hd space with all the stuff I was recording. I liked it so substantially that I bought a single for my other computer. I honestly don't know how I was in a position to watch television ahead of, getting to put up with commercials or not being in a position to rewind when you could'nt hear one thing.