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Hauppauge WinTV-HVR-1600 TV Tuner

The WinTV HVR-1600 MCE PCI TV Tuner Card from Hauppauge! is a dual tuner analog and high definition digital ATSC PCI TV tuner for Windows Vista PCs. On a single full height PCI board, the WinTV HVR-1600 MCE PCI TV Tuner has separate tuners for analog NTSC and ATSC digital TV. With Vista's Media Center, you can watch an analog TV channel while recording hi-definition digital TV from another channel! This tuner card is a part of a bundle which includes FM Radio Tuner, MCE Media Center Remote and Receiver.

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Hauppauge WinTV-HVR-1600 TV Tuner

Video Quality
Audio Video Connectors	Audio - 1/8" Stereo\|Video - Coaxial (RF)\|Video - mini-DIN (S-Video)
Video Capture Format	MPEG-2

Quick Glance
Slot/Port Type	PCI
Compatible OS	Microsoft Windows Vista Home Basic\|Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium\|Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate 64-Bit
Form Factor	Internal Card
A/V Connectors	Audio - 1/8" Stereo\|Video - Coaxial (RF)\|Video - mini-DIN (S-Video)
Video Standard	ATSC (Digital)\|NTSC (analog)

Compatibility
Slot/Port Type	PCI
Form Factor	Internal Card
Operating System	Microsoft Windows Vista Home Basic\|Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium\|Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate 64-Bit

More Info
URL	http://www.hauppauge.com/index.htm

Device Type and Features
Video Standard Supported	ATSC (Digital)\|NTSC (analog)

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Hauppauge WinTV-HVR-1600 TV Tuner

Reviewed by: old_cotton

02-24-08

Duration of ownership: 1 Weeks

Strengths: Supports QAM; Windows Media compatible remote control.

Weaknesses:WinTV application is buggy.

Overall Evaluation: I am glad that I made the right decision. I'm very happy with this card. It works fine without any problems so far though the WinTV application has some small bugs. The remote control works great. The IR Blaster which comes in the box is very handy. Now I can watch HDTV from my computer! Great product!
Reviewed by: sonoma03

01-16-08

Duration of ownership: 21 Days

Strengths: NTSC, ATSC, and QAM tuners included. Good reception of TV channels

Weaknesses:WinTV softwareIncorrect/incomplete instructions

Overall Evaluation: I purchased this product from Dell because this MCE kit version was the only version of the HVR-1600 that said it had a QAM tuner. I ran into problems because Dell's Web site said that this product is compatible with Windows XP Home and XP Media Center Edition as well as Vista. It turns out that the product that was sent to me is only compatible with Vista, as correctly described on Pricegrabber. The main problem was the IR remote receiver which only works with Vista. I wasted many hours trying to install it, looking for new drivers on the Web and so forth, before getting confirmation from Hauppauge technical support that I needed a different receiver. Fortunately they were willing to swap out mine for one that was XP-compatible, although I did have to pay shipping.The other issue was trying to receive a QAM signal. Even though the instructions say the ATSC connector is only for connecting an over-the-air antenna, you need to split your cable signal and input it to both the NTSC and ATSC inputs in order to get both NTSC and QAM channels. The card will not pick them up from the NTSC connector input, even though my TV does that. That caused more wasted hours.The WinTV software found the channels and plays them okay, but it does not have a good TV guide feature. You have to enter in the actual dates and times for the recordings. I installed the free GBPVR software instead, which has a TV guide and you can just click on a program to watch or record it, and you can search for instances of a particular show and record them.
Reviewed by: geo442

12-31-07

Duration of ownership:

Strengths: Good reception of both digital and analog channels, acceptable framerates all around.

Weaknesses:Lack of QAM, large size, lunky software.

Overall Evaluation: I have been using this card for a few months (upgraded fom a KWorld ATSC 120 that was having frame tearing issues on a computer that otherwise was so overspeced that the bad framerate could be squarely blamed on the card). The 1600 is a larger card than the KWorld one, but it has worked much better than its predecessor (the one exception is that I think I liked teh KWorld's software a bit better -- but the KWorld software was more of a pain to install properly, which maybe makes that a wash).Overall, though, the incremental price for the 1800 series card (Which is PCI-e x1 and has QAM) probably makes it a better alternative for an only slightly larger cost -- having used both, I wish I had bought the 1800 instead (and probably will at some point soon).

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