Best price for Hauppauge 1183 WinTV HVR 1600 Internal PCI Dual TV Tuner/Video Recorder Media Center Kit
Band : Hauppauge
Model : 1183
Product Features :
- PCI card with dual TV tuners to let you watch both digital and analog television on your computer
- Supports QAM ATSC and analog cable signals
- On board MPEG 2 encoder allows PC to run at full speed while recording analog cable TV directly to hard drive
- Includes dbx TV stereo decoder for great TV sound Composite/S Video and audio inputs for connecting to VCRs or cable/satellite set top boxes
- Includes WinTV Scheduler to schedule television recordings and Windows Media Certified USB remote control transmitter and receiver
>> Video capture
This accomplishes 90 of what I wanted The card does not have a component input but I can get around it
>> Works Perfectly
I installed this with Vista 64 bit system running 6G of DDR2 memory on an E6600 processor downloaded the latest drivers and the media center setup package from Hauppauge and it works perfect With it s on board Mpeg encoder it only uses about 10 of the processor for live tv and runs smoothly Make sure to use an actual S Video cable from your cable box and not the included S Video to RCA adapter With S Video cable the picture is near HD quality as I comppared them side to side with my HD TV I would highly recomend this card
>> WinTV HVR 1600
Pros Very easy installation of hardware I did have to go to site to get updated software that Windows 7 needed Even with the software some of the QAM channels donot show up in win 7 Media Center you must manuely add QAM channels in WMC 7 but they do show up using the software that came with the card No problems what so ever with ATSC and analog cable signals Great card
Cons No free TV guide unless you use Windows Media Center and schedule recoding is lacking
Recomendation Would recomend
