Hauppauge 1120CN WinTV-HVR-950 Hybrid Video Recorder by HAUPPAUGE
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Digital camera reviews of Hauppauge 1120CN WinTV-HVR-950 Hybrid Video Recorder
Digital camera Review: Awesome HDTV Tuner
Summary: 4 Stars
What can I say, it works with my Macbook Pro and my HP NC8230 laptop. Cannot beat the price! The Hauppage software SUCKS big time though so if you aren't using it in a MCE environment you aren't gonna be happy. On the Mac, using it with EyeTV is an amazing experience. I get all the HDTV channels in my area crystal clear. You better have a quick machine though because HDTV is very CPU intensive.
My only gripe about this HDTV tuner is that the analog signals are REALLY REALLY REALLY bad. So don't plan on watching over the air analog, you will be very upset.
Digital camera Review: Better cable recption than my 2000 TV
Summary: 5 Stars
My notebook is now my only TV.
Installation was plug and play.
Sound is excellent; I do not use the work around to the sound card.
The video was jerky so I followed the help suggestion on video acceleration and the video has been fine
My notebook is a Dell Inspiron B130 (4/2007 under $500)
1,500 MHz / 1Gig RAM
Digital camera Review: Big disappointment
Summary: 1 Stars
This is the first product I have returned to Amazon, I have been a customer for about five years. The tuner seems very much like a beta product, rushed to market without much thought to reliability or ease of use.
Perhaps the problem is user expectation. I am used to a TV working almost instantly when I press 'ON.' With the HVR 950, pressing 'ON' did not yield results after four-hours of set up. The first problem was that the HVR 950 does not support Windows Vista out of the box. There is no inkling of this problem until you Google PVR 950 Vista and download the new drivers. After much tweaking I got it to scan the cable channels but then discovered that if I want to use Windows Media Center, I was SOL...no support for that either--I downloaded a patch, but it did not work. So I used the native interface to choose a program to record went away (leaving the laptop on of course) and got home to watch the program only to be greeted by an error message.
After the next two days I got the HVR 950 to work once, all of the other times I just got the title screen with the Empire State Building on it. I am not sure what was wrong. Of course I could not test it using Over the Air signals because the PVR 950 instructions recommend that you do not use the included antenna for OTR setup--Why include something and then basically say it is probably not going to work? This instruction is another indication that this product is really a beta release and has long to go before it is as easy to use or as reliable as a conventional television.
Digital camera Review: Calidad en la información
Summary: 4 Stars
Necesitan ampliar la información de los accesorios que incluye la caja. En esta ocación yo no estaba seguro de que el cable con entradas de video compuesto venia incluido, a pesar de que en la foto aparecia.Digital camera Review: Causes my laptop to freeze
Summary: 1 Stars
I've installed this thing, it worked. Shut the WinTV2000 and brought it up again, it freezed my laptop. I have a laptop with Intel Dual Core in it and no other application running.