Hauppauge 1178 WinTV-HVR-1600 Internal Hybrid TV Tuner/Video Recorder by HAUPPAUGE
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Digital camera reviews of Hauppauge 1178 WinTV-HVR-1600 Internal Hybrid TV Tuner/Video Recorder
Digital camera Review: Hauppauge WinTV HVR-1600 (Vista Premium)
Summary: 3 Stars
Card and software installation was fine, under Vista Ultimate 64-bit. However, the WinTV application just doesn't work well under Vista--I have 4GB of fast RAM and a GeForce 8800GTX--the fastest card you can buy today. Half the time, I get no picture or sound, 40 percent of the time, picture and sound are jerky. Ten percent of the time, everything is great--but don't even think of multitasking.
Coming out of sleep mode or hibernation, WinTV2K simply WILL NOT WORK: A system reboot is required.
I much preferred my WinTV USB2 PVR to this card; however, my USB2 PVR isn't supported under Vista64.
Digital camera Review: Hauppauge WinTV-HVR 1600
Summary: 5 Stars
This TV card works great and the remote control that comes with it is very easy to use. I have basic cable and running the coaxial from a splitter direct to the card with no cable box. You can program and record TV programs just by clicking on TV guide time slot. It's so easy and the reception is like watching Youtube videos. Not bad for under $100. The only problem I had was getting the remote control cable inserted into my computer. At first I thought it was all the way pushed in and my remote control did not work. Somehow the alignment of the input is close to the metal on the computer case and touches it which makes the remote control cable seems to be properly inserted, but actually needs to be pushed in further. I had to kind of push the cable into the input in an angle to get it to click right in due to the mini plug not being inserted all the way in. After that I got it to work fine and with no problems at all. I would rate this card as an excellent product and comes in handy when the family takes over the other 2 TV's I have in the house. I am running Windows Vista and it works fine with both the supplies WinTV software and Windows Media Player which I use more often to watch and record TV shows. You can also instantly delete the TV show once you are finished watching them to save on computer memory space. I'll give it 5 Stars out of 5 for price, ease of use and convenient use of the remote control.Digital camera Review: It works 3 Stars
I thought I can get QAM also the Win TV scheduler is not working but otherwise, it is a good product and I am pretty happy with it.Digital camera Review: It works... barely
Summary: 2 Stars
After reading reviews here and other places, I bought this tuner in hope to watch TV, and plug my PS2 via S-Video to play some games. ATi would've been my choice except that ATi seems slow to provide Vista certified products, so this was about the safest bet I thought it was...
1. Installing the card was snap.
2. Turn on my PC (Vista Home Premium), OS recognizes the card, then asks for driver to be installed (usual "search from internet/have cd/choose your own location").
After installing the card driver, I installed WinTV2k. And that's where everything fell apart.
3. Installation of WinTV2k took only 2 seconds, rather too short to believe. After the completion, I click on WinTV2k, and I was greeted with "Missing .dll" error.
4. I hunted down the .dll in question, move them to the folder where WinTV2k resides, and I had to repeat twice more for two more "Missing .dll" error.
5. Finally WinTV2k opens up, but blank screen. I click for channel scan set up, and I get another error message and it crashes.
6. Repeated attempt at installing/uninstalling WinTV2k failed. So I gave up on WinTV2k, and used Windows Media Center to set up TV.
7. WMC downloads the guide, sets up the signal accordingly, and picture appears in matter of few minutes. Hassle free. But very grainy visual. Far worse than AIW Radeon I've been accustomed to.
8. WMC still has 1-second delay, and sometimes it's jerky (and my pc is Q6600 with 3GB DDR2 RAM!!!). And needless to say, setting WMC to accept S-Video seems like a task I cannot handle.
9. I abandoned WMC to watch TV, and settles for DScaler. After few fiddling, picture is in-sync, with less graininess.
Few quips. In order to input sound from composite source (white and red cable), you must buy an adapter (two composite females to one 1/8" [ipod type] male. It is not included in the box, and that's rather ridiculous.
So is it worth the price listed above? Absolutely not. It does it's job, but far from painless, and definitely marred by a terrible app. to watch TV.
Digital camera Review: It's a destroyer
Summary: 1 Stars
This item destroyed my hard drive data. Installed and it messed up and distorted my video. Removed and reinstalled into a different PCI slot, booted up and all I got was the blue screen. Removed this obviously defective TV card and my PC would not boot. I had to reinstall my operating system and all my programs. A huge pain and hassle. Returned card to Amazon. They immediately credited my credit card $9.65 (for return shipping), THEN Amazon had the temerity and gall to deduct the $9.65 from the credit, (originally $88.99) and refunded me $79.34. For a defective item. Mr. Amazon - for less than 10 bucks you permanently lost a customer - Bye Amazon!