Hauppauge 1192 WinTV HVR-1950 External USB HDTV Tuner/Video Recorder by HAUPPAUGE
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Digital camera reviews of Hauppauge 1192 WinTV HVR-1950 External USB HDTV Tuner/Video Recorder
Digital camera Review: CDR Keth L. Phillips
Summary: 1 Stars
I have tried to install this product on three different PCs HP laptop, Toshiba Laptop and Gateway desktop; it would not run on any of them!!! The support personnel are terrible and snotty!! I have wasted my money on this product and at this point it is inopporatable.
Keith L. Phillips
Commander USN Retired
(903) 701-4491
Digital camera Review: CPU Saver
Summary: 5 Stars
Have an Atom CPU in a nettop box and trying to run Windows Media Center with multiple tuners? This device is for you. It does the video encoding so that your Atom doesn't have to. I paired this with an AverMedia Volar Max (a cheaper second tuner with software encoding) and my system runs beautifully--about 60-70% CPU usage when both tuners are recording. Before the Hauppage I had two Volar cards and was maxing out the CPU and had choppy recording/playback. Now now worries.Digital camera Review: Compatable with Windows XP but made for Windows Vista and Windows 7
Summary: 5 Stars
I brought the HVR 1950 USB card by Hauppauge to have a replacement for my PVR USB2 card also by Hauppauge for a new computer that I will be getting this year. The HVR 1950 while compatable with Windows XP, it was really made for windows vista and windows 7. I'm currently using the HVR 1950 under windows xp until i get my new pc with windows 7. Under windows xp, wintv7 the software that came with the hvr 1950 is very unstable and either hangs my pc or totally crashes my pc to where it will make my pc restart more than have of the time that I run wintv to watch. I know someone else who has this same card and windows 7 and they have no issues with the software so it looks like it may be issues between wintv 7 and windows xp. Overall, I am very satisfied with this card.Digital camera Review: Compatibility Issues
Summary: 2 Stars
This product has many issues with it. I first tried using it with 64-bit vista. After installing the WinTV I later found that it's not compatible with Vista 64-bit. I've read that it will work with Media Center on 64, but I had the Vista Business version, which doesn't include Media Center. I then tried it with Vista Ultimate 32-bit. The WinTV partially worked on this version. It found stations, played stations, however I could not get any of the QAM stations to work even though it picked up quite a few. Also, the regular stations would go black if you tried to resize, and acted very flaky. I have a highend system, so that shouldn't have been the issue. So far the only way I've been able to get the product to work to my liking, is with Media Center on my Vista Ultimate 32-bit machine. Using Media Center it actually works well, however it won't support QAM stations/signals which is part of the reason I bought it. Overall I'm not to happy with they product, or the included software. Hopefully they will fix some of these issues with updates, or if you want to get HD channels, you might want to look into puchasing additional software.Digital camera Review: Computer incompatible?
Summary: 2 Stars
I tried for two days to get this to work. At first it wouldn't recognize any stations, then a few, but every time I reconnected and rebooted it sometimes recognized channels and sometimes didn't. I finally gave up and sent it back. I replaced it with a AVerMedia AVerTV Hybrid Volar Max. Not only was it less expensive, but 15-20 minutes after I connected it had detected all of my cable channels and I was watching TV on the very same computer: a four year old Toshiba Satellite running Windows XP.