Hauppauge 1213 WinTV-HVR-2250 Dual Hybrid PCI-E TV Tuner Board with Media Center Remote Control and Receiver
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Digital product summary information
Manufacturer: HAUPPAUGEAudio: English (Original Language)
Format: CD
Model: 1213
Product features:
- PCI-E TV Tuner Board
- Dual Hybrid Analog and Digital TV Tuners
- Watch record and pause TV on your PC
- ATSC Clear QAM Digital TV up to 1080i
- Comes with Microsoft certified Media Center remote control and receiver
- Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition FULL VERSION with SP2
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Digital camera reviews of Hauppauge 1213 WinTV-HVR-2250 Dual Hybrid PCI-E TV Tuner Board with Media Center Remote Control and Receiver
Digital camera Review: Terrible picture quality; PC resource hog
Summary: 1 Stars
I don't normally write reviews on products but I can't remain silent and let other customers have the same distasteful experience that I've had with this product.
First, my setup:
Intel Core 2 Duo E6400
2GB DDR2 RAM
ASUS P5B-E Motherboard
Windows XP SP3
HP w2558 hc, 25.5", 1920 X 1200 resolution monitor
Years ago I had enjoyed one of Hauppage's analog TV tuners. With the advent of over-the-air HDTV broadcasts I more recently upgraded to the ATI TV Wonder 650. Because ATI had no Win 7 driver support, I thought that I'd be stepping it up a notch by upgrading to this product for my new build that I'm about to do. Needless to say, in trying it out on my old XP system I was sorely disappointed in this product and Hauppauge as a whole.
My biggest complaint is the picture quality. I thought that with the constant advancement of technology and from the raving reviews I had read online that I was to see an improvement in picture quality over my aging ATI 650. Boy was I wrong. The only time the picture even looks halfway decent is when you have it shrunk into a small corner of you monitor. Don't even bother trying to watch 1080i ATSC broadcasts in full screen mode--dropped frames, jerky movement, jaggies, blurring, pixelation and just a general lack of quality are what you see. Having used my ATI card for years I was used to a better quality picture and the difference was stark.
My other beef with this product is how apparently inefficiently it does its job. Opening task manager and looking at how this tuner's associated processes ate up my system's resources was quite amazing. For example, my ATI 650 averaged around 15% CPU usage while watching 1080i ATSC programs. This product is around 25-50% and both cores go to work. Besides that, installing this product parks on your PC two processes named "CAPTUR~3.EXE" that suck up 97 and 83 MB of RAM, respectively, whether you have the WIN TV program open or not. I understand that they each correspond to a tuner processor and are there to enable the product to "wake up" and record a scheduled program, but a constant 200 MB drain seems wasteful. For those not having powerful computers this product will give them a lot of slowdown.
I won't even get into the issues I have with the software, as the above was enough to convince me to return this product post haste, despite taking the 15% open box return fee. Better to cut my losses now then have to endure this shoddy piece of hardware--this literal eyesore any longer. If this is their top-of-the-line product I'd hate to see their lesser offerings.
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Summary of Hauppauge 1213 WinTV-HVR-2250 Dual Hybrid PCI-E TV Tuner Board with Media Center Remote Control and Receiver
The 1213 from Hauppauge is a HVR-2250 Media Center Kit Bundle. It is a PCIe TV Tuner board with dual (two) hybrid tuners. Both tuners have analog and digital reception that allows recording of two channels at the same time. Each tuner has hardware MPEG2 encoding for recording analog channels. Each tuner has ATSC clear QAM for receiving digital cable TV channels. Watch and record two channels of analog cable TV or ATSC high definition (HD) TV on your PC. Comes complete with a Microsoft certified Media Center remote control and receiver.Includes hardware MPEG2 encoders for recording cable TV with Media Center. Compatible with Vista Home Premium or Ultimate and XP Media Center Edition.Cameras and Photo
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