Product Description

Watch and record your TV shows with instant replay and program pause External USB 2.0 (also works on USB 1.1) Plug-and-Play device for easy installation on PC's and Laptop's. Burn your favourite TV shows onto DVD or CD-ROM Includes hi-performance hardware MPEG2 encoder. Includes DVD MovieFactory for authoring and burning DVD's and CD's, plus WinTV Editor and WinTV Scheduler. WinTV-PVR2 USB 2.0 uses a highly integrated MPEG-1/2 encoder, compressing your videos while you watch TV on your PC screen. It also ha...

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #6059 in Consumer Electronics
• Brand: Hauppauge
• Model: 958
• Released on: 2003-09-17
• Platform: Windows
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 2.16 pounds

Manufacturer's Description
Watch and record your TV shows with instant replay and program pause External USB 2.0 (also works on USB 1.1) Plug-and-Play device for easy installation on PC's and Laptop'sBurn your favorite TV shows onto DVD or CD ROMIncludes hi-performance hardware MPEG2 encoderIncludes DVD MovieFactory for authoring and burning DVD's and CD's, plus WinTV Editor and WinTV Scheduler

WinTV-PVR-350 uses a highly integrated MPEG-1/2 encoder, compressing your videos while you watch TV on your PC screen. It also has a built-in hardware MPEG decoder with video output, so you can play back your recorded TV shows or home videos on an external TV set or video monitor. WinTV-PVR-350 can record live television or video from a VCR or camcorder, using as little as 1 GB of hard disk space per hour. Schedule your TV recordings with WinTV-Scheduler, and then edit them with the WinTV-Editor. With the included Ulead DVD MovieFactory, you can also create Video CD's, S-VCD’s or DVD’s. Play your recordings on your home DVD player!

The WinTV-PVR-usb brings live TV to your PC screen. WinTV-PVR-usb2 has a 125-channel cable ready TV receiver, so you can watch TV in a resizeable window or full screen. Or listen to FM radio with our built-in stereo FM receiver.

And with WinTV-PVR-usb2, there is no need to open your PC. Just plug it into a USB port, so installation is a snap! You can run it on either a USB 1.1 or USB 2.0 system, though the datarates supported with USB 2.0 are higher (up to 12 Mbits/sec compared with 6 Mbits/sec on USB 1.1).

But thats not all!!

WinTV-PVR-usb2 puts TV watching under your control! Watch what you want, when you want! With WinTV-PVR-usb2 you can pause TV when you want, create your own instant replay and even burn your TV shows onto CD-ROM!

WinTV-PVR includes WinTV-Scheduler, which can control TV watching on a daily, weekly or random schedule. And you can schedule your TV recording, too. Never miss those old favorite shows which are broadcast in the middle of the night!

WinTV-PVR Pause feature gives you control of what you watch in your WinTV window. Get personal "instant replay" to stop the action when you want to analyze a key scene. Instantly rewind to any point and replay the action again. You're in control with WinTV-PVR! Ever been called to the phone, had to answer the door, or went for a snack and missed the big play? With WinTV-PVR, you'll never miss the action again. Just click on WinTV-PVR's "One Touch Pause" button to pause your TV show, click again to continue watching where you left off. Then skip through commercials as you catch up to the live broadcast.

Record your TV shows and play them on your PC or home DVD player! With WinTV-PVR, you can record your TV shows to your PC's hard disk and play them back at any time. Then use your PC's CD-RW burner to create Video CD's, with up to one hour of TV video. Video CD's can be played on your PC or laptop computer, or on your home DVD player (see our web site for a complete list of tested compatible DVD players). Record TV show episodes to CD-RW disks, and then watch them on your laptop when you travel. Or play them through your DVD player in your living room.

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Customer Reviews

Hardware let down by software
I'm sure Hauppauge have themselves a nifty bit of hardware, but it's badly let down by the lack of technical support. I had this as a Christmas present, so I followed all the instructions, and put in the CD which installs all the software. Immediately it came up with some errors, so I thought okay, let's continue with the installation and see what happens. Once I tried to run the WinTV software it was telling me a DLL file was missing (it's on the CD, just not in the right location on my hard-drive as I discovered after doing some googling). So I copy it from the CD manually to the file in my windows directory, and get past that error only to have the infamous HTV=0 error. Even the manual mentioned something about this fault so it can't be uncommon. I checked the hardware and it said it was installed and working, so I tried deleting the drivers and reinstalled, but got no where even after visiting Hauppauge and using the latest drivers. The Hauppage forums didn't help at all, and after much googling I wasn't getting very far, and didn't want to start playing around with my registry in a last ditch attempt to get everything working.
I tried the software and hardware on 2 other machines. All had the same problem. No computer TV viewing for me at Christmas!
When you buy a piece of kit, you expect to plug in, install and go, and not to be confronted with a string of technical issues from the moment you start up. I've returned it to Amazon.

great little piece
This is a great piece of kit, I just plugged it into my USB port, attached the aerial, let it search for the channels and off we went. Super easy to use, no problems at all, reception is good. I bought mine used for under 40 quid, perhaps not worth the full price when there are less expensive alternatives, but otherwise it's fantastic.

Easy and excellent
Having often wondered how to take video from either VHS or my MicroMV digital camcorder I came across the idea of using TV card. A very short search later brought me to the WIN TV PVR USB2.

Not having a great track record with anything other than simple changes to my computer the Win TV has installed easily first time and has configured itself to work first time too.

I have used inputs from a number of sources and my experience had been faultless.

As I have two PCs and a number of sources around the house the USB device was the best choice and I can very strongly recommend this. I have not suffered from some of the concerns that others have had and so can only imagine the software and drivers have been upgraded - the DVD software is the most recent - or I have been lucky.

As I said above - easy and excellent.