Product Description

WinTV-HVR-2200 Media Center TV Tuner is a compact low profiledual tuner PCI-Express card that fits in all the latest MicrosoftVista Home Premium and Ultimate PCs with a PCI-Express 1x slot.WinTV-HVR-2200 Media Center TV Tuner includes everything you

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #45855 in Consumer Electronics
• Brand: Hauppauge
• Model: 340
• Released on: 2009-01-04
• Platform: Windows XP
• Dimensions: .0" h x .0" w x .0" l, 1.06 pounds

Features

• WinTV-HVR-2200 MC

Manufacturer's Description
With Microsoft Media Center and the WinTV-HVR-2200 MC you can;
Watch Freeview digital TV (DVB-T) or analogue TV on your PC screen while recording a different channel on the second tuner!
Pause analogue or digital TV, with instant replay, skip, fast forward and rewind.
Record digital TV programmes in original MPEG-2 quality.
Record analogue TV to disk in high quality MPEG-2 quality with the hardware MPEG-2 encoder.
Use Media Center’s TV scheduler to automatically record your favourite TV shows. Playback your recordings at any time on your PC screen.

Watch analogue and digital TV on your Media Center PC. The WinTV-HVR-2200 MC includes everything you need to watch, pause and record analogue PAL and digital Freeview TV on your Vista Media Center PC.

The WinTV-HVR-2200 MC can be used in either full height or half height PC systems, using the supplied low profile adapter bracket.

WinTV-HVR-2200 makes your PC future proof. WinTV-HVR-2200 MC can switch between analogue PAL TV and digital Freeview TV, so you can watch analogue PAL TV now and receive Freeview TV when it is available in your area. You can also connect your cable TV or satellite TV set top box to WinTV-HVR-2200, so you can watch, pause and record set top box programmes too.

WinTV-HVR-2200 MC is a compact, low profile, dual tuner, PCI-Express card that fits in all the latest Microsoft Vista Home Premium and Ultimate PCs with a PCI-Express 1x slot. If you have a normal PC or an extra slim one, WinTV-HVR-2200 MC comes with both full height and half height brackets.

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Customer Reviews

Why didn't I buy this tuner card first?
My home PC runs Windows XP SP3 Media Center Edition 2005 and originally came bundled with a Kworld USB DVB-T tuner. What a dire piece of junk it was leading to many wasted hours trying to get it to work before it went in the bin.

The Hauppage HVR 2200 MCE card however has been completely at the other end of the spectrum; swap mounting plate from fitted slim-line to (included in box) full height, plug it in to the mother board, boot the PC, load the drivers, run the simple setup via Media Center (so I didn't need to install the included TV utility), and away I went.

Total reliability from the outset, no crashes, no BSODs, no "Tuner not found", in fact none of the hassle I had become used to. Picture quality
is excellent.

Highly recommended, and well worth the relatively "premium" price tag. Handy that it fits in a PCI Express bay too since I had already used all the available PCI bays in the PC!

Any downsides? Only one; channel sensitivity. My home office in which the mentioned PC is housed has the longest cable run from loft-mounted Antiference 200 Pro series 8 way powered splitter. To begin with the tuner card only found 32 channels (nearly all of which were freeview digital radio!) even with gain set to the maximum 12db, whereas a normal Freeview TV in the same socket found all channels. Out of interest I connected the office coax cable to the "full" (16db) output intended to drive another splitter and bingo, I had every single available channel (nearly 100 tv and radio)

Does what it says
I recently had two PCI Hauppauge NOVA-T's in my media center.. I rebuilt my system with a new MOBO and Vista 64BIT OS.

Plugged this in, had no problems with drivers.

Advantage of this card is it only requires one Aerial input, its PCI-express x1, and the channel changing is quicker than the NOVA-T.

Unfortunately MCE only allows the use of up to Two tuners, but there are registry hacks out there that allow more as I intend to use my NOVA T's still

Excellent
Very easy to setup and configure - works flawlesly on Vista x64 - although I would suggest updating the software, available from Hauppauge website.

This is the TV tuner only, no remote control is included.