Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #46535 in Consumer Electronics
• Brand: Hauppauge
• Model: 566
• Platform: Windows
• Dimensions: 1.08 pounds

Manufacturer's Description
Installation is a snap!
Don't open your PC! WinTV-USB is an external device with a 125 channel storage-ready TV tuner. Install the WinTV-USB in your PC's USB port and you're ready to watch TV in a resizeable window, right on your PC screen!

WinTV offers features usually only seen on high-end television sets, like previewing 16 channels at once. And it goes further! Snap and print stills from whatever you're watching. Or record video clips from your camcorder or off the air to create your own high-impact presentations. Add titles, soundtracks and special effects!

And with Hauppauge's SnapShot application, you can capture still video images in adjustable high resolution modes.

WinTV digitizes video using high quality 4:2:2 video sampling. And you can work on applications while simultaneously watching TV in a resizeable window.

Entertainment:
The Hauppauge WinTV-USB application has exclusive features like "channel surf", "no-title mode" and "always-on-top mode", making WinTV easy and fun to use! Watch TV-in-a-window or full screen from the 125-channel cable ready TV tuner. WinTV-USB will also display video from a VCR, camcorder or any other video source.

Videoconference* over the Internet:
Your WinTV-USB is a video digitizer and can be used with Internet videoconferencing applications like Microsoft's NetMeeting, CU-SeeMe, Windows Messenger and more! Videoconference with your friends and family right on your PC!

Spice up your multimedia presentations!
Create digital movies in the Microsoft AVI file format with Hauppauge's WinTV-Capture or Windows Movie Maker.

Add video clips to your Web Page:
Creative Webmasters can incorporate TV highlights or video clips in their web sites!

Desktop Publishing:
With our exclusive SnapShot application, you can quickly save video images! Capture 24-bit still video images in TIFF, JPEG, BMP in color or black/white. Great for desktop publishing and web design.

Note:
* Videoconferencing requires the addition of a video camera
* TV reception requires an antenna or cable TV connection

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Customer Reviews

Hauppauge Win TV USB
As it's a USB device, installation of the Hauppage WinTV-USB was hassle-free. In addition to plugging it into one of the PC's USB ports, the only other necessary connections are to the TV aerial and the line input socket on the sound card. The image quality was poor compared to the PCI adapters, much poorer than on a standard TV receiver. This is inevitable due to the data compression employed on USB adapters.

Specifically, the picture wasn't especially sharp and the refresh rate was less than broadcast TV's 25 frames per second (actually 50Hz interlaced). This shows up in particular when watching people talk close-up, and when fast-moving objects are present on the screen. Flickering also occurred on the top line of the picture.

The software consists of the usual applications for watching TV, capturing video clips and accessing Teletext.

Buy in haste, repent at leisure
I got this (and returned it)a few weeks ago. Watching a TV program on a PC using this is akin to watching a TV with a sock over your head in a thunderstorm. It is not a card. It plugs into a USB port much like a USB pen and the TV aerial is plugged into the unit. Also, my device came with unsigned drivers, which, according to the manual, may cause your system to become unstable or unusable. Installed in 3 minutes, unplugged in 2, and system restored in 15. Don't buy this!!!

Something is wrong with this TV-tuner.
I got this Tv-tuner Win-TV usb2 as a gift and it never worked properly... The sound is fine but the image is very low quality and crassing all the time! Even with no filter enabled it stills moves to slow... I tried several drivers even older version but the problem still remains. I don't see that the problem is my coputer since it is perfectly seted up with latest drivers...CPU: P4 3.0Ghz HT, Ram: 1Gb Dual channel (2*400mhz), Graphics: Hercules 9800XT. I am afraid that all USB TV-tuners perform too badly against the PCI ones, with the worst of all Win-TV usb2.