Hauppauge WinTV-HVR-1800 78521 LF ATSC QAM NTSC FM TV Tuner Card. The Win-HVR-1800 brings over-the-air high definition ATSC digital TV and analog cable TV to your PC. Watch and record TV in a window or full screen using high quality MPEG-2. It uses a hardware MPEG-2 encoder, so you don't slow down your PC while recording. With MPEG data rates from 2 to 8Mbits/sec, you decide how much hard disk space your videos will consume (the lower the data rates, the less disk space your videos will consume, but with lower video quality).
Hauppauge Model Number: Win-HVR-1800
HP Part Number: 5188-8538 78521 LF
Compatible Models: HP M8150n M8200n M8325f M8525f M9040f M9150f M9250f M9340f Series
Features:
PCI Express TV tuner, Watch, record, pause and replay TV in Media Center.
- Single slot PCI Express TV tuner board, with dual tuner NTSC/ASTC/QAM/FM TV tuners.
- Includes built in hardware MPEG-2 encoder for recording cable TV.
- Watch, Pause and Record analog cable TV and high definition ATSC digital TV in Windows Media Center.
WinTV-HVR-1800 is the perfect TV for Media Center, with these great features
- Dual tuner analog cable TV and ATSC/QAM high definition digital TV tuners for North America.
- Watch, pause and record analog and ATSC digital TV in Microsoft's Media Center. Record ATSC high definition digital TV to your PC's disk in the original video quality!
- Built-in high quality hardware MPEG-2 encoder for recording analog cable TV. Record to disk using from 1-2 Gigabytes of disk space per hour of recorded video. While recording, the WinTV-HVR-1800’s hardware MPEG-2 encoder does all the work, so your PC continues to run at full speed. With dbx-TV stereo decoder, for great TV sound.
- Use Media Center’s TV scheduler to record your favorite TV shows. There’s no monthly charge for the program guide and scheduler!
With Microsoft Media Center and the WinTV-HVR-1800 you can
- Watch analog cable TV and ATSC digital TV with Vista Media Center. Use Media Center’s TV scheduler to automatically record your favorite TV shows.
- Record cable TV to disk WinTV-HVR-1800’s built-in MPEG-2 recorder in DVD quality. You typically use 1-2 Gigabytes of hard disk per hour of recorded video.
- Pause analog and ATSC digital TV, with instant replay, skip, fast forward and rewind.
Digital ATSC HD TV features
- ATSC over-the-air digital TV tuner built-in. Supports all ATSC formats, up to the high definition 1080i format!
- Supports Dolby Digital AC3 audio
- Record ATSC digital TV to your PC's hard disk using high quality MPEG-2. TV recordings will typically consume 5 Gb of disk space per hour for ATSC high definition.
Digital QAM features
- If you are using digital cable which broadcast the local ATSC channels on their cable TV network, you can receive these QAM channels with the new WinTV v6 application.
Note: not all cable TV networks send clear QAM channels
Analog TV features
- Built-in high quality hardware MPEG-2 encoder, so your PC continues to run at full speed while watching, pausing and recording analog cable TV
- 125 channel cable ready TV tuner built-in. With dbx-TV stereo decoder, for great TV sound.
- Composite/S-Video and audio inputs, for cable or satellite set top boxes or VCRs.
