Hauppauge 1178 Description

Watch hi-definition ATSC
Digital TV on Your PC! Analog Cable TV, Too!
Watch and record TV in a window or full screen using high quality MPEG-2. ATSC digital TV is the over-the-air digital TV for North America. ATSC digital TV typically requires an antenna for reception, and is currently broadcast in 200 cities, with over 1500 TV stations.

Note: ATSC digital TV is NOT digital cable TV or digital satellite TV. The WinTV-HVR-1600 cannot receive digital cable TV or digital satellite TV.

ATSC Digital TV Brings You Sharper Pictures
It enriches your PC's multimedia experience with near CD quality sound. WinTV-HVR-1600's ATSC digital TV receiver adds great features to your TV viewing: high definition TV reception, automatic identification of channel names plus records high-definition digital TV programs to your PC's hard disk in an MPEG-2 format without no loss in quality. Two tuners to simplify connections The WinTV-HVR-1600 has two tuners: one for analog cable TV and one for ATSC digital TV. You can connect both cable TV and an ATSC digital TV antenna at the same time. And our WinTV2000 application allows you to toggle between cable TV and ATSC digital TV channels.

Create your own personal Digital Video Recorder!
Record cable TV or ATSC digital TV shows to disk with MPEG-2. Use the WinTV-Scheduler to schedule the recordings of your favorite analog or ATSC digital TV programs. Play the recordings back to your PC screen at any time. Are you using Windows XP Media Center Edition or Vista? If so, you can add WinTV-HVR-1600 as either the primary or as the second TV tuner. The Microsoft Media Center application supports up to two TV tuners, aso you can watch one TV channel while recording another! And WinTV-HVR-1600 has Windows Vista Premium certification.

Technically Speaking
WinTV-HVR-1600 contains two tuners: a ATSC digital TV tuner for over the air digital TV reception plus a 125-channel cable ready TV tuner. For ATSC digital TV, all 18 ATSC formats including 1080i can be watched or recorded to disk as a Program Stream. A highly integrated MPEG-1/2 hardware encoder based on the Conexant -418 is on-board for recording analog cable TV to disk. The playback of the recorded ATSC digital or MPEG-2 encoded analog program is done through a software MPEG-2 player. An on-board IR receiver and transmitter uses a software loaded set top box table for the codes to control a set top box.

Hauppauge 1178 Reviews

REVIEW BY: Reviewed Feb 16, 2009

Installed Hauppauge 1178 in a low profile Dell GX280 with a 3Gig P4, along with an ATI HD3650 video card and a wireless card. Feeds a 37'' LCD TV. Analog channels have good quality, and if you're lucky enough to have a good ATCS reception, HD image is simply outstanding. Accompanying software is OK, but for true home theater PC front end it is best to install slicker software such as GBPVR (giftware) for tv guide, pausing and batch recording live tv. Everything runs great under WinXP SP3. Networking allows for playing movies, photos or music off shared drives all within GBPVR. Bundled remote works very well, nothing wrong with it, but do yourself a favour and wrap it all up with a Logitech Harmony.

REVIEW BY: Robert M Reviewed Feb 28, 2008

Card works with software included. Windows media center will not respond to the remote. The remote stopped functioning with win tv after the first day. Don't buy for the remote. The remote is like the Amy Winehouse song You Know That I'm No Good.

REVIEW BY: chodelips Reviewed Jun 28, 2007

I've been a long time user of Hauppauge TV-tuner cards. They're simply the best when it comes to TV on your PC. I have Hauppauge 1178 card installed on a Dell Dimension 2400 running Vista Home Premium. This card is designed to work perfectly with Media Center and it does. Simply plug it in, set it up in MC or use the WinTV program, and you've got TV on your computer. Basic cable looks great and HD is outstanding. MC even downloads a guide to show you whats on TV. The dual tuner lets you switch from HD to regular cable effortlessly without any cable switching. WinTV also just released some software on their site that now supports QAM channels using the new WinTV v6 application.

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