TV Tuners

WinTV-HVR-1250 ATSC Tuner
WinTV-HVR-1600 NSTC-ATSC Tuner
WinTV-HVR-1800 NSTC-ATSC Tuner

Hauppauge WinTV-HVR-1250 Tuner

Watch live TV on your PC

• Watch, pause and record analog and HDTV channels on your PC, at up to 1080i resolution. Receives Dolby Digital audio too.
• Watch Analog TV and Clear QAM Digital TV by connecting to Cable TV.
• Watch ATSC HDTV by connecting to a TV antenna.
• Watch TV full screen or in a window.
• Remote control included.

Record your favorite TV programs

• Record analog or digital TV shows to your computer’s hard drive with one click.
• Use WinTV-Scheduler as a personal video recorder to record your TV shows automatically.

WinTV-HVR-1250 supports these TV Formats

• NTSC Analog TV
• ATSC Digital TV
• Clear QAM Digital Cable TV

• Combination analog\digital TV tuner on board: a 125 channel cable-ready TV tuner plus HDTV tuner for clear QAM and ATSC TV reception.
• Compatible with Windows Vista, Windows XP, and Windows Media Center.

TV Standards

NTSC is the analog cable TV standard.

ATSC is the over-the-air digital HDTV standard for North America and typically requires an antenna for reception.

Clear QAM digital cable allows users to watch unencrypted HDTV stations from their cable TV provider without a set-top box.

Analog TV recordings typically consume 1.5GB of disk space per hour using Hauppauge’s SoftPVR for Windows XP and Media Center. High Definition TV recordings typically consume 5GB of disk space per hour.

Watch hi-definition ATSC digital TV, clear QAM digital TV, and Analog cable TV on your PC

• Dual format TV tuner for your PC. Watch ATSC and clear QAM digital TV or analog cable TV, in a window or full screen.
• Watch and record all digital TV formats, including the highest definition 1080i format
• Includes TV scheduler, remote control and IR blaster to control satellite and cable TV set top boxes.

WinTV-HVR-1600 has these great features

• Watch analog or digital TV on your PC screen, in a window or full screen.
• Watch and record clear QAM digital cable TV. Clear QAM digital TV are unencrypted digital TV channels broadcast by your local cable operator on their cable TV networks.
• Watch and record ATSC high definition digital TV on your PC. ATSC HD is the over-the-air high definition TV standard for North America.
• Watch and record analog cable TV. The WinTV-HVR-1600 has a built-in hardware MPEG-2 encoder, so your PC continues to run at full speed while recording analog cable TV.
• Includes Hauppauge″s WinTV v6 application. If you live in an area where you can receive both ATSC digital and analog TV over the air, you can switch between analog and digital channels automatically.
• Includes an IR blaster to change the channel on your satellite or cable TV set top box.
• Bundled software includes a TV scheduler with link to TitanTV™ plus Ulead″s® DVD MovieFactory™ authoring and burning software.

Digital Clear QAM features

If you are using digital cable which broadcasts digital cable channels "in the clear" (clear QAM), you can receive these QAM channels with the new WinTV v6 application.
Note: not all cable TV networks broadcast clear QAM channels
Note: Vista Media Center does not currently support clear QAM channels. To watch clear QAM channels, you should use the Hauppauge WinTV v6 application.

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.
• 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.

Analog TV features

• 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.
• Record TV shows to your PC″s hard disk using the built-in high quality hardware MPEG-2 encoder. While recording, the hardware encoder does all the work so your PC continues to run at full speed. 1-2 Gigabytes of disk is used per hour of recorded video.

Dual tuner PCI Express NTSC/ATSC/QAM TV tuner board for Windows Vista. Watch and record analog cable TV plus hi-definition ATSC or clear QAM digital TV on your PC

• Dual tuner TV board for your PC: one analog TV tuner and one digital TV tuner
• Single slot PCI Express (PCIe) X1 board, full height
• Built-in hardware MPEG-2 encoder for recording analog cable TV, for the best system performance
• Watch and record all ATSC formats, including the highest definition 1080i format
• Supports clear QAM digital cable TV channels with the new WinTV v6 application

WinTV-HVR-1800 has these great features

• Watch and record ATSC high definition digital TV or analog cable TV on your PC, in a window or full screen. ATSC HD is the over-the-air high definition TV standard for North America.
• Watch and record 'clear QAM' digital TV channels. Clear QAM digital TV channels are TV channels which are broadcast "in the clear" on your cable TV network.
• Two tuners on board: a 125 channel cable ready TV tuner and an ATSC/QAM digital TV tuner.
• Includes Hauppauge″s WinTV v6 application, which allows you to toggle between analog cable TV, QAM and ATSC digital TV channels.

ATSC Digital 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.

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.

Clear QAM digital cable TV 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