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Hauppauge -WinTV-PVR-250 TV Tuner/Personal Video Recorder
Binding: Electronics
Brand: Hauppauge
EAN: 0785428009803
Format: AVI
Item Dimensions: 100
Label: HAUPPAUGE
Manufacturer: HAUPPAUGE
Model: 980
MPN: 980
Publisher: HAUPPAUGE
Studio: HAUPPAUGE
Features:- Watch TV on your PC screen, in a window or full screen
- Digitally record your TV shows or pause live TV and create your own instant replay
- Burn captured programming onto CD-ROM or DVD (optional media burner required)
- Integrated 125 channel cable-ready TV tuner, hardware MPEG-2 encoder, dbx stereo audio with IR remote control, batteries and manul
- Composite Video, S-Video & audio inputs, for connecting VCR or camcorder
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Editorial Review:
CONSUMER ALERT: This television receiver has only an analog broadcast tuner and will require a converter box after February 17, 2009, to receive over-the-air broadcasts with an antenna because of the Nation's transition to digital broadcasting. Analog-only TVs should continue to work as before with cable and satellite TV services, gaming consoles, VCRs, DVD players, and similar products. For more information, call the Federal Communications Commission at 1-888-225-5322 (TTY: 1-888-835-5322) or visit the Commission's digital television website at: www.dtv.gov HAUPPAUGE PVR-250 - WinTV PVR-250 puts TV watching under your control! Watch what you want, when you want with this easily installed PCI adapter. Supports data rates from 1Mbit/sec to 12Mbits/sec - you decide how to factor picture quality against hard disk space! Includes WinTV-Scheduler and WinTV-Editor With WinTV-PVR's Pause feature enjoy personal instant replay to analyze key scenes Requires 450 MHz+ Pentium II class processor running Windows 98SE, ME, 2000 or XP, free PCI slot, sound card, CD-RW or DVD writer for burning Video CDs, S-VCDs or DVDs
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Adequate Card
I would not recommend this card for use as your primary TV and/or even for recording video. Even with my Intel Core2 Extreme and 8GB of 800MHz RAM, this card produces choppy video. It may not be annoying to some, but it is to me. I would recommend getting an external USB device for a TV tuner.
Rating: - Great picture quality, crappy software
Fantastic resolution in the DVD-high-quality mode, and the onboard-processor frees up your CPU to do other things, like surf the web, while you're recording shows. The included software is junk -- I get jittery video on occasion and sometimes no sound with their software. I'd recommend using it with Windows Media Center, or Beyond TV 4.0 software if you don't own Media Center. I plan to buy another card so I can record two shows at once.
Rating: - Great card - Work well with MythTV (Linux)
Great card - Work well with MythTV (Linux)
Rating:  - Hauppauge WinTV-PVR-250 (Model 980)
The product works flawlessly. I have it installed in an old PIII w/512 MB RAM and I have no problems at all. I only wish I had researched a little further and found out that the newer 150 model has exactly the same functionality for less $$.
Rating: - The one to buy
The Hauppauge WinTV-PVR-250 has been working steadily for several months.
I tried Plextor M402U and ADS Tech USB hardware encoder boxes. They both failed in 2 days. I have a Novatech (software conversion) USB box. Any Software converter will be SLOW. The Novatech requires conversion to MPG after capture so i actually only use it to take snapshots.
I have a disk partition i use for capturing..editing.. then write it to DVD.. then delete the files, thus no need to defrag all the ... Read More
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