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Hauppauge 1229 WinTV-HVR-2250 White Box for System Builders Dual Hybrid PCI-E TV Tuner Board | 
 enlarge | Brand: Hauppauge
Category: CE
List Price: $149.99
Buy New: $113.99
You Save: $36.00 (24%)
New (22) Used (1) from $111.00
Rating:  6 reviews
Sales Rank: 996
Media: Electronics
Memorabilia: No
Operating System: MS Windows XP Media Center compatible
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.5
Dimensions (in): 7 x 3 x 10
MPN: 1229
Model: 1229
UPC: 785428012292
EAN: 0785428012292
ASIN: B001E2T6Y4
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | PCI-E TV Tuner Board | | • | Dual Hybrid Analog and Digital TV Tuners | | • | Watch record and pause TV on your PC | | • | ATSC Clear QAM Digital TV up to 1080i | | • | Vista Compatible |
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Product Description
The WinTV-HVR-2250 has two tuners, for watching a TV program while recording another program with the other tuner. Record analog cable TV shows to your PC's hard disk with a built-in high quality MPEG-2 hardware encoder. You can also record high definition digital ATSC and clear QAM digital cable TV to disk in the original digital quality. Use the WinTV-Scheduler to schedule the recordings of your favorite analog or digital TV programs. Play the recordings back to your PC screen at any time. Clear QAM TV channels are unencrypted digital TV channels broadcast by your local cable operator. ATSC broadcasts range in resolution from standard definition up to the high definition 1080i format. The WinTV-HVR can be used to watch and record all ATSC formats. ATSC digital TV brings you sharper pictures and enriches your PC's multimedia experience with near CD quality sound. WinTV-HVR's ATSC digital TV tuner adds great features to your TV viewing: High definition TV reception, automatic identification of channel names, plus it records high-definition digital TV programs to your PC's hard disk in an MPEG-2 format without any loss in quality. WinTV-HVR-2250 is a PCI Express X1 board based on the NXP 7164 bus interface chip. For ATSC and QAM digital TV, all 18 ATSC formats including 1080i can be watched or recorded to disk as a MPEG-2 Program Stream. Single slot PCI Express (PCIe) X1 board, half height System Requirements - 2.2-GHz P4 or equivalent required for displaying ATSC high definition TV on your PC screen, Microsoft Windows Vista Premium or Ultimate with Media Center or Windows XP Media Center Edition, Available PCIe X1 or X8 slot, Graphics with 64MB memory or greater, Sound card, and CD reader for software installation
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| Customer Reviews: Read 1 more reviews...
 Promising Product, but Disappointed January 6, 2009
PreyMantas (Baltimore, Md. USA)
I purchased this product in Oct. 08' and was very excited to get them integrated into 2 media center systems I was building. Installation was a snap, both hardware and software, then came the disappointment.
The software packaged with the tuner needs quite a bit of work and some of it doesn't even work like the all important signal metering software. You would think that it's native bundled software would work the best with the tuners, but the recordings exhibit very annoying video tearing on the top of the screen.
I found that although I have a honkering long range 75 mile rooftop antenna that picks up digitals from neighboring states, I couldn't get my most important local channels less then 6 miles away with a clear line of sight from my hilltop location. I thought maybe it was multiple splitting of the antenna feed causing the issue in conjunction with a marginal tuner, but after going straight from the antenna to the card on a dedicated line realized that wasn't the problem. All 3 of my other digital converter boxes on multiple splitters and my main HD TV got *everything* on the dial at a strength of at least 70% or better, that's when I contacted tech support.
It took 3 weeks to actually get my 1st response, needless to say it was a non-answer, so now my return window was gone and had to bird dog for support. After that point I did start getting some sort of support, yet again, it was fruitless and they had no idea if or ever the reception issues could be resolved much less the signal meter utility and never addressed the video tearing on recordings issue.
After over 2 months of back and forth emails and one test report that yielded no course of solution I had enough.
To Hauppauge's credit they agreed to refund the amount I spent with Amazon for the cards and I'm in the process of waiting for the refund to be issued and haven't written them off as a result. So although it didn't work for me in a satisfactory manner, your mileage may vary, but be aware that software functionality is incomplete at this moment with no projected fixes for items such as the signal meter and they were up front with that. They suggested using other software with their cards, so if you are okay with that and they perform well by receiving in your area all the stations that are important to you and you can live with the video tearing on recordings they do work to that degree and level of quality.
Personally I think the Indonesian tuners they are using in these cards are inferior causing poor tuning. I have 3 Apex DT250 converter boxes that work great and they are the cheapest on the market. They also need to address the non functional signal meter and annoying video tearing on recordings before I would consider them to be ready for prime time and "as advertised".
 Great for single service December 22, 2008
R. Seale (TX)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This tuner is great for those who want either cable or over-the-air, but not both. There is only one port for TV input (the other is for FM radio) so if you want analog cable TV and over-the-air digital, won't work. Otherwise a great dual tuner.
 Not quite 100% yet November 23, 2008
Morris (GA)
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
Well the card came as promised, I plugged it in and it began to work without too much problems. I did need to update drivers etc.
My issue is that you hve to set the card up as either two analog tuners or two QAM tuners, which means you can either watch a QAM and record a QAM program or watch a Analog channel and record an analog channel. Well you cannot. The card should not need to be set up as one or the other it should switch back and forth on the fly (as neccesary).
Hauppauge says it is a problem with Media Center not supporting the functionality. But then I tried to use there built in TV application and it doesnt get QAM at all Hauppauge says it is a problem with how comcast broadcasts there QAM signal. Souns like a big case of passing the buck to me.
 Sweet, Totaly recommended. October 31, 2008
Peter D. Morgenroth (Seattle)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This thing is pretty sweet. Just connect 1 coax cable and it splits it internaly. I like being able to record 2 shows at once. I watch TV on my big screen, but use this to record my favorite shows and works great, the quality, although not HD over my standard cable connection, is still quite good. My friends brag about having a 100gb Tivo, lol, i have 2Tbs, and can burn em to DVD, hehe. Great card, works perfect on Vista Ultamate 64bit. I use it with Media Center and not the WinTV.
The shipping was super fast and the price is certainly great.
SageTV users: ATSC doesn't work with this card... yet. October 25, 2008
P. Jun (San Francisco, CA)
2 out of 8 found this review helpful
If you are planning to use with SageTV 6.4.8 (latest as of this writing) then be aware that the ATSC tuners do NOT work. Although this is a problem with SageTV, those that are looking to purchase this card are likely to use it under SageTV.
SageTV recognizes this card as something completely different and is unable able to tune the Digital ATSC tuner. I've tried to install the latest beta XP 32-bit drivers from Hauppauge and the beta drivers for SageTV without avail.
I'm sure there's a fix for this coming from SageTV, and when it comes, this card will be perfect. But, until then, buyer beware!
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