Hauppauge 1178 WinTV-HVR-1600 Internal Hybrid TV Tuner/Video Recorder
 | Average Customer Rating: Recommend WinTV-HVR-1600 is a dual format TV receiver for your PC. Watch ATSC digital TV or analog cable TV, in a window or full screen. Watch and record all ATSC formats, including the highest definition 1080i format! WinTV-HVR-1600 includes TV scheduler, the Hauppauge remote control and IR blaster to control satellite and cable TV set top boxes. Product details and pricing info |
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57 Customer Reviews Posted
- Excellent tuner for Media Center
- Everything was easy to install and it works great. We use it with our Xbox 360 to record TV shows. It is an excellent buy!
- 2008-12-02, 0 of 0 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- A very poor tuner for standard-def analog video
- I own the WinTV-HVR-1800, the PCI Express version this card. For both cards, the recording quality for standard-definition video is very, very poor compared to previous Hauppauge tuners I've owned (like the WinTV-PVR-500, which unfortunately I sold too quickly).
Additionally, its ClearQAM recording capabilities do not work with Media Center, which effectively means that the feature does not exist.
I would not recommend this card to anyone. - 2008-10-07, 0 of 0 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- Good product, good value, software is clunky
- I bought this to add tv tuner capabilities to my desktop workstation. It works quite well for watching and pausing live tv. The software for viewing, planning, and storing automated recordings is quite clunky and awkward to use. My suggestion: Try http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10053173-1.html?tag=TOCcarouselArea.0 when it is available. It is packaged with a nearly identical Hauppauge tuner card, or you can use your own card and just buy the software.
- 2008-09-30, 0 of 0 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- TV card not performing as expected
- I installed the Hauppauge 1178 WinTV-HVR-1600 Internal Hybrid TV Tuner/Video Recorder in my Windows 64 bit Vista machine and it only works PART OF THE TIME. It works fine at times, but other times the signal is broken up and lots of pieces come up missing. I've tried EVERYTHING TO FIX the problem only to wind up in defeat. I wish I had gone another route. In all fairness, the company did offer to refund my money (or exchange it whatever) but I kept it and tried some more tricks, only to wind up again with the same mess from time to time. Oh well, live and learn. Works great WHEN IT WORKS.
- 2008-09-18, 0 of 0 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- The Record feature doesn't work in Vista
- Beware buying any Hauppauge product for Windows Vista. Everything works except for Record, which crashes. The hardware may be good, but the software/driver seems to have been an afterthought.
- 2008-07-11, 0 of 0 people found this review helpful, Rated:
