Product Info
Watch and record ATSC digital TV and analog cable TV on your PC, with built-in hardware MPEG encoder and full 1080i ATSC receiver
The WinTV-HVR-1600 is a single slot PCI board which brings analog and ATSC digital TV to your PC. The WinTV-HVR-1600 has two tuners: a 125 channel cable ready tuner and an ATSC digital TV tuner. ATSC digital TV is the new over-the-air high definition TV for North America.
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.
- Two tuners on board: a 125 channel cable ready TV tuner and an ATSC digital TV tuner. Connect both cable TV and ATSC digital TV to the WinTV-HVR-1600 at the same time.
- Includes Hauppauge's WinTV2000 application. Our WinTV2000 application allows you to toggle between cable TV and ATSC digital TV channels.
- Includes an IR blaster to change the channel on your satellite or cable TV set top box. Connect your set top box to the WinTV-HVR-1600 via S-Video.
- Bundled software includes a TV scheduler plus ULead's® DVD MovieFactory™ authoring and burning software.
Digital ATSC HD TV features
- ATSC over-the-air digital TV receiver 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 receiver 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.
System Requirements
- Processor requirements: 2.2 GHz P4 or equivalent (minimum) required for displaying ATSC high definition TV.
- Microsoft® Windows® XP Home, Pro or Media Center Edition. Also Windows Vista Premium certified.
- Graphics with 64 MB memory (or greater)
- Available PCI slot
- Sound card.
Package Contents
- WinTV-HVR-1600 PCI bus card with 125 channel cable-ready TV tuner, ATSC receiver, hardware MPEG-2 encoder, dbx-TV stereo decoder, S-Video/composite and audio inputs.
- IR remote control receiver.
- IR Blaster (infra-red remote control transmitter), to control satellite and cable TV set top boxes.
- WinTV-HVR-1600 CD-ROM includes:
o WinTV2000 application for TV in a window plus TV recording, pause and playback.
o WinTV-Scheduler for scheduling your TV recording, and with link to TitanTV.com*.
o WinTV MPEG editor for high quality cutting and pasting of your standard definition video movies.
o Ulead® DVD MovieFactory™, to create your own videos on DVD or CD*