- Watch TV in a window (or full screen) on your PC or laptop
- Plugs into your USB port for easy installation
- Watch or record videos from a VCR, camcorder, DVD player
- Videoconference over the Internet
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WinTV-USB's features
- Watch TV in a window (or full screen) on your PC or laptop
- Plugs into your USB port for easy installation!
- Watch or record videos from a VCR, camcorder, DVD player, etc. through the auxiliary audio/video input (S-Video or composite)
- Videoconference over the Internet
- Snap still video images in JPEG, BMP, etc. formats
- Make video movies in AVI file format
- Receive teletext pages (European models)
Installation is a snap!
Don't open your PC! WinTV-USB is an external device with a 125 channel cable-ready TV tuner. Install the WinTV-USB in your PC's USB port and you're ready to watch TV in a resizable window, right on your PC screen!
WinTV offers features usually only seen on high-end television sets, like previewing 16 channels at once. And it goes further! Snap and print stills from whatever you're watching. Or record video clips from your camcorder or off the air to create your own high-impact presentations.
And with Hauppauge's SnapShot application, you can capture still video images in adjustable high resolution modes. WinTV digitizes video using high quality 4:2:2 video sampling. And you can work on applications while simultaneously watching TV in a resizable window.
WinTV-USB is great for watching TV on your PC screen, and more!
Entertainment: The Hauppauge WinTV-USB application has exclusive features like "channel surf", "no-title mode" and "always-on-top mode", making WinTV easy and fun to use! Watch TV-in-a-window or full screen from the 125-channel cable ready TV tuner. WinTV-USB will also display video from a VCR, camcorder or any other video source.
Videoconference over the Internet: Your WinTV-USB is a video digitizer and can be used with Internet videoconferencing applications like Microsoft's Neeeting (included with Windows98), CU-SeeMe and more! Videoconference with your friends and family right on your PC! Note: videoconferencing requires a camcorder or video camera.
Spice up your multimedia presentations! Create digital movies in the Microsoft AVI file format with Hauppauge's WinTV-Capture application.
Add video clips to your Web Page: Creative Webmasters can incorporate TV highlights or video clips in their web sites!
Desktop Publishing: With our exclusive SnapShot application, you can quickly save video images! Capture 24-bit still video images in TIFF, JPEG, BMP, GIF in color or black/white. Great for desktop publishing and web design.
Product Description
External USB device with 125 channel cable ready TV tuner and digitizer / Displays live video in a resizable window Try out high-end TV features like previewing sixteen channels at once Capture 24-bit still images in TIFF, JPEG, BMP, GIF, color or monochrome, or digitize video using high quality 4 - 2 - 2 AVI format video sampling You can even work on an application in one window while watching TV in another Works with NetMeeting, CU-SeeMe and more! Cables included
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22 of 22 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Regular TV resolution is better, but not bad overall...,
By techno-geek (NY - USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Hauppauge WinTV-USB (Model 602) (Personal Computers)
The resolution is about equal to VCD quality, maybe slightly better, but it does what I wanted it to do. My monitor is flat panel 15" and I used it on 2 computers, a 500MHz w/ 128MB RAM and a 1.5GHZ w/ 512MB RAM. It worked fine on both although the 500MHz machine kinda slowed down quite a bit when 2 other applications were open (actually screwed up the video twice making everything huge and had to reboot to fix it).It takes the power from the USB port, so that's nice, but the USB cable is permanently connected to the device which kinda makes it a pain (I like to just keep the USB cable connected to the PC to make it more convenient and connect whatever device I want later). Also, my USB port is on the back of my 500MHz machine, so that's even more inconvenient for me. Anyway, overall, everything isn't too bad if you don't mind the lower quality of the video. If you want better quality, I read the internal TV tuners are much better. I wanted convenience though. Oh yeah, there is a slight but noticable out of sync-ness between the audio and video, but it isn't too bad. You cannot get closed captioning and there is no FM tuner or remote control for this one (but those features would have made this model more expensive). If there were an option, I would give it a 3.5. It deserves better than a 3 - but because of the VCD quality and price (this is kinda expensive for VCD quality) I can't give it a full 4.
18 of 19 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Satisfactory Product for its promises,
By Tech Guy (dallas, tx) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Hauppauge WinTV-USB (Model 602) (Personal Computers)
I was a little doubtful about the efficiency of an external capture card with usb 1.1 kind of interface. Than I read somewhere that the bandwidth offered by even an old usb interface is more than sufficient for SD video. Well , I went and bought this product. Installation was really a snap ( I actually downloaded softwares from its web site instead of from the included CD just to be safe and most updated). After installation , the video/audio came just fine. ( I used my dish set top box RF out for video ).The quality is not as good as on a TV ( afterall the original signals are interlaced which are postprocessed for the computer to be progressive scan and its not a $100+ piece of hardware !!) but good enough as a secondary TV when the mainTV is captured by the rest of the family.
14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
I'm happy. It works better than expected.,
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This review is from: Hauppauge WinTV-USB (Model 602) (Personal Computers)
I wanted a USB tuner that I could connect to both my desktop and laptop. It installed without difficulty and worked fine. I downloaded the updates from the Hauppauge website, but didn't notice any difference. The picture quality is satisfactory from cable. I generally watch a small window while I work on the computers. I didn't connect the audio to my sound card (as recommended) because I wanted the convenience of swapping only the USB cable when I switch computers. It works fine for me. The sound quality is not bad. A very slight sync delay with the picture is noticeable but not annoying. I will probably add a Hauppauge PCI card tuner/PVR to my desktop in the future for better picture quality and TiVo like features. Perhaps the problems some reviewers are having are PC performance related. My laptop is a Dell 2.4gH P4 with integrated graphics. My desktop is a Dell 3.2gH P4 with a graphics card.
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