Hauppauge WinTV-PVR-250MCE (Model 975)

by Hauppauge

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B0001A06F8
• Item model number: 975
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: January 6, 2004

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

WinTV-PVR-250 puts TV watching under your control! 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.

Create your own Digital Video Recorder! The WinTV-PVR-250 turns your PC into a digital video recorder. Record TV program or home videos to disk, play them back to your PC screen or burn them onto DVD. With data rates from 4.4MBits/sec up to 12Mbits/sec (or as low as 1 Mbit/sec with VCD formats), you decide how much hard disk space your videos will consume. At DVD quality, a typical one hour TV show will take 2 gigabytes of hard disk space.

WinTV-PVR includes WinTV-Scheduler and WinTV-Editor. Trim your videos, cut out segments, put them back together, all without losing any video quality with our WinTV-Editor! With WinTV-Scheduler, you can control your TV recording on a daily, weekly or random schedule. Automatically record your favorite programs so you'll never miss your TV shows again!

WinTV-PVR's pause feature gives you control of what you watch in your WinTV window. Get personal "instant replay" to stop the action when you want to analyze a key scene. Instantly rewind and replay the action again. You're in control with WinTV-PVR!

Ever been called to the phone, had to answer the door, or went for a snack and missed part of the big match? With WinTV-PVR, you'll never miss the action again. Just click on WinTV-PVR's "One Touch Pause" button to pause your TV program, click again to continue watching where you left off. Then fast forward to catch up to the live broadcast.

Record your TV programs or home videos onto DVD or CD, and play them on your DVD player! If you have a DVD burner in your PC, use the WinTV-PVR's MPEG files with the included Ulead DVD MovieFactory to author your own home DVD's. Turn your TV shows or home videos into DVD movies!

WinTV-PVR-250 contains a highly integrated MPEG-1/2 hardware encoder, plus a high quality video digitizer. WinTV-PVR-250 can record full screen TV or video from a VCR or camcorder, using as little as 1.5GB of hard disk space per hour. The encoded MPEG-2 video is sent over the PCI bus, where it is stored on the PCs hard disk. The video can also be played back to the PC screen while recording.

Features and Benefits

• Watch TV or listen to FM radio live on any PC
• Use any PC as a digital video recorder
• Pause TV shows live and replay any time
• USB port for easy installation
• Window or full-screen

Product Description

Primarily designed for Windows XP Media Center (2004 edition), this internal expansion card adds TV and radio to your PC computer. You can also use the WinTV-PVR-250MCE to watch TV in a window and record your TV shows into an MPEG format with WinTV2000, our TV application which is bundled with WinTV-PVR-250MCE. So it supports both TV watching and recording under Windows XP Media Center Edition 2004 and also Windows XP! Watch TV with the MyTV button Use the Media Center Edition TV scheduler to record your TV shows to disk WinTV-PVR-250MCE's built-in hardware MPEG encoder allows you to continue to use your computer while recording. Listen to music, watch digital pictures or play a DVD movie while recording! Listen to FM radio while you work on your PC Record your home videos to disk. WinTV-PVR-250MCE includes audio/video inputs to connect to VCRs and camcorders Note - the MCE remote control is used to control the TV window under Windows XP MCE 2004 MPEG record specifications (under Windows XP) - MPEG2 record datarates - 2MBit/sec, 4MBit/sec, 6Mbit/sec, 8Mbit/sec, 12Mbit/sec. / Selections for DVD Standard play (8MBitsec), DVD Long Play (4MBit/sec) and DVD Extra Long Play (2MBit/sec) / NTSC format at 29.97fps - Full D1 - 720x480, MPEG1 - 352x240 / PAL format at 25fps - Full D1 - 720x576, MPEG1 - 352x288 For desktop PC with available PCI expansion slot for card installation

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

40 of 40 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Be careful - this is the MCE version, March 22, 2005

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James Kuzeja (Pepperell, MA, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Hauppauge WinTV-PVR-250MCE (Model 975) (Personal Computers)

If you are looking for a reasonably priced Hauppauge PVR 250 for use with MythTV, this *isn't* it. This is the MCE version, a fact which Amazon cleverly left out of the product title (although it is present in the fine print), and it is 50-50 whether this will work with MythTV. Look for the Model 980 instead. I bought this one by mistake... learn from my misfortune.

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great Card!, February 27, 2005

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Jeff Capron (New York) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Hauppauge WinTV-PVR-250MCE (Model 975) (Personal Computers)

I ordered this from Amazon and it came the next day, even though I checked standard shipping. That was kinda cool. :)

I havent found anything really wrong with this card other than the fact that there is about a 1-2 second lag time when watching video. This really is no big deal unless you planned on say plugging in your XBOX to it and try to play video games through your PC.

The recording quality is excellent, I recorded a couple of fights I had saved on my TIVO and burned them to DVD for my fight collection and when I played it back on the DVD player, there was absolutely no loss in the quality. It looked identical to what I had saved on TIVO.

I really cannot use the channel changer features as I use satellite, but it seems to tune into channel 3 ok. :)

Supposedly you can set it up to record stuff automatically etc., I just do not need it for that so I cannot really comment on it.

I would have given this 5 stars if there was no lag time.

Great product, I highly recommend it.

5.0 out of 5 stars Works as Expected, May 10, 2010

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JRD261 "JRD" - See all my reviews

This review is from: Hauppauge WinTV-PVR-250MCE (Model 975) (Personal Computers)

Needed a hardware mpeg encoder for LinuxMCE and works great. Slight delay on encoding as you would expect. Tuner is analogue but appears to work although I have no use for it.