Hauppauge WinTV 125 Channel TV Tuner and Digital Digitizer (Model 404)

by Hauppauge

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B0000511H3
• Item model number: 404
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #413,074 in Electronics (See Top 100 in Electronics)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: September 4, 1973

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

Hauppauge's WinTV is a single-slot PCI board for your PC that allows you to watch TV in a window on your PC screen. WinTV processes the video without requiring help from your PC's CPU so your computer continues to run at full speed while WinTV is operating.

The WinTV application has excellent features, such as channel surf, single-click no-title mode, and always-on-top mode, making WinTV easy to use. Work on other applications while simultaneously watching TV in a window from the 125-channel, cable-ready TV tuner. WinTV also displays video from a VCR, camcorder, or any other video source.

Add impact to your desktop publishing and Web design with WinTV and Hauppauge's exclusive SnapShot application. You can quickly capture and save video images. Capture 24-bit still images in TIFF, JPEG, and BMP file formats in color or black and white. Incorporate saved still images into desktop publishing and Web design.

You can also videoconference over the Internet. WinTV is a video digitizer and can be used with Internet videoconferencing applications like Microsoft's NetMeeting (included with Windows 98), CUSeeMe, and more. Using a camcorder or video camera, you can videoconference with your friends and family right on your PC.

Hauppauge's WinTV Capture application lets you create digital movies in the Microsoft AVI file format. Capture video clips from TV, VCR, or camcorder and incorporate them into your multimedia presentations.

WinTV is compatible with a number of third-party applications, including WinDVR, a digital recorder application from InterVideo; SnapStream, a streaming video application; and Viewtopia, a multibrowser from PointNine. WinTV can also be used with popular public domain software such as DScaler.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good TV card, August 19, 2002

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D. Sessoms - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Hauppauge WinTV 125 Channel TV Tuner and Digital Digitizer (Model 404) (Personal Computers)

If you simply want to watch TV on your computer, this is a decent card. It was easy to install, comes with a remote, and has some nice features. It doesnt seem to affect my computer's performance while running, which is very nice.

The video capture mode is a little disappointing, since the short videos I tried to record came out choppy and mainly unwatchable. The video files created by the capture were huge, although I assume you could shrink such a file using various divx encoders. In any event, I didnt buy the card for its capture capabilities, and if that is what you are looking for, I'd look somewhere else.

If all you want is a TV tuner with remote, this is a good buy.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Win TV, September 11, 2001

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dork - See all my reviews

This review is from: Hauppauge WinTV 125 Channel TV Tuner and Digital Digitizer (Model 404) (Personal Computers)

This product does not have any of the cons ... It is easy to use and win tv 2000 (the progrm that is) is one of the best tv tuner applications there is. This card is inexpensive and more versitile than any other card in its price range. Im not saing the quality is great when in tv mode or full screen it looks alittle cubated. But its the best you can do for the money to get an equivilant card or better you looking to spend two and a half or more times what this card costs. And if your chanels are blurry thats usually due to the cable input touching the computer case.

10 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Some cons but really cool., June 12, 2001

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J. Lewis (Columbus, GA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Hauppauge WinTV 125 Channel TV Tuner and Digital Digitizer (Model 404) (Personal Computers)

First the cons: Full doesn't make the picture bigger just blackens around the image and keeps the size of the screen the same. Also on my computer it wouldn't let my modem work. The on-line help that I printed days before said tocheck with the ISP but I knew before hand they couldn't help me. What I ended up doing was unplugging the card and changin my modem's IRQ setting. That then enabled the card to be used. So I think that you will have to take a look at the IRQs and play with them (which windows says you shouldn't, but that is the easiest thing to do).

But overall this is a really good card. Some of my channels come in blurry but that is due to my cable line, not the card. The remote control makes it conveninet to sit back in my chair and prop up my legs to watch tv. When I move I'm going to have the computer in another room so it will be nice to watch TV and play on the computer at the same time.

Due to the Installation problems I give it 4 Stars.