Hauppauge-WinTV-PVR-USB 2.0 MCE Bundle TV Tuner/Personal Video Recorder

by Hauppauge

Product Details

• Item Weight: 1.5 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 2.4 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000B8JGP6
• Item model number: 99016
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #86,930 in Electronics (See Top 100 in Electronics)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: July 7, 2004

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

WinTV-PVR-USB2 MCE-Kit Has These Great Features:

• Plug and play TV tuner suppport for Windows XP Media Center Edition.
• Live TV from the built-in 125 channel cable ready TV tuner, plus composite/S-Video and audio inputs to connect to a cable TV set top box or satellite receivers.
• No need to open your PC: works best with USB 2.0. Will also work with USB 1.1.
• Built-in hardware MPEG-2 encoder. Record TV or videos to disk using from 1-2 Gigabytes of disk space per hour of recorded video. While recording, the WinTV-PVRs' hardware MPEG encoder does all the work, so your PC continues to run at full speed. Over USB 2.0, the WInTV-PVR-USB2 can record at up to 8MBits/sec.
• The included Media Center remote control can control all Media Center functions, plus has an IR transmitter to control the channels on a cable TV set top box or satellite receiver
• FM radio receiver
• dbx-TV stereo decoder, for great TV sound.

System Requirements:

• Pentium III processor 733 MHz or faster, 128 MB RAM and 10 GB disk drive minimum recommended
• Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 or later, or Windows XP Service Pack 2
• Available USB 2.0 or 1.1 port (works faster on USB 2.0)
• Sound card

What's in the Box

• WinTV-PVR-USB2 device with 125 channel cable ready TV tuner, FM radio receiver, MPEG-2 hardware audio/video encoder
• Media Center remote control
• Media Center remote control transmitter and receiver ('beanbag')
• Wall mounted power supply
• 1 meter USB cable
• FM radio antenna
• WinTV-PVR Media Center Installation CD-ROM includes:
  • WinTV-PVR-USB2 driver for Windows XP Media Center Edition
  • WinTV application for TV under Windows XP

Product Description

Hauppauge Computer Works (99016) WinTV-PVR-usb2 MCE Bundle

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

19 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great TV Tuner., August 4, 2006

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B.J. Carroll "niner4life8" (DeFuniak Springs, FL.) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Hauppauge-WinTV-PVR-USB 2.0 MCE Bundle TV Tuner/Personal Video Recorder (Personal Computers)

I was in the market for a good TV Tuner for my new Windows Media Center PC and I shopped around a lot before I made this purchase. I looked at Pinnacle and others but Hauppauge tuners had the best reviews so I went with what folks were saying and bought this USB2 version. Glad I did because it was easy to setup, within about 10 minutes I had it up and going and working perfectly from the start. I don't have HD cable service I just have the regular and it looks just like it does on my normal TV. I really like the guide setup to where you can look at whats on in one section then you just choose which show from that guide you want to watch and it goes straight there. You can also listen to the radio plus record TV shows. From what I can tell so far you can record a show to the computer but not straight to a DVD which is kind of a bummer but I have only messed around with it a little. It could have that feature but I just haven't learned how to do it yet. There is also a feature called movies. You click on the word movies and it brings up every movie that is showing at that time. Then you can chose out of that list to watch one of those movies. I also have the PC hooked up to my XBOX 360 and it allows you to watch live TV or record TV from your XBOX 360 if you have Windows Media Center. Very glad I listened to the majority and bought Hauppauge. 5 stars.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Hauppauge-WinTV-PVR-USB, September 27, 2007

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Dallas Cassell Jr. (Bristol, VA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Hauppauge-WinTV-PVR-USB 2.0 MCE Bundle TV Tuner/Personal Video Recorder (Personal Computers)

I bought the Hauppauge-WinTV-PVR-USB to use on the wife's laptop. Her laptop had the windows XP multa-media software and I thought that would be a good accessory. The software loaded OK but it took awhile to get the remote control to work. Windows problem not Hauppauge. The computer is used when we travel in our RV. On a recent trip I programmed the local cable channels and it took the guesswork out of finding the programs I wanted to watch. It made the computer into a additional TV and VCR as well. I have bought several Hauppauge products and this is the hi quality I expected from them. The only negative is that it doesn't include digital channels. I had to buy a HVR 950 for the HDTV channels. I see they now have a HVR 1600 which may be better for analog and digital.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great product! Clear picture!!, November 18, 2007

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Todd (Hemet, CA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Hauppauge-WinTV-PVR-USB 2.0 MCE Bundle TV Tuner/Personal Video Recorder (Personal Computers)

Excellent recording quality, recordings are as clear as the original video source. Works well with both XP and Vista. Software provided for non MCE pc's works well and is easy to use. You can also connect a component video and audio source and record dvd movies to your pc with excellent clarity. You'll be able to set the quality of the video recording depending on how long you need to record. I've tried several settings and don't see much of a difference from the highest setting to the average vhs quality setting other than the lower setting uses less Megabytes or gigabytes. I would highly reccomend this PVR.

I would have given this PVR 5 stars if it weren't for the lack of instructions provided with the unit. The only instructions provided is for installing the software for pc's without Media Center.There are no instructions showing the functions of the remote, but it's easy to learn after you play around with it for a few minutes.

Also i've had problems when i set a schedule for programs to record and set my pc to standy, the program scheduler wakes up the computer as it should, but when this happens the computer loses it's tuner signal from the PVR which requires you to power off the PVR and reconnect. I've had this problem with both XP and vista. I tend to leave my pc on most of the time anyway so this is not much of an issue to me.