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Hauppauge 1192 WinTV-HVR-1955 USB 2.0 Hybrid TV

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Platform	Windows
Connector Type	USB
Brand	Hauppauge
Connectivity Technology	Infrared, USB
Color	Clear

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USB HDTV Tuner/Video Recorder lets you turn your PC into a virtual television and personal video recorder
Compatible with 32 bit and/or 64 bit Windows 7
Supports NTSC analog cable, over the air TV, ATSC Digital over the air HDTV, and Clear QAM digital cable TV; watch TV in window or full screen
On-board MPEG-2 encoder allows PC to run at full speed while recording analog cable TV directly to hard drive
Included remote control controls satellite and TV set top boxes

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670" / 1700 cm

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The WinTV-HVR-1955 from Hauppauge is a USB TV tuner for ATSC, NTSC and clear QAM digital TV. Watch HD TV programs from ATSC or clear QAM digital cable. Watch, pause, and record television on a desktop or laptop computer. Built in Hardware MPEG-2. Includes remote control, IR blaster and FM Stereo Radio. Compatible with Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows XP Pro, and XP MCE with Service Pack 2.

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Product Dimensions

10 x 7.25 x 3 inches

Item Weight

2 pounds

ASIN

B00198MYB0

Item model number

1192

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147 ratings

3.5 out of 5 stars

Best Sellers Rank

#940 in Internal TV Tuner & Video Capture Cards

Is Discontinued By Manufacturer

Yes

Date First Available

August 22, 2003

Manufacturer

HAUPPAUGE

Language

English

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5 star		47%
4 star		14%
3 star		7%
2 star		6%
1 star		26%

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David D.k

Great Product

Reviewed in the United States on October 29, 2014

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My use for this product was to simply have a way to watch TV at my desk while my children hogged the actual TV in the same room. It has been outstanding for this purpose.

I have Cable, which connects directly to the TV through Coax Cable without the use of a cable box. After intalling the WIN TV drivers and software, I was able to scan and receive all available channels (even picked up some my Vizio Plasma has trouble tuning in). The HD looks great, and on my PC (I7 2.4 mz, 16 gb ram, Nvidia 760 4gb card) watching Live is just like watching on the actual TV - there is about a half-sec lag behind "live" TV, but no worse than what Satellite does.

The channel guide with the WIN TV software is OK - it allows you to go in and rename the channels, then setup favorites and different groups (helpful on Football Saturday when flipping between games). I've also setup using Windows Media Center. The interface and presentation is nicer in WMC vs WIN TV (the channel guide is MUCH nicer), but many of the digital channels required me to program them in, which took away the ability to see what was playing, DVR right-click ability, etc.

The DVR functionality is just what you hope for. In WIN TV, you can schedule recording by date / time, and do recurring or one-time recordings. You can choose the quality if you want to save HD space - it defaults to the broadcast quality, and saves the files in avi format for easy viewing or sharing. HD recording does take up a good bit of room (I recorded 1.5 hours and it was around 11 GB or so).

While watching Live TV, you can pause, rewind, etc. like any DVR. This is a singe-tuner unit, so you can only do this with the channel you are currently watching though.

I have not used the remote with a cable box, so I can't speak to that functionality. If you plan to use a Media Center PC to replace your DVR, this may be a step back (though functional). If, like me, you just wanted to enhance your PC with live TV and DVR capabilities, you cannot go wrong with this unit.

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Worked great for me to record Olympics, etc.

Reviewed in the United States on November 6, 2016

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I read a lot of reviews about this before buying it - some good and some bad. I got it because I wanted to record the Olympics and I don't have Tivo or even cable service. I just connected it to my rabbit ears antenna and recorded with my computer onto an external hard drive. It worked perfectly for me. The software made it easy to schedule the recordings, the recordings were excellent quality, etc. It was easy to then watch the recordings and skip past the commercials. The software didn't have any glitches for me (Windows 10).

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Michael P

Disappointed with HVR-1950

Reviewed in the United States on January 29, 2012

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PROs: Shiny , well designed exterior; lots of cables, bells, and whistles. Very appealing packaging. The instructions are adequate, but not comprehensive in explaining the numerous features. When this HVR-1950 eventually functions properly, the resolution is very good - same as the original broadcast quality; And it can produce an MPEG2 file. But there are several unresolved technical issues amongst the several extra features. I purchased my two units at Amazon.com.

CONs: If you have more than one window open, the Hauppauge player will occasionally overlap other windows by having a layering problem when you click on it to bring it to the foreground of your desktop. Tech support is virtually impossible to reach, and with long wait times before you discover nobody will answer, but they give a call-back message after 10 minutes if you want to leave your phone number. Each time to get the tuner to function each morning, I had to reboot my PC and/or turn the tuner ON and OFF several times. If you open another player or launch certain other video memory applications, the Hauppauge player will stutter or freeze, and the recording function will stop. Hauppauge admits that the Scheduler is broke; they claim to be working on a fix for this scheduling problem. You pay extra for the extra features, only to find out later that they don't work. I purchased two of these models (HVR-1950) and had the same issues with both units, so the problems are consistent.

Summary: I want to point out that the problems are with the product, not my computer, as Hauppauge may suggest. I have three PCs and experienced the same troubles on all of them. One PC is a Core i7-975 Extreme Edition, 12GB RAM, nVIDIA GTX 1GB memory,3ea onboard Intel Series 320 600GB SSDs, Win7 Ultimate x64 -- so I doubt it is the PC causing the stutter/freeze problems; and the TV signal strength is strong. I was hoping for favorable results by choosing a well known brand name and the most expensive USB model. But this product was a major disappointment. Hauppauge is releasing these products long before they are ready for the consumer market; so if you like beta-testing, buy this product.

As worst yet, the tech support is virtually non-existent. If you doubt this fact, try calling Hauppauge tech support numerous times while keeping track of how many times you tried and how long it took to get through, in the event someone would bother the answer the call. Poor product, poor service, poor tech support. What more could be said? A Hauppauge software update (v2.4F)is scheduled in near future; I'm hoping this update will fix most of the current issues, or I will be returning my two models.

I spent hours with screen captures and video captures of the repeated malfunctions and emailed them to Hauppauge, but they never responded. Either they are drastically short of support personnel or they refuse to reply because they don't have answers or fixes to solve the several problems inherent in this product. I would NOT recommend this HVR-1950 to anyone wanting trouble-free viewing and recording of TV programming. AverMedia might be a better alternative and at a better price. To lend some credibility to this appraisal, I have many years of electrical, RF signals, IT background, and computer systems building experience. And ordinarily I an enthusiastic about touting a good product; but my experience with two of these HVR-1950s was extremely disappointing.

UPDATE ADDENDUM 6-10-12:

Several software updates have been made by Hauppauge; their latest version: 2.5d is no better than ver. 2.4, in fact they have fixed a few of the nine (9) problems I submitted to them, but the latest ver 2.5d has more new problems. I contract their tech support supervisor as well as several people in Sales Dept. They initally seem to be willing to help, but then is absolutely no follow up later. I sent a very detailed list of problems to the Tect Supp Supervisor along with links to videos I provided to demonstrate the problems. He never even viewed my email and video links until 3 months later when I mentioned this fact to their Sales Dept.

Summary: There still nine problems with this unit which I have documented to forwarded to Hauppauge. Version 2.5d still has these 8 problem areas. Regarding the several review rating of 5-star or 4-star here on Amazon, I suspect these people haven't had an occasion to use all the functions of this HVR-1950 with the faulty software in order to detect the many problems. Also notice the Amazon reviews chart for this product: the 1-star review ratings are nearly as high as the 5-star rates. There are alot of issues with the Hauppauge Software that drivers all their TV tuner products. And they don't seem to be able to correct them.

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jtflag

Externally connected, good. Software has problems after initial setup, but works out eventually.

Reviewed in the United States on January 21, 2018

Verified Purchase

This was a pain to set up, not because of confusing instructions but because the system software failed for about a month, then started doing okay after that. Go figure. Love that it is external, so that I don't need to worry about PC slots anymore. Use as an air-DVR (I don't have cable or satellite). Working with Windows 10.

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Kindle Customer

Flakey - not recommended

Reviewed in the United States on July 22, 2012

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Hav ehad this now for several months Hardware and Software Installed OK (Win7 x64), but it would lose the tuner so it was totally unreliable for scheduled recordings Powering down and powering up would fix the problem temporarily, but often it took multiple power downs before it would be fixed. If I had to reboot the computer, it would lose the tuner again. Contacted tech support via eMail, and it took forever to get a reply, and then it was basically not helpful in anyway

Upgraded to the latest version of WinTV7, and that has helped a lot, and now it at least stays connected for several days, but still does NOt survive a reboot of the computer, requiring the power down sequence, often 4-8x before the computer and WinTV7 reports and displays a working tuner.

Bottom line, when it works it works great, but and with the latest version of WinTV7 it is better than it was, but still NOT reliable, and requires a lot of jumping thru hoops to get it functioning. I would NOT recommend this product

John

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Denis L'Écuyer

Retourné

Reviewed in Canada on March 14, 2021

Verified Purchase

Pas pour l’utilité que je voulais en faire

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IamAconsumer

Therefore I opted to get the Broadway device (for iOS/Android/browser) which works just as good.

Reviewed in Canada on April 4, 2017

Verified Purchase

Requires a computer to access it over the network. Therefore I opted to get the Broadway device (for iOS/Android/browser) which works just as good.

Amazon Customer

make sure to put in game mode in settings or you will be at first glance very disappointed with the delay

Reviewed in Canada on January 22, 2016

Verified Purchase

Using to play n64 on laptop, make sure to put in game mode in settings or you will be at first glance very disappointed with the delay, delay completely disappears in game mode

joblo 35

Five Stars

Reviewed in Canada on April 22, 2016

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AAA perfect if does the job nicely

Cliente de Amazon

si fue excelente la compra realizada

Reviewed in Mexico on February 17, 2017

Verified Purchase

Porque era lo que esperaba, que grabara tv analógica y también tv digital. fabuloso. fue excelente la compra que he realizado

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