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Hauppauge -WinTV-PVR-250 TV Tuner/Personal Video Recorder

3.3 3.3 out of 5 stars 29 ratings
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Connector Type S Video
Brand Hauppauge
Connectivity Technology Infrared
Antenna Television
Tuner Technology DVB-T

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WINTV-PVR 250 (PCI) REMOTE MPG2 HARDWARE DECODER

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3.3 out of 5 stars
29 global ratings

Top reviews from the United States

Bluesy200
5.0 out of 5 stars Simple to Install; Terrific Product
Reviewed in the United States on March 28, 2004
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If you don't get sweaty palms opening up your PC and plugging in a new card, fear not. This was one of the easiest, most problem-free add-ons I've ever installed.
Just follow the very simple instructions in the booklet (3 steps, really).
I have a fairly recent Dell (Pentium 4).
What you do is open your PC, plug the card into an available slot, close the PC, connect the cable TV cord to the back, install the driver from the CD that was provided, install the software. Done.
The entire job took about 15 minutes.
This installation was, quite simply, effortless.
The tuner has a remarkably clear, vibrant picture. The controls are very intuitive (you don't need to read the booklet), and it records exceptional quality MPEGs.
I could not be more pleased with this product.
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John
4.0 out of 5 stars Works well - very functional!
Reviewed in the United States on August 23, 2012
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The hardware is very capable in terms of translating cable into your laptop or computer! Perfect for my dormroom situation. WINTV software could be better but worked as a 'DVR'
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Douglas Berman
1.0 out of 5 stars Does not worth the money
Reviewed in the United States on November 27, 2004
WinTV-PVR-250 has the folling problems:

1. Remote control has design defect. You can not switch to full screen using remote control. Only several buttons work - more than half of the buttons on remote control do not work. The remote control is not sensitive - you need wait 2 second to switch the channel.

2. No closed caption support.

3. Very hard to install - you have to search the web and find the driver for you windows xp MCE.

In a word, It does not worth the money.
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Matt
2.0 out of 5 stars Adequate Card
Reviewed in the United States on May 18, 2008
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I would not recommend this card for use as your primary TV and/or even for recording video. Even with my Intel Core2 Extreme and 8GB of 800MHz RAM, this card produces choppy video. It may not be annoying to some, but it is to me. I would recommend getting an external USB device for a TV tuner.
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C. Rowlands
3.0 out of 5 stars PVR 250; Good recording, so-so playback and bad live TV
Reviewed in the United States on February 13, 2004
I purchased the PVR-250 to edit home videos, record TV shows and watch TV.
I've found the PVR to be good for recording home videos, okay for recording TV and insufficient for watching TV.
I have a 1.2GHz Celeron CPU and 192MB of RAM. The hardware encoding does fine, but the software decoding takes up 100% of my CPU. When I watch TV, the picture is jumpy because the CPU can't keep up. Also, when watching TV, it can 60 seconds to click on other windows since the CPU is completely occupied. For this reason, the pausing Live TV feature is not useful on my machine. It takes too long to open the live TV controls and click the pause button. In addition, the jumpiness of the picture makes my head hurt. I don't watch TV on this card. The box says 733MHz minimum for watching TV, but my 1.2GHz just dies. I recommend at least 1.7GHz to handle live and pause TV.
Recording TV is okay, although by default, the TV watching window is on when recording. I had to get a registry editor script from Hauppage to turn off the window. I'm not sure why you can't click a button to turn off the window and the computationally intensive software decoding. (In general the software for this product is not user friendly, it's poorly thought out. I haven't found any bugs though.) With the window and decoding off, I can record programs in the background on my computer, using only 30% of the CPU. Watching those programs later is fine, the picture problems are only with live TV.
Recording home videos works great. They stream to the computer and can be stored in a variety of formats from 12MB/sec down to .6MB/sec. There are a couple cute built-in programs to cut and past mpegs and add-in background audio to a video. Also there's a simple program to burn files to a DVD or VCD. There isn't much software for serious audio or video editing. There's no changing colors or distorting the picture or filtering the audio, just cut and splice.
Overall, the product is good for my main use of storing VHS on my computer. The live TV is poor, but I shouldn't watch TV much anyway. = ) Software is hard-to-use, but it does what I need it to do for recording shows and burning VCDs.
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Alex
5.0 out of 5 stars Perfect for an average computer.
Reviewed in the United States on February 4, 2005
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As this device capture and encode video with a hardware encoder, it is not necesary to have a powerful computer to capture DVD quality video, mine is just a Celeron 1.2 Ghz. Very Good TV picture, software included is ok. Very good product for the price.

Need to get last motherboard drivers from internet and last Hauppauge drivers to prevent incompatibility problems, just like any other capture device.
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<b>CONSUMER ALERT:</b> This television receiver has only an analog broadcast tuner and will require a converter box after February 17, 2009 to receive over-the-air broadcasts with an antenna because of the U.S.'s transition to digital broadcasting. Analog-only TVs should continue to work as before with cable and satellite TV services, gaming consoles, VCRs, DVD players, and similar products. For more information, call the Federal Communications Commission at 1-888-225-5322 (TTY: 1-888-835-5322), or visit the commission s digital-television Web site at: www.dtv.gov.