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Hauppauge-WinTV-PVR-350 TV Tuner/Personal Video Recorder

3.1 3.1 out of 5 stars 47 ratings
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Compatible Devices Videocassette Recorder
Brand Hauppauge
Antenna Television
Tuner Technology digital,digitally
Remote Control Included? Yes

About this item

  • Watch TV in a resizeable window on your PC screen
  • Record your home videos or TV shows to disk using high quality MPEG compression
  • 125 channel cable ready TV tuner for TV in a window
  • Turn your home video tapes into MPEG movies, then burn them onto CD or DVD
  • Create MPEG movies with data rates from 1 to 12 MBps

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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 commissions digital-television Web site at: www.dtv.gov.

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WinTV-PVR-350 puts TV watching under your control! Watch what you want, when you want. Watch TV on your PC screen, in a window or full screen, digitally record your TV shows to your PCs hard disk, or pause live TV and create your own instant replay. You can even burn your home vidoes or TV shows onto a CD-rom or DVD.

The WinTV-PVR-350 supports data rates up to 12Mbits/sec, so you decide how much hard disk space your videos will consume A typical one hour TV show will take 2 gigbytes of hard disk space. Create your own Digital Video Recorder!

After recording your videos to your PCs hard disk, you can play them back on your TV set with the WinTV-PVR-350's hardware MPEG decoder. The hardware MPEG decoder takes no system resources while playing videos on your TV set, so your computer continues to run at full speed. Note: when playing recorded videos on your PC screen, the WinTV-PVR-350 uses a software decoder, which requires a minimum 500 MHz Pentium.

WinTV-PVR-350 uses a highly integrated MPEG-1/2 encoder, compressing your videos while you watch TV on your PC screen. It also has a built-in hardware MPEG decoder with video output, so you can play back your recorded TV shows or home videos on an external TV set or video monitor.

WinTV-PVR-350 can record live television or video from a VCR or camcorder, using as little as 1 GB of hard disk space per hour. Schedule your TV recordings with WinTV-Scheduler, and then edit them with the WinTV-Editor. With the included Ulead DVD MovieFactory, you can also create Video CD's, S-VCD's or DVD's. Play your recordings on your home DVD player!

WinTV-PVR-350 also includes a hardware MPEG2 decoder and an S-Video output, so you can watch your recorded TV shows or home videos on your large screen video monitor or TV set!

With WinTV-PVR-350 you can:

  • Watch TV in a resizeable window (or full screen) on your PC screen. While watching TV, you can surf the net, answer e-mail or do any other PC function.
  • Record your home videos or TV shows to disk using high quality MPEG compression. Create MPEG movies at datarates up to 12 MBits per second, or make VCD or SVCD compatible movies. You typically use 2 Gigabytes of hard disk per hour of recorded video.
  • Play your recorded TV shows, or your edited home videos, from your PCs hard disk out to a TV set.
  • Both SVideo and Composite outputs are included.
  • Pause your TV shows with instant replay, fast forward and rewind.
  • Schedule your TV recording with WinTV-Scheduler.
  • Create MPEG movies with data rates from 1 to 12 MBits/sec.
  • Capture high quality still video images from live or recorded video, up to 1600x1200 pixels in BMP, TIF, and JPEG formats.

    WinTV-PVR-350 has these great features:

    • 125 channel cable ready TV tuner for TV in a window (or full screen), plus composite/s-video and audio inputs to connect to VCR or camcorders. Surf the net while you watch TV on your PC screen!
    • Hardware MPEG-2 video and audio encoder, so you only need 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!
    • Hardware MPEG2 decoder, so you can watch your recorded TV shows, or your edited home videos, on your TV set!
    • Turn your home video tapes into MPEG movies, then burn them onto CD or DVD!
    • Pause live TV shows with instant replay, fast forward and rewind. Includes new function remote control. dbx-TV stereo decoder (Nicam stereo on PAL models), for great TV sound.
    • WinTV-Scheduler, so you can schedule your TV recordings on a daily, weekly or once only schedule.
    • WinTV-Editor, so you can cut and trim your videos without losing video quality!
    • UleadAE DVD MovieFactory99, so you can author and burn Video CD's, S-VCD's or DVD's. Play them on your home DVD player!

Customer reviews

3.1 out of 5 stars
47 global ratings

Customers say

Customers like the performance of the tuner card. They say it works well under MythTV and that it works nearly right out of the box. They also like the picture quality. However, some customers have reported issues with the quality of the software. They mention that the software can be unstable and buggy. They have also reported issues playing back with no sound and a very slight hum. Customers also disagree on ease of use, and value.

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17 customers mention "Performance"14 positive3 negative

Customers like the performance of the tuner. For example, they say it works well, works excellently under MythTV, and is great with Windows Vista and MCE. Some mention that the remote works well.

"...on a Windows Vista Ultimate system for over a week now and it has worked very well...." Read more

"...This card works excellently under MythTV...." Read more

"...This card is great with MCE...." Read more

"...The bottom line is that if it works, it works great, but if it does nto work it won't. This is card is difficult to get going in some systems...." Read more

3 customers mention "Picture quality"3 positive0 negative

Customers are satisfied with the picture quality of the tuner. They mention that the video quality is quite good at this bitrate and that it makes great quality transfers. However, some customers report that the audio and video become unsynchronized as the bitrate increases.

"...At this bitrate the quality of the video is quite good. Higher bitrates, of course, can yield better results...." Read more

"...The picture quality is pretty good. I used to have it on windows XP pro but now it's running on Media Center Edition...." Read more

"...I also use this card to convert old VHS tapes to DVD. It makes great quality transfers, but the audio and video become unsynchronized as the mpegs..." Read more

3 customers mention "Software"3 positive0 negative

Customers like the software. They say it's enough to record the shows they want without getting in the way of recording. They also say it records all basic cable TV shows so they can view them at their convenience.

"...The TV portion works fine and recording off of the TV is fine too. But, for me, the card is usless." Read more

"...It records all my basic cable TV shows so I can view them at my convenience...." Read more

"...There is enough software to record the shows I want without getting in the way of recording and watching...." Read more

12 customers mention "Ease of use"8 positive4 negative

Customers are mixed about the ease of use of the tuner. Some mention that there were no problems with setting it up, and the software installation went smoothly. However, others say that it was difficult to get going in some systems, and that a slightly more detailed installation manual is needed.

"...it, restarted the PC, the new hardware wizard found it and it installed perfectly...." Read more

"...Negatives :1. The 'web based' program guide is a very clumsy interface. I would much rather have a application based program guide.2...." Read more

"...He was right. It worked nearly right out of the box. Linux understood it right away...." Read more

"So far I am very pleased with this product. It was easy to set-up and has worked without any issues...." Read more

6 customers mention "Value"4 positive2 negative

Customers are mixed about the value of the tuner. Some mention it's a great card, while others say it'd be a waste of money.

"...Even when using software decoding.Overall, excellent product. Put this card together with MythTV..." Read more

"...But, for me, the card is usless." Read more

"...Positives :1. The FM Radio program is pretty slick, and the reception is ok. No complaints...." Read more

"...Great card, can be a bit buggy on the software side, but if you can handle the tinkering, awesome! check out [...]" Read more

4 customers mention "Quality"0 positive4 negative

Customers are dissatisfied with the quality of the tuner. They say the software is unstable, crashes, and is buggy. Some customers also report that the software conflicts with Real Player, Windows Media Player 9, and Winamp.

"...Unfortunately, the software conflicts with Real Player, Windows Media Player 9, and Winamp... and nobody uses those... right?..." Read more

"For TV, this card works fairly well, but the software does crash.I also use this card to convert old VHS tapes to DVD...." Read more

"...Great card, can be a bit buggy on the software side, but if you can handle the tinkering, awesome! check out [...]" Read more

"Great piece of hardware, horrible software..." Read more

4 customers mention "Surround sound"0 positive4 negative

Customers are dissatisfied with the surround sound of the tuner. They mention that it plays back with no sound if they have hardware decoding, and the first card they received had a problem with the audio. Some customers also report a very slight hum and clicking or popping noise coming out of the right side.

"...The only reason I gave it 4 stars instead of 5 was due to a very slight hum that I am hear - but it really is minimal...." Read more

"...I started getting a clicking/popping noise coming out of the right speaker whenever I tried to record a VCR tape to the hard drive...." Read more

"...Here's what I got:1. The first card I received had a problem with the audio and had to be returned.2...." Read more

"...have found that when playing DVDs in MythTV, MythTV is not able to output the surround sound (Dolby or DTS) on the DVD through your motherboard or..." Read more

Top reviews from the United States

TF
4.0 out of 5 stars Works great with Windows Vista
Reviewed in the United States on December 6, 2006
Verified Purchase
I have this card installed on a Windows Vista Ultimate system for over a week now and it has worked very well. For the installation, the latest driver(s) were automatically downloaded via Windows Update and installed. I checked and they matched the latest drivers from the Hauppauge web site.

Windows Media Center automatically recognized the card (including the FM radio) and everything worked from there. The only reason I gave it 4 stars instead of 5 was due to a very slight hum that I am hear - but it really is minimal. I am working with Hauppauge support to see if we can resolve or even if it is an issue w/ my PC. I have had good support from Hauppauge!
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Ed C.
3.0 out of 5 stars Good at first but now, YIKES!
Reviewed in the United States on February 9, 2005
Verified Purchase
I bought this card about three weeks ago, installed it, restarted the PC, the new hardware wizard found it and it installed perfectly. I played with it for a few days, set up my TV stations, tried capturing some video off of the TV, etc. Then my hard drive decided to take a vacation so I had to go out and buy a new one. After I installed the hard drive and put all the junk back onto the computer, I noticed that I never got the "found new hardware" alert for this card. Funny. I looked in the device manager, but it wasn't there. I decided to take the card out, turn the computer back on, turn it off again and put the card back in. I did this at least 15 times and the computer didn't recognize the card, even after trying it in 4 differrent slots. Finally, as if some miracle was bestowed upon me, the 16th time I got the glorious indication from Windows XP that it found the hardware! I reinstalled all of the drivers and side programs but the card never worked as nice as it did the first time. Since then I've installed, removed and reinstalled all of the software a bunch of times. I think it's working OK now although the Ulead Movie Maker that came with it does not see my VCR connected to the card even though the WinTV 2000 program does. Funny. So I can watch TV, record TV, pause TV, etc. but not transfer my video tapes to DVD, which was the primary reason for getting this card. My Sonic MyDVD doesn't see the card, Microsoft's Movie Maker doesn't see the card and Ulead, the program that came with the card, doesn't see it. I have an e-mail in to Hauppauge asking them which DVD software actually DOES recognize this card. If trasferring tapes to the computer was as easy as setting up the TV portion of this card, I'd give it four or five stars!

Update 4/6/05 - Soon after writing this review I began to have a problem with this card. I started getting a clicking/popping noise coming out of the right speaker whenever I tried to record a VCR tape to the hard drive. I tried every possible combination of tapes, VCRs and cables but nothing worked. I contacted Hauppauge and they tried to fix the problem but couldn't so they had me return it (on my own dime) and gave me a new one that has the same problem. I'm about out of ideas as this was the primary reason for buying this card. The TV portion works fine and recording off of the TV is fine too. But, for me, the card is usless.
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David S.
1.0 out of 5 stars Unstable Software makes Hardware Useless
Reviewed in the United States on April 12, 2003
Verified Purchase
What a headache! This product is just not ready for public release because the software is too unstable. I played with it for almost a week installing, uninstalling, calling tech support, installing updates from the web, trying out beta software fixes - nothing available makes the card work without crashing your entire system. The main problem according to the FAQ is a conflict with other software decoders. Unfortunately, the software conflicts with Real Player, Windows Media Player 9, and Winamp... and nobody uses those... right? But even with all that removed, the program crashes regularly. The capture driver won't work with other programs not provided with the unit such as VirtualDub. Even the ULEAD Movie Factory bundled with the unit won't work because the capture driver does not work - some other unknown program is always using the capture driver. If you forget to scan for channels when the program is first installed, there's no way to rescan for channels and you're stuck with video input only. I have really tried everything anyone could possibly think of the resolve conflicts and get it to work short of a clean install of the operating system with WinTV as the only program. There is no way a typical computer user would ever be satisfied with this product. I'm hoping that at some point in the future Hauppauge will come up with software that works, because the hardware and features were exactly what I wanted... which is why I bought it in the first place.
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Dad101
2.0 out of 5 stars Not what I expected
Reviewed in the United States on June 20, 2004
Verified Purchase
First off, I bought this card to capture 720 X 480 for DVD quality video, upgrading from a TV wonder VE. Here's what I got:
1. The first card I received had a problem with the audio and had to be returned.
2. To capture from a RCA source you need to use a supplied adapter to go to the s-video input on the card. When using the adapter the video appeared black and white. Straight s-video had color video. Contacted tech support and they explained what to do but it didn't work. Tried the adapter from my laptop to TV and it appeared black and white as well, then tried the adapter that came with the replacement board and it appeared black and white also. Tech support did return my email and the suggesting worked, would of been easier to read it in the documentation.
3. When recording, the default settings record an interlaced video(the horizontal lines). This must then be reprocessed to deinterlace the frames.
4. When recording a show, the record times are in 30 minute intervals. You cannot record 5 minutes before and after the scheduled show. Tech support said "I guess you better have your clock right".
5. The capture drivers are not capatable with my video editing software or other capture hardware.
My opinion of this product is that for the price I paid for it, the software should work, the card should not conflict with other devices and it should work with video editing software. There should be more control over recording duration and the video should be de-interlaced. This product did not deserve the write up it received in PC Magazine. It also doesn't need (in my opinion) it's employees writing positive reviews for it in this forum.
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