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Hauppauge DEC2000 Set Top Box with USB & SCART

by Hauppauge
3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)

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  • Digital TV on your PC - or your television set
  • Digital radio on your PC - or through your home theater system
  • Record digital TV and radio to your PC's hard disk
  • Schedule your recordings whilst you are away from the PC
  • Alternative RF loop-through connectivity
  • Use the external Audio-out to connect to your Hi-fi system
  • Includes remote control
  • SCART output - watch digital TV on your television
  • Digital Text (PC Only)
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Product Information

Technical Details
BrandHauppauge
Item Weight1.3 Kg
Product Dimensions21 x 9 x 21 cm
Item model number137
Tuner TechnologyDigital TV
  
Additional Information
ASINB00007179R
Best Sellers Rank 198,327 in Computers & Accessories (See top 100)
Shipping Weight1.3 Kg
Date First Available1 Jan 2002
  
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Manufacturer's Description

Watch digital TV and listen to digital radio on your PC: With DEC-2000-t on your PC, you can receive digital television and radio with perfect picture and audio quality. More than 35 digital freeview channels are currently available, and more are added. In addition, you can receive digital text transmitted along with the digital terrestrial signal

Record your favourite digital TV shows to disk: With a single mouse click, you can record your favourite digital TV shows, or digital radio programmes, onto your PC's hard disk drive. You can also use the integrated scheduler to programme your recordings!

DEC-2000-t can also be used as a set-top-boxr: As well as being able to connect the DEC-2000-t to your PC, you can also use it as a set-top-box for your television set. You can connect the DEC-2000-t using the supplied SCART cable into your TV or VCR SCART. If your television is not equipped with a scart you can use the supplied RF cable to connect to televisions RF input

Audio out : The DEC-2000-t has comes with stereo Audio-out so you can connect it to your Hi-fi system.

Product Description

The DEC 2000-T is a next generation TV adaptor that can be connected to either an analogue TV or a Personal computer or a Notebook through a USB connection. The DEC 2000-T will allow you to receive all the new Free to view digital terrestrial channels. It also comes with all the cables to allow you to connect to a TV set through either the Scart or RF inputs. The DEC 2000-T also comes with a USB cable and software allowing connection to a PC or a Notebook. You can watch Digital TV on your desktop and record...

Customer Reviews

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76 of 77 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars Hauppauge DEC2000-t - Good but Slow 26 Nov 2002
By F. Bingley
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Installation
I chose the Hauppauge DEC2000-t, because it could be directly connected to my PC. The first thing that struck me when opening the box was how small the unit was, about the size of a thickish paperback. All the necessary cables were included, USB, RF, scart etc. and a remote control. The power supply was external. Connecting everything together was relatively simple, and I opted to try it with a TV first. When switching on, it prompted me to press 'OK' before it went into scan mode, its progress monitored on screen. In all, it found 14 TV channels and six radio. Connecting to the PC was just as simple and worked without a hitch.

Operation
Using the unit with a TV, it is much the same as a digital satellite receiver, though you need to manually select the AV channel on the TV if you are using the scart lead, or tune into the video channel if using the RF cable. The current station is shown briefly in a blue information bar at the bottom of the screen. Pressing the green button toggles between this, then program synopsis, then signal quality. Using the unit on a PC, the software delivers an unbelievably clear picture, though is rather slow when changing channels. There is an option to record to hard drive while you watch - playback quality is almost as good as the original. There is a choice of watching TV in a resizable window, which lists the channels alongside, or in full screen mode.

Summing up
In general, picture quality is quite superb, though suffers from the occasional blip or picture and sound break-up on some of the weaker channels (similar to the effects of heavy rain on a digital satellite dish). The unit is a little slow on start-up, both on TV and PC.... Read more ›

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31 of 31 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars Nice box, naff software 13 Dec 2002
By K. Whitbread
When connected to the TV, this box is excellent. However, the software provided for use on a PC is really basic. Many of the features available to TV users are not available on the PC. EG: Only the first line of the current and next programme description is shown! Also, there is no on screen display when viewing in full-screen and several buttons on the remote cease to function.

I had expected much more from Hauppauge because they have been making PC TV products for years. I just hope that over time they will release improved software.

Of course the ability to pause TV is a real benefit when connecting the DEC2000 to a PC, but if you intend to mainly watch TV through your PC you will likely become annoyed by the software.

My rating: 5 stars when connected to a telly, 3 when connected to a PC. So the average is 4 stars.

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28 of 28 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars What's with the software? 25 Jan 2003
By A Customer
The device itself is excellent, small size, okay(ish) remote control, easy to setup and use etc... but only when used on a TV set. It manages to tune pick up digital signals reasonably well, and i have successfully used it with an indoor arial, even though i generally get fairly naff analogue reception.

When plugged into my PC, I have found that not only is the software slow to load, it is prone to randomly freezing. Changing channels takes several seconds. In addition, the progam guide gets cut off after a single line. Also, make sure that you have a least a 700Mhz processor before you buy this product.

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18 of 18 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Digital terrestrial to both your TV and computer 9 Oct 2003
By Beacon Dave
There has been numerous different reviews about this little box, but for me it's worked straight out of the box and appears to do everything it's advertised as being able to do.

Mine came with the ver 2.15A software, and I'm running it on a fairly aged PIII box under Windows 2000 and I've not experienced any installation problems, no lock-ups, or slow response times mentioned previously.

This is my first digital set-top box, so maybe I'm missing something here, but it's giving me great results. Video quality is certainly much better than I was getting through my analogue TV and the interface is fairly straight forward to operate. (The other bonus of course is the 34TV & 21Radio 'free' channels I am now able to receive.)

I had expected to have to upgrade my external (low gain) aerial which is about 30miles from the Winter Hill transmitter, however with a standard distribution amplifier (and decent coax cable), and I'm now getting about 85% signal strength and 100% quality reported on the DEC2000 for the weakest channels.

I've heard that the satellite version of this box (DEC3000s) is about to be released in this country too, which may be of interest to those looking at satellite reception but want the computer connectivity as well.

Dave

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
1.0 out of 5 stars Avoid It 14 Aug 2003
By John Palmer
The initial installation was fine on both a laptop (WinXP) and direct to a TV (scart). Subsequently however i've had nothing but trouble. It refuses to reinitialise, with the unit consistently stuck in standby mode. The laptop has to be rolled back and reinstalled to get even a glimmer of performance. All in all i've had it for 2 months and only been able to use it successfully a couple of times. When/if it works, it's actually been good. But these occassions have been so rare as to make catching rainbows a far more likely prospect.

I specifically bought it for use as a mobile device and this is the last thing it is useful for - due to the inability to disconnect and reinitialise. If you only intend to plug it into one device (TV) and leave it installed, then it might be fine. If you hope to use it on a laptop as a mobile TV card, forget it. I've been back to Hauppauge, and had it upgraded and new drivers supplied. Upon return it's been stuck in standby mode ever since and is a total waste of space. As a TV card it makes a very useful doorstop (just). Given Hauppauge's far from glowing product reviews i would avoid this and any similar product they produce. Or at least wait until (if) they bother to sort it all out.

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