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Hauppauge WinTV USB 2 Personal Video Recorder

3.1 3.1 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
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Compatible devices Laptop, Personal Computer
Connector type usb
Brand Hauppauge
Connectivity technology USB
Antenna Television

About this item

  • 125 channel storage ready TV tuner for TV in a window (or full screen). Surf the net while you watch TV on your PC screen
  • No need to open your PC: works best with USB 2.0. Will also work with USB 1.1
  • Composite/S-Video and audio inputs to connect to VCR or camcorders
  • Hardware MPEG-2 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
  • Turn your home video tapes into MPEG movies, then burn them onto CD or DVD
  • Includes composite/ s-video and audio input
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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 videos 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 gigabytes 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, so your computer continues to run at full speed

WinTV-PVR-350 includes WinTV-Scheduler, WinTV-Editor plus ULead's DVD MovieFactory. Trim your videos, cut out segments, put them back together, all without losing any video quality with our WinTV-Editor! With WinTV-Scheduler, you can control your TV recording on a daily, weekly or random schedule. Automatically record TV programs so you'll never miss your TV shows again

WinTV-PVR-350's pause feature gives you control of what you watch in your WinTV window. Get personal "instant replay" to stop the action when you want to analyze a key scene. Instantly rewind and replay the action again. You're in control with WinTV-PVR

Record your TV programs or home videos and play them on your PC or DVD player! Use your PC's CD-RW burner to create Video CD's or SVCD's, with up to one hour of TV video. Record TV program episodes to CD-RW disks, and then watch them on your laptop when you travel. Or play them through your home DVD player in your living room

If you have a DVD burner in your PC, use the WinTV-PVR's MPEG files with the included MovieFactory" to author your own home DVD's. You can also record your home videotapes with WinTV-PVR, and then burn them onto DVD.

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3.1 out of 5 stars
8 global ratings

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Mr Patrick J Noble
5.0 out of 5 stars Does what it says on the tin
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 13 August 2004
Verified Purchase
I installed the PVR USB 2 according to instructions and everything worked as expected until I ran the TV viewer and got a black screen. Full of trepidation, and expecting the usual 30 minute wait whilst listening to "soothing" music, I called the Hauppauge support line. It was answered on the second ring by a very helpful and courteous gentleman who knew what the issue was and how to fix it.
I am impressed with the video quality and user interface and, in my opinion, this product is excellent value for money.
30 people found this helpful
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Rolems Interactive
3.0 out of 5 stars Three Stars
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 8 October 2016
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Very good buy
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Mr. G.B.
1.0 out of 5 stars Hardware let down by software
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 3 January 2007
I'm sure Hauppauge have themselves a nifty bit of hardware, but it's badly let down by the lack of technical support. I had this as a Christmas present, so I followed all the instructions, and put in the CD which installs all the software. Immediately it came up with some errors, so I thought okay, let's continue with the installation and see what happens. Once I tried to run the WinTV software it was telling me a DLL file was missing (it's on the CD, just not in the right location on my hard-drive as I discovered after doing some googling). So I copy it from the CD manually to the file in my windows directory, and get past that error only to have the infamous HTV=0 error. Even the manual mentioned something about this fault so it can't be uncommon. I checked the hardware and it said it was installed and working, so I tried deleting the drivers and reinstalled, but got no where even after visiting Hauppauge and using the latest drivers. The Hauppage forums didn't help at all, and after much googling I wasn't getting very far, and didn't want to start playing around with my registry in a last ditch attempt to get everything working.

I tried the software and hardware on 2 other machines. All had the same problem. No computer TV viewing for me at Christmas!

When you buy a piece of kit, you expect to plug in, install and go, and not to be confronted with a string of technical issues from the moment you start up. I've returned it to Amazon.
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Neil Stevenson
2.0 out of 5 stars Hauppauge WinTV PVR USB2 was a real dissapointment
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 13 July 2004
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I was really excited on the paper spec of the Hauppauge WinTV PVR USB2, but it failed completely in practice.

The out-of-the box system had great trouble keeping the hardware on-line, to the point where you could not achieve a auto-tune successfully. Moving to an old USB1 port seem to improve matters greatly, but then you cannot record at decent data rates. Upgrading the Hauppage drivers also improved things, but why should I have to do this on a new device?
The tuner is not particluarly sensitive - even if you get an OK picture on a portable TV, you might not get an adequate picture on the PC.
I never did solve the problem of it failing to start every time I booted my PC. I always had to switch off-and-on the WinTV box and then manually restart the IR Remote Control driver before it could be used.
The software was OK as far as I tried it, but it is quite slow at starting to record and a bit quirky in the way it creates files. I tried to record at non-VideoCD resolutions but it simply crashed standard viewers (Windows Media Player, WinAmp etc).
Even though it is featured as "cable-ready", this actually means you only get the 5 main terrestial channels in the UK, unless you're on really old analogue cable. Forget digital cable or Freeview reception.
Overall I found it buggy, unreliable and I returned it for a full refund. Amazon were great in this respect, much appreciated.
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Martin Adams
5.0 out of 5 stars Say goodbye to video tapes
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 20 February 2004
This is a very nice piece of kit. With encoding to MPEG-2 on the hardware you can record directly to DVD quality video in real-time. Hauppauge's software has always been criticised as being less than perfect, but you certainly have everything you need to use this.
Using the TV-Pause mode is fantastic. You can go back and watch from the beginning of the pause. Great for skipping adverts - watch the best bits again and then catch-up.
Works with USB 1.1, but with USB 2.0 you can record up to the full 12Mbits of DVD quality. Looks great on my 32" TV. It also comes with DVD movie factory so you can burn to DVD without having to re-encode the video if you don't want to. You can also edit out adverts too.
The only down side is that it takes about a second or so to encode the video, so don't plan on using this with a games console unless you like playing as though you've had far too much to drink.
I currently use this on my PC (P4 1.7GHz - WinXP Pro) and I can run it in a small window while working in other programs. Full screen mode is very good as well with a strong TV signal. I've also run this on my Sony Vaio (867Mhz Crusoe processor) and recorded full quality TV programs and then use the laptop to play it back to TV. It does run sluggish on my laptop though so don't expect to work on anything else if you have a low spec computer. My normal PC handles it fine!
The remote control is very useful when playing back recorded video and navigating paused TV. But you will get a popup message box when you boot windows saying it can't find the remove it you don't have the device plugged in. You then have to manually restart the remove software to get it working again. Not a problem unless you want to unplug it.
It can run at quite a warm temperature when the computer is on, but not really something that you need to worry about.
To my knowledge, it is not possible to record one station and watch another. It doesn't support picture-and-picture and the 16 channel surf mode only displays a single frame of each station one after the other every second or so.
The scheduler program works well too and you can say what you want it to record and when. You can also set up reoccurring recordings as well. I have also recorded video while working in another program and there were no problems.
I wouldn't recommend recording video to a USB hard drive as you will end up having to share the bandwidth of the USB ports. Full quality video works out at about 100MB a minute or 6GB for an hour. It's best to find the settings that suite your needs.
You can't use it to record AVI or other forms as it has already been encoded to MPEG-2. Of course, you could use another piece of software to convert it but Adobe Premiere 6.0 didn't respond to well.
I would certainly recommend this product if you want it to replace a video recorder and you use your computer quire regularly. The price Amazon offers it at is significantly lower than anywhere else I looked.
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