Hauppauge WinTV-HVR-1600 Media Center Kit

Hauppauge Updated: 2008-12-15 RSS
Hauppauge WinTV-HVR-1600 Media Center Kit

WinTV-HVR-1600 Media Center Kit is a great way to add TV to your Vista Home Premium or Ultimate PC. Simply plug WinTV-HVR-1600 into a PCI slot in your PC, plug in the included Media Center remote control, connect analog cable TV, ATSC digital TV or a satellite or other set top box, and you'll be watching TV with Media Center's MyTV button in no time!

ATSC high definition digital TV brings you sharper TV with great sound. Watch high definition digital TV at up to 1080i on your PC screen. WinTV-HVR-1600's ATSC digital TV tuner will record high-definition digital TV programs to your PC's hard disk in the original high definition without losing quality.

ATSC digital TV is free-to-air digital TV for North America. ATSC digital TV typically requires an antenna for reception, and is currently broadcast in 200 cities, with over 1500 TV stations. Note: ATSC digital TV is NOT digital cable TV or digital satellite TV. Media center needs a set to box to receive digital cable TV or digital satellite TV.

Microsoft certified Media Center remote control included. Control all of Media Center's functions with the included remote control. Play music, start a slide show, all from the comfort of your living room couch.

And if you have a cable TV or satellite box, the included Media Center IR transmitter can control the channel changing. So you can automatically schedule and record TV from cable TV or a satellite receiver.

Technically speaking: WinTV-HVR-1600 is a single slot PCI board, with two tuners: an analog 125-channel cable ready TV tuner, with a built-in hardware MPEG-2 encoder, and an ATSC/QAM digital TV tuner for digital TV reception. The ATSC or QAM transport stream and the encoded MPEG-2 program stream for analog TV is sent to the PC over the PCI bus. Note: Media Center currently does not support clear QAM TV.

model 01101: WinTV-HVR-1600 MC board only with NSTC/ATSC/QAM support, without remote control, with FM radio
model 01183: WinTV-HVR-1600 MC-Kit with NSTC/ATSC/QAM support, Media Center certified remote control, IR blaster and FM radio

Watch, record and pause TV in Media Center. With analog and digital TV tuners, FM radio and Media Center remote control.

* Watch, Pause and Record analog cable TV and high definition ATSC digital TV in Windows Media Center.
* Single slot TV tuner board, with dual tuner NTSC/ASTC/QAM* TV tuners.
* Includes high performance hardware MPEG-2 encoder for recording cable TV.
* Includes a Microsoft Media Center certified remote control and IR blaster.

WinTV-HVR-1600 MC-Kit: add TV, FM and remote control to your Vista Media Center system, with these great features

* Dual tuner analog cable TV and ATSC/QAM high definition digital TV tuners for North America.
* Watch, pause and record analog and ATSC digital TV in Microsoft's Media Center. Record ATSC high definition digital TV to your PC's disk in the original video quality!
* Built-in high quality hardware MPEG-2 encoder for recording analog cable TV. Record to disk using from 1-2 Gigabytes of disk space per hour of recorded video. While recording, the WinTV-HVR-1600's hardware MPEG-2 encoder does all the work, so your PC continues to run at full speed. With dbx-TV stereo decoder, for great TV sound.
* Use Media Center's TV scheduler to record your favorite TV shows. There's no monthly charge for the program guide and scheduler!
* WinTV-HVR-1600 MC-Kit includes the Media Center remote control transmitter and receiver. Manage all Media Center functions with the hand held remote control. The Media Center remote control also has an IR transmitter to control the channels on a cable TV set top box or satellite receiver.

With Microsoft Media Center and the WinTV-HVR-1600 MC-Kit you can

* Watch analog cable TV and ATSC digital TV with Vista Media Center. Use Media Center's TV scheduler to automatically record your favorite TV shows.
* Record cable TV to disk WinTV-HVR-1600's built-in MPEG-2 recorder in DVD quality. You typically use 1-2 Gigabytes of hard disk per hour of recorded video.
* Pause analog and ATSC digital TV, with instant replay, skip, fast forward and rewind.
* Use the included Media Center remote control to control all of the media functions, such as digital picture slide shows, music playlists, etc.
* Use Media Center's IR transmitter to control the channels on your satellite or cable TV set top box.

Digital ATSC HD TV features

* ATSC over-the-air digital TV tuner built-in. Supports all ATSC formats, up to the high definition 1080i format!
* Supports Dolby Digital AC3 audio
* Record ATSC digital TV to your PC's hard disk using high quality MPEG-2. TV recordings will typically consume 5 Gb of disk space per hour for ATSC high definition.

Digital QAM features

If you are using digital cable which broadcast the local ATSC channels, you can receive these QAM channels with the new WinTV v6 application. QAM is only supported on product codes 74021 and 74041 (found on the tuner label).
Note: not all cable TV networks send clear QAM channels
Note: if you have a WinTV-HVR-1600 poduct code 74021 or 74041, click here for the latest software which supports QAM.

Analog TV features

* 25 channel cable ready TV tuner built-in. With dbx-TV stereo decoder, for great TV sound.
* Composite/S-Video and audio inputs, for cable or satellite set top boxes or VCRs.
* Record TV shows to your PC's hard disk using the built-in high quality hardware MPEG-2 encoder. While recording, the hardware encoder does all the work so your PC continues to run at full speed!
* 1-2 Gigabytes of disk is used per hour of recorded video.