With the HVR-2250, you are able to record any combination of two sources that you have setup.Īs with WinTV PVR-500, the HVR-2250 features hardware MPEG-2 encoders alleviating the CPU of doing the grunt work in encoding video.
#Hauppauge wintv tv#
One you have the two tuners in use, going to Live TV or trying to record another channel will pop up a message saying there's a conflict or all tuners are busy. Now even though Windows Media Center says there are two digital and two analog tuners, you'll only be able to record two sources at once. Depending on your cable company and setup, you still might have to do some tinkering with adding or removing stations though. Because it wasn't getting any guide information, I had to go in and change the listings option. By manually setting up the tuners after detection, I was able to setup the guide for analog initially and then for the digital stations that my cable company provides.
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If I didn't, the guide would only download the digital channels and not the analog channels. Media Center easily detected two digital and two analog tuners but here is where I had to break from the automatic installation. Afterward, I fired up Media Center and went into setting up the tuners.
#Hauppauge wintv drivers#
Windows 7 didn't have the drivers so it was a matter of going to Hauppauge's website to download the latest ones.
Installation was, for the most part, simple as I installed it in a brand new Windows 7 Home Premium install. One of the HVR-2250 kits that you pickup also includes a nice little remote as well. For those that will connect the card to set top box, you can relay the signals through the card and out through the IR blaster to the box in order to control it. Liker past Hauppauge cards, you can pick up an HVR-2250 that includes an IR blaster. This bracket connects to the HVR-2250 internally so there aren't any wires hanging in the way. For the HVR-2250, the setup includes another bracket that holds another S-video, composite, and stereo input allowing you to record two video sources using one of those types of connections.
#Hauppauge wintv full#
The HVR-2250 needs a PCI-E connection whether it is the x1 variant or a full sized slot. I was pleasantly surprised at how small it was and how compact it looked. Compared to my old WinTV PVR-500, the HVR-2250 has been reduced in size and looks a lot smaller compared to the older dual tuner card. Physically, the HVR-2250 is a nicely sized PCI-E x1 card that is made for both normal and low profile cases. Again, it's nice to just need one connection to be able to receive all the signals possible from the cable company.
For cable, you just need one connection to receive clear QAM and analog signals should your cable company still broadcast in analog. With the HVR-2250, you can just attach one antenna to view or record two ATSC channels which is pretty convenient. ATSC is over the air broadcast of channels while clear QAM channels are broadcast by your local cable company consisting of unencrypted digital signals. It's a dual tuner setup supporting ATSC, clear QAM, and analog signals. The Hauppauge HVR-2250 is their current top of the line tuner card for North America. I've been meaning to pick this card up for a while now and now that it's in my hands, I think I found my favorite analog/clear QAM recording peripheral. It's been a while since I updated by Hauppauge was nice enough to send me a sample of the HVR-2250. I've never had any problems with their cards and they've been rock solid. When I build HTPCs, I always use Hauppauge tuners for my system.
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