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

Average customer rating: 3.5

Don't buy for TV-OUT on your PVR.
Works great -
A waste of money
great TV card and easy to use software
I love this.

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

Manufacturer: HAUPPAUGE
Product Group: CE
Binding: Electronics
ASIN: B00008OOWC

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Product Description

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 in DVD quality will take 2 Gigabytes of hard disk space. dbx stereo decoder, for great TV sound. Includes WinTV-Scheduler, so you can schedule your TV recordings on a daily, weekly or once only schedule. Includes TitanTV, the on-line TV program guide, for automatic scheduling of your TV recordings / Includes the WinTV-Editor, so you can cut and trim your videos without losing video quality! For desktop PC running Windows - Requires an available PCI expansion slot

Customer Reviews:

Don't buy for TV-OUT on your PVR........2007-05-07

I bought this card for the TV-OUT while building my PVR. I haven't decided on MythTV, SageTV, or BeyondTV. The mpeg tv-out decoder on this card has GREAT quality, however since it is hardware, it only plays MPEG2. The apps i mentioned all have portals to YouTube or Google Video, so you won't be able to watch that stuff. I also have content in divx or xvid format that i can't watch. Also all the apps i mentioned seem to have dropped support for tv-out on this card because of driver problems and the other issues mentioned.

It is a great card if you will only watch the mpeg2 content it records. If you don't need the tv-out, just get a PVR-250 and a video card with decent S-Video out. That's what I'm doing.

Works great - .......2007-05-07

This is the second Hauppauge I have. Another computer has a PVR version. What is great is the hardware compression of files - 4 G vs 1 G. The Sony VAIO I bought did not even have hardware compression. There is enough software to record the shows I want without getting in the way of recording and watching. I can recommend this version to anyone the needs a pc bases pvr. There is 3-rd party vendors that support this model.

A waste of money.......2007-04-12

I bought the WinTV tuner to use primarily as a video capture card. Frankly, I believe using a computer as a TV monitor is a waste of a good computer. I intended to use the WinTv-PVR 350 to convert video tapes into digital format but when attempting conversions the computer freezes up. I have lots of RAM and plenty of room on my hard drive. The longest capture I have managed so far is 15 minutes, but most range in size from one minute to six minutes. After spending a day splicing together the fragments of a VHS tape I converted with the 350 and which I then burned to DVD, I discovered the quality of the image far below DVD quality. It is far below video tape quality.
I am willing to spend some real money on a good video capture card but it isn't the WinTV 350. It's not useful as a capture card and it's too small to be a doorstop.

great TV card and easy to use software.......2007-04-05

I use this card to record DIY channels and hockey games. The picture quality is pretty good. I used to have it on windows XP pro but now it's running on Media Center Edition. I still use the WinTV2000 sw... don't ask why :)

If you plan to use WinTV2000 on MCE, make sure you disable Media Center Receiver Service. Otherwise, you'll get an error, "Failed to create TV Window. hTV=0x3fa1f8 Err=8". Your hex address might be different than mine.

I hook up a VCR to convert VHS into digital as well.

The only negative thing about this card is the picture gets super white when content is bright in a large area. Watching ice hockey would be an example since the ice is really white, the details such as the puck and players would get "brighten" up as well and blend into the ice. So to fix that, you have to lower the brightness and contrast but that would effect other viewings like movies and shows.

I love this........2007-03-11

It is very easy to use and records great quality programming that can be recorded to DVD very easily. I also have an archive of some of my favorite shows stored on my computer.

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