Hauppauge 1213 WinTV-HVR-2250 PCI-E x1 Dual TV Tuner

Hauppauge 1213 WinTV-HVR-2250 | Although this blog named USB TV Tuner but it would not hurt if a write little review of the Internal Tv Tuner from Hauppauge.

I will discuss here is the 1213 Internal TV Tuner Hauppauge WinTV-HVR-2250 PCI-E x1 Dual TV Tuner, which is equipped with a Dual Tuner TV tuner board (Analog / Digital), and can be used to watch and record live TV with quality crystal clear thanks to the Clear QAM Digital TV Technology.

Product Features of Hauppauge 1213 WinTV :

• Dual tuner TV board for your PC: two analog / digital TV tuners: Dual built-in hardware MPEG-2 encoders for recording analog cable TV, for the best system performance. Watch and record two cable TV programs at the same time!
• Dual digital TV receivers for ATSC or clear QAM. Watch and record two digital TV programs at the same time. Watch and record all ATSC and QAM formats, including the highest definition 1080i format
• Windows Vista Media Center compatible. Single slot PCI Express (PCIe) X1 board, half height
• Watch and record two TV programs at the same time: two analog cable TV channels, two digital TV channels or one analog cable and one clear QAM digital cable TV channel.
• Watch and record 'clear QAM' digital TV. Clear QAM digital TV channels are TV channels which are broadcast "in the clear" on your cable TV network.
• Built-in antenna splitter allows you to make one connection to an ATSC antenna but watch and record up to 2 channels. Supports Dolby Digital AC3 audio.
• Includes Hauppauge's WinTV v6 application, which allows you to watch analog cable TV, QAM and ATSC digital TV channels.
• Watch one ATSC digital TV program while recording another ATSC program 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.

Might you need to read some review from the users that using this product, so you have decision to take action of buying this product when you interest.

I have two of these running in my Windows 7 HTPC allowing me to record up to four shows at a time. Digital picture quality is perfect and analog is better than any other card I've used.
This thing sips CPU cycles. If you'll be using analog sources, stick with a card that has built-in hardware MPEG encoding. My system would jump to 50%+ CPU use viewing analog sources with another card (software encoder), but you'll barely notice any increase with this one.
I had some issues getting the IR remote working, but Hauppauge's excellent support took care of me. 

By Jay

I was looking for a dual tuner to install on my new PC. I initially looked at a PC with a built in tuner but none had a dual tuner included. My plan was to replace cable with a PC and this dual tuner has done the trick. No issues so far and been using it since 1/31/2011. This thing lets me watch and record at the same time. Actually, I setup my antenna with a splitter so one end goes into the PC using this dual tuner and the other directly to the TV. This way if 2 shows are being recorded I can just switch the input to the TV/Antenna and watch live TV.
The remote works great and allows me to control Media Center such as recordings, home videos, music, pictures as well as Netflix or Hulu.
By Ozzie P 

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