• Dual format TV tuner for your PC. Watch ATSC and clear QAM digital TV or analog cable TV, in a window or full screen.
• Watch and record all digital TV formats, including the highest definition 1080i format
• Includes TV scheduler, remote control and IR blaster to control satellite and cable TV set top boxes.

WinTV-HVR-1600 model 1178, 1181 and 1199
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WinTV-HVR-1600 has these great features

• Watch analog or digital TV on your PC screen, in a window or full screen.
• Watch and record clear QAM digital cable TV. Clear QAM digital TV are unencrypted digital TV channels broadcast by your local cable operator on their cable TV networks.
• Watch and record ATSC high definition digital TV on your PC. ATSC HD is the over-the-air high definition TV standard for North America.
• Watch and record analog cable TV. The WinTV-HVR-1600 has a built-in hardware MPEG-2 encoder, so your PC continues to run at full speed while recording analog cable TV.
• Includes Hauppauge's WinTV v6 application. If you live in an area where you can receive both ATSC digital and analog TV over the air, you can switch between analog and digital channels automatically.
• Includes an IR blaster to change the channel on your satellite or cable TV set top box.
• Bundled software includes a TV scheduler with link to TitanTV™ plus Ulead's® DVD MovieFactory™ authoring and burning software.

Digital Clear QAM features

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!
• 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.

Analog TV features

• 125 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.

System Requirements

• Processor requirements (minimum):

  • 1.0 GHz Intel P4 or equivalent (for cable TV)

  • 2.2 GHz Intel P4 or equivalent (for ATSC digital TV)

• Microsoft Windows Vista or XP with Service Pack 2. WinTV-HVR-1600 is Windows Vista Premium certified*.

• Available PCI slot.

• Graphics with 64 MB memory (or greater).

• Sound card.

• DVD or CD writer for burning Video CD's, S-VCD's or DVD's (optional).

Included in the WinTV-HVR-1600 model 1178, 1181 and 1199 box

• WinTV-HVR-1600 PCI bus card with 125 channel cable-ready TV tuner, ATSC tuner, hardware MPEG-2 encoder, dbx-TV stereo decoder, S-Video/composite and audio inputs.
• IR remote control receiver.
• IR Blaster (infra-red remote control transmitter), to control satellite and cable TV set top boxes.

• WinTV-HVR-1600 CD-ROM includes:

  • WinTV v6 application for TV in a window plus TV recording, pause and playback.
  • WinTV-Scheduler for scheduling your TV recording, and with link to TitanTV.com*.
  • Ulead® DVD MovieFactory™, to create your own videos on DVD or CD*.