WinTV-HVR-1800 brings over-the-air high definition ATSC digital TV and
analog cable TV to your PC.
ATSC digital TV is the over-the-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. The WinTV-HVR-1800 cannot
receive digital cable TV or digital satellite TV.
ATSC digital TV brings you sharper pictures and enriches your PC’s multimedia experience with near CD quality sound. WinTV-HVR-1800’s ATSC digital TV receiver adds great features to your TV viewing: high definition TV reception, automatic identification of channel names plus records high-definition digital TV programs to your PC’s hard disk in an MPEG-2 format with no loss in quality.
Two tuners to simplify connections. The WinTV-HVR-1800 has two tuners: one for analog cable TV and one for ATSC digital TV.
You can connect both cable TV and an ATSC digital TV antenna at the same time.
And our WinTV2000 application allows you to toggle between cable TV and
ATSC digital TV channels.
Create your own personal Digital Video Recorder!
Record cable TV or ATSC digital TV shows to disk with MPEG-2. Use the WinTV-Scheduler
to schedule the recordings of your favorite analog or ATSC digital TV programs.
Play the recordings back to your PC screen at any time.
Built for Windows XP Media Center Edition or Vista
You can add WinTV-HVR-1800 as either the primary or as the second TV tuner.
The Microsoft Media Center application supports up to two TV tuners,
so you can watch one TV channel while recording another! And WinTV-HVR-1800
has Windows Vista Premium certification.
Technically speaking
WinTV-HVR-1800 contains two tuners: a ATSC digital TV tuner for over the air digital
TV reception plus a 125-channel cable ready TV tuner. For ATSC digital TV, all 18 ATSC
formats including 1080i can be watched or recorded to disk as a Program Stream.
A highly integrated MPEG-1/2 hardware encoder based on the Conexant -418 is on-board
for recording analog cable TV to disk. The playback of the recorded ATSC digital or
MPEG-2 encoded analog program is done through a software MPEG-2 player.
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WinTV-HVR-1800 MCE PCI Express x1 bus card with 125 channel
cable-ready TV tuner, ATSC receiver, hardware MPEG-2 encoder, dbx-TV stereo
decoder, S-Video/composite and audio inputs, FM Tuner. |
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S-Video to Composite Video Adapter. |
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FM Antenna |
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WinTV-HVR-1800 Installation and Utilities CD-ROM.
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Quick Installation Guide (English). |
Notes:
* For Analog TV reception, you need an analog cable TV connection. If you have a digital cable set top box or a satellite box, the WinTV-HVR-1800 can connect via either Composite or S-Video inputs.
* For ATSC over-the-air digital TV reception, a high gain antenna is recommended. To check the ATSC TV broadcasts in your area, go to TitanTV.com and enter your postal code.
Note: depending on the strength of your antenna, you might not be able to receive all broadcasts listed at TitanTV.
* For QAM reception, you need digital cable TV which transmits 'clear QAM' ATSC channels. You need to use the Hauppauge WinTV application to watch, pause and record QAM channels.
* ATSC TV recordings are not 100% compatible with DVD, and therefore you cannot burn them directly to a DVD.
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