- PCI-E TV Tuner Board
- Dual Hybrid Analog and Digital TV Tuners
- Watch record and pause TV on your PC
- ATSC Clear QAM Digital TV up to 1080i
- Comes with Microsoft certified Media Center remote control and receiver
Product DescriptionThe 1213 from Hauppauge is a HVR-2250 Media Center Kit Bundle. It is a PCIe TV Tuner board with dual (two) hybrid tuners. Both tuners have analog and digital reception that allows recording of two channels at the same time. Each tuner has hardware MPEG2 encoding for recording analog channels. Each tuner has ATSC clear QAM for receiving digital cable TV channels. Watch and record two channels of analog cable TV or ATSC high definition (HD) TV on your PC. Comes comple. . . More >>
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6 comments
February 27, 2010
Why is this TV Tuner (Hauppauge WINTV 2250 w/ MCE kit) $40 more than the retail as listed on the hauppauge website and $50-$70 more expensive than any other website as of 08/28/08? What is Amazon pulling? Reduce the price and I’ll buy it!
Rating: 1 / 5
February 27, 2010
Absolutely rediculous, I’d have to agree. While this card did receive the ‘Gold Standard’ rating from PC Magazine, the fact that Amazon is charging $40 more than the Hauppauge online store for an identical product is mind boggling.
From the Hauppauge page:
WinTV-HVR-2250 TV tuner with
Windows Media Center remote control kit
$149. 00
Other online stores have it as low as $125. So why would I buy here?
I give the product 4 stars, but Amazon only 1 for trying to rip us off. 4 stars for the product because of the dual tuner limitation (or at least confusion). So I compromised and marked 3 stars.
Rating: 3 / 5
February 27, 2010
The Hauppauge 2250 card works great! The Media Center remote control died about 3 days after it was installed. Rating: 3 / 5
February 27, 2010
I don’t usually write reviews on items that I purchase, but this is one that I can’t ignore. This device works fine for ATSC from an antenna, but it doesn’t tune in any of the 150+ Comcast clear-QAM channels in my area (Loudoun Co. , VA). If you want a clear-QAM tuner that works in Northern VA, buy the HDHomeRun by Silicon Dust, it just works. Rating: 1 / 5
February 27, 2010
I bought this to replace an old Diamond PVR that I’m running with Beyond TV. Wanted digital QAM. Worked great plug and play. BTV picked it up, and I was able to get all QAM channels that are available in Indianapolis area. I wasn’t ready to map the channels, though. You have to visually choose which QAM channel goes with which Analog station (with Beyond TV that is). Took a while, but helped in weeding out those channels I wasn’t interested in. WIN-TV app worked fine. Records in . TS format, so you need an app like HDTV2MPEG2 (google it) and it converts fine. Burned DVD’s look great even on HD 42″ living room TV. When I tried to use it with Vista Media Center, I kept getting tuner errors (couldn’t find it??). Dug through the registry and it was there, just not seeing it. Reading through forum posts, etc, I kept reading about how you had to reinstall Vista. I wanted to get it working, but not THAT bad. I uninstalled WIN-TV and Beyond TV. I Then uninstalled the drivers and went into the registry and wiped out the tuner data media center had listed there and then rebooted, reinstalled the drivers and media center found the tuners with no problem. I’m going to reinstall Beyond TV now that Media Center is working fine and we’ll see if they play together well. So, in short, it seems if you have OTHER PVR software on board, and want to use Media Center, uninstall that first and start “clean” from that standpoint. The QAM picture quality exceeds what I expected. All tuners work well. . . . don’t use the radio feature (thanks Pandora!). I don’t use the IR/Remote so I can’t comment on that. I’m happy with it, but as noted, it took some tweaking. Rating: 4 / 5
August 4, 2010
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