Hauppauge introduces WinTV-HVR-950 Hybrid TV Receiver January 7, 2007
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Looking for a portable TV tuner product? Consider the new Hauppauge WinTV-HVR-950 Hybrid TV Receiver which was announced earlier this week. This TV tuner on a “stick” allows you to watch and record analog cable TV or ATSC HD digital TV whether at home or on the road. You simply plug the WinTV-HVR-950 Hybrid TV Receiver into your USB port, connect the appropriate cables, and laod the software.. and BAM! You’ll be enjoy TV right on your computer - whether it’s a home desktop system or a portable laptop system.
Features of the WinTV-HVR-950 Hybrid TV Receiver include (taken from the Hauppauge website):
- Watch analog cable TV or the new ATSC HD digital TV
- USB 2.0 support - Note: will not work with USB 1.1
- Includes Hauppauge’s WinTV2000 application to watch and record TV, in a window or full screen. If you live in an area where you can receive both digital and analog TV, you can switch between analog and digital channels automatically.
- Includes WinTV-Scheduler, so you can record your favorite TV programs on a daily, weekly or once only schedule.
- ATSC over-the-air digital TV receiver 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. ATSC digital TV recordings will typically consume from 1 to 5 Gb of disk space per hour, depending upon the TV broadcasters ATSC format.
- Analog cable TV receiver built-in. Will also work with TV antenna
- Record analog TV shows to your PC’s hard disk using our SoftPVR™ MPEG-2 encoder. Analog TV recordings will typically consume 1.5 Gb of disk space per hour
Hauppauge claims the device also works with Windows Media Center too. One final note - remember - this is a single tuner. You can either tune to analog channels or digital channels - not both at the same time.
WinTV-HVR-950 Hybrid TV Receiver Now Available for PCs, Notebooks
Watch & Record Cable TV or Over-the-Air ATSC HD TV with Pocket-Sized “Stick”
HAUPPAUGE, N.Y. –(Business Wire)– Jan. 3, 2007 Hauppauge Digital, Inc., the world’s leading developer and manufacturer of analog and digital video, TV, and data broadcast receiver products for personal computers, announces the addition of the pocket-sized WinTV-HVR-950 Hybrid TV Receiver to its WinTV family of PC-based home entertainment system applications. Whether at home or on the go, you can now use your PC or laptop to watch and record your favorite analog or digital TV shows with one click.
The easy-to-install WinTV-HVR-950 Hybrid TV Receiver allows you to watch and record analog cable TV or the new ATSC HD digital TV on your PC or laptop screen. Just plug it into your computer’s USB 2.0 port, connect a cable TV or a TV antenna, and load the software from the installation CD. The WinTV-HVR-950 also includes a portable digital antenna so you can receive digital TV while you travel. To check the ATSC digital transmissions in a given area, just input the Zip code at http://www.titantv.com.
The WinTV-HVR-950 includes Hauppauge’s WinTV2000 application for watching and recording TV in a window or a full-sized screen using high-quality MPEG-2. If you live in an area that receives both analog and digital TV, you can switch automatically between analog and digital channels, and the WinTV-Scheduler lets you record your favorite analog or digital TV shows on a daily, weekly, or once-only schedule to play back to your screen at any time.
Even if your area does not currently receive ATSC digital TV, use the WinTV-HVR-950 to watch and record analog TV, knowing that you are prepared for the future. When ATSC digital TV does come to your area, your WinTV-HVR-950 will receive the new digital channels.
System Requirements -0-
Minimum processor recommended
2.2 GHz P4 or 1.8 GHz Centrino or equivalent (minimum)
2.8 GHz processor for analog TV recording with MPEG-2 (minimum)
Microsoft(R) Windows(R) XP, XP Pro, or Windows Media Center Edition,
with Service Pack 2
Graphics with 64MB of memory (minimum)
USB 2.0 port (will not work with USB 1.1)
CD-ROM drive (for software installation)
Package Includes:
– WinTV-HVR-950 USB 2.0 TV stick with cable TV or ATSC antenna connection
– USB extension cable
– Portable antenna
– Software on CD-ROM (including manual)
– Quick installation Guide
For more information about the WinTV-HVR-950 Hybrid TV Receiver, please visit http://www.hauppauge.com/pages/products/data_hvr950.html.
About Hauppauge Digital:
Hauppauge Digital, Inc. (NASDAQ: HAUP) is a leading developer and manufacturer of digital TV and data broadcast receiver products for personal computers. Through its Hauppauge Computer Works, Inc., and Hauppauge Digital Europe subsidiaries, the Company designs and develops digital video boards for TV-in-a-window, digital video editing and video conferencing. The Company is headquartered in Hauppauge, New York, with administrative offices in New York, Singapore, Ireland and Luxembourg and sales offices in Germany, London, Paris, The Netherlands, Sweden, Italy, Spain, Singapore and California. For more information, please visit http://www.hauppauge.com.
SSPR Belinda Banks, 908-685-2300 belinda@sspr.com
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