Hauppauge WinTV USB

Get a TV if u want to WATCH a movie - Advantages: better than nothing.., slightly, video pickup if picture quality was better - Disadvantages: bad picture quality, doesn't allow much fine tuning, lots of noise

PLEASE READ: I've had 13 dooyoo members read this review and 1269 non-members read it. If your not a dooyoo member and looking at this, why not register and join this fine site. The fact that I've missed out on £38 worth of dooyoo points dosn't bother me at all :) -------------- Now heres a fancy idea, play TV on a PC! Usually though this kind of tool is well out of the price range of the normal consumer UNTIL NOW *Cue Drums*. Introducing the first ever USB screen capture device from Hauppauge weighing in at under £50. Yes that's right, the little slot at the back of you computer you usually use for the scanner can also be used to ...  Read the complete review

This card is fine for watching TV, but don't expect to use it for much more than that. Capture is restricted to 320x240, you can strech it with the resize filter in virtual dub, but the card drops so many frames in vdub its not worth it. The frame drops don't come from a cpu bottleneck or hd bottleneck on my system, but rather the USB bottleneck. It can use a maximum of 7.5 Mbits on the bus, which apparently isnt enough to sustain 29.97 fps with its current drivers (2.45 available on the uk hauppague site). Also sometimes it doesnt center the tv picture correctly, it can be fixed in vdub and some other programs, but it doesnt save the settings and will ...  Read the complete review

I purchased the hauppage win TV USB as a tool to allow me to keep up with the world cup this year on my travels for work. A usefull little gizmo, I know of the manufacturers reputation, and generally they make good products. The wintv Usb is a small box, pretty colour bluey green, looks like it shold be part of an Apple computer. It has a conventional TV antenna socket at the end, nas an S-Video and line output socket on the side. The line output is for the audion link needed with laptops. The software comes packed with the TV application and a teletext function. THere is a facility in the software, which allows you to create libraries of tv stations for ...  Read the complete review

The first thing we need to deal with here is how to pronounce the name. Despite how it looks,it's pronounced Hop-Hog.Now you can correct everyone else, as I've never met anyone (including me) who knew how to say it. What is it ? Put simply, it's a little box that lets you watch the TV on your PC, either full screen or in a window as you are doing something else. At the moment, I'm watching the Test Match as I write this. It can also be used to upload video from your camcorder. It is capable of storing 125 channels, including cable TV. Being a USB device, connectivity couldn't be easier and the unit copes happily having it's ...  Read the complete review