Hauppauge WinTV-PVR-150 Media Center Kit

Hauppauge Updated: 2008-12-15 RSS
Hauppauge WinTV-PVR-150 Media Center Kit

WinTV-PVR-150 MCE Kit is the best way to add TV to your Windows Media Center Edition PC. If you have a Media Center PC without a built-in TV tuner, simply plug WinTV-PVR-150 MCE into your PC, and you will be watching TV with Media Center's MyTV button in no time!

If you already have a TV tuner in your Media Center PC, add the WinTV-PVR-150 MCE as the second tuner, so you can watch one cable TV channel while recording another. Or record two TV shows at once. WinTV-PVR-150 MCE is the perfect upgrade for any Media Center PC!

WinTV-PVR-150 MCE comes with a Microsoft certified MCE remote control. Control all of Media Center's functions with the included remote control. Play music, start a slide show, all from the comfort of your living room couch.

And if you have a cable TV or satellite box, the included Media Center IR transmitter can control the channel changing. So you can automatically schedule and record TV from cable TV or a satellite receiver.

Technically speaking: WinTV-PVR-150 MCE contains a highly integrated MPEG-2 hardware encoder, plus a high quality integrated single chip video/audio digitizer. WinTV-PVR-150 can record to your PC's hard disk full screen video (full D1) from TV or an external A/V source, at data rates from 2 Mbits to 8 Mbits/sec (Media Center supports 3 standard profiles). The encoded MPEG-2 program stream is sent over the PCI bus, where it is stored on the PCs hard disk. The video can also be played back to the PC screen while recording, so you can pause, rewind and fast forward live TV.

model 01062: WinTV-PVR-150 MCE Kit with NTSC TV tuner, hardware MPEG encoder and Media Center remote control
model 00232: WinTV-PVR-150 MCE Kit with NTSC TV tuner, hardware MPEG encoder, Media Center remote control and French/English manual
model 01063: WinTV-PVR-150 MCE Kit with PAL TV tuner, hardware MPEG encoder and Media Center remote control

Watch, record, pause and replay TV on your Windows Media Center Edition PC. Includes MCE remote control.

* Watch, Pause and Record TV with the MyTV button on your Windows Media Center PC.
* Includes a Microsoft Media Center certified remote control and IR blaster.
* Use WinTV-PVR-150 MCE as the second TV tuner in your Media Center PC. Record up to two TV shows at the same time.
* The WinTV-PVR-150 is ready for Vista!

WinTV-PVR-150 MCE-Kit is the perfect TV upgrade for Media Center, with these great features

* Use the MyTV button in Windows Vista/XP Media Center to watch, pause and record TV on your PC! Use Media Center's built-in TV scheduler to record your favorite TV shows to disk. And there's no monthly charge for the scheduler!
* Live TV from WinTV-PVR-150's built-in 125 channel cable ready TV tuner, plus composite/S-Video and audio inputs to connect to a cable TV or satellite receiver box.
* Built-in high quality hardware MPEG-2 encoder. Record TV or videos to disk using from 1-2 Gigabytes of disk space per hour of recorded video. While recording, the WinTV-PVR-150's hardware MPEG encoder does all the work, so your PC continues to run at full speed. With dbx-TV stereo decoder, for great TV sound.
* WinTV-PVR-150 MCE-Kit includes the Media Center remote control transmitter and receiver. Manage all Media Center functions with the hand held remote control. The Media Center remote control also has an IR transmitter to control the channels on a cable TV set top box or satellite receiver.
* Windows Media Center supports up to two TV tuners, so you can watch one TV channel while recording another (or record two TV shows at once!) If your Windows Media Center PC already has one TV tuner, plug in the WinTV-PVR-150 as the second TV tuner!

With Microsoft Media Center and the WinTV-PVR-150 MCE-Kit you can

* Watch TV with Media Center's MyTV button. Use Media Center's TV scheduler to automatically record your favorite TV shows.
* Record TV using WinTV-PVR-150's built-in MPEG recorder. Make movies in DVD quality. You typically use 1-2 Gigabytes of hard disk per hour of recorded video.
* Pause TV, with instant replay, skip, fast forward and rewind.
* Use the included Media Center remote control to control all of the media functions, such as digital picture slide shows, music playlists, etc.
* Use Media Center's IR transmitter to control the channels on your satellite or cable TV set top box.
* Install WinTV-PVR-150 automatically, purely "Plug and Play": WinTV-PVR-150 is Windows Vista Premium certified!