the supplied USB cable into the Media Center remote control receiver/blaster box and the other end into any USB port on your Vista Home Premium, Ultimate or Windows XP Media Center PC. Media Center will automatically load the drivers for the MCE remote control. This will take one or two minutes. To test the receiver, click the Start button in the middle of the remote control. Media Center should open. If you have a satellite set top box and would like the Media Center remote control receiver/blaster to change channels on the set top box, plug one end of the IR transmitter cable into the back of the Media Center remote control receiver/blaster and position the other end (the transmitter end) over the IR receiver on your set top box. Then run the TV Tuner Set up under Media Center (see below). Step 4. TV Tuner set up under Media Center To set up the TV tuner in Windows XP Media Center: in the main Media Center menu go to Settings / TV / Set up TV Signal. To set up the TV tuner in the Vista Media Center application: go to Tasks / Settings / TV / Set up TV signal. You will see a message: Set Up Your TV Signal. Click Next. In Confirm your Region, make sure your region is selected. Click Next. You will see Automatic TV Signal Setup. We recommend selecting Configure my TV signal automatically. Click Next.
WinTV Media Center Kit Quick Installation Guide
WinTV-HVR-1600 MCE-Kit WinTV-HVR-1800 MCE-Kit
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Included with the WinTV Media Center Kits:
WinTV-HVR-1600 PCI board or WinTV-HVR-1800 PCI Express board with NTSC and ATSC tuners, MPEG-2 hardware audio/video compressor for NTSC TV and one FM radio receiver. Media Center Remote control transmitter and two AA batteries Media Center Remote control receiver/blaster box IR transmitter cable (blaster cable) USB cable WinTV Installation CD-ROM for use with Windows XP and Windows Vista (all versions) WinTV for Media Center QI Guide (this guide) for use with Vista Home Premium and Ultimate, and Windows XP Media Center Edition WinTV-HVR Quick Installation Guide for use with Windows XP and Vista Home Basic
ote: at this point, Media Center will set up the TV tuner. This might take a

minute or so.

You will then see a message saying Examining your TV signal. Media Center is determining the type of TV connection you have. When it is finished, it will tell you whether you have a cable TV, antenna or set top box connection. After determining the type of signal, you will see You are Done! Now you need to set up the Electronic Program Guide. You will see a message: Set Up Your Program Guide. Click Next. The Program Guide Set Up Wizard will move you through the completion of the Program Guide set up. When you are finished with the Program Guide Setup, click the MyTV button on your Media Center remote control to start watching TV.
Installing the WinTV-HVR-1600 / 1800 MCE Kit for use with Media Center
The WinTV-HVR for Media Center boards differ from the non-MCE version in that it uses the Microsoft Media Center USB Remote control and IR transmitter instead of the WinTV-HVRs built-in IR receiver transmitter. The WinTV-HVR MCE-Kit will work with Microsofts Media Center application in Vista Home Premium or Ultimate. If you have Windows Vista Home Basic, you can still use the WinTV-HVR to watch and record TV, but you will use Hauppauges WinTV application instead of Microsofts Media Center application. See the WinTV-HVR-1600 Quick Installation Guide for instructions on installing and using the WinTV application. Note: The Media Center remote control has limited functionality with Hauppauges WinTV application.

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Troubleshooting

Removing the WinTV driver If you ever need to remove the WinTV-PVR driver, run HCWClear.EXE from the WinTV-PVR Installation CD-ROM.

Installation overview

Step 1. Install the WinTV-HVR in your PC and connect the TV and A/V cables. Step 2. After starting Windows, install the WinTV-HVR device driver from the WinTV Installation CD-ROM. Step 3. Install the Media Center remote control. Step 4. Set up the TV tuner in the Media Center application.
checked. Click Next. Click Finish. In Vista, click Locate and install driver software (recommended). Then click Dont search on-line. Click Next. When the driver is installed, click Close.
Detailed installation instructions
Step 1: Install the WinTV-HVR board in your Media Center PC and connect the cables Turn the power off on your PC. Install the WinTV-HVR-1600 into a PCI slot. Install the WinTV-HVR1800 into a PCI Express x1 slot. On some PCs, the WinTV needs to be plugged into the first or second PCI slot. Plug your TV antenna or cable TV cable into the TV Connector. Skip to step 2. If you are using a cable TV or satellite TV set top box, connect it to the WinTV-HVR through either SVideo or Composite connector on the WinTV board, or connect a coax cable from the RF Out on your set top box to the TV input on the WinTV board. Media Center will automatically detect which method you are using to connect the WinTV to the set top box.
WinTV-HVR-1600 WinTV-HVR-1800 Board connectors
Found New Hardware in Windows XP
Found New Hardware in Vista
FM Radio Connector input TV Connector for Cable TV input Digital TV Connector for ATSC/QAM digital TV S-Video input
Step 3. Install the Media Center Remote control receiver/blaster The Media Center remote control receiver/blaster box is a small USB device which both receives remote control commands and transmits commands via its IR Blaster to change channels on a cable TV or satellite set top box. To install the Media Center remote control receiver/blaster, simply plug one end of
Media Center remote The WinTV-HVR-1600 board
Left audio input Right audio input
Audio and video from an external A/V device (satellite TV receiver, cable TV box, VCR, camcorder, camera, DVD player) can be brought into the WinTV-PVR via the back panel connectors. If your A/V device uses S-Video, connect to the S-Video input on the WinTV board. If your video device uses composite video instead of SVideo, use the yellow RCA jack. Audio input from an external A/V device can be brought into the WinTV board via the white and red audio input jacks. Step 2: Installing the WinTV-HVR Windows Vista driver After installing the WinTV-HVR in your PC, boot Windows. The Found New Hardware Wizard will appear. Insert the WinTV-PVR Installation CD-ROM in your PCs CD-ROM drive. In Windows XP, select No, not at this time and click Next. Make sure Install the software automatically (Recommended) is

Installing the WinTV-HVR-1250
WinTV-HVR-1250 MC and MC-Kit for Vista Media Center

Quick Installation Guide

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The WinTV-HVR-1250 can be used to watch and record TV with Microsofts Media Center application in Vista Home Premium or Ultimate. It will also work with the Hauppauge WinTV v6 application for Vista Home Basic. To install, switch off the computer and remove the computer cover.
ote: Your PC could be damaged by electrostatic discharge. Avoid this by contacting the chassis of your PC before you install the WinTV board.
Contents of the WinTV-HVR-1250
Locate a free PCI Express slot. Unscrew and remove the meta-
cover plate which covers the back of the empty slot.
Plug the WinTV-HVR-1250 board into a PCIe slot,
WinTV-HVR-1250 Hybrid NTSC/ATSC/QAM PCI Express WinTV-HVR Installation CD-ROM
and screw the WinTV-HVR-1250 metal cover plate to the PC.
Replace the computer cover
TV connector: cable TV or ATSC antenna Composite video
For Vista Media Center kits, you will also find:
Media Center Remote Control transmitter and two AA batteries Media Center Remote con-
TV connector: either cable TV
for analog and clear QAM digital or a TV antenna for ATSC TV.

Composite video input:

Composite video Input (RCA)

S-Video Stereo audio

trol receiver/blaster box
IR transmitter cable (blaster cable) USB cable for the Media Center remote control receiver/blaster box
S-Video: S-Video input connector. Left/right audio input: Stereo
audio input using 1/8 mini stereo jack, from the audio output of your source
2. What is ATSC digital TV, and how does the WinTVHVR-1250 work?
ATSC 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. Microsofts Media Center can be used to watch and record high definition ATSC digital TV programs when using the WinTV-HVR-1250. Note: ATSC digital TV is NOT digital cable TV or digital satellite TV. Currently Vista Media Center cannot display digital cable TV or digital satellite TV. ATSC digital TV is transmitted in several resolutions, from standard definition which is similar to cable TV, up to high definition which has about 16 times the resolution of normal cable TV. In any resolution, ATSC digital TV gives sharper pictures than analog cable TV and near CD quality sound. WinTV-HVR-1250 has a built-in tuner for analog cable TV, clear QAM digital cable TV and digital ATSC TV. It uses your PCs CPU for displaying both TV programs on your PC screen. Note: The WinTV-HVR-1250 can receive clear QAM digital cable TV, but currently Vista Media Center cannot display digital cable TV. The decoding of high definition ATSC is very processor intensive, and the smoothness of high definition TV programs depends upon how fast your PC is. Other PC activities that consume CPU resources might affect the display of ATSC digital TV. Slow video, jerky video and momentary pausing of video are all results of a CPU which is temporarily being used by other activities. For the best ATSC digital TV reception, a roof top Wideband or High gain antenna is recommended. In the U.S., a good ATSC digital antenna selector can be found at TitanTV.com under Resources.
Installing the WinTV-HVR-1250 driver
ote: the latest WinTV-HVR-1250 software can be found at www.hauppauge.com/pages/support/support_hvr1250.html
Installing the WinTV-HVR-1250 Windows Vista driver After plugging the WinTV-HVR-1250 in a PCI Express slot in your PC, turn on your computer. Windows Vista will load. The Found New Hardware window will appear.
Insert the WinTV-HVR Installation CD-ROM in your PCs CDROM drive. Note: If the CD auto play opens a window, close this window. Click Locate and install driver software (recommended). Then click Dont search on-line. Click Next. When the driver is installed, click Close.

Installing SoftMCE for Media Center
After installing the driver, browse the WinTV-HVR Installation CDROM and run Setup.exe. Then click on Install WinTV. This will install SoftMCE. SoftMCE is Hauppauges analog cable TV recorder for Windows Media Center. It is required if you want Media Center to be able to receive analog cable TV channels.
6. Install the Media Center Remote control receiver/blaster (only for WinTV MC-Kits)
The Media Center remote control receiver/blaster box is a small USB device which both receives remote control commands and transmits commands via its IR Blaster to change channels on a cable TV or satellite set top box. To install the Media Center remote control receiver/blaster, simply plug one end of the supplied USB cable into the Media Center remote control receiver/blaster box and the other end into any USB port on your Vista Home Premium or Ultimate PC. Media

Troubleshooting

.Some notes on system compatibility
Decoding high definition HD TV is very CPU intensive. A graphics card with at least 64MBytes of memory and the latest graphics driver from the manufacturer makes the decoding task easier. Typically a 2.2 GHz Pentium 4 processor or equivalent with a graphics card having 64MBytes of memory is required to properly decode ATSC digital TV on your PC. A 1.6GHz AMD Sempro computer tested in the Hauppauge lab used 50% of the CPU for playing ATSC 640i format, and 90% of the CPU when playing ATSC 1080i, the highest definition ATSC format. In some cases, either a faster processor or more graphics memory might be required. Slow or jerky video and a noisy TV picture indicate system performance problems. Jerky video with live ATSC digital TV Jerky or distorted video can be caused by two things in your PC or laptop: a slow CPU which cannot decode the ATSC TV signal fast enough, and a graphics system which cannot keep up with the high datarates of ATSC TV.
Center will automatically load the drivers for the MCE remote control. This will take one or two minutes. To test the receiver, click the Start button in the middle of the remote control. Media Center should open. If you have a satellite set top box and would like the Media Center remote control receiver/blaster to change channels on the set top box, plug one end of the IR transmitter cable into the back of the Media Center remote control receiver/blaster box and position the other end (the transmitter end) over the IR receiver on your set top box. Then run the TV Tuner Set up under Media Center (see below).
Many times, improving the performance of the graphics display will fix the jerky video display of ATSC digital TV. Here are some tips on improving graphics performance: - Use the latest graphics driver: graphics drivers are often tweaked to improve performance, especially the built-in graphics on laptops. Check the Microsoft Windows update site to download the latest graphics driver for your computer. For Dell computers, check the Dell website for the latest graphics driver. - Use Hauppauges Primary program to optimize graphics performance: Primary.exe is used to change the display mode of a graphics card for TV watching. This does not affect any other Windows program. Primary.exe is found in the Hauppauge WinTV program group. The default mode used by WinTV is Force Primary. Force Primary uses your processor to move the digital TV image into the graphics memory. It is more CPU intensive but often fixes display problems on some laptops. To use hardware graphics acceleration, close your TV application, then run Primary. Click Allow VMR. Close Primary and rerun your TV application. The Allow VMR setting will allow your graphics system to use hardware acceleration for video decode. Note: graphics hardware acceleration does not work on all systems. If this setting does not help, or if your TV application does not respond after a channel change, then your graphics system cannot use hardware graphics acceleration. In this case, re-run Primary. Click Force Primary and Close. Only some channels are found during ATSC channel scan If you are only receiving some known TV channels when scanning, it means your TV antenna is not adequate to pick up the channel. You will need either an antenna signal booster (a Radio Shack antenna amplifier will work) or a high gain antenna. Heres a link to an ATSC antenna selector: http://www.antennaweb.org/aw/address.aspx

TV tuner setup in Media Center
To set up the TV tuner in the Vista Media Center application: go to Tasks / Settings / TV / Set up TV signal. To set up the TV tuner in Windows XP Media Center: in the main Media Center menu go to Settings / TV / Set up TV Signal. You will see a message: Set Up Your TV Signal. Click Next. In Confirm your Region, make sure your region is selected. Click Next. You will see Automatic TV Signal Setup. We recommend selecting Configure my TV signal automatically. Click Next.
ote: if you only see digital antenna at this point, then you did not install SoftMCE for analog channels. To fix this problem, repeat step 5 and reboot.
You will then see a message saying Examining your TV signal. Media Center is determining the type of TV connection you have. When it is finished, it will tell you whether you have a cable TV, antenna or set top box connection. After determining the type of signal, you will see You are Done! Now you need to set up the Electronic Program Guide. You will see a message: Set Up Your Program Guide. Click Next. The Program Guide Set Up Wizard will move you through the completion of the Program Guide set up. When you are finished with the Program Guide Setup, click the MyTV button on your Media Center remote control to start watching TV.

FCC Statement

FCC ID: H90WINTV CE Statement: This equipment has been tested and complies with EN 55013, EN 55020 and IEC 801-3 part 3 standards. CAUTION: Changes or modifications not expressly approved by the party responsible for compliance to the FCC Rules could void the user's authority to operate the equipment. Supplementary Television Broadcasting Receiving Apparatus - Appareils supplmentaires de rception de tlvision, Canada.
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