WinTV-HVR-1800
PCI Express Video Recorder with dual tuners for NTSC and ATSC/QAM
What is ATSC digital TV, and how does the WinTV-HVR-1800 work?
ATSC digital TV is a 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. Note: ATSC digital TV is NOT digital cable TV or digital satellite TV. The WinTV-HVR-1800 cannot receive digital satellite or encrypted digital cable TV. Note: Some cable broadcasters send ATSC digital TV on their digital networks as clear QAM. See the section entitled QAM reception for instructions on tuning for QAM channels. 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-1800 has a built-in analog cable TV and digital ATSC TV tuner. It uses your PC CPU for displaying both analog and digital TV programs on your PC screen. 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 Highgain antenna is recommended. TitanTV.com has a good ATSC digital antenna selector which can be found under Resources.
WinTV-HVR-1800 Board connectors
Connector for FM radio TV Connector for Cable TV ATSC Digital TV connector S-Video/Composite video input connector Left Audio input Right Audio input
Step 2: Installing the WinTV-HVR under Vista Boot into Windows Vista. Insert the WinTV-HVR-1800 Installation CD-ROM in your PCs CD-ROM drive. When the Found New Hardware box opens, click Locate and install driver software. Click Continue. If you see a message which asks about searching online, click Dont search on-line. Click Next. Click Close. Step 3: WinTVHVR Software installation After the WinTV-HVR driver has been installed, you need to run WinTV Setup to complete the installation. Run SETUP from the WinTV-HVR Installation CD-ROM. Click Install to start the application installation. The installation may require a file from your Windows CD-ROM, so keep it handy. After the Setup program is complete, you will see the WinTV icon on your Windows desktop.

Quick Installation Guide

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After booting Windows, install WinTV-HVR Windows device driver from the WinTV-HVR-1800 Installation CD-ROM.

After the Windows driver is installed,install the WinTV applications from the WinTV-HVR-1800 Installation CD-ROM. Step 1: Install the WinTV-HVR-1800 board and connect the cables Turn the power off on your PC. Install the WinTV-HVR-1800 into a PCI Express slot. Note: You cannot install WinTV-HVR-1800 into a PCI slot. Plug your cable TV into TV Connector. Plug your ATSC digital TV antenna into the ATSC Digital TV input. The S-Video/composite video input can be used to bring video from a VCR, camcorder, camera, DVD player or satellite TV receiver. If your video device uses composite video instead of S-Video, use the supplied Composite to S-Video adapter. Plug your composite video connector (normally yellow) into one end of the Composite to SVideo adapter and the other end into the S-Video/Composite video input connector on WinTV-HVR-1800. The Remote control receiver/blaster cable is plugged into the Remote control socket. Use the Velcro dot (on the back of the Remote control receiver) to position the Remote control receiver where it will be able to receive infra-red commands from the Remote control transmitter. Add the supplied batteries to the Remote control transmitter.

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Running WinTV for the first time
To run the WinTV application for watching TV, recording videos and playing them back on your PC, double click on the WinTV icon on your desk top. When you run WinTV for the first time, a message says Would you like to scan for channels now? Click YES. Click the Scan button and WinTV will automatically scan for both analog and ATSC digital TV channels. The scanning process takes about 10 minutes. The scanning process for ATSC will scan from channels 2 to 68. The ATSC digital channels that are found will appear in the channel listing box. The Name is the name as defined by the broadcaster. The Channel number is created by the WinTV application. For ATSC digital channels, since each primary channel might have several subchannels, the channel number is calculated so that channel 22.2 would be listed as 1222. Channel 7.2 would be listed as 1072.
Contents of the WinTV-HVR-1800 package
WinTV-HVR-1800 PCI Express board Hauppauge remote control receiver and IR transmitter/receiver cable (on models with Hauppauge remote control) WinTV-HVR-950 Installation CD-ROM including Vista drivers and WinTV v6 application with the WinTV-Scheduler

Installing the WinTV-HVR-1800
WinTV-HVR-1800 is a PCI Express TV tuner board with an analog TV tuner, an ATSC/QAM digital TV tuner plus a hardware MPEG-2 encoder. WinTV-HVR-1800 is designed for WindowsXP and Windows Vista. Note: if you are running Windows Media Center application, you only need to install the WinTV-HVR Windows device driver. Installation overview
Install the WinTV-HVR-1800 board in a PCI Express slot in your
PC and connect the TV cables. For the best ATSC digital TV reception, use a high quality roof top antenna.
Always-on-top Audio volume

Full screen TV

Troubleshooting section for information on choosing an ATSC antenna.

Minimize Close WinTV

Click on the desired channel, then Edit. Change the ChannelName to the name of the station, change the description or fine tune. Then click OK. Selecting channels Click your right mouse button on the Current TV channel box and youll see a pop list of all channels. Use your mouse to select the channel you want to tune to. Selecting an External Video source (VCR or set top box) Click on Menu / Suite Manager and then click the Sources tab. To add a composite video source, click the Composite button, give it a Name and then click Save. To add a S-Video source, click the S-Video button, give it a Name and then click Save. To switch to this source, click your right mouse button in the Current TV channel or video source window. You will see a list of all channels. At the end of the list you will see the name of the source you just added. Chose the source. Displaying TV full screen When you click the Full screen TV button, TV will appear full screen. When finished watching TV full screen, click your right mouse button in the TV window. If you see video with a black box to the left and right of the TV image, click the Pref button then click TV mode tab. Check the box which says "Allow resolution change". "Always-on-Top" mode: With Always on Top, the WinTV window can always be visible on your Windows desktop. To turn on Always-on-Top, simply click the Always-on-top button. It will turn green. To turn off Always on Top, click this button again. A convenient way to use Always-on-Top is to make the TV window in the no-title mode small, and to make the TV window in the title mode larger. Then you can switch very quick from a small window to a larger one simply by clicking the right mouse button. Menu button
Configuration: duplicate configuration menus for color, audio, MPEG settings, etc. View: for setting the TV window size

Channel up Channel down

Full screen

Preferences menu

Channel surf Previous channel Radio (on some models) Current TV channel and channel selector window Click your right mouse button here to see the channel selector Pause Record Play Remove toolbars Click your right mouse button in the TV window to remove toolbars. Click again to restore toolbars.

ote: When initially installed, WinTVHVR-1800 uses a setting which does not take advantage of graphics acceleration. If you experience problems when watching ATSC digital TV channels, see the Troubleshooting section.
Pref button Click the Pref button to open the Preferences menu. You will have tabs for: View: these are the settings for the On Screen Display of the TV channel and Audio Volume, plus controls for the Toolbar mode (Title mode), NoToolbar mode (No Title) and Full Screen (TV mode). Movies: here is where you configure the video and audio settings. You can set the movie record directory (DVCR Record File Path), the MPEG Quality settings, and the Audio settings. Snap Shot: here is where you can set the size of your captured images, plus single or two field captures. Audio: your audio settings are configured here. Color: adjust the color of your TV picture here.
Rescanning TV channels If you want to rescan for TV channels, click Menu / Suite Manager. To scan analog cable TV channels, under Sources, highlight Analog source and click Auto scan. To scan for digital ATSC channels, under Input Sources, highlight ATSC source and click Auto scan. During the scan for ATSC digital TV channels, the Signal Status will show a quality level and the locked box will be checked if a channel is detected. Setting up the channels
Menu Setup Menu CFG Configure Snapshot Snapshot viewer window Double click on each "thumbnail" to see image full size. Click and hold your right mouse button to see image options.
Freeze video Snapshot Button
If you cannot hear audio If you cannot hear audio when the WinTV application is running, check the following: Click on the Pref button and the audio tab and make sure the Audio Mixer Input is set to Wave. Open Windows Volume control menu (double click on the small speaker icon in the lower right hand corner of your PC screen). Make sure Wave is not muted and the level is about half way up. If you do not see Wave listed in the Volume control menu, click on Options / Properties in this menu and under Show the following volume controls put a check mark next to Wave. This will add Wave to the list of devices. Click OK and then you should see Wave listed. Once again, make sure Wave is not muted and the volume is half way up. If you do not hear audio when playing back a recorded video file (or do not hear audio when in the Pause mode), then open up
ote: if you do not receive any ATSC digital TV channels, an antenna signal booster might be needed. After adding a signal booster, see below for instructions on rescanning and the
After you have scanned for channels, you can add channel names and fine tune analog channels for better reception. To do this, click the Menu button on WinTV, then click Suite Manager. You can also click and hold your right mouse button, then click SuiteManager.

Record Mode

Click on the Record button on the WinTV application to open the Record and Playback control bar.
Time counter: The time is specified in a Hour:Minute:Second format. Record timer: A timed record is started by clicking the Record button. Each time you click Record, the Record Timer is incremented by 15 minutes. At the end of the time specified by the Record timer, the record will stop. Also, clicking the Stop button will stop a timed record. The time is specified in a Hour:Minute:Second format. Record Button: Clicking the Record button will automatically generate a file name and start recording your audio/video program. The recorded video file is saved in the directory set in DVCR Recorded File Path. To set the directory, click Pref and then the Movies tab. Every time you record a file, a new file is automatically created. The file will be formatted as (source)_(Channel)_YearMonthDay_TIme. For ATSC digital TV programs, the quality level recorded is the same as it is transmitted by the TV station. For example, if the TV station is transmitting a high-definition program, WinTV will record the program in highdefinition. For analog cable TV, the quality of the video recording is set in the MPEG Configuration Menu (see the section entitled Configuring the format for MPEG compression). Click Pref and then the Movies tab. In Quality Levels, the highest quality is MPEG-2 12.0 MBit/sec, and the lowest quality is DVD Extra Long Play. While recording: Live video continues to play in the WinTV window. You can Pause video while its being recorded. The Counter will display the length of your recording If you had started a timed recording, the total time for the recording will also be displayed
Clicking the Stop button will stop the video you are recording or playing back. Once the video is stopped, live TV will be displayed. -

Playback video

Click on the Play button on the WinTV application to open the Record and Playback control bar. Play Button: Clicking the Play button will playback from disk the last video file created. When playing a video, you can rewind, fast forward, replay 10 sec or skip forward 10 sec using the buttons on the control bar. When playing video files, you can quickly skip to sections of your video by hitting the 0 to 9 buttons on the remote (or your keyboard). When you hit 1 you will skip to 10% of the length of the video. When you hit 2 you will skip to 20% of your video. Pause Button: Clicking the Pause button while Playing will pause your audio/video file. Clicking the Pause button again will continue the playing. Rewind Button: Clicking the Rewind button will play the video file in reverse at 1x speed. Clicking the Rewind button again will continue the playing. Fast Forward Button: Clicking the Fast Forward button one time will fast forward your video at 2X speed. Clicking the Fast Forward button two times will fast forward your video at 8X speed. Clicking the button again will continue playing back at normal speed. Note: Fast forward is not enabled when playing a high definition video file.

Pause mode

Clicking the Pause button or OTP button on the WinTV-2000 application starts the Pause mode. The Pause Menu will drop down.
ote: It takes about 15 seconds to start Pause.
Pause buffer: The Pause buffer is space on your hard disk where video is stored during the Pause mode. The maximum amount of time which your TV program can be delayed is dependent upon how much storage space you have set for the Pause buffer and which type of MPEG format you have chosen. The Pause Buffer Size can be set by clicking the Pref button and then the Movies tab (see the section entitled Configuring the format for MPEG compression).
Video Position bar Replay 10 seconds Skip to the beginning Delay counter Skip ahead 10 seconds Skip to the end Skip ahead 10 seconds Pause Play forward slow motion Play Fast Forward 2X, 8X Replay 10 seconds
Record and Playback toolbar Skip back 10 sec. Time counter Skip ahead 10 sec. Skip to End Play Fast Forward

video position

File name

Record

Rewind

File menu (Save / Open)

Click the Stop button to stop your recording. The recorded audio/video
To catch up to the "live" audio/video program, you can either exit the Pause mode by clicking the TV mode button, you can click the Skip button, which skips ahead 10 seconds per click, or you can grab the Video Position indicator and move it to the right until it is at the end of the Video Position bar. The Pause Buffer Size sets the maximum size of the Pause buffer. For example, if you are using DVD Long Play, about 2.4 Gigabytes per hour is used for the Pause buffer. So for a 30 minute buffer, set the Limit Pause Mode Buffer Size to 1200 MBytes. Delay counter: The Delay counter displays how much time you are behind the live video. For example, if the delay counter says 00:01:23, then the video window is showing video 1 minute and 23 seconds behind live video. Pause button: Clicking the Pause button or OTP button causes WinTV to start recording into WinTV's Replay Buffer. It takes about 10 seconds for the Replay Buffer to be initialized and for Pause to become effective. Unclicking the Pause button will cause the audio/video program to start playing from the point where the button was originally pushed. Most WinTV functions are active while in the Pause or Pause Live mode. For example, you can change volume, resize the TV window, go into "no-title mode", etc. While in Pause mode, the Video Position bar shows the amount of the Replay Buffer which is filled with video. For example, if the Video Position indicator shows halfway, it means that half of the Replay Buffer is filled. If you find you cannot Pause as many minutes as you would like, increase the size of the Replay Buffer. While in Pause mode, the A/V stream is always saved in the Replay Buffer. To stop saving the A/V stream in the Replay Buffer, you must exit the Pause mode by clicking the TV mode button.

take a few seconds for the WinTV application to start playing). You might have to move the Video Position indicator to the left and right to find the desired spot to start replaying audio/video. While Replaying, your audio/video program continues to be recorded in the Replay Buffer. Therefore, if you have clicked the Replay button 3 times (so that you are replaying the audio/video seen 30 seconds ago), the video you see in the WinTV window will be 30 seconds behind the "live" audio/video program.
Skip Ahead Button Clicking the Skip button will skip the video ahead 10 seconds. Rewind Button: Clicking the Rewind button while playing video will rewind the recorded video. Clicking the Rewind button again will continue the playing. Fast Forward Button: Clicking the Fast Forward button one time will fast forward your video at 2X speed. Clicking the Fast Forward button two times will fast forward your video at 8X speed. Slow Motion Button: Clicking the Slow Motion button while playing video will play in Slow Motion. Clicking the Slow Motion button again, will continue playing normally.
MPEG2 2.0MBits/sec (Half D1) MPEG2 12.0 MBits/sec (Full D1) MPEG2 12.0 MBits/sec (CBR) DVD Standard Play: 6.4 8.0Mbits/sec 3.25 Gigabytes/hour DVD Long Play: 4.8 6.2Mbits/sec 2.5 Gigabytes/hour DVD Extra Long Play: 3 4.4Mbits/sec 1.8 Gigabytes/hour
.9 Gigabytes/hour 5.2 Gigabytes/hour 5.6 Gigabytes/hour

DVCR File Path

File Name

Quality level

Note: CBR is constant bit rate, VBR is variable bit rate. Which record format should you use? If you would like to burn a DVD, then chose either DVD Standard Play, DVD Long Play or DVD Extra Long Play. DVD formats record at 720x480 (720x576 with PAL video sources) using 48.0 kHz stereo audio. If you want to watch the recorded video on your PC, for the best video quality chose MPEG2 12.0MB/sec or DVD Standard Play. To save disk space, use DVD Extra Long Play. Once chosen, the Quality Level format is set for both the Pause and Record modes. The format cannot be changed while Recording or while in the Pause mode.
shows. WinTV-Scheduler, once it is set, can be closed, and the WinTV application will wake up at the desired time and tuned to the desired channel. After installation, WinTV-Scheduler can be found on your desktop. WinTV-Scheduler works by using the Windows Task Scheduler to launch WinTV at the chosen time. WinTV-Scheduler sets up a command line in Task Scheduler to run WinTV, specifying a TV channel and a length of time to record. To set up an event for timed watching or recording, run WinTVScheduler and click on the Add Program. The items that need to be set for each event are: Time to Begin Program: set to the desired start time. Click on the hour to set the hour, the minute to set the minute. Note: It takes about 15 seconds to launch the WinTV and start recording. Time to End Program: set to the time to end this event. Program Period: one time, daily, weekly Date to Begin Program: today's date is the default. Change this if you want to schedule on another date. Source selection: leave set at WinTV to bring up the WinTV at the requested time and on the requested channel. Channel selection: chose one of your scanned channels. Recording options: click on Record to File to record your show. Leave this button unchecked to watch TV at the requested time. You can also name your file to record, in the dialog box below.

MPEG compression formats for analog TV & record directories
To set the directory where your video recordings will be stored, click the PREF button (Preferences menu) on WinTV, then Movies. Set the DVCR File Path to directory where you would like to store your video recordings. When recording analog cable TV (or video from an external A/V source, the WinTV-HVR supports several formats for MPEG video compression, or Quality Levels. The higher the datarate, the better the video quality you see from live TV and your recordings. But the higher the datarate, the more disk space which will be required. To configure the MPEG Quality Level, on WinTV click the PREF button (Preferences menu), then Movies tab. Here are the video formats and the amount of disk space per hour used: MPEG2 2.0MBits/sec (Full D1).9 Gigabytes/hour

WinTV-Scheduler

WinTV-Scheduler allows you to schedule the recording of TV
Replay button: While in the Pause mode, hitting the Replay button acts like the Instant Replay you see on TV broadcast sporting events: the audio/video goes back in time and you repeat what you have previously seen. Each click of the Replay button causes audio/video to go back 10 seconds. For example, if you want to repeat the audio/video you saw 10 seconds ago, you would click the Replay button once. If you want to see the video you saw one minute ago, you would need to click the Replay button six times. For extended replay times, you might find it more convenient to grab the Video Position indicator control bar and move it to the left. Once you let the control bar go, audio/video starts to play (it might
Once these are set, click Set Program. You can add more Events,
clicking Set Program after each event is set. When you are finished click Close. The WinTV program does not have to be running for the Schedular to work. If WinTV is not running, it takes about 15 seconds to start WinTV and to start the recording of TV.
software should automatically run, and you will see the WinTV Remote icon in the Device Tray. Some remote control buttons TV button: when WinTV is closed, this button starts the WinTV application. Once WinTV is running, this button makes TV go full screen, or back to TV-in-a-window. Red record button: starts recording using the parameters set in the Pref menu. Pause button: if watching live TV, will open the record/play menu box and pause the video. When recording, this button will pause the video but WinTV will continue to record. If playing back video, this button will pause the video playback. Click the Pause button to start playing again. Stop button (square icon): stops the recording or playback. If in Pause mode, will exit pause. Play button: plays the last video recorded. Back/Exit button: will close the record, play or pause menus. 0 - 9 buttons: When in live TV mode, is used to directly enter channel numbers. When playing back a recording, the 1 button will skip to 10%, the 2 button 20%, etc. of the length of the recording. Skip ahead button: holding the skip ahead button advances the video about 5 minutes per 10 seconds the button is depressed. Skip back button: pressing and holding the Skip back button makes the video go back about 5 minutes for every 10 seconds the button is depressed. Go button: brings up the WinTV task list. Allows you to start WinTV, WinTV32 or WinTV-radio. Menu button: brings up the Windows Task list. Use the left and right arrows to change to other Windows tasks. Power button (green): if WinTV is running in Record mode, this button will put WinTV into the TV mode and close the record/playback menu. If WinTV is in TV mode, this button will close the WinTV application. Red button at bottom: closes WinTV Radio and opens WinTV. Green button at bottom: closes WinTV and opens WinTV Radio (on models with radio). Yellow button at bottom: no current function. Blue button at bottom: creates snapshot in live TV, pause, record or playback modes. Checking the function of WinTVs IR Remote

Note: If you need to restart the remote control, run IR32.EXE from the C:\Program Files\WinTV directory. To install the IR Remote receiver: Turn off your computer. Plug the sub-mini jack at the end of the IR Receiver cable into the Remote control (IR) receiver socket of the WinTVHVR. Place the IR Receiver on your desktop so that the infrared light from the IR Remote transmitter can reach the IR Receiver. Turn on your computer. If you have previously installed the WinTV applications, the IR
Back/Exit button Audio mute Volume up/down Record button Play button Fast rewind Skip back Menu Channel up/down Stop button Fast forward Skip ahead Pause button 0-9 Quick Skip buttons
CAUTION: RISK OF EXPLOSION IF BATTERY IS REPLACED BY AN INCORRECT TYPE. DISPOSE OF USED BATTERIES ACCORDING TO THE INSTRUCTIONS ON THE BATTERIES.
WinTVs Remote application, IR.EXE, is loaded every time Windows is booted. You will see a Remote icon in the device tray. To check the remote control operation, point the Remote transmitter at the
Making DVDs from your WinTV-HVR recordings
ote: The WinTV-HVRs ATSC digital TV recordings cannot currently be burnt onto a DVD. This is due to limitations of DVD media which limit recording formats to standard definition.
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 Sempron laptop 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. 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 tweeked 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. Note: Snapshot does not work in Force Primary mode.

does not work on all systems. Note: if you have an nVidea graphics card, you can use VMR7. If this setting does not help, or if you experience WinTV not responding after a channel change, then your graphics system cannot use hardware graphics acceleration. In this case, run Primary. Click Force Primary then rerun WinTV. 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 Black window when selecting an ATSC channel A black window when selecting an ATSC channel means that the WinTV-HVR-1800 is not getting a signal. This is most often due to poor reception. See Only some channels are found during ATSC channel scan above. Uninstalling the WinTV driver and applications Run the hcwclear.exe from the installation CD. Select OK A black screen will briefly appear and once it has disappeared the software will be removed. If you now re-start the computer you will be at Step 4 of the installation. Error code 10 during installation This is caused by a failure to load the WinTV-HVR-1800 drivers. Uninstall the software (as above) and then follow the instructions from page 3. If this still give you an error message, move the WinTVHVR-1800 to a different slot and re-install the drivers again. Error: No common media type between these pins" The WinTV-HVR uses your PCs processor to display the TV image. If the processor is too slow, or if there is something in the system which is taking system resources, you might get this message. Check the VGA acceleration in Device manager. make sure it is set to Full. Also check your VGA resolution. You might need to bring the number of Colors down one notch. Conflicts with Intervideo WinDVD Sometimes we have found that a previously installed version of WinDVD will conflict with the WinTV-HVR-1800. Symptoms include: black screen but you can hear audio, failure to scan for channels,
you cant change MPEG formats without errors, bad audio/video sync, and others. Uninstalling WinDVD will fix this problem. You uninstall WinDVD through the Add/Remove Programs in Control Panel. You will still be able to play DVD movies in MediaPlayer, since the WinTV-HVR installation provides a MediaPlayer compatible DVD player. Problem: Poor Reception or Not detecting all channels: Poor TV reception is generally the result of an weak TV signal. When using a 'roof-top' antenna, an aerial booster may be required if there is poor TV reception. Also, in some areas using cable TV, a format called Cable HRC is used. If so, try rescanning but use CABLE (HRC) instead of cable in the Broadcast/Cable box. How do I configure the Audio for the WinTV-HVR? Your PCs sound card is used to amplify the audio during live TV, FCC Statement

Supplementary Television Broadcasting Receiving Apparatus - Appareils supplmentaires de rception de tlvision, Canada. Important note: The screen of the coaxial cable must be connected to earth (grounded) at the entrance to the building. This should be done in accordance with applicable national electrical installation codes. In the U.S., this is required by Section 820.93 of the National Electrical Code, ANSI/NFPA 70. Radio Interference Statement: The WinTV products have been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class B digital device, pursuant to part 15 of the FCC Rules. These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference in a residential installation. This equipment generates, uses, and can radiate radio frequency energy and cause harmful interference to radio communications. However, there is no guarantee that interference will not occur in a particular installation. If this equipment does cause harmful interference to radio or television reception, which can be determined by turning the equipment off and on, the user is encouraged to try to correct the interference by one or more of the following measures: reorient or relocate the receiving antenna,increase the separation between the equipment and receiver, connect the equipment into an outlet on a circuit different from that to which the receiver is connected, consult the dealer or an experienced radio/TV technician for help. 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.
DVD players which are compatible with CDs and MP3s can also read DVDs burned using standard definition MPEG-2 video files created with the WinTV-HVR. If you plan to burn a DVD with MovieFactory or any other DVD authoring software package, you should use either the DVD Standard Play, the DVD Long Play or DVD Extra Long Play. These standard definition formats will allow you to make DVDs with the following recording lengths: DVD Standard Play: 1 hour 30 minutes on DVD+R/RW disks DVD Long Play: 1hour 50 minutes on DVD+R/RW disks DVD Extra Long Play: 4 hours on DVD+R/RW disks Ulead DVD MovieFactory Start project: Used to author and burn DVDs, SVCDs and VCDs. Create chapter menus, mix videos, JPEGs and music. Edit disk: Edit videos or menus from DVD+RWs. Direct to disk: not currently used. Copy disk: Burn copies of existing disc images to CD/DVD.

Troubleshooting

Installation tips and software updates can be found at : http://www.hauppauge.com/pages/support_hvr1600.html Our FAQ can be found at: http://www.hauppauge.com/pages/support_faq_hvr1600.html Some notes on system compatibility Decoding high definition ATSC TV is very CPU intensive. A graphics
To use hardware graphics acceleration, close WinTV, then run Primary. Click Allow VMR. Close Primary and rerun WinTV. The Allow VMR setting will allow your graphics system to use hardware acceleration for video decode. Note: hardware acceleration
UL 60950-1: In accordance with sub-clause 1.7.2, the installation instructions should note that the cable distribution system should be grounded (earthed) in accordance with ANSI/NFPA 70, the National Electrical Code (NEC), in particular Section 820.93, Grounding of Outer Conductive Shield of a Coaxial Cable. This aligns the instructions with the third dashed paragraph of the new exception. CSA 60950-1: Make sure that the cable system is grounded to provide protection against voltage surges and built up static charges.

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