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HAUPPAUGE WINTV PVR-250
Introduction
Hauppauge is THE most recognized of PC TV tuner
products. Their WinTV products were very
successful when they first launched, and still are
until this day. The WinTV-HD was one of the
very first high-definition tuners made for PCs.
And, the Hauppauge WinTV-PVR line was one of the
first solid and stable consumer-level cards to have
hardware encoding on board.
Perhaps the most popular version of the WinTV-PVR
line among hobbyists is the PVR-250:
Average price as of May 2006 using Froogle is
US$150.
The Hauppauge WinTV PVR-250's most distinctive
features are as follows:
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125-channel CATV
tuner
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3.3v PCI card
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S-Vid, composite and
stereo audio inputs
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dbx-TV stereo audio
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Hardware MPEG-2
encoder
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IR remote control
included
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WinTV2000 and WinTV-Scheduler
applications for use in Win2K/XP/Me/98SE
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Widespread support
among popular PVR applications such as Windows
XP MCE, SageTV, BeyondTV, etc.
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Available in NTSC,
and PAL/SECAM models
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