Hauppauge WINTV-HVR-1250 - Manual

• WinTV-HVR-1250 board
For the standard WinTV-HVR-1250 products, you will
find:
• WinTV-HVR Windows Installation CD-ROM with
WinTV v7 application with SoftPVR™ and TV Scheduler
• Hauppauge remote control transmitter with 2 AAA
batteries
• Remote control receiver cable
For Windows Media Center kits, you will find:
• Media Center Remote Control transmitter and two
AA batteries
• Media Center Remote control receiver/blaster
• I R transmitter cable (blaster cable)
• USB cable for the Media Center remote control receiv-
er/blaster box
WinTV-HVR-1250 has a built-in tuner for analog cable TV, digital ATSC and digital clear QAM TV. To
receive ATSC, you will need an antenna. To receive digital clear QAM or analog cable TV, you will
need a cable TV connection.
WinTV-HVR uses your PC or laptop’s CPU for displaying 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 or laptop system 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 .
S-Video/Composite: Video input connector. For either S-Video or
composite (composite video requires the S-Video to composite
adapter).
Left/right audio input: Stereo audio input using 1/8” mini
stereo jack, from the audio output of your source.
Connecting the remote control receiver cable
Plug the remote control receiver cable into the
Remote control receiver connector on the WinTV-
HVR-1250.
Position the round receiver sensor (at the end of the remote control
receiver cable) where is can be “seen” by the remote control transmitter.
This is normally at the front of your PC.
PC, double click on the WinTV icon on your Windows desk top.
Device Setup Wizard
When you run WinTV for the first time, the WinTV Device Setup Wizard appears.
Select the TV source that you are using. On some model WinTVs, you have multiple
tuners and therefore you can select multiple
sources. For the WinTV-HVR-1250, you can
chose either ATSC or Digital QAM and Analog TV.
You cannot chose both Digital ATSC and Digital
QAM.
N ote: If you’d like to use the A/V inputs,
please select External inputs
(Composite/S-Video).
ATSC digital over-the-air TV
Select Digital ATSC and click Next . In the
ATSC Setup menu, click Next . You will see the
Digital ATSC Scan scanning for digital over-
the-air channels.
The digital TV scanning process will scan from
channels 2 to 51. As TV channels are found, they
will appear in the Channel box.
When complete, click Next / Next and OK .
N ote: if you do not receive any ATSC digi-
tal TV channels, an antenna signal
booster might be needed. After adding a signal booster, see below for instructions on res-
canning and the Troubleshooting section for information on choosing an antenna.
Clear QAM Digital Cable TV
Clear QAM digital cable TV channels are those TV
channels broadcast on a digital cable network
which are unencrypted (‘free to view’). If you have a
cable operator who transmits clear QAM digital TV
programs, chose Digital QAM and Next.
Encrypted channels are automatically not selected.
The resulting channels in the list might be both
standard and high definition channels.
N ote: Windows Media Center requires TV
Pack 2008 or Windows 7 to support
QAM TV channels. You can also use the
Hauppauge WinTV v7 application, or
SageTV or BeyondTV for QAM TV reception.
Analog cable TV
Select your Country and TV Source from the
drop down list. To automatically scan for channels,
click
Next to continue.
Click the Scan button and WinTV will
automatically scan for analog channels. The
ATSC digital TV is 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 can receive
clear QAM digital cable TV (if you are using WinTV v7 or Windows Media Center with Windows 7 or
TV Pack 2008), but it cannot receive digital satellite TV unless WinTV-HVR-1250 is connected to a
satellite TV set top box.
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.
Clear QAM TV channels are digital cable TV channels which are broadcast “in
the clear”.
These digital cable TV channels are broadcast in various resolutions, from standard
definition up to high definition.
To install, switch off the computer and remove the computer cover. The manufacturer of your PC
supplies instructions on removing the PC cover.
N ote: Your PC could be damaged by electrostatic discharge. Avoid this by
contacting the earthed chassis of your PC, before you open it or touch
the pci card.
• Locate a free PCIe slot. Unscrew and remove the metacover plate which covers the back
of the empty slot.
• Plug the WinTV-HVR-1250 board into the PCIe slot, and screw the WinTV-HVR-1250 metal
cover plate to the PC.
• Replace the computer cover.
TV connector: either cable TV for analog and clear QAM digital or a TV antenna for ATSC TV.
N ote: clear QAM digital cable TV is only
available in some areas and through some
cable TV operators. Contact your local cable TV
company to see if they support clear QAM digi-
tal cable TV. To watch clear QAM digital cable
TV, you need to be using Windows Media
Center TV Pack 2008, Microsoft Windows 7 or
Hauppauge’s WinTV v7.
Remote control receiver connector: to the
Hauppauge Remote Control receiver cable (on some
models).
If you are using an external audio/video
source like a satellite or cable TV set top
box ...
then you will need to connect the S-Video input
connector or Composite video input connector for video and the Audio input (Line-
In) for the sound.
1. Contents of the WinTV-HVR-1250 package
3. Installing the WinTV-HVR-1250 board
4. Connecting the cables
TV Connector
for analog or digital TV
Left/Right
audio input (Line-In)
connector
Remote control receiver
connector
(on some models)
S-Video/Composite
video input connector
Turn on your Windows XP or Vista based PC, and boot into Windows.
N ew: If a 'Found New Hardware' wizard appears, please cancel it and allow windows to
load fully before proceeding.
Insert the WinTV Installation CD-ROM in your PC’s CD-ROM drive.
N ote: if the CD does not autorun, navigate to the CD and run the 'Setup.exe' file.
“Hauppauge WinTV Installation CD” window will appear on the screen.
Install the WinTV driver
Click the button labeled
Step 1: Install drivers .
A blue screen will open and begin installing
the drivers for your WinTV.
Once the drivers have installed, click on the
Finish bar to exit.
Install the WinTV applications
Click the button labeled Step 2: Install
WinTV
The setup application will then open and begin automattically installing the WinTV application
components.
Once complete, click OK then Exit .
N ote: the latest driver updates are available at: www.hauppauge.com
To run the WinTV v7 application for watching TV, recording videos and playing them back on your
6. Running WinTV for the first time
5. Installing the WinTV driver and applications
WinTV-HVR-1250 and
WinTV-HVR-1250 MC-Kits
Quick Installation Guide
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2. What is ATSC digital TV?