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Hauppauge WinTV-PVR-250 Review

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  1. Bob Hood •  October 25, 2004
    Rating: 0.5/5

    I bought the WinTV-PVR-250 card at Comp-USA, I took it home plugged it in and when I turned on my system the monitor was not recognized by the PC. I took it out and the pc worked fine. I uninstalled winDVD and tried it again, same. I downloaded the drivers for my ATI video card and tried again, same. I returned the card to Comp-USA and they gave me another card. Got the same thing, I called tech support and they suggested all the things I have done. I have an ati video card 9700 series, windows xp, 2GHz intel processor and 1 GB memory. Anybody have the same issues? still not working.

    Rating: 1 :: 0 out of 0 people found this user review helpful.

  2. kevin •  December 8, 2004
    Rating: 1.5/5

    ive had one of these cards for a year now on 3 different pc`s the same problem follows the card `no sound when you change channel` there support is non exsistant on there forum 12 people had the same problem

    Rating: 3 :: 1 out of 1 people found this user review helpful.

  3. John •  December 8, 2004
    Rating: 0.5/5

    Wouldn’t work straight out of the box. At the very start of the driver install I get an instant Stop C2 on Win2k. I downloaded all of the latest drivers from the website, no change. I’m so tired of this kind of shoddy Windows junk. Had to take it back.

    Rating: 1 :: 0 out of 1 people found this user review helpful.

  4. rzradmin •  December 19, 2004
    Rating: 5/5

    pop the cd in the drive and shut down … pop the card in and all is well …

    worked no problem in 12 computers

    amd 2400+ to amd 64 fx 55

    asus a7v8x-x

    512+ mb ram

    xp pro w/ sp1 and sp2, win2k, AND linux with a little work

    use mythtv (windows) or ivtv (linux) which both support more than one of these cards

    i personally use a pvr-250 and a pvr-350 (with fm radio)

    Rating: 10 :: 0 out of 0 people found this user review helpful.

  5. Sammy •  December 24, 2004
    Rating: 4/5

    I bought the card together with other PC parts and assembled them, power on, install windows XP2 and everything was working very well. The only thing that I don’t like is the TV software. It’s slow. When I tried the Intervideo Hometheather software. It works fast, but TV picture starts flickering.

    Rating: 8 :: 0 out of 0 people found this user review helpful.

  6. Outdoorluc •  February 28, 2005
    Rating: 2.5/5

    For me at the biggining I was having it working then not working Windows Media will not work and Xp worked but I found you must have it in the first slot pci but it is to close to tne video card. To much heat but so far so good excelent producted wehn it worked.

    Rating: 5 :: 0 out of 0 people found this user review helpful.

  7. David •  November 7, 2006
    Rating: 0.5/5

    I’ve worked with hardware and software for a couple decades, but this has just been trouble from the start. I tried it first in my Win2000 machine. After installing their software from the cd, win2000 crashed. I had to boot to safe mode and remove the device from the device manager to get it back up. Installed in on a different win2000 machine and had similar problems. Installed it on a winXP machine and it destroyed the OS, I had to reinstall the entire machine. Finally I got it to install on an winXP machine with no errors, but still no video. Have called Hauppauge and the only thing they could tell me was maybe I had a bad card. Well I traded my card and had all the same problems.

    Rating: 1 :: 0 out of 0 people found this user review helpful.

  8. Ray •  March 7, 2008
    Rating: 2.5/5

    I bought a Win-TV USB which I tried to use. The picture quality is excellent but no sound. However, when I recorded a clip and played it back, there was sound. What should I do? I don’t see a line-in option in my sound properties.

    Rating: 5 :: 0 out of 0 people found this user review helpful.

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