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Hauppauge’s new HVR-950 works with Beyond TV

October 16th, 2006 at 6:54 pm by Rakesh

Hauppauge’s latest TV tuner, the HVR-950, is a little USB stick that supports recording over-the-air HDTV. We’re happy to say that we’ve tested it with Beyond TV 4.4 and it works like a charm. So if you have an HVR-950, go ahead and download the 21-day trial of Beyond TV. And if you are new to using your PC for HDTV, check out our HDTV Setup Center.

The HVR-950 is Hauppauge’s first ATSC TV tuner in a very long time and their very first to include BDA drivers (BDA stands for “broadcast driver architecture” and it’s the way you have to write your TV tuner drivers for it to work with Beyond TV or any other PVR software out there). We’re glad to see Hauppauge getting into the game on HDTV tuners!

UPDATE: I had missed it before, but there’s a thread on our forums where people have been discussing their experiences with HVR-950.

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3 Responses to “Hauppauge’s new HVR-950 works with Beyond TV”

  1. Get a Gravatar at gravatar.com Project HTPC » Blog Archive » Hauppauge WinTV-HVR-950 USB HD Tuner Says:
    October 30th, 2006 at 2:39 am

    [...] After reading about this tuner in the Snapstream forums and blog I caved, and picked one up at my local Circuit City. You can never have enough HD tuners! [...]

  2. Get a Gravatar at gravatar.com SnapStream Blog » Blog Archive » New TV tuner cards from Hauppauge: HVR-1600, PVR-USB2 w/ IR Blaster Says:
    January 17th, 2007 at 8:03 pm

    [...] First and foremost (at least for those of us in the United States), Hauppauge announced the HVR-1600 at CES. The HVR-1600 is Hauppauge’s second recent TV tuner card to support over-the-air HDTV. Their first TV tuner card with over-the-air HDTV support was the HVR-950 that they announced in October of 2006 was the HVR-950 (which we wrote about here on the SnapStream blog). [...]

  3. Get a Gravatar at gravatar.com Gis Bun Says:
    July 30th, 2007 at 11:29 am

    While it’s a nice tuner, here is some faults that nobody seemed to notice:
    1) all analog audio will be in mono – not stereo!
    2) if you use ATSC, you better extend that antenae as far as possible – not to be used in an apartment building unless you are on the top floor.

    What really pissed me off is that almost no where on the Hauppauge site mentioned that the device is only in mono for analog connections (i.e. cable). Not in the brochures or the product pages. You had to do a nice search and find it in the FAQ.

    They warn that you shouldn’t use USB 1.1 but not warning about non-stereo audio? Please. They purposely hid it.