Watch, record and pause TV in Media Center. With analog and digital TV tuners, FM radio and Media Center remote control
WinTV-HVR-1600 MC-Kit: add TV, FM and remote control to your Vista Media Center system
With Microsoft Media Center and the WinTV-HVR-1600 MC-Kit you can:
Watch analog cable TV and ATSC digital TV with Vista Media Center. Use Media Centers TV scheduler to automatically record your favorite TV shows
Record cable TV to disk WinTV-HVR-1600s built-in MPEG-2 recorder in DVD quality. You typically use 1-2 Gigabytes of hard disk per hour of recorded video
Pause analog and ATSC digital TV, with instant replay, skip, fast forward and rewind
Use the included Media Center remote control to control all of the media functions, such as digital picture slide shows, music playlists, etc.
Use Media Centers IR transmitter to control the channels on your satellite or cable TV set top box
Digital ATSC HD TV features:
ATSC over-the-air digital TV tuner built-in. Supports all ATSC formats, Upto the high definition 1080i format!
Supports Dolby Digital AC3 audio
Record ATSC digital TV to your PC´s hard disk using high quality MPEG-2. TV recordings will typically consume 5 Gb of disk space per hour for ATSC high definition
Digital QAM features: If you are using digital cable which broadcast the local ATSC channels, you can receive these QAM channels with the new WinTV v6 application. QAM is only supported on product codes 74021 and 74041 (found on the tuner label)
Analog TV features:
25 channel cable ready TV tuner built-in. With dbx-TV stereo decoder, for great TV sound
Composite/S-Video and audio inputs, for cable or satellite set top boxes or VCRs
Record TV shows to your PC´s hard disk using the built-in high quality hardware MPEG-2 encoder. While recording, the hardware encoder does all the work so your PC continues to run at full speed!
1-2 Gigabytes of disk is used per hour of recorded video
System Requirements:
2.2GHz P4 or equivalent (minimum) required for displaying ATSC high definition TV
Microsoft Windows XP Home, Pro or Media Center Edition. Also Windows Vista Premium certified
Available PCI slot
Graphics with 64MB memory (or greater)
Sound card
DVD or CD writer for burning Video CD´s, S-VCD´s or DVD´s (optional)