#172
based on 40 reviews
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$79.99
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Product Reviews
[5 of 5 customers found this review helpful]
[9 of 10 customers found this review helpful]
"This tuner works great with cable, it cant decode the digital cable signal but if you connect your coax cable directly from the wall to your tuner bypassing the cable box it decodes all the basic cable contect channel 2 to 80. I highly reccomend that you use it with media center it is more advanced and fluid smooth, and cool as the other side of the pillow. Make sure you manualy set your tv signal that way you h..." Read Full Review »
Jan 14, 2009 by ARR
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"It would not work with the digital cable from verizon that i have, unless you hooked it up to the converter box. The software program that came with it gives a jerky picture. It works better with Windows Media Center, no jerkiness. The updates for it would not install, no matter what i tried to do and the help would never open. The website is not much help either. I would have taken it back, but i had it to long..." Read Full Review »
Dec 30, 2008 by MWG
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[5 of 5 customers found this review helpful]
Hauppauge WinTV-HVR850 USB TV Tuner Review
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"This tuner works great with cable, it cant decode the digital cable signal but if you connect your coax cable directly from the wall to your tuner bypassing the cable box it decodes all the basic cable contect channel 2 to 80. I highly reccomend that you use it with media center it is more advanced …" Read Full Review »
[9 of 10 customers found this review helpful]
Hauppauge WinTV-HVR850 USB TV Tuner Review
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"It would not work with the digital cable from verizon that i have, unless you hooked it up to the converter box. The software program that came with it gives a jerky picture. It works better with Windows Media Center, no jerkiness. The updates for it would not install, no matter what i tried to do a …" Read Full Review »
[3 of 3 customers found this review helpful]
Hauppauge WinTV-HVR850 USB TV Tuner Review
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"This is a great value - I bought it so I could have the ability to watch TV on the laptop if the cable or power went out (especially due to bad weather). I had a fear that during severe weather season we would lose our cable connection and have no way to get the news/weather. This is a cheap way to …" Read Full Review »
[6 of 9 customers found this review helpful]
Hauppauge WinTV-HVR850 USB TV Tuner Review
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"This device works in XP and Vista using the drivers downloaded from Hauppauge. The provided drivers are 32 bit only. Device will not support fast switching from analog to digital and only recieves digital from OTA sources (not from cable). Vista Media Center experience is nill. Video quality is very …" Read Full Review »
[2 of 2 customers found this review helpful]
Hauppauge WinTV-HVR850 USB TV Tuner Review
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"The product says it is Windows Media Center compatible. I use XP-WMC 2005. I followed others' advice to skip the bundled CD and download Hauppauge's latest drivers. The provided (but very crude) WinTV6 player finds and shows pretty much every analog and digital channel my rooftop antenna gets compar …" Read Full Review »
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