Instruction/ maintenance manual of the product WinTV HVR-1800 Hauppauge
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Installing the WinTV driver and WinTV v7 application Install your WinTV products. T urn on your Windows XP , Vista or Windows 7 based PC, and boot into Windows. For Windows XP installations: After you install your WinTV device and boot Windows, a ' Found New Hardware ' wizard will appear .
A blue screen will open and begin installing the drivers for your WinTV . Once the drivers have installed, a message will appear saying ‘ Drivers have been updated successfully ’. Click on the bar to exit. Y ou do not need to reboot your PC until after Step 2 N ote: the latest driver updates are available at: www .
Digital QAM and Analog TV . Y ou cannot chose both Digital ATSC and Digital QAM. N ote: If you’d like to use the A/V inputs, please see instructions below in External audio/video sources . If your TV source is A TSC digital over-the-air TV Select Digital ATSC and click Next .
list might be both standard and high definition channels. If your TV source is Analog cable TV Select your Country and your TV Source from the drop down list. T o automatically scan for channels, click Next to continue. Click the Scan button and WinTV will automatically scan for analog channels.
lower left corner of WinTV v7). Then click on the Devices tab . Choose your WinTV device by clicking on it, then click Tuner setup . Chose the TV format you want to scan, then click Next . Click Next and a new scan will be started. When the scan is complete, click Next / Next and OK .
most important TV control functions. T o bring up the Options Menu, click your right mouse button once in the TV window . T o see the channel list , click on Find channel .
Recording your TV shows If you want to record a TV show you are watching: - Click the Record button . The recorded file name will popup on the video for a few seconds as the recording starts.
- Click the Pause button. Y our TV video will stop and the Time counter will start counting. - T o start the video from where you paused, click the Play button - T o rewind the video to the beginning, click the Skip to the beginning button . If your video was paused, click the Play button.
Devices tab: allows is where you can re-scan for TV channels and set up the TV sources in WinTV v7. Parental control tab: is where you can set the P arental Control level. Advanced options: you can set options such as Convert TV recordings to .MPG file type and Game mode here.
your mouse button in the TV window to see the Options menu. Click Scheduler . T o set up an event for timed watching or recording, click the Add button . The items that need to be set for each event are: - Name: you can add a name to the recording. If you do not enter a name, the name will be in the channel/date format.
page 11 Ctrl A Aspect ratio Ctrl D Display the video and audio format of the TV program Ctrl F Freeze the video Ctrl Z Open TV Scheduler Ctrl O View program details (digital TV program, where provided.
T roubleshooting Some notes on system compatibility Decoding high definition A TSC TV is very CPU intensive. A graphics card with at least 64MBytes of memory and the latest graphics driver from the manufacturer makes the decoding task easier . T ypically a 2.
does not work on all systems. If this setting does not help, or if you experience WinTV not responding after a channel change, then your graphics system cannot use hardware graphics accel- eration. In this case go back to settings and uncheck “use hardware acceleration” and rerun WinTV .
Uninstalling the WinTV driver and applications Run the hcwclear .exe from the installation CD. Select OK A black screen will briefly appear and once it has disappeared the software will be removed. If you now re-start the computer you will be at Step 4 of the installation.
Play button: plays the last video recorded. Back/Exit button: will close the current menu or exit full screen mode. 0 - 9 buttons: When in “live” TV mode, is used to directly enter channel numbers. When playing back a recording, the “1” button will skip to 10%, the “2” button 20%, etc.
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Configuring the WinTV -HVR-1850 and WinTV -HVR-2250 built -in IR blaster for use with WinTV v7 The IR Configuration Utility is used to configure the W inTV -HVR-2250 and WinTV -HVR-1850’s built-in remote control IR blaster for use with either WinTV v7 or Windows Media Center .
N ote: Y ou will need the remote control from your set top box to com- plete the configuration in this section. N ote: this proceedure is only necessary if you are using WinTV v7. If you are using Windows Media Center , it will configure the IR blaster automatically The WinTV -HVR’s IR blaster function consists of two components: 1.
T o set up the IR Blaster , see the guide IRRemoteBlaster Quick Installation Guide for WinTV v7. Learning remote control codes for your set top box First make sure the WinTV IR trans- mitter is positioned over the remote sensor on your set top box.
the learning by clicking the Send button in the Blaster Configuration program. It will send the numbers 123 to your set top box. Y our set top box should now be on channel 123. Close the Blaster Configuration program and your configuration will be saved.
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