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programs depends upon how fast your PC or laptop system is. Other PC activities that consume CPU resources might affect the display of 4. Installing the WinTV driver and application ATSC digital TV. Slow video, jerky video and momentary pausing of video are all results of a CPU which is temporarily being used by other Install your WinTV products. Turn on your Windows XP, Vista or WinTV-HVR-1950 activities. Windows 7 based PC, and boot into Windows. The portable antennas are designed primarily for ATSC digital TV For Windows XP installations: Quick Installation Guide for Windows reception, and will work within 10 miles of an ATSC transmitter (reception might be limited by obstructions such as steel buildings). After you install your WinTV device and boot Windows, a Hauppauge Computer Works, Inc. Telephone: 631-434-1600 For the best ATSC digital TV reception, a roof top ‘High gain’ antenna is 'Found New Hardware' wizard will 91 Cabot Court Fax: 631-434-3198 recommended. In the U.S., a good ATSC digital antenna selector can be appear. Hauppauge, NY 11788 Tech Support: 631-434-3197 found at TitanTV.com under Resources. [email protected] Please cancel it and allow windows to load fully before 1. Included with the WinTV-HVR-1950 3. Installing the WinTV-HVR-1950 proceeding. You might see this message two or three times. • WinTV-HVR-1950 device with ATSC/NTSC/clear QAM receiver, The WinTV-HVR-1950 is a USB device designed for Microsoft® Please click ‘Cancel’ each time 125 channel cable ready TV tuner, FM radio receiver and MPEG- Windows 7, Windows Vista (all versions) and Windows XP SP2. It can you see the New Hardware 2 hardware audio/video compressor for recording analog cable be used with the Hauppauge WinTV application, with Windows Media Wizard. TV to disk Center and other TV tuner applications. For Windows 7: • Remote control Connect the WinTV-HVR-1950 cables transmitter and batteries Insert the WinTV Installation CD-ROM Plug your TV antenna or cable TV cable into the WinTV-HVR-1950’s in your PC’s CD-ROM drive. You will • IR Blaster cable TV Connector. Plug the supplied Radio aerial into the FM radio see an AutoPlay message. • Wall mounted power connector. Note: this may not be necessary if your TV aerial or cable Click Run Setup.exe supply (6 volt) network supplies FM. • 1 meter USB cable Plug one end (the square end) of the supplied USB cable into the For all versions of Windows: • FM radio antenna WinTV-HVR-1950’s USB Cable connector. The WinTV-HVR-1950 is Insert the WinTV Installation CD- compatible with USB 2.0 (high speed USB) only. • WinTV Installation CD- ROM in your PC’s CD-ROM drive. ROM Plug the other end of the USB cable into a USB port on your “Hauppauge WinTV Installation CD-ROM” window will appear on • WinTV-HVR-1950 Quick Installation Guide (this guide) computer. the screen. • IR Remote Blaster Quick Installation Guide The S-Video and Composite video inputs and the L&R audio inputs can be used to bring audio/video from a VCR, DVD player or satellite TV ote: if the CD does not autorun, navigate to the CD and run receiver. the 'Setup.exe' file. 2. What is ATSC and QAM digital TV, and how N Information on the installation of the IR Blaster Cable can be does the WinTV-HVR-1950 work? found in the IR Remote Blaster Quick Installation Guide. Install the WinTV driver Boot your PC. ATSC digital TV is over-the-air digital TV for North America. Click the button ATSC digital TV typically requires an antenna for reception, and is Plug the power supply into WinTV-HVR-1950. labeled Step 1: currently broadcast in 200 cities, with over 1500 TV stations. Note: Install Drivers. ATSC digital TV is NOT digital cable TV or digital satellite TV. To watch Plug the supplied Power Supply into the Power Supply input on WinTV-HVR-1950. The WinTV-HVR-1950 can accept 6V to 12V inputs. A screen will and record satellite TV, you need a satellite receiver box plus the WinTV- open and begin HVR-1950. installing the ATSC digital TV is transmitted in several resolutions, from “standard Remote control S-Video Composite Left &Right drivers for your definition” which is similar to cable TV, up to high definition which has receiver input video input Audio Inputs WinTV. about 16 times the resolution of normal cable TV. In any resolution, Once the ATSC digital TV gives sharper pictures than analog cable TV and near drivers have CD quality sound. installed, click Clear QAM TV channels are digital cable TV channels which on the Finish are broadcast on cable TV “in the clear”. These digital cable TV bar to exit. channels are broadcast in various resolutions, from standard definition up to high definition. Install the WinTV applications IR Blaster USB Cable Power Supply Click the button labeled Step 2: Install WinTV WinTV-HVR-1950 has a built-in tuner for analog cable TV, digital ATSC TV Connector FM radio antenna output Connector input: 6V to 12V for antenna or @1.7A and clear QAM digital cable TV. To receive ATSC, you will need an Cable TV connector The setup application will then open and begin automatically installing antenna. To receive digital clear QAM or analog cable TV, you will need a the WinTV application components. Once complete, click OK then Exit. cable TV connection. Please do not lose your WinTV CD-ROM! You will It uses your PC or laptop’s CPU for displaying both analog and digital TV need to use it each time you upgrade to a new version of programs on your PC screen. The decoding of high definition ATSC is WinTV. very processor intensive, and the smoothness of high definition TV Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 ote: the latest driver updates are available at: If your TV channels on your cable TV or satellite set top box, see the section www.hauppauge.com in the Support section. source is entitled “Configuring the remote control for WinTV v7”. N Analog cable TV Using the WinTV v7 application Select your Country and your To watch TV, click the Watch TV button. 5. Running WinTV for the first time TV Source from the drop down list. To automatically scan Close WinTV To run WinTV v7 for watching TV, recording videos and for channels, click WinTV source selector playing them back on your PC, double click on the Next to continue. Channel list display always on WinTV icon on your Windows desk top. Current channel name Click the Scan and number Fast channel select numbers When you run button and WinTV TV Channel list WinTV for the first will automatically time, the WinTV scan for analog Configuration Device Setup channels. The menu (Settings menu) Record/Pause/Play con- Wizard appears. Program Info trols scanning process Volume adjust and mute Select the TV source takes about 10 Playback file menu Channel that you are using. minutes. up/down Watch TV ote: If External you’d like audio/video Nto use the sources A/V inputs, You can bring video To see the TV Channel list, click your right mouse button in the TV please see into the WinTV from window to display the Options menu. Select Find Channel. You will instructions below in External audio/video sources. an external audio/video source such as a cable TV or satellite set top see the channel list. box. If your TV source is ATSC digital over-the-air TV To display the channel list all the time, while the channel list is In the Device displayed, click the Channel list display always on button. Select Digital ATSC and click Next. In the ATSC Setup menu, click Setup Wizard, Next. You will see select External Options menu the Digital ATSC Inputs and click The Options menu is the main menu where you can select channels, Scan scanning for Next. turn on close captions, open the TV Scheduler and many other of the over-the-air You will be most important TV control functions. channels. The digital presented with the TV scanning To bring up Options menu option to add a click your right mouse button to view process will scan the Options Composite and an from channels 2 to Menu, click Playback menu S-Video Input. 51. As TV channels your right Channel list are found, they will Please select your mouse country (if not button once appear in the TV Scheduler Channel box. correct) and click Next. in the TV window. Close captions When complete, If you wish to connect a source not normally designed for operation in your country, you can configure the Video Format manually from the click Next / Next / OK. To see the drop down list. Change the value from “AUTO”. channel list, Always on top ote: if you do not receive any ATSC digital TV channels, an click on Find ote: Pal BGHIDK is the commonly used format in Europe. antenna signal booster might be needed. After adding a sig- channel. You NTSC is the broadcast format used in North America. Nnal booster, see below for instructions on rescanning and the will see the list of channels which have been scanned. Troubleshooting section for information on choosing an antenna. N To show the Channel menu as part of the TV window, click the Rescanning TV channels Channel list always on icon at the top of the channel list. If your TV source is Clear QAM Digital Cable TV If you want to rescan for TV channels, click the Configuration menu To turn on Close captions, click on Show Captions.