WinTV-HVR-950
Quick Installation Guide for Windows XP
and Windows Vista (all versions)
© Hauppauge Computer Works, Inc. 2006-2007 · QI-WINTV-HVR-950-V1.3A-ENG · 4/27/2007
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1. Contents of the WinTV-HVR-950
package
WinTV-HVR-950 Hybrid
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NTSC/ATSC stick
USB extension cable
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Portable TV antenna
●
WinTV-HVR-950
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Installation CD-ROM
including the WinTV application with SoftPVR™and the
WinTV-Scheduler
2. What is ATSC digital TV, and how does
the WinTV-HVR-950 work?
ATSC digital TV is a over-the-air digital TV for North
America. ATSC digital TV typically requires an antenna for
reception, and is currently broadcast in 200 cities, with over
1500 TV stations. Note: ATSC digital TV is NOT digital
cable TV or digital satellite TV. The WinTV-HVR-950 cannot
receive digital cable TV or digital satellite TV.
ATSC digital TV is transmitted in several resolutions, from
“standard definition” which is similar to cable TV, up to high
definition which has about 16 times the resolution of normal
cable TV. In any resolution, ATSC digital TV gives sharper
pictures than analog cable TV and near CD quality sound.
WinTV-HVR-950 has a built-in analog cable TV and digital
ATSC TV tuner. It uses your PC or laptop’s CPU for displaying
both analog and digital TV programs on your PC screen.
The decoding of high definition ATSC is very processor
intensive, and the smoothness of high definition TV pro-
grams depends upon how fast your PC or laptop system is.
Other PC activities that consume CPU resources might
affect the display of 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 activities.
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6. Running WinTV
®
2000 for the first time
To start the WinTV 2000 application, double click on the
WinTV 2000 icon on your desk top. When you run
WinTV2000 for the first time, a message says Would you
like to scan for channels now? Click YES .
Click the Scan button and WinTV2000 will automatically
scan for both analog and ATSC digital TV channels. The
scanning process takes about 10 minutes. The scanning
process for ATSC will scan from channels 2 to 68.
The ATSC digital channels that are found will appear in the
channel listing box. The Name is the name as defined by
the broadcaster. The Channel number is created by the
WinTV application. For ATSC digital channels, since each
primary channel might have several subchannels, the chan-
nel number is calculated so that channel 22.2 would be list-
ed as 1222. Channel 7.2 would be listed as 1072.
Note: if you have attached an antenna and do not receive
any ATSC digital TV channels, either use a stronger anten-
na (a roof top antenna is recommended for best reception)
or reposition your portable antenna. Then rescan for ATSC
channels (see below for instructions on rescanning and the
Troubleshooting section for information on choosing an
ATSC antenna).
Note: When initially installed, WinTV-HVR-950 uses a set-
ting which does not take advantage of graphics accelera-
tion. If you experience problems when watching ATSC digi-
tal TV channels, see the Troubleshooting section.
Rescanning TV channels
If you want to rescan for TV channels, click Menu / Suite
Manager. To scan analog cable TV channels, under
Sources, highlight Analog source and click Auto scan .
To scan for digital ATSC channels, under Input
Sources, highlight ATSC source and click Auto scan .
During the scan for ATSC digital TV channels, the Signal
Status will show a quality level and the locked box will be
checked if a channel is detected.
ATSC
source
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