Hauppauge WinTV-HVR-1950 Quick Installation Manual

WinTV-HVR-1950
Quick Installation Guide for Windows
Hauppauge Computer Works, Inc. Telephone:
91 Cabot Court Fax:
Hauppauge, NY 11788 Tech Support:
techsupport@hauppauge.com

1. Included with the WinTV-HVR-1950

• WinTV-HVR-1950 device with ATSC/NTSC/clear QAM receiver,
125 channel cable ready TV tuner, FM radio receiver and MPEG-
2 hardware audio/video compressor for recording analog cable
TV to disk
• Remote control
transmitter and batteries
• IR Blaster cable
• Wall mounted power
supply (6 volt)
• 1 meter USB cable
• FM radio antenna
• WinTV Installation CD-
ROM
• WinTV-HVR-1950 Quick Installation Guide (this guide)
• IR Remote Blaster Quick Installation Guide
2. What is ATSC and QAM digital TV, and how
does the WinTV-HVR-1950 work?
ATSC digital TV is 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.
ATSC digital TV is NOT digital cable TV or digital satellite TV. To watch
and record satellite TV, you need a satellite receiver box plus the WinTV-
HVR-1950.
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.
Clear QAM TV channels are digital cable TV channels which
are broadcast on cable TV "in the clear". These digital cable TV
channels are broadcast in various resolutions, from standard definition
up to high definition.
WinTV-HVR-1950 has a built-in tuner for analog cable TV, digital ATSC
and clear QAM digital cable TV. To receive ATSC, you will need an
antenna. To receive digital clear QAM or analog cable TV, you will need a
cable TV connection.
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
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N ote: the latest driver updates are available at:
www.hauppauge.com in the Support section.

5. Running WinTV for the first time

To run WinTV v7 for watching TV, recording videos and
playing them back on your PC, double click on the
WinTV icon on your Windows desk top.
When you run
WinTV for the first
time, the WinTV
Device Setup
Wizard appears.
Select the TV source
that you are using.
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 ATSC digital over-the-air TV
Select Digital ATSC and click Next . In the ATSC Setup menu , click
Next . You will see
Digital ATSC
the
Scan scanning for
over-the-air
channels. The digital
TV scanning
process will scan
from channels 2 to
51. As TV channels
are found, they will
appear in the
Channel box .
When complete,
Next / Next / OK .
click
N ote: if you do not receive any ATSC digital TV channels, an
antenna signal booster might be needed. After adding a sig-
nal booster, see below for instructions on rescanning and the
Troubleshooting section for information on choosing an antenna.
If your TV source is Clear QAM Digital Cable TV
Clear QAM digital cable TV channels are those TV channels broadcast
on a digital cable network which are unencrypted ('free to view'). If you
are using cable TV with clear QAM programs, chose
click Next .
Encrypted channels are automatically not selected and will not appear
in your channel list. The resulting channels in the list might be both
standard and high definition channels.
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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
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.
The portable antennas are designed primarily for ATSC digital TV
reception, and will work within 10 miles of an ATSC transmitter
(reception might be limited by obstructions such as steel buildings).
For the best ATSC digital TV reception, a roof top 'High gain' antenna is
631-434-1600
631-434-3198
recommended. In the U.S., a good ATSC digital antenna selector can be
631-434-3197
found at TitanTV.com under Resources .

3. Installing the WinTV-HVR-1950

The WinTV-HVR-1950 is a USB device designed for Microsoft®
Windows 7, Windows Vista (all versions) and Windows XP SP2. It can
be used with the Hauppauge WinTV application, with Windows Media
Center and other TV tuner applications.
Connect the WinTV-HVR-1950 cables
Plug your TV antenna or cable TV cable into the WinTV-HVR-1950's
TV Connector . Plug the supplied Radio aerial into the FM radio
connector. Note: this may not be necessary if your TV aerial or cable
network supplies FM.
Plug one end (the square end) of the supplied USB cable into the
WinTV-HVR-1950's
compatible with USB 2.0 (high speed USB) only.
Plug the other end of the USB cable into a USB port on your
computer.
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
receiver.
Information on the installation of the IR Blaster Cable can be
found in the IR Remote Blaster Quick Installation Guide .
Boot your PC.
Plug the power supply into WinTV-HVR-1950.
Note:
Plug the supplied Power Supply into the
WinTV-HVR-1950. The WinTV-HVR-1950 can accept 6V to 12V inputs.
Remote control
receiver
TV Connector
for antenna or
Cable TV
If your TV
source is
Analog cable TV
Select your
Country and your
TV Source from the
drop down list. To
automatically scan
for channels, click
Next to continue.
Click the Scan
button and WinTV
will automatically
scan for analog
channels. The
scanning process
takes about 10
minutes.
External
audio/video
sources
You can bring video
into the WinTV from
an external audio/video source such as a cable TV or satellite set top
box.
In the Device
Setup Wizard ,
External
select
Inputs and click
Next .
You will be
presented with the
option to add a
Composite and an
S-Video Input .
Please select your
country (if not
correct) and click
If you wish to connect a source not normally designed for operation in
your country, you can configure the Video Format manually from the
drop down list. Change the value from "AUTO".
N ote: Pal BGHIDK is the commonly used format in Europe.
NTSC is the broadcast format used in North America.

Rescanning TV channels

If you want to rescan for TV channels, click the
( Gear button in the lower left corner of WinTV v7).
Digital QAM and
Then click on the
it, then click Tuner setup . Choose 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 .

IR blaster in WinTV v7

If you would like to use the Hauppauge IR blaster to change the
USB Cable connector . The WinTV-HVR-1950 is
Power Supply input on
S-Video Composite
Left &Right
video input
input Audio Inputs
IR Blaster USB Cable Power Supply
FM radio
Connector
output input: 6V to 12V
antenna
@1.7A
connector
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Next .
Configuration Menu
Devices tab . Chose your WinTV device by clicking on
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4. Installing the WinTV driver and application

Install your WinTV products. Turn 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.
Please cancel it and allow
windows to load fully before
proceeding. You might see this
message two or three times.
Please click 'Cancel' each time
you see the New Hardware
Wizard.
For Windows 7:
Insert the WinTV Installation CD-ROM
in your PC's CD-ROM drive. You will
see an AutoPlay message.
Click Run Setup.exe
For all versions of Windows:
Insert the WinTV Installation CD-
ROM in your PC's CD-ROM drive.
" Hauppauge WinTV Installation CD-ROM " window will appear on
the screen.
N ote: if the CD does not autorun, navigate to the CD and run
the 'Setup.exe' file.
Install the WinTV driver
Click the button
Step 1:
labeled
Install Drivers .
A screen will
open and begin
installing the
drivers for your
WinTV.
Once the
drivers have
installed, click
on the Finish
bar to exit.
Install the WinTV applications
Step 2: Install WinTV
Click the button labeled
The setup application will then open and begin automatically installing
the WinTV application components. Once complete, click
Please do not lose your WinTV CD-ROM! You will
need to use it each time you upgrade to a new version of
WinTV.
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channels on your cable TV or satellite set top box, see the section
entitled "Configuring the remote control for WinTV v7".

Using the WinTV v7 application

To watch TV , click the Watch TV button.
Close WinTV
WinTV source selector
Channel list display always on
Current channel name
and number
Fast channel select
numbers
TV Channel list
Configuration
menu
(Settings menu) Record/Pause/Play con-
Program Info
trols
Playback file
menu
Watch TV
To see the TV Channel list , click your right mouse button in the TV
window to display the Options menu . Select Find Channel . You will
see the channel list.
To display the channel list all the time , while the channel list is
Channel list display always on button.
displayed, click the
Options menu
Options menu is the main menu where you can select channels,
The
turn on close captions, open the TV Scheduler and many other of the
most important TV control functions.
To bring up
the Options
Menu , click
your right
mouse
button once
in the TV
window.
To see the
channel list,
click on Find
channel . You
will see the list of channels which have been scanned.
To show the Channel menu as part of the TV window, click the
Channel list always on icon at the top of the channel list.
To turn on Close captions , click on Show Captions .
To manually schedule a TV recording , or to see which programs
Scheduler .
have been scheduled, click on
To turn on the Always on Top mode , click on Stay on Top .

Watch, Pause and Record TV

WinTV v7 is always recording video to your PC's hard drive while TV is
being displayed. In this way, you can immediately skip back and replay
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OK then Exit .
Volume adjust
and mute
Channel
up/down
Options menu
click your right mouse button to view
Playback menu
Channel list
Tv Scheduler
Close captions
Always on top