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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 . Please cancel it and allow Windows to load fully [...]
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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 .hauppauge.com in the Support s[...]
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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 . In the A TSC Setup menu , click Next . Y ou will see the Digital A TSC [...]
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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. The scan- ning process takes about 10 minutes. Extern[...]
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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 . Using the WinTV v7 application T o watch TV , click the Watch TV[...]
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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 . Y ou will see the list of channels which have been scanned. T o show the Channel menu as part of the TV window , click the Channel list always on icon at the top of the channel [...]
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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. - When you are finished recording, click the Stop button . - Click the Playback file button and select the last file recorded to play the video you just recor[...]
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- 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. - T o rewind the video 1 minute, click the Skip back 1 minu[...]
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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. Selecting FM radio programs On those WinTV products which support FM rad[...]
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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. - Channel: chose one of your[...]
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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 in the broadcast) Ctrl S Display subtitles Ctrl W Full screen toggle Alt F Open File menu for playback Alt M Open the T ask Menu Alt P Previous chann[...]
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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 2.2 GHz Pentium 4 processor or equivalent with a graphics card having 64MBytes of memory is r[...]
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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 . Only some channels are found during A TSC channel scan If[...]
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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. The Hauppauge Remote Control (optional on some models) The WinTV remote cont[...]
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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. of the length of the recording. Skip ahead button: [...]
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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: the remote control is initially configured for Windows Media Ce[...]
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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. IR Blaster ca[...]
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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. Remember , the WinTV IR transmit - ter has a very short transmission dis- tance and needs to be posit[...]
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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. page 20[...]