Hauppage WinTV-HVR-2250

The Observer supports the Hauppage WinTV-HVR-2250, which is an 8VSB card. If you are using the HVR 2250, please have your channel connection details and frequencies ready when you call support.

Figure: Hauppauge WinTV-HVR-2250

The WinTV-HVR-2250 is a PCI Express X1 board based on the NXP 7164 bus interface chip. The WinTV-HVR-2250 contains two tuners with a built-in TV splitter. There is one cable TV or TV antenna connector which is split, providing a video source for both tuners. For ATSC and QAM digital TV, all 18 ATSC formats including 1080i can be watched or recorded to disk as a MPEG-2 Program Stream. The NXP 7164 contains two highly integrated MPEG-1/2 hardware encoders for recording analog cable TV to disk. The playback of the recorded ATSC and QAM digital TV and MPEG-2 encoded analog programs are done through a software MPEG-2 player.

The WinTV-HVR-2250 now supports an on-board IR receiver and blaster, which can control up to two external set top boxes.

Connect as per the diagram below.

Figure: Hauppauge WinTV-HVR-2250 Connections