Hauppauge

Headquartered in Hauppauge, NY, about 40 miles east of New York City, Hauppauge has been bringing TV to the PC since 1992. The Company is the worldwide leader in developing and manufacturing PC based TV tuners, data broadcast receivers and video capture products. Hauppauge's products allow PC users to watch television on their PC screens, videoconf... erence and create both still video images and digital TV recordings. Hauppauge's flagship product, the WinTV, is the leading branded TV tuner card for PCs. Hauppauge Computer Works is a division of Hauppauge Digital Inc. In December of 2008, Hauppauge Digital Inc. acquired the Pinnacle PCTV product line from Avid, and now runs PCTV tuner products as a separate division. The HD PVR family of high definition video recorders includes the Colossus 2 (internal PCIe HD recorder), HD PVR 2 (USB HD recorder), the HD PVR Rocket (a portable HD video recorder) and the HD PVR Raw60 (a USB 3.0 raw capture device). All HD PVR recorders can record from unencrypted HDMI and most have high definition Component Video inputs. Our first WinTV receiver was developed during the Gulf war in 2002, when many of us were glued to CNN, watching events unfold. Our engineers developed a way where analog cable TV could be displayed in a window on a DOS screen, which over time warped into our Windows based WinTV application. In 2006 we developed our first TV recording product, which took analog TV, converted it to a digital format, compressed the video and recorded it to the disk drive inside a PC. This was the predecessor to the current DVR box. The current WinTV family of analog and digital TV tuners is for both PC's and Linux computers. All WinTVs allow users to watch TV on their computer screen, in a window or full screen. The WinTV Extend application allows users to stream live TV via the Internet, both inside and outside of the home. Some WinTV models include features such as picture-in-picture, FM radio, IR remote control and high performance TV recording. Although each model has distinct ...Read More