Stories about: Hauppauge

Reader Keith wants to squeeze some extra life from his old PlayStation and PlayStation 2 systems, noting that many of his games "don't have comparable versions for PCs." His desktop has a Hauppauge TV tuner card, so he wants to know if he can connect either console and "play these games on my computer."

This article is the first in a series of how-to stories on building a computer. For a video version of part one, click here.

Kurt asked the Answer Line forum about buying a PC for his home theater

I'm a big fan of Microsoft's Windows Media Center, which is built into Vista and Windows 7.

Sony Creative Software, a leading provider of professional video and audio production applications, today announced the availability of Sound Forge Pro 10 digital audio production suite. Sound Forge Pro 10 new features include event-based editing, disc-at-once CD burning, iZotope™ 64-bit SRC™ (sample rate conversion), MBIT+™ dither (bit-depth conversion), musical instrument file processing, and the élastique Pro timestretch/pitch shift plug-in. In addition, Sound Forge Pro 10 software provides exclusive new enhancements, including customizable window layouts, metadata editing, performance optimizations, and interactive tutorials. These new features create a powerful and flexible audio production environment, increasing workflow and efficiency while consistently delivering the pristine audio quality the recording industry has come to expect from Sound Forge software.

New Magic Australia, Australia's leading niche video and multimedia products distributor announced today the availability of the Hauppauge Nova-TD USB2 dual TV Tuner product for the mainstream retail channel. The Hauppauge Nova-TD USB2 is a compact external device which allows viewing of high quality free-to-air content for all Windows Media Centre Edition (MCE) consumers and/or non MCE XP/Vista consumers via the new Hauppauge WinTV7 software.

Your PC already plays music, and your hard drive holds every digital photo you've ever taken. And you probably watch hours of video on Hulu, Veoh, or YouTube.

These days, portable media players are everywhere. Devices such Apple's iPhone manage to pack video and picture playback into common everyday devices, whereas units such as the Creative Zen Vision W offer a more dedicated media playback solution.

The analog Hauppauge WinTV-PVR-USB2 is one of the largest USB tuners we've seen. But big size does have some advantages: there's enough room to clearly label each connector, further simplifying an already simple setup. The inputs you're most likely to fiddle with--composite and S-Video--are on the front of the box. Using a coaxial input, the FM radio tuner can receive radio transmissions over the included antenna.

The DPandA TV-Stick is tiny, measuring less than 10cm in length. It plugs directly into a USB 2.0 port. The bandwidth the USB 2.0 interface provides is enough for HDTV support, and this tuner displays HD channels without any qualms.