Contents of the WinTV-HVR-950 package

WinTV-HVR-950

Quick Installation Guide for Windows XP

and Windows Vista (all versions)

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1.Contents of the WinTV-HVR-950 package

●WinTV-HVR-950 Hybrid NTSC/ATSC stick

●USB extension cable

●Portable TV antenna

●WinTV-HVR-950 Installation CD-ROM

including the WinTV application with SoftPVR™and the

WinTV-Scheduler

2.What is ATSC digital TV, and how does the WinTV-HVR-950 work?

ATSC digital TV is a 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. Note: ATSC digital TV is NOT digital cable TV or digital satellite TV. The WinTV-HVR-950 cannot receive digital cable TV or digital satellite TV.

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.

WinTV-HVR-950 has a built-in analog cable TV and digital ATSC TV tuner. 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 pro- grams 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.

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6. Running WinTV®2000 for the first time

To start the WinTV 2000 application, double click on the WinTV 2000 icon on your desk top. When you run WinTV2000 for the first time, a message says Would you like to scan for channels now? Click YES.

Click the Scan button and WinTV2000 will automatically scan for both analog and ATSC digital TV channels. The scanning process takes about 10 minutes. The scanning process for ATSC will scan from channels 2 to 68.

The ATSC digital channels that are found will appear in the channel listing box. The Name is the name as defined by the broadcaster. The Channel number is created by the WinTV application. For ATSC digital channels, since each primary channel might have several subchannels, the chan- nel number is calculated so that channel 22.2 would be list- ed as 1222. Channel 7.2 would be listed as 1072.

Note: if you have attached an antenna and do not receive any ATSC digital TV channels, either use a stronger anten- na (a roof top antenna is recommended for best reception) or reposition your portable antenna. Then rescan for ATSC channels (see below for instructions on rescanning and the Troubleshooting section for information on choosing an ATSC antenna).

Note: When initially installed, WinTV-HVR-950 uses a set- ting which does not take advantage of graphics accelera- tion. If you experience problems when watching ATSC digi- tal TV channels, see the Troubleshooting section.

Rescanning TV channels

If you want to rescan for TV channels, click Menu / Suite Manager. To scan analog cable TV channels, under Sources, highlight Analog source and click Auto scan.

To scan for digital ATSC channels, under Input Sources, highlight ATSC source and click Auto scan.

During the scan for ATSC digital TV channels, the Signal Status will show a quality level and the locked box will be checked if a channel is detected.

ATSC

source

The supplied portable antenna is designed primarily for ATSC digital TV reception, and will work within 10 miles of an ATSC transmitter (reception might be limited by obstruc- tions such as steel buildings).

For the best ATSC digital TV reception, a roof top ‘Wideband or Highgain’ antenna is recommended. In the U.S., a good ATSC digital antenna selector can be found at TitanTV.com under Resources.

3. Installing the WinTV-HVR-950 device

Turn on your Windows XP PC or laptop, and boot into Windows.

Locate a free USB 2.0 port (normally located at the side or back on the laptop or desktop). Plug the WinTV-HVR-950 stick into the USB 2.0 port. You can use a USB extender cable to locate the WinTV-HVR-950 a short distance from your USB slot.

Note: if you plug the device into a different USB socket, you will need to reinstall the WinTV-HVR-950 driver, but you will not need to reload any WinTV applications.

Note: Due to power and bandwidth requirements, we do not recommend connecting WinTV-HVR into a USB Hub.

Plug an antenna for ATSC digital TV reception, or either cable TV or a TV antenna for analog TV reception, into the TV connector on WinTV-HVR-950. It is recommended to connect to a roof top aerial during the first time installation. This will provide better signal quality then the provided portable antenna.

4. Installing the WinTV-HVR-950 driver

Note: the latest WinTV-HVR-950 software can be found at www.hauppauge.com/pages/support/support_hvr950.html

Note: You may need to disable your antivirus programs during the installation only.

Installing the WinTV-HVR-950 Windows XP driver

Turn on your PC. When it is completely booted, the Found New Hardware Wizard will appear. Insert the Hauppauge Installation CD-ROM into

your CD-ROM drive.

Select No, not at this time.

Click Next.

Select Install software automatically.

Click Next.

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Other changes to channel listings

If you want to add names or fine tune an analog channel, click Menu / Suite Manager / Sources. Choose Analog Source. You will see a list of your analog channels. Click on the desired channel. Click the Tune button to change channel. You can change the Name to the name of the sta- tion. To fine tune an analog channel, unclick AFT and then use the Finetune slide bar. When finished, click Close.

Analog

SourceTune

button

WinTV®2000

Full screen TV

Volume adjust

Channel up

Remove toolbars “no title”

Channel down

Minimise

WinTV

Always on Top

Channel Surf

PREF

Configuration

Last channel recall

Click your right mouse button in the

TV window to remove toolbars.

Setup Menu

Click again to restore toolbars.

Freeze picture

CFG

Configure Snapshot

Current TV channel

Snapshot view:

Click your right mouse

Double click on

button here to see

One Touch Pause

each "thumbnail"

Snapshot

(no function)

Still capture

channel selector

One Touch Record

to see image full

size.Click and hold

your right mouse

button to see

image options.

Changing channels

TV-Mode

Pause TV

(No function)

You can change channels by clicking the Channel Up or Channel Down buttons on the WinTV2000. You can also type a channel number (for example: 27 or 1021) and WinTV2000 will tune to that channel. If the entered channel does not exist, you will see a black window. You can also right click in the Current TV channel box, where you will see a list of channels.

Changing the TV window size

You can change the size of the WinTV window by grabbing any corner and dragging the video window to the desired size.

Displaying TV full screen

When you click the Full screen TV button, TV will appear

Once the driver component is installed, click the Finish but- ton.

Installing the WinTV-HVR-950 Windows Vista driver

After installing the WinTV-HVR-950 in your PC, boot Windows Vista. The Found New Hardware window will appear.

Insert the WinTV-HVR Installation CD-ROMin your PC’s CD-ROM drive.

Click Locate and install driver soft- ware (recom- mended).

Then click Don’t search on-line.

Click Next.

When the driver is installed, click

Close.

5. WinTV Software Installation

In Windows XP: Click Start / Run then type your CD-

ROM drive letter (for example: D:\) and then Setup.exe

In Vista: Click the Start button, then click Computer, (you can find Computer halfway down the right hand col- umn) then locate your CD-ROM drive. You should see the contents of the WinTV Installation CD. Double click on

Setup.

Choose a language, and click Next. Click Install. The Setup program will automatically install all necessary WinTV software.

Once the installation procedure is finished you will see the WinTV2000 Icon on your

Desktop. It is also listed in the Start menu under the Program files and Hauppauge WinTV folder.

The main applications installed are the WinTV2000 application for TV watching and recording, and the WinTV Scheduler for schedul- ing your TV recordings.

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full screen on your PC monitor. When finished watching TV full screen, right click your mouse button.

If you see video with a black box around it, click the Pref button then click TV mode tab. Check the box which says “Allow resolution change”.

“Always-on-Top” mode

With Always on Top, WinTV will always be visible on your Windows desktop on top of any applications. To turn on, click the Always on top button. It will turn green. To turn off, click this button again. A convenient way to use Always- on-Top is to make the TV window in the no-title mode small, and to make the TV window in the title mode larger. Then you can switch very quickly from a small window to a larger one by clicking the right mouse button.

To hide the WinTV toolbar (No-title mode)

Click your right mouse button in the WinTV’s video window for the no-title mode. To restore the toolbars (the title mode), once again click your right mouse button in the video window. You can set the size of the window differently in each mode.

Pref button: Click the Pref button to open the Preferences menu:

View: These are the settings for the On Screen Display of the TV channel and Audio Volume plus con- trols for the Toolbar mode (Title mode), NoToolbar mode (No Title) and Full Screen (TV mode).

Movies: Here is where you configure the video and audio setting for SoftPVRTM. You can set the movie record directory (DVCR Record File Path), the MPEG Quality settings, and the Audio settings.

Snapshot: Set the size of your captured image, and settings for capturing motion or still images. Note: VMR must be the graphics setting to enable snapshot.

Audio: Your audio settings are configured here.

Color: Adjust the color of your TV picture here.

Menu button: Click the Menu button to open the TV setup menu. Here is the main control bar for TV channels, and duplicate controls for other functions:

Suite Manager: Configure the TV tuner (scanning, naming, channel preset,etc) setting up ‘favorite chan- nel lists’)

Configuration: Duplicate configuration menus for colour, audio, MPEG settings, etc.

View: For setting an exact TV window size: 320x240, 640x480 etc.

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