1.0 out of 5 stars Off and On, more off than on!
"IR Blaster not operational"
I've learned to live with this mantra for two weeks now. I don't believe I'm about to suffer it any longer though. Read more
by James Eniola
5.0 out of 5 stars HD Pvr Reveiw
The Hd Pvr is the best capture card for gaming, with the best of quality. I used to use a Dazzle DVC 100 and you would need at least 3 splitters and extra audio video cables which... Read more
by Funky
4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent but with a nasty surprise
Easy to use, excellent quality, and good value. One problem, I was very disappointing to discover that I need a PC for this thing to work. Read more
by leblackdragon
5.0 out of 5 stars Great for recording PS3 gameplay footage
i bought this product to record gameplay footage off of my PS3 and it works great for that purpose. It's quite easy to set-up and install. Read more
by ,
5.0 out of 5 stars Love it
Simple to use and takes great quality videos. The 1080i not 1080p is quite noticeable, but still looks stunningly awesome. Was rather pricy however. Read more
by Brian
3.0 out of 5 stars Hauppauge PVR
I'm using this device to create a path from my set top box (i.e. satellite/cable DVR) to a HTPC. The project is to be able to record TV to the PC hard drive and make the videos... Read more
by SteveFl
5.0 out of 5 stars Best device of this kind I've used
I have quite a collection of analog-to-digital converters. Some of them stink to high heaven and others, like the Canopus ADVC-110 and 300 are quite good. Read more
by Jerry Saperstein
5.0 out of 5 stars Perfect!
My son uses this to record himself playing Call of Duty, Then he edits it and posts it to his youtube.com page. Read more
by Lori
5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful! Worth the Expense.
I've had the device for several days. It was simple to setup and is very light weight. When it is recording the top edges are illuminated by a blue rectangular LED light-ring. Read more
by ericcvt
5.0 out of 5 stars Happauge
First off I want to say I use this device for recording Xbox 360 gameplay only so I will be relating to that for most of this review. Read more
by Vincent A. Caruso
Hauppauge 1212 HD-PVR High Definition Personal Video Recorder
June posting
ok I would have given this 5 stars but this comes with current problem with it, this has optical in for 5.1DD recording at this time hauppuage can not get this to work so you are stuck with PCM 2.0 or audio from the analog imputs, now to the rest, it records video at 1920x1080 at same or near Blu ray discs, you have a choice of bitrate constant from 1 to 13.5 Kb or on variable all the way up to 20.2, this records in the same codeec (AVCHD) as blu ray and HD DVD discs, it will take any component imput, I have mine through my receiver where my Dishnet PVR HD, PS3, HD DVD and Oppo DVD player runs through, just for test purposes I tried all my devices and what I test recorded from dishnet, blu ray, DVD and HD DVD the test disc looked no different than the original source, once you capture your source you can then edit or add chapters then you get to add a real cheapo menu and then put in what disc you need to burn either a DVD-R or a dual layer DVD Disc, it takes about 10 minutes to author your recording to Blu ray standard and burn on your normal DVD as a true Blu ray playable Disc, beware once you burn your DVD as a blu ray playback DVD you will not be able to read it in your computer again unless you have a Blu ray Rom or Blu Ray Burner, once and if Hauppuage ever gets the 5.1 DD fixed this could be the killer to blu ray Discs, hauppuage claims by next driver release they will include the 5.1 fix. Beware this is Xp service pack 2 or Vista operating system only, also you must have a fast computer to use this device and its programs, I have a dual core 3.4 gig Intel, 2gigs of ram, 2 - 500 sata HDD and had to buy a nvidia 7600 512 meg video card to get this up to speed and at the fastest bitrate 13,500 I cant do anything else on the computer, but this is the problem with Hi def, its power hungry, now I can finally put my hi def movies of all 6 star wars and 3 lord of the rings on DVD for 1080i blu ray playback, you can also convert the finished files over to movie factory 6 to burn on a normal DVD for HD DVD playback also.
August update...
Ok been doing alot of capturing, have made 40 dual layer DVDs for blu ray playback and 10 dual layers for HD DVD playback. the video qua;ity is great if you keep it above 7.8 bitrate, only major drawback is no 5.1DD audio, I am now Beta tesing the 5.1DD audio driver right now, wow this makes a huge difference with the sound. Problems still, wont work with the arch software yet, sync problems, but works with TSmuxer. There seems to be heat related issues with some boxes, mine stays on 7, 10, 15 hours at a time never gets overly warm and never locks up. I have done well over 100 captures with this device. Having an Lg blu ray burner and blanks getting below $8 each, this might be the future for capturing and buring HD content at the PVR's full 13.2 to 20.0 bitrate in the future. If hauppauge can just tweak this 5.1DD driver a bit more I think this will be a great little device.
October update,
I am now a beta tester for hauppauge and I finally got 5.1DD drivers and TME software that works, so now I got a card that finally works capturing movies the way I wanted it to, 5.1DD and can also edit with the software and no more sync issues, burn to dual layers DVD's or $4 blu ray discs.
December Update
Ok Hauppauge support finally has Drivers and software out for general public that makes this device work properly. you can capture 1080i from any component ouput using the 5.1DD and you get a great captured TS or M2TS file ready to burn to a blu ray or dual layer DVD with or without menu. since october I have captured and burned over 50 movies onto disc in 5.1DD and they look great, the ones from the 1080p sources look really great. Now I manually record all my movies, so I do not know how this works with a timer or sageTV.
Feb Posting
some here wanted me to post to let you know of known problems with this and dishnet, I find there is no exact problems per say with the PVR1212 and Dishnet, you should know that sometimes when you use this device with the dishnet you get out of sync problems and digital tears in the picture, most, if no all is the blame of dishnet or most likey the channel the show is broadcast from. Example: I have tried 7-8 times to capture and record Spaceballs from MGM HD channel every time its out of sync and every time its being played out of sync on MGM HD over dishnet before I even capture it. Please keep in mind when using this device, HD content is never perfect and they "big hollywood" does not want you to capture and record their programs. So dont be surprised if "they" are always trying anything to foil you capturing a Hi Def Digital program, be it dish, cable, PS3 or HD-DVD. so far I have captured and burned onto dual layer DVD's 130 movies from all such sources all coming out perfect, be it analog, 2DD or 5.1DD audio. yeah where else can you watch on a disc, star wars, lord of the rings, batman, star trek movies in hi def, way to go hauppauge. :)
