User manual HAUPPAUGE WINTV HVR-1150 QUICK START GUIDE

[. . . ] Contact your local cable TV company to see if they support clear QAM digital cable TV. To watch clear QAM digital cable TV, you need to be using Windows Media Center in Windows 7 or Hauppauge's WinTV v7. N Remote control receiver connector: plug in the Hauppauge Remote Control receiver cable (available on some models). If you are using an external audio/video source like a satellite or cable TV set top box . . . then you will need to connect the S-Video input connector or Composite video input connector for video and the Audio input (Line-In) for the sound. [. . . ] After adding a signal booster, see below for instructions on rescanning and the Troubleshooting section for information on choosing an antenna. N Clear QAM Digital Cable TV Clear QAM digital cable TV channels are those TV channels broadcast on a digital cable network which are unencrypted (`free to view'). If you have a cable operator who transmits clear QAM digital TV programs, chose Digital QAM and Next. The resulting channels in the list might be both standard and high definition channels. Install the WinTV applications Click the button labeled Step 2: Install WinTV The setup application will then open and begin automattically installing the WinTV application components. Once complete, click OK then Exit. N ote: the latest driver updates are available at: www. hauppauge. com ote: Windows Media Center requires TV Pack 2008 or Windows 7 to support QAM TV channels. You can also use the Hauppauge WinTV v7 application, or SageTV or BeyondTV for QAM TV reception. N Analog cable TV Select your Country and TV Source from the drop down list. Click the Scan button and WinTV will automatically scan for analog channels. Running WinTV for the first time To run the WinTV v7 application for watching TV, recording videos and playing them back on your PC, double click on the WinTV icon on your Windows desk top. External audio/video sources You can bring video into the WinTV from an external audio/video source such as a cable TV or satellite set top box. You will be presented with the option to add a Composite and an S-Video Input. If you wish to connect a source not normally designed for operation in your country, you can configure the Video Format manually from the drop down list. NTSC is the broadcast format used in North America. Device Setup Wizard When you run WinTV for the first time, the WinTV Device Setup Wizard appears. On some model WinTVs, you have multiple tuners and therefore you can select multiple sources. For the WinTV-HVR-1150, you can chose either ATSC or Digital QAM and Analog TV. You cannot chose both Digital ATSC and Digital QAM. ote: If you'd like to use the A/V inputs, please select External inputs (Composite/S-Video). N ATSC digital over-the-air TV Select Digital ATSC and click Next. In the ATSC Rescanning TV channels If you want to rescan for TV channels, click the Setup menu (the gear button in the lower left corner of WinTV v7). When the scan is complete, click Next / Next and OK. To turn on Closed captions, click on Show Captions. To manually schedule a TV recording, or to see which programs have been scheduled, click on Scheduler. To turn on the Always on Top mode, click on Stay on Top. Using the WinTV v7 application To watch TV, click the Watch TV button. To see the TV Channel list, click your right mouse button in the TV window to display the Options menu. You will see the channel list. Watch, Pause and Record TV WinTV v7 is always recording video to your PC's hard drive while TV is being displayed. In this way, you can immediately skip back and replay the TV program you are watching. Clicking on the Pause button will cause the video to pause, while clicking the Record button will cause the current TV program to be recorded to hard disk. Close WinTV Channel list display always on Program info Settings Playback file Stop Record Skip back 1 minute Skip back 10 seconds Time bar Pause/Play Skip ahead Skip 30 seconds ahead 1 minute Channel name/number Fast channel select numbers TV Channel list Settings button ("gear" button) Program Info Record/Pause/Play controls Channel up/down - Recording your TV shows Volume adjust and mute If you want to record a TV show you are watching: Click the Record button. The recorded file name will popup on the video for a few seconds as the recording starts. [. . . ] The WinTV program does not have to be running for the Schedular to work. If WinTV is not running, it takes about 15 seconds to start WinTV and to start the recording of TV. Black window when selecting an ATSC channel A black window when selecting an ATSC channel means that the WinTV-HVR-850 is not getting a signal. See "Only some channels are found during ATSC channel scan" above. Troubleshooting Uninstalling the WinTV driver and applications N ote: the latest WinTV-HVR-1150 software can be found at http://www. hauppauge. com/site/support/support_hvr1150. html Run the hcwclear. exe from the installation CD. Select OK A black screen will briefly appear and once it has disappeared the software will be removed. [. . . ]