Hauppauge Demonstrates Home Networked WINTV-PVR at Comdex

Hauppauge Digital is demonstrating a distributed home networking application of its WinTV-PVR at the Fall Comdex2000 in Las Vegas this week. WinTV-PVR allows PC users to watch TV in a window on their PC screens, pause and replay live TV, record TV shows to disk and create Video CD's from television programs. The demonstration shows a "home media server" PC using a WinTV-PVR to watch and record selected television shows, while a client PC connected using an Intel AnyPoint 10 Megabit per second Home Network simultaneously watches shows that have been recorded.
Ken Plotkin, Hauppauge Digital's Chief Executive Officer, said "The ability to pause live TV, and to record and burn CD-ROMS from TV which can be played in home DVD players, will create a incredibly compelling new use for PC's. We expect that the WinTV-PVR will start a new category of video products in the home, and will help make the PC a key feature of the home entertainment center."

WinTV-PVR uses a high quality MPEG2 hardware compressor, which can record studio quality video on a PC's hard disk. MPEG2, the same advanced technology used in satellite broadcasts and DVD movies, provides high quality video and audio while minimizing hard disk usage. Since the built-in MPEG compressor does not require the CPU, recording can be done without affecting any other PC application. For example, a PC user can surf the net at full speed while the WinTV-PVR is recording a TV show to disk.

"The WinTV-PVR is the first in a line of digital video recorders which we have had under development for 1 1/2 years. Now, users can record and share their TV shows between networked PCs in their home," asserted Ken Aupperle, Hauppauge's President.

Compatible with Microsoft Windows 98 and WindowsMe, the WinTV-PVR occupies a single PCI slot and also includes an FM stereo radio feature, and a handheld IR remote control. WinTV-PVR is available for $249 from retailers worldwide.

Hauppauge Digital, Inc.
Hauppauge Digital, Inc. is the leading developer and manufacturer of analog and digital video, TV and data broadcast receiver products for personal computers. Through its Hauppauge Computer Works, Inc. subsidiary in the U.S. and its Hauppauge Digital Europe Sarl subsidiary in Europe, the Company designs and manufactures analog and digital video boards for TV-in-a-window, digital video editing and video conferencing. The Company is headquartered in Hauppauge, New York, with sales offices in Germany, London, Paris, The Netherlands, Sweden, Italy, Singapore and California. The Company's Internet web site is www.hauppauge.com.

Source: Hauppauge Digital

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