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Reddit mentions of Hauppauge WinTV-DCR-2650 Dual Tuner CableCARD Receiver
Sentiment score: 3
Reddit mentions: 7
We found 7 Reddit mentions of Hauppauge WinTV-DCR-2650 Dual Tuner CableCARD Receiver. Here are the top ones.
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- WinTV-DCR-2650 needs a PC to work. Currently, only a PC with Windows Media Center (Windows 7 or 8) is compatible with the WinTV-DCR-2650
- WinTV-DCR-2650 does not have any internal disk storage: it uses your PC for storing recorded TV programs. The nice thing about using your PC for storage is that if you fill up your hard drive with TV programs, you can easily add a new hard drive to your PC
- Watch and record premium cable TV on your PC
- Simple to install via USB
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Specs:
| Height | 8 Inches |
| Length | 3 Inches |
| Number of items | 1 |
| Weight | 1 Pounds |
| Width | 5.75 Inches |
There is one more: Hauppage WinTV-DCR-2650
Yeah, they seriously need to at least offer a CableCard add-on. They have 4-channel ones for about $200 and 2-channel ones for about $100.
Heck, they could just add support for specific USB CableCard tuners and call them "Certified".
if your going to get a non K version CPU, then your not going to overclock and could leave out the CPU cooler...
also, you could get a TV tuner separate from your monitor. I have a dcr-2650 it works with cable cards, and has dual tuners. Having a tuner in the computer instead of the monitor would allow you to record shows/use your computer like a tivo.
I would get a cablecard based tuner so you can watch in HD.
Ceton InfiniTV 6 ETH 6 tuners (network based)
Ceton InfiniTV 4 PCIe 4 tuners
SiliconDust HDHomeRun PRIME 3 tuners (network based)
Hauppauge WinTV DCR-2650 2 tuners
Run one of these with Windows Media Center and you have a traditional DVR style interface that is ease to set up and use. The network based tuners plug into the router and any computer on the network can access them, where as the others plug into a computer and only that computer can access them.
In the States, most all (everything I know of) digital cable is encrypted MPEG2 over QAM256. The set top box tunes and decrypts the MPEG2 stream, and sends the decrypted stream over the firewire port. It maintains any copy protection, so only copy-freely content will be decrypted. On my Comcast cable, everything except HBO and Showtime is copy-freely, so comes out clear on the firewire port.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copy_Control_Information
I have another QAM256 tuner for ClearQAM and over-the-air stuff. Conveniently, Comcast has all the over-the-air channels available in unencrypted-QAM256 (ClearQAM), so I don't need to bother with an antenna.
If everything out of your set top box is copy protected, you should look into an M-Card/CableCard tuner. This will be activated by your cable company and come with DRM software to deal with copy-once restrictions on your PC. (Disclaimer: I'm pretty sure CableCard is a US-only technology, so you may be out of luck. Hopefully this is useful to the next person to read this.)
http://www.silicondust.com/products/hdhomerun/prime/
http://www.amazon.com/Hauppauge-WinTV-DCR-2650-Tuner-Cable/dp/B005FPT38A/
I'm not familiar with any legal solutions to recording digital content from satellite subscription services.
more specifically op needs this. op will also need to get a cablecard from his cable company to use with it.
In my experience, integrated graphics is more than enough for a HTPC. In fact, a GPU may be a bad idea--especially a powerful one--as it draws more power. A HTPC will be running constantly and the less power draw, the better.
In all honesty, most of your money should go into storage, memory, and a quality case (for sound dampening and aesthetics). Also, I didn't know if you wanted to integrate live TV into your setup. For that I recommend either the DCR-2650 Dual CableCard Tuner (if you have a cable company that supplies a CableCard) or the HVR-2250 Dual TV Tuner Capture Card (if you cannot use a CableCard).