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[[Image:Hauppauge.jpg|thumb|250px|right|Hauppauge WinTV GO TV Analog [[TV tuner card]]]]
[[File:TV-Adapter WinTV USB Hauppauge.jpg|thumb|WinTV USB, TV Analog]]
'''Hauppauge Computer Works''' ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|h|ɔː|p|ɒ|ɡ}} {{Respell|HAWP|og}}) is a [[United States|US]] manufacturer and marketer of electronic [[video]] hardware for [[personal computer]]s. Although it is most widely known for its WinTV line of [[TV tuner card]]s for [[IBM PC compatible|PC]]s, Hauppauge also produces [[personal video recorder]]s, digital video editors, digital media players, [[hybrid video recorder]]s and digital television products for both Windows and Mac. The company is named after the hamlet of [[Hauppauge, New York]], in which it is based.

In addition to its headquarters in New York, Hauppauge also has sales and technical support offices in [[France]], [[Germany]], the [[Netherlands]], [[Sweden]], [[Italy]], [[Poland]], [[Australia]], [[Japan]], [[Singapore]], [[Indonesia]], [[Taiwan]], [[Spain]] and the [[United Kingdom|UK]].

==Company history==
Hauppauge was co-founded by [[Kenneth Plotkin]] and [[Kenneth Aupperle]], and became incorporated in 1982.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Public Inquiry search |url=https://apps.dos.ny.gov/publicInquiry/#search |access-date=December 9, 2024 |website=NYS Department of State Corporation and Business Entity Database}}</ref>

Starting in 1983, the company followed [[Microway]], the company that a year earlier provided the software needed by scientists and engineers to modify the [[IBM Personal Computer|IBM PC]] [[Fortran]] compiler so that it could transparently employ [[Intel 8087]] coprocessors. The 80-bit Intel 8087 math coprocessor ran a factor of 50 faster than the 8/16-bit [[Intel 8088|8088]] CPU that the IBM PC software came with. However, in 1982, the speed-up in floating-point-intensive applications was only a factor of 10 as the initial software developed by Microway and Hauppauge continued to call floating point libraries to do computations instead of placing inline x87 instructions inline with the 8088's instructions that allowed the 8088 to drive the 8087 directly. By 1984, inline compilers made their way into the market providing increased speed ups. Hauppauge provided similar software products in competition with Microway that they bundled with math coprocessors and remained in the Intel math coprocessor business until 1993 when the Intel [[Pentium (original)|Pentium]] came out with a built-in math coprocessor. However, like other companies that entered the math coprocessor business, Hauppauge produced other products that contributed to a field that is today called HPC - [[Supercomputer|high-performance computing]].

The math coprocessor business rapidly expanded starting in 1984 with software products that accelerated applications like [[Lotus 1-2-3]]. At the same time the advent of the 80286 based [[IBM Personal Computer/AT|IBM PC/AT]] with its [[Intel 80287|80287]] math coprocessor provided new opportunities for companies that had grown up selling 8087s and supporting software. This included products like Hauppauge's 287 Fast/5, a product that took advantage of the 80287's design that used an asynchronous clock to drive its FPU at 5&nbsp;MHz instead of the 4&nbsp;MHz clocking provided by [[IBM]], making it possible for the 80287s that came with the AT to be overclocked to 12&nbsp;MHz.

By 1987, math coprocessors had become [[Intel]]'s most profitable product line bringing in competition from vendors like [[Cyrix]] whose first product was a math coprocessor faster than the new [[Intel 80387]], but whose speed was stalled by the [[i386|80386]] that acted as a governor. This is when Andy Grove decided it was time for Intel to recapture its channel to market opening up a division to compete with its math coprocessor customers that by this time included 47th Street Camera. The new Intel division, PCEO (the PC Enhancement Operation) came out with a product called "Genuine Intel Math Coprocessors". After playing around in the accelerator board business PCEO would settle down in the 80386 [[motherboard]] business originally selling a motherboard designed by one of its engineers as a home project that eventually ended up with a new division that today sells 40% of the motherboards used in high end PCs that find their way into products including Supercomputers, medical products, etc.

Companies like Hauppauge and Microway that were impacted by their new competitor that made their living accelerating floating point applications being run on PCs followed suit by venturing into the [[Intel i860]] vector coprocessor business: Hauppauge came out with an Intel 80486 motherboard that included an Intel i860 [[vector processor]] while Microway came out with add-in cards that had between one or more i860s. These products along with [[transputer]]-based add-in cards would eventually lead into what became known as HPC (high performance computing). HPC was actually initiated in 1986 by an English company, [[Inmos]], that designed a CPU competitive with an Intel 80386/387 that also included four twisted pair high-speed interconnects that could communicate with other transputers and be linked to a PC motherboard making it possible to create distributed memory processing computers that could employ 32 processors with the same throughput as 32 Intel 386/387s operating in a single PC. The add-in card parallel processing business morphed from the transputer to the Intel i860 around 1989 when Inmos was purchased by [[STMicroelectronics]] that cut R&D funding eventually forcing companies that had entered the parallel processing business to shift to the Intel i860. The i860 was a vector processor with graphics extensions that could initially provide 50 megaflops of throughput in an era when an 80486 with an [[Intel 80487]] peaked at half a megaflop and would eventually top out at 100 Megaflops making it as fast as 100 [[Inmos T414]] transputers. Intel i860 add-in cards made it possible for as many as 20 Intel i860s to run in parallel and could be programmed using a software library similar to today's MPI libraries which today support distributed memory parallel processing in which servers sitting in 1U rack mount chassis that are essentially PCs provide the horsepower behind the majority of the world's supercomputers. This same approach could be employed using Hauppauge's motherboards connected by [[Gigabit Ethernet]], something that was however first demonstrated using a wall of [[IBM RS/6000]] PCs at the 1991 Supercomputing Conference. IBM's lead was quickly followed by academic users who realized they could do the same thing with much less expensive hardware by adapting their x86 PCs to run in parallel at first using a software library adapted from similar transputer libraries called PVM ([[Parallel Virtual Machine|parallel virtual machines]]) that would eventually morph into today's MPI. Products like the Intel i860 vector processor that could be employed both as a vector and graphics processor were end of life'd around 1993 at the same time that Intel introduced the Intel Pentium P5: a [[Complex instruction set computer|CISC]] processor that used CISC instructions that were pipelined into hard coded lower level [[Reduced instruction set computer|RISC]] like primitives that provided the Pentium with a Superscalar architecture that also could execute the x87 FPU instruction set using a built in FPU that was essentially implemented using the scalar instructions of the i860 as well as a memory bus that provided a 400 MB/sec interface to memory that was borrowed from the i860 as well. This high speed bus played a crucial role  in speeding up the most common floating point intensive applications that at this point in time used Gauss Elimination to solve simultaneous [[linear equation]]s buy which today are solved using blocking and LU decomposition. The Intel Pentium, while good, did not provide enough floating point performance to compete with a 300&nbsp;MHz [[DEC Alpha]] [[Alpha 21164|21164]] that provided 600 Megaflops in 1995. At the same point in time, Intel supercomputing had moved from the 50&nbsp;MHz Intel i860XP that was six times slower than the Alpha 21164 to the special version of their Pentium that at 200 megaflops was only three times slower than the 21164. However, the impending speed upgrade of the Alpha to 600&nbsp;MHz ultimately doomed the future of Intel supercomputing.{{citation needed|date=September 2021}}

===Motherboards===
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During the late 1980s and early 1990s, Hauppauge produced motherboards for Intel 486 processors. A number of these motherboards were standard [[Industry Standard Architecture|ISA]] built to fairly competitive price points. Some, however, were workstation and server-oriented, including [[Extended Industry Standard Architecture|EISA]] support, optional [[cache memory]] modules, and support for the [[Weitek]] 4167 FPU.

Hauppauge also sold a unique motherboard, the Hauppauge 4860. This was the only standard [[IBM Personal Computer/AT|PC/AT]] motherboard ever made with both an [[Intel 80486]] and an [[Intel i860]] processor (optional). While both required the 80486, the i860 could either run an independent lightweight operating system or serve as a more conventional co-processor.

Hauppauge no longer produces motherboards, focusing instead on the TV card market.
==Product lines==

===Digital Terrestrial/Satellite===
Hauppauge [[Digital terrestrial television|digital terrestrial]] and [[satellite television|satellite]] products capture [[DVB-T]] and [[DVB-S]] broadcasts respectively without the need to re-encode the streams. There are several benefits from this approach:
* the cost of the [[TV tuner card|TV card]] can be lower because there is no need to supply an [[MPEG-2]] encoder
* the quality of captures can be higher because there is no need to re-encode streams
* ratio of file size to quality is higher due to the broadcasters' high-efficiency encoders
Until August 2004 all of Hauppauge's DVB products were badge-engineered TechnoTrend products. The first of the new Hauppauge-designed cards was the Nova-t PCI 90002 and the silent replacement of the TechnoTrend model caused confusion and anger among Hauppauge's customers who found that the new card didn't support TechnoTrend's proprietary interfaces. This rendered any existing third-party software unusable with the new cards. The new cards also came with a software packaged called WinTV2000 which lacked features that TechnoTrend's software had including seven-day [[Electronic program guide|EPG]], Digital [[Teletext]] and LCN-based channel ordering. The new cards supported Microsoft's BDA standard but at the time this was at its infancy and very few 3rd party applications included support for it.

By 2005, all of the TechnoTrend products had been removed from the Hauppauge lineup, with the exception of the DEC2000-t and DEC3000-s which haven't seen a replacement.

===Hybrid Video Recorders===
The Hybrid Video Recorder (HVR) range capture a combination of different broadcast types. The majority of Hauppauge HVR models capture analogue [[PAL]] and DVB-T but there have been some more recent models which capture analogue [[NTSC]] and [[ATSC]] as well as a tri-mode card which supports analogue PAL, DVB-S and DVB-T.

HVR-9xx devices are bus-powered USB 2.0 sticks, not much larger than a [[USB]] flash drive. They have support for analogue and digital terrestrial TV. The HVR-9xx sticks are produced in [[Taiwan]] by [[Deltron (company)|Deltron]], and are also sold for [[Apple Inc.|Apple]] computers by [[Elgato]] under the EyeTV brand.

HVR-1xxx devices are PCI-based products that receive analogue and digital terrestrial TV. They are similar to the HVR-9xx but have support for NICAM or dbx Stereo for analogue terrestrial on all models.

HVR-3xxx and 4xxx devices are tri-mode and quad-mode devices respectively. Tri-mode means support for analogue terrestrial/[[cable television|cable]], digital terrestrial and DVB-S digital satellite. Quad-mode devices additionally support [[DVB-S2]] HD digital satellite.  The HVR-4000 marks a change in bundled applications in that instead of using Hauppauge's WinTV2000 package, it ships with Cyberlink PowerCinema.

===Personal Video Recorders===
The Personal Video Recorder (PVR) range uses an on-board MPEG/MPEG-2 encoder to compress the incoming analogue TV signals.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Mielewczik |first=Michael |title=Bewährtes und Neues. Analoge TV-Karten unter Linux einsetzen. |journal=Linux Intern |volume=3/2003 |pages=36–38}}</ref>  The benefits of using a hardware encoder include lower CPU usage when encoding live TV.

The first WinTV-PVR product was the WinTV PVR-PCI, launched in late 2000 and not receiving any driver updates since February 2002.  It was joined by the WinTV PVR-USB, which has two variants.  The first variant supported MPEG-2 streams up to 6&nbsp;[[megabit|Mbit]]/s and supported Half-D1 resolutions (320&nbsp;×&nbsp;480).  This was replaced by an updated model supporting up to 12&nbsp;Mbit/s streams and Full-D1 resolution (720&nbsp;×&nbsp;480).

The first WinTV-PVR to gain popularity was the PVR-250.  The original version of the PVR-250 was a variant of the Sag Harbor (PVR-350) which used the ivac15 chipset. Although the chipset was able to do hardware decoding the video out components were not included on the card.  In later versions of the PVR-250 the ivac15 was replaced with the ivac16 to reduce cost and to relieve heat issues.  The PVR-250 and PVR-350 were joined by the USB 2.0 PVR-USB2 to complete their generation of devices.

Their successors, the PVR-150 and PVR-500, were released alongside the PVR-250/350/USB2 and while popular with both OEMs and the general public, there have been numerous driver issues as well as video quality complaints. The PVR-500 was released as a Media Center card and wasn't supplied with Hauppauge's WinTV2000 software.  It was effectively two PVR-150s on a single board, connected via a PCI-PCI bridge chip. The PVR-USB2 was silently replaced with the PVR-USB2+ which is identical both visually and terms of features, but uses a Conexant chipset rather than the Philips chipset in the old model.

From its name and time of release, the PVR-160 appears to be newer than the PVR-150 but it is not.  The PVR-160 is a repackaging of the WinTV Roslyn. The Roslyn is based on the [[Conexant]] Blackbird design and uses the CX2388x video decoder. This board was originally available only to OEMs and third-party software vendors such as Frey Technologies ([[SageTV]]) and Snapstream (BeyondTV). The board was sold under many names including the PVR-250BTV (Snapstream). This card is known to have color and brightness issues that can be corrected somewhat using registry hacks. Hauppauge received a large surplus amount of these cards from OEM and third-party vendors. The cards were repackaged with an MCE remote and receiver and rebranded the PVR-160. The PVR-160 was often mistakenly referred to as the PVR-250MCE but is not related to the PVR-250.

===High-Definition Personal Video Recorder===
In May 2008, Hauppauge released the HD-PVR, a [[USB 2.0]] device with an on-board [[H.264]] hardware encoder for recording from high-definition sources through component inputs. It is the world's first USB device that can capture in [[High-definition video|high definition]]. The HD-PVR has proved to be a very popular device, and Hauppauge has been updating its [[device driver|drivers]] and software continually since its release.{{Citation needed|date=May 2024}} In addition to being able to capture from any component video source in [[480p]], [[720p]], or [[1080i]], the HD-PVR comes with an IR blaster that communicates with your cable or satellite [[set-top box]] for automated program recordings and channel-changing capabilities. In 2012, Hauppauge released the HD-PVR Gaming Edition 2, which features a much smaller design than its predecessor along with [[1080p]] [[HDMI]] support. The PVR is not officially supported on [[Macintosh]] systems, but a variety of third-party programs exist that allow it to function on OS X, including EyeTV by [[Elgato]] and HDPVRCapture. In 2013, Hauppauge released an upgrade for the existing HD-PVR 2 with the HD-PVR 2 Gaming Edition Plus, which supports Macintosh systems.

===WinTV Analogue===
The standard analogue range of products use software encoding for recording analogue TV. The more recent Hauppauge cards use SoftPVR, which allows MPEG and MPEG-2 encoding in software provided that a sufficiently fast CPU is installed in the system.

===MediaMVP===
The [[Hauppauge Media MVP|MediaMVP]] is a [[thin client]] device that displays music, video and pictures (hence "MVP") on a television. It is based on an IBM [[PowerPC]] RISC processor specialized for multimedia decoding. The operating system is a form of Linux, and everything (including the menus) is served to the device via Ethernet or, on newer devices, 802.11g [[wireless LAN]] from the server PC.

Various [[open source software]] products can use the device as a front-end.  An example is [[MVPMC]], which allows the MediaMVP to be used as a front-end for [[MythTV]] or [[ReplayTV]].

===Table of products===
{| class="wikitable"
!Type
!Model
!Tuner
!Host interface
!Analog
!Digital
!Other
!IR
|----
|rowspan="13"|Digital Terrestrial
|'''DEC2000-t'''
|Philips
|USB 1.x
TMX320AV7111
| {{no}}
| {{yes|DVB-T (TDA10045)}}
|
| {{yes}}
|----
|'''DEC2540-t'''
|Philips
|USB 1.x
TMX320AV7111
| {{no}}
| {{yes|DVB-T (TDA10045)}}
|
| {{yes}}
|----
|'''Nova-t PCI'''
|Grundig
|PCI
SAA7134
| {{no}}
| {{yes|DVB-T (LSI L64781)}}
|
| {{no}}
|----
|'''Nova-t PCI'''
|Philips
|PCI
SAA7134
| {{no}}
| {{yes|DVB-T (TDA10045)}}
|
| {{yes}}
|----
|'''Nova-t PCI (90002)'''
|Thomson DTT7592
|PCI
CX2388x
| {{no}}
| {{yes|DVB-T (CX22702)}}
|
| {{yes}}
|----
|'''Nova-t PCI (90003)'''
|Thomson DTT75105
|PCI
CX2388x
| {{no}}
| {{yes|DVB-T (CX22702)}}
|
| {{yes}}
|----
|'''Nova-t USB'''
|Philips
|USB 1.x
| {{no}}
| {{yes|DVB-T (CX22702)}}
|
| {{no}}
|----
|'''Nova-t USB2'''
|Panasonic ENV57H
|USB 2.0
Cypress FX2
| {{no}}
| {{yes|DVB-T (DIB3000-P)}}
|
| {{yes}}
|----
|'''Nova-t Stick (70001)'''
|Microtune MT2060
|USB 2.0
| {{no}}
| {{yes|DVB-T (DIB7000-M)}}
|
| {{optional}}
|----
|'''Nova-t Stick (70009)'''
|Microtune MT2060
|USB 2.0
| {{no}}
| {{yes|DVB-T (DIB7700-P)}}
|
| {{optional}}
|----
|'''Nova-TD-Stick'''
|2× MicroTune MT2266
|USB 2.0
| {{no}}
| {{yes|DVB-T (DIB7700-P)}}
|
| {{optional}}
|----
|'''Nova-t 500'''
|2× Microtune MT2060
|PCI
VT6212L
| {{no}}
| {{yes|2× DVB-T (DIB3000-P)}}
|
| {{yes}}
|----
|'''Nova-TD 500'''
|2× Microtune ????
|PCI
DiB0710
| {{no}}
| {{yes|2× DVB-T (DIB7070-P) ??}}
|
| {{yes}}
|----
|rowspan="7"|Digital Satellite
|'''DEC3000-s'''
|Unknown
|USB 1.x
TMX320AV7111
| {{no}}
| {{yes|DVB-S}}
|
| {{yes}}
|----
|'''Nexus-s v2.3'''
|Alps BSBE1-502A
|PCI SAA7146
TMX320AV7111
| {{no}}
| {{yes|DVB-S (STV0299)}}
| S-video out
| {{yes}}
|----
|'''Nova-s PCI'''
|Alps BSBE1-502A
|PCI
SAA7146
| {{no}}
| {{yes|DVB-S (STV0299)}}
|
| {{no}}
|----
|'''Nova-s SE PCI'''
|Unknown
|PCI
SAA7146
| {{no}}
| {{yes|DVB-S (TDA8260)}}
|
| {{no}}
|----
|'''Nova-s USB'''
|Unknown
|USB 1.x
| {{no}}
| {{yes|DVB-S}}
|
| {{no}}
|----
|'''Nova-SE2'''
|Unknown
|PCI
CX2388x
| {{no}}
| {{yes|DVB-S (CX24123)}}
|
| {{yes}}
|----
|'''Nova-S-Plus'''
|Unknown
|PCI
CX2388x
| {{no}}
| {{yes|DVB-S (CX24123)}}
|Composite in
S-video in
| {{yes}}
|----
|rowspan="13"| Hybrid Video Recorder
|'''HVR-900'''
|[[Xceive XC3028]]
|USB 2.0
EM2881
| {{yes|1× TVP5150A
SoftPVR}}
| {{yes|DVB-T (ZL10353)}}
|Composite in (opt)
S-video in (opt)
| {{optional}}
|----
|'''HVR-900 (Rev B2 & C2)'''
|[[Xceive XC3028]]
|USB 2.0
EM2883
| {{yes|1× TVP5150A
SoftPVR}}
| {{yes|DVB-T (DRX3975D)}}
|Composite in (opt)
S-video in (opt)
| {{optional}}
|----
|'''HVR-930'''
|[[Xceive XC3028]]
|USB 2.0
EM2881
| {{yes|1× TVP5150A
SoftPVR}}
| {{yes|DVB-T (ZL10353)}}
|Composite in (opt)
S-video in (opt)
| {{optional}}
|----
|'''HVR-930 (Rev B2)'''
|[[Xceive XC3028]]
|USB 2.0
EM2883
| {{yes|1× TVP5150A
SoftPVR}}
| {{yes|DVB-T (DRX3975D)}}
|Composite in (opt)
S-video in (opt)
| {{optional}}
|----
|'''HVR-950'''
|[[Xceive XC3028]]
|USB 2.0
| {{yes|1× TVP5150A
SoftPVR}}
| {{yes|ATSC}}
|Composite in (opt)
S-video in (opt)
| {{optional}}
|----
|'''HVR-1100'''
|Philips FMD1216ME
|PCI
CX2388x
| {{yes|1× CX2388x
SoftPVR}}
| {{yes|DVB-T (CX22702)}}
|Composite in
S-video in
FM radio
| {{yes}}
|----
|'''HVR-1110'''
|Philips 8275A
|PCI
SAA7134
| {{yes|1× SAA7131
SoftPVR}}
| {{yes|DVB-T (TDA10046a)}}
|Composite in
S-video in
FM radio
| {{yes}}
|----
|'''HVR-1300'''
|Philips FMD1216ME
|PCI
CX2388x
| {{yes|1× CX2388x
1× CX23416}}
| {{yes|DVB-T (CX22702)}}
|Composite in
S-video in
FM radio
| {{yes}}
|----
|'''HVR-1600'''
|Analog TCL Series
|PCI
CX2388x
| {{yes|1× CX2388x
1× CX23418}}
| {{yes|ATSC (CX24227)}}
|Composite in
S-video in
FM radio
| {{yes}}
|----
|'''HVR-1800'''
|Analog TCL Series
|PCI-e
| {{yes}}
| {{yes|ATSC / Clear QAM }}
|Composite in
S-video in
FM radio
| {{yes}}
|----
|'''HVR-2200'''
|2× Philips TDAxxxx
|PCIe
SAA7164
| {{yes}}
| {{yes|DVB-T (2× TDA10048HN)}}
|Composite in
S-video in
FM radio
| {{yes}}
|----
|'''HVR-3000'''
|Philips FMD1216ME
|PCI
CX2388x
| {{yes|1× CX2388x
SoftPVR}}
| {{yes|DVB-T (CX22702)
DVB-S (CX24123)}}
|Composite in
S-video in
FM radio
| {{yes}}
|----
|'''HVR-4000'''
|Philips FMD1216ME
|PCI CX2388x
| {{yes|1× CX2388x
SoftPVR}}
| {{yes|DVB-T (CX22702)
DVB-S2 (CX24116)}}
|Composite in
S-video in<br />
FM radio
| {{yes}}
|----
|rowspan="10"| Personal Video Recorder
|'''PVR PCI'''
|Various
|PCI
Fusion 878A
| {{yes|1× Altera flex EPF6016 ATC144-3
1× Vision Tech Kfir}}
| {{no}}
|
|
|----
|'''PVR USB'''
|Various
|USB 1.x
| {{yes|1× SAA7113H
1× iTVC12}}
| {{no}}
|
|
|----
|'''PVR-150'''
|Various
|PCI
CX2584x
| {{yes|1× CX2584x
1× CX23416}}
| {{no}}
|Composite in
S-video in
| {{yes}}
|----
|'''PVR-160'''
|Various
|PCI
CX2388x
| {{yes|1× CX2388x
1× CX23416}}
| {{no}}
|Composite in
S-video in
| {{no}}
|----
|'''PVR-250'''
|Various
|PCI
SAA7115
| {{yes|1× SAA7115
1× ivac15}}
| {{no}}
|Composite in
S-video in
| {{yes}}
|----
|'''PVR-250'''
|Various
|PCI
SAA7115
| {{yes|1× SAA7115
1× CX23416}}
| {{no}}
|Composite in
S-video in
| {{yes}}
|----
|'''PVR-350'''
|Various
|PCI
SAA7115
| {{yes|1× SAA7115
1× ivac15}}
| {{no}}
|Composite in
S-video in/out
| {{yes}}
|----
|'''PVR-500MCE'''
|Various
|PCI
PLX FastLane 6140
| {{yes|2× CX2584x
2× CX23416}}
| {{no}}
|2× Composite in
2× S-video in<br />
FM radio
| {{no}}
|----
|'''PVR-USB2'''
|Various
|USB 2.0
SAA7115
| {{yes|1× SAA7115
1× CX23416}}
| {{no}}
|Composite in
S-video in
FM radio
| {{yes}}
|----
|'''PVR-USB2+'''
|Various
|USB 2.0
Cypress FX2
| {{yes|1× CX2584x
1× CX23416}}
| {{no}}
|Composite in
S-video in<br />
FM radio
| {{yes}}
|----
| High-Definition Personal Video Recorder
|'''HD-PVR'''
|Not Applicable
|USB 2.0
| {{no}}
| {{no}}
|Component In/out
Composite in<br />
S-video in<br />
RCA Audio In<br />
S/PDIF Optical Audio In/out
| {{yes}}
|----
| rowspan="10" | WinTV Analog
|'''WinTV Express'''
|Various
|PCI
BT878A
| {{yes|1× BT878A}}
| {{no}}
|Composite in
| {{yes}}
|----
|'''WinTV Go'''
|Various
|PCI
Fusion 878A
| {{yes|1× Fusion 878A}}
| {{no}}
|Composite in
| {{yes}}
|----
|'''WinTV Go+'''
|Various
|PCI
Fusion 878A
| {{yes|1× Fusion 878A}}
| {{no}}
|Composite in
| {{yes}}
|----
|'''WinTV Go2'''
|Various
|PCI
CX2388x
| {{yes|1× CX2388x}}
| {{no}}
|Composite in
| {{yes}}
|----
|'''WinTV Primio FM'''
|Various
|PCI
CX2388x
| {{yes|1× CX2388x}}
| {{no}}
|Composite in
S-video in
FM radio
| {{yes}}
|----
|'''WinTV PCI-FM'''
|Various
|PCI
CX2388x
| {{yes|1× CX2388x}}
| {{no}}
|Composite in
S-video in
FM radio
| {{yes}}
|----
|'''WinTV Radio'''
|Various
|PCI
BT878A
| {{yes| 1× BT878A or
1× BT848 or
1× BT88x}}
| {{no}}
|Composite in
S-video in
FM radio
| {{yes}}
|----
|'''WinTV USB'''
|Various
|USB 1.x
| {{yes|1× SAA7113}}
| {{no}}
|
| {{no}}
|----
|'''WinTV USB Live'''
|Various
|USB 1.x
| {{no}}
| {{no}}
| S-video in
Composite in
| {{no}}
|----
|'''WinTV USB2'''
|Various
|USB 2.0
EM2840
| {{yes|TVP5150}}
| {{no}}
|
| {{no}}
|----
|}

===WinTV software===
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Hauppauge's principal software offering is WinTV, a TV tuning, viewing, and recording application supplied on a [[CD-ROM]] included with tuner hardware.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.hauppauge.co.uk/site/products/data_wintv8.html |title=Hauppauge: WinTV v8 for TV on your Windows PC or laptop |website=Hauppauge.co.uk |access-date= 2 May 2016}}</ref> A previous version was called WinTV2000 (WinTV32 without skins). It had companion applications, including WinTV Scheduler, which performs timed recordings, and WinTV Radio, which receives FM radio.  It was modified towards a service-based software package, with card management and recordings taken care of by the "TV Server" service and EPG data collection by the "EPG Service", allowing WinTV2000 to work with multiple Hauppauge tuners in the same PC.

In 2007 Hauppauge launched WinTV Version 6, followed in 2009 by WinTV7. WinTV8 was current {{As of|2016|lc=y}}. WinTV updates are available without charge to Hauppauge tuner users (major updates require access to a qualifying earlier WinTV installation CD, e.g. WinTV8 requires a CD not earlier than WinTV7). An option available at extra cost, WinTV Extend, allows TV to be streamed over the Internet to several portable devices such as smartphones, and PCs.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.hauppauge.co.uk/site/products/data_extend.html |title=WinTV Extend: TV on your iPhone or iPad |website=Hauppauge.co.uk |access-date= 2 May 2016}}</ref>

===Wing===
"Wing", a supplemental software application from Hauppauge, allows the company's PVR products to convert MPEG recordings into formats suitable for playback on the Apple iPod, Sony PSP or a DivX player; it converts MPEG-2 videos into H.264, MPEG-4 and DivX.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.hauppauge.com/site/wing/ |title=Wing: turn your TV recordings into portable video! |website=Hauppauge.com |access-date=2 May 2016 |archive-date=31 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160331192504/http://www.hauppauge.com/site/wing/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>

===Third-party software===
Third-party programs which support Hauppauge tuners include: [[GB-PVR]], [[InterVideo]] WinDVR, Snapstream's [[Beyond TV]], [[SageTV]], [[Windows Media Center]] and the [[Linux]]-based [[MythTV]].

===Linux===
Hauppauge offers limited support for Linux, with Ubuntu repositories and firmware downloads available on its website.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.hauppauge.com/pages/support/support_linux.html|title=Hauppauge Support &#124; Running WinTV TV tuners and HD PVR 2 under Linux}}</ref> There are drivers available from non-Hauppauge sources for most of the company's cards (in [[IVTV]] and [[LinuxTV]]). It appears that some of these drivers (Nova and HVR) are written by a Hauppauge engineer.{{Citation needed|date=November 2008}}

The PVR-150 captures video on Linux, but there are reportedly difficulties getting the remote control and IR blaster to work.  Also, a January 2007 product substitution of HVR-1600 in PVR-150 retail boxes forced many Linux users to exchange their purchases because the Linux driver has not been updated for the HVR-1600.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Notice of board swap |url=http://www.colar.net/pvr150/swap_notice.jpeg |format=JPEG |via=colar.net}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=http://ivtvdriver.org/index.php/Supported_hardware | title=内職在宅ワーク求人募集就職情報Qnavi | access-date=2007-01-21 | archive-date=2007-01-18 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070118221017/http://ivtvdriver.org/index.php/Supported_hardware | url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=http://ivtvdriver.org/pipermail/ivtv-users/2007-January/005426.html | title=内職在宅ワーク求人募集就職情報Qnavi | access-date=2008-12-30 | archive-date=2011-06-05 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110605223318/http://ivtvdriver.org/pipermail/ivtv-users/2007-January/005426.html | url-status=dead }}</ref>

[[SageTV]] Media Center for Linux supports PVR-150, PVR-250, PVR-350, PVR-500 and MediaMVP.

For ATSC and DVB applications, a list of Linux supported Hauppauge and other makes of TV cards can be found on the [http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page LinuxTVWiki] page (see "Supported Hardware" section).

==External links==
{{Commons category|Hauppauge Computer Works}}
*{{Official website|https://hauppauge.com/}}
*[https://www.hauppauge.co.uk/ Hauppauge UK]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20060105220636/http://www.hauppauge.co.uk/board/ Hauppauge UK Support Forum]
*[http://www.pctvsystems.com/ PCTV Systems]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20110429011938/http://sagetv.com/ SageTV] (a vendor of products based on Hauppauge hardware)
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20050301063246/http://www.shspvr.com/ SHS-PVR Unofficial WinTV-PVR & MediaMVP forums]
*[http://usbvision.sourceforge.net usbvision] (partially functional Linux driver for WinTV-USB)
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20130730173449/http://www.geekdot.com/index.php?page=hauppauge-4860 The Hauppauge 4860 Motherboard in Detail]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20040814060428/http://www.shspvr.com/pvr_model.html WinTV-PVR Family Identification]

==References==
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