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WARNING - Hauppauge Win 7 TV CD ROM

post #1 of 18
11/21/09 at 3:52pm
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If you've recently purchased a TV QAM tuner from Hauppauge and it came with a CD containing drivers and apps, do not throw it away thinking you can get the latest from their website.

I recently had a mega clear out of all sorts of old CD's including about a dozen Hauppauge CD's for the various Hauppauge HW I have owned or still use.

Hauppauge in their 'wisdom' now require you to have the original CD available if you wish to upgrade to latest apps.

So I was caught out !

If you don't have the CD they'll sell you a replacement :-(

Along with others I posted my distaste at this policy on their UK support forum - but my post was deleted as were other peoples - seems Hauppauge doesn't want to listen or comment to their customers who pay their wages.

This is a shame as I had recently been very impressed by their warranty service when one of my HVR-1600's started to fail.

Any suggestions as to alternate vendors who don't have such a retarded policy re drivers and apps ?
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post #2 of 18
11/21/09 at 7:01pm
you should have taken the hint and gone right to media center and bypassed wintv altogether...
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post #3 of 18
11/21/09 at 7:26pm
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Hi Mike,

True.....

I've been running Win 7 MCE under Win 7 beta, then RC and now bought a copy and it works great - no need for any Win TV cr@p.

However the issue I have is with my other PC which runs XP for some legacy apps and from time to time I like to watch live TV on it using Win TV.

I must have spent well over $1000 with Hauppauge on a bunch of their cards including a HD-PVR which is hooked up to my HTPC - now only to find I can't up grade my XP box unless I buy a new CD.
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post #4 of 18
11/21/09 at 8:09pm
If you can find the WinTV v7 version 1.2a ... you can install that and then 1.2b.
Luckily I still had 1.2a when I installed Win 7 and wanted WinTV installed (to help me figure out why I wasn't getting QAM)
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post #5 of 18
11/21/09 at 8:42pm
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yep - that's what I had to do - found a version available on the web then upgraded to 1.2b.

Going beyond 1.2b doesn't seem possible without an original disk.

Just seems odd as the SW is so tied to the HW why would they need to enforce this original disk nonsense ?

Maybe some to do with patents / licensing.
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post #6 of 18
11/21/09 at 8:56pm
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Originally Posted by jjkusaf1 View Post

If you can find the WinTV v7 version 1.2a ... you can install that and then 1.2b.
Luckily I still had 1.2a when I installed Win 7 and wanted WinTV installed (to help me figure out why I wasn't getting QAM)

Do I an original disk NO
You can downlaod one older CD Kit I have on shspvr just look on the forum
Mainly this one
http://www.shspvr.com/ftp/download/h...W4_8_26351PPH/
Burn CD label as HCW4_8_26351PPH
Point the the new WinTV installer to the CD drive
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post #7 of 18
11/21/09 at 9:02pm
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Originally Posted by timdf View Post

If you've recently purchased a TV QAM tuner from Hauppauge and it came with a CD containing drivers and apps, do not throw it away thinking you can get the latest from their website.

I recently had a mega clear out of all sorts of old CD's including about a dozen Hauppauge CD's for the various Hauppauge HW I have owned or still use.

Hauppauge in their 'wisdom' now require you to have the original CD available if you wish to upgrade to latest apps.

So I was caught out !

If you don't have the CD they'll sell you a replacement :-(

Along with others I posted my distaste at this policy on their UK support forum - but my post was deleted as were other peoples - seems Hauppauge doesn't want to listen or comment to their customers who pay their wages.

This is a shame as I had recently been very impressed by their warranty service when one of my HVR-1600's started to fail.

Any suggestions as to alternate vendors who don't have such a retarded policy re drivers and apps ?

If have a Hauppauge CD just point it to the CD as long is fair new one with ver 6 on it just beware there are two CD type one MCE ver which has no apps
I all ready post this on shspvr forum.

I just look on UK forum I see lot people other ask about it you may want look a round they may move it in to one of other post
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post #8 of 18
11/21/09 at 9:20pm
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Originally Posted by mike_311 View Post

you should have taken the hint and gone right to media center and bypassed wintv altogether...

Not really in min way WinTV is very useful
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post #9 of 18
11/21/09 at 9:38pm
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Originally Posted by SHS View Post

Not really in min way WinTV is very useful

Not to mention that WinTV 7 is an entirely different animal from previous versions.
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post #10 of 18
11/21/09 at 10:16pm
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Thanks for the tip / link- but there's a load of files there all about 34.8MB - would I need to download them all or just a certain one or two ?

Tim

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Originally Posted by SHS View Post

Do I an original disk NO
You can downlaod one older CD Kit I have on shspvr just look on the forum
Mainly this one
http://www.shspvr.com/ftp/download/h...W4_8_26351PPH/
Burn CD label as HCW4_8_26351PPH
Point the the new WinTV installer to the CD drive
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post #11 of 18
11/22/09 at 6:32am
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Originally Posted by timdf View Post

Thanks for the tip / link- but there's a load of files there all about 34.8MB - would I need to download them all or just a certain one or two ?

Tim

You need all 14 file it a full CD of ver 6
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post #12 of 18
11/22/09 at 7:41am
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yep - that's what I had to do - found a version available on the web then upgraded to 1.2b.

thats exactly what i had to do. i threw away the disk since it was an older version anyway. great thinking on hauppauge's end if you ask me...
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post #13 of 18
11/22/09 at 1:00pm
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Originally Posted by mike_311 View Post

you should have taken the hint and gone right to media center and bypassed wintv altogether...

If all they're doing is making it more difficult to install WinTV, they're doing the people a favor.
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post #14 of 18
10/10/11 at 11:29am
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Originally Posted by SHS View Post

Do I an original disk NO
You can downlaod one older CD Kit I have on shspvr just look on the forum
Mainly this one
Code:
http://www.shspvr.com/ftp/download/hybrid_cd/HCW4_8_26351PPH/
Burn CD label as HCW4_8_26351PPH
Point the the new WinTV installer to the CD drive

OMG...you sir are an absolute life saver AND the links are still valid.


Thank you.


P.S. it seems that Hauppauge are still continuing this absurd policy until this very day
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post #15 of 18
9/20/12 at 8:21am
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Originally Posted by little.dread.1 View Post


OMG...you sir are an absolute life saver AND the links are still valid.



Thank you.



P.S. it seems that Hauppauge are still continuing this absurd policy until this very day

Still works to this day! Thanks!
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post #16 of 18
3/21/13 at 10:40pm
Just an FYI -- Hauppauge goofballs still sticking with this stupid policy. However thanks to the post above everything still works great. Download the RARs and EXE self extractor. Extract to a folder. Build an ISO file with the contents of the folder OR Burn a CD with the contents of the folder. Either way make sure the label is HCW4_8_26351PPH

Then insert or mount the disk to your drive and voila you can install WINTV 7 automatically!!!!!!


And to the user above who dissed the Hauppauge units. These are perfect for extraction of rare video from a household PVR. Or just clips of anything standard TV....

Spring 2013 everything works great and it still doesn't matter if you lost your silly Hauppauge CD...

THANKS SHS THIS IS BY FAR THE BEST 10$ I HAVE EVER SAVED!!!!!
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post #17 of 18
3/22/13 at 2:34am
Your welcome yonnieb
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post #18 of 18
5/21/13 at 12:35pm
3 cheers to SHS! It appears that wintv is the only program that will allow me to recognize the s-video input on my hauppauge. I could not install Wintv because I was missing the disc, but you my friend have saved me time and money. Thanks very much!
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