Hauppauge Digital has announced debut of its WinTV-HVR series of Hybrid Video Recorder (HVR) products for sale throughout Europe. WinTV-HVR’s give PC users the flexibility of watching and recording either DVB-T digital or traditional analogue TV on their PCs. Previous Hauppauge products such as the WinTV-NOVA and WinTV-PVR could support either DVB-T digital or analogue TV on a PC, but with the WinTV-HVR, a user has a universal TV receiver to support both types of broadcast TV standards in Europe.

“While increasing numbers of Europeans are already receiving digital TV in their homes via the DVB-T standard, many still have the need or desire to watch traditional analogue television channels,” said Ken Plotkin, CEO of Hauppauge. “Our new WinTV-HVR range is exciting because it lets people do both, as well as record any of their favorite programs using the high quality MPEG -2 recording standard. What’s more, consumers who live in areas being transitioned from analogue to digital TV can use the WinTV-HVR and not have an obsolete TV receiver for their PC when the transition finally occurs.”

The WinTV-HVR series has a host of valuable features that include FM or DVB-T radio reception, software or hardware-based MPEG -2 video recording to the PC hard drive and more. Hauppauge’s WinTV-HVR series also supports Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005, allowing users to easily manage and access their entire collection of music, DVD and stored movies, TV programs, digital photography and more, all with easy remote control access.

Hauppauge’s first two products in the WinTV-HVR line, currently shipping to hundreds of retail locations throughout the UK and the European continent, are as follows:

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