A media recorder like this and Windows Media Center is peak XP-era stuff in my memory
The_Burning_Face
Oh man I wanted a TV card so bad back in the day
Tyz_TwoCentz_HWE_Ret
Hauppauge that brings back memories. NY based company that still makes these devices!
I used similar in the ATI all in Wonder Cards that had them attached/embedded on them. FYI those also tuned in Am and FM radio as well.
noisytwit
Oh man that’s a throw back. I had a digital TV twin tuner vsrsion. It was awesome!
1d0m1n4t3
Damn I’m old
Arcticfox04
Loved my WinTV on my first build. Found memories.
USSHammond
Man that’s a flashback. I used to have one of these by hauppage
LivingProgram8109
Wow I’ve not seen one of those in yeeeeeaaaarrssss. Had great fun trying to get the bloody thing to work under Linux.
WiseAce1
Had one of those, awesome for the time
nother_reddit_weerdo
Bro i remember these to be street gold. If you had this, well if you know.. you know..
iothomas
Ehh I had this card!
I think i still have the IR sensor and remote that came with it
brad010140
Man, I really wanted something like this for my pc when I was younger. That and one of those tv tuners for my game boy.
We used to have like 8 channels, upgraded the antenna, and could get like 12 with less static. thought it was amazing before we got cable. (Like 1997ish)
Its_Just_Noah
Love to see the nostalgia in the comments
coffeejn
Those were great, turned your PC into a TV.
el-limetto
Got one in the late 90s and the best feature was decrypting analogue pay TV with it.
MasterBlaster4949
I still have one and a usb atsc tuner
Thetargos
It’s been a while since I last saw a TV tuner
TheRealCuran
Oh those where the times – even if it took me some time to get my first card working with Linux. The ones after were a charm though. And the first one had just one of those typical “write value X to some random register” requirements, you had to peel out of the Windows driver. Those were (and sometimes are still) common back then.
nigori
This reminds me of the old days of mythTV
868nkc
I had a Voodoo 3 3500 back in the day, tv tuner integrated into the gpu. It was like magic. I miss those days.
FrustratedPCBuild
I had one of these in the 90s!
bigalcapone22
Man, those were the days
You could watch Satellite TV through them.
Use it to record TV shows or movies onto your hard drive as well.
If you had one of those back in the day you are probably familiar with MythTV as well 🤔😉
laminarflowca
Ah my MythTV box running these. Recording all my shows off the tv schedule. Auto Transcoding and stripping out the commercial breaks. Making them available watch any time. The icing on the cake was the custom script i wrote to transcode certain shows into iPod format and publish as podcast to my iTunes, so i could sync them to my ipod 6th gen and watch on my commute. Peak nerd
corey5188
I currently am running a QuadTV one from them in my NAS that serves as a Plex server (among many other programs). It connects to my antenna and provides 4 HD channels through the “Live TV” section of Plex that I can watch anywhere (and DVR 4 channels at once). Big plus for my friends and family!
dasmineman
When I was a kid, my dad gave me an old TV card for my Windows 95 PC. Back then, the “card” was actually two cards that plugged into the board via two ISA slots and had an IDE jumper cable between the two.
-Laffi-
I have a TV card on a computer from Medion that I bought back in 2006, and when I moved out for the first time, to a student home, I was actually able to get cable in my 12 kvm room, plugging the TV cable into the wall, and to watch TV on my monitor. Were good times!
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A media recorder like this and Windows Media Center is peak XP-era stuff in my memory
Oh man I wanted a TV card so bad back in the day
Hauppauge that brings back memories. NY based company that still makes these devices!
I used similar in the ATI all in Wonder Cards that had them attached/embedded on them. FYI those also tuned in Am and FM radio as well.
Oh man that’s a throw back. I had a digital TV twin tuner vsrsion. It was awesome!
Damn I’m old
Loved my WinTV on my first build. Found memories.
Man that’s a flashback. I used to have one of these by hauppage
Wow I’ve not seen one of those in yeeeeeaaaarrssss. Had great fun trying to get the bloody thing to work under Linux.
Had one of those, awesome for the time
Bro i remember these to be street gold. If you had this, well if you know.. you know..
Ehh I had this card!
I think i still have the IR sensor and remote that came with it
Man, I really wanted something like this for my pc when I was younger. That and one of those tv tuners for my game boy.
We used to have like 8 channels, upgraded the antenna, and could get like 12 with less static. thought it was amazing before we got cable. (Like 1997ish)
Love to see the nostalgia in the comments
Those were great, turned your PC into a TV.
Got one in the late 90s and the best feature was decrypting analogue pay TV with it.
I still have one and a usb atsc tuner
It’s been a while since I last saw a TV tuner
Oh those where the times – even if it took me some time to get my first card working with Linux. The ones after were a charm though. And the first one had just one of those typical “write value X to some random register” requirements, you had to peel out of the Windows driver. Those were (and sometimes are still) common back then.
This reminds me of the old days of mythTV
I had a Voodoo 3 3500 back in the day, tv tuner integrated into the gpu. It was like magic. I miss those days.
I had one of these in the 90s!
Man, those were the days
You could watch Satellite TV through them.
Use it to record TV shows or movies onto your hard drive as well.
If you had one of those back in the day you are probably familiar with MythTV as well 🤔😉
Ah my MythTV box running these. Recording all my shows off the tv schedule. Auto Transcoding and stripping out the commercial breaks. Making them available watch any time. The icing on the cake was the custom script i wrote to transcode certain shows into iPod format and publish as podcast to my iTunes, so i could sync them to my ipod 6th gen and watch on my commute. Peak nerd
I currently am running a QuadTV one from them in my NAS that serves as a Plex server (among many other programs). It connects to my antenna and provides 4 HD channels through the “Live TV” section of Plex that I can watch anywhere (and DVR 4 channels at once). Big plus for my friends and family!
When I was a kid, my dad gave me an old TV card for my Windows 95 PC. Back then, the “card” was actually two cards that plugged into the board via two ISA slots and had an IDE jumper cable between the two.
I have a TV card on a computer from Medion that I bought back in 2006, and when I moved out for the first time, to a student home, I was actually able to get cable in my 12 kvm room, plugging the TV cable into the wall, and to watch TV on my monitor. Were good times!
Um, they still exist: https://www.hauppauge.com/pages/products/data_hvr1265.html
When I was 17 I had one of these in my bedroom pc and I watched mst3k on it on saturdays. I was living the dream, even though we were relatively poor.