Record Multiple Channels

[sethmac]

I have a Hauppauge 1199 WinTV HVR-1600 Internal PCI Dual TV card that brings in my cable analog. Can I use this one card to record multiple stations at once?

[JonnyCam]

I don't think you can, it's only got one analog tuner.

[ElihuRozen]

If your cable provider has your local channels in unscrambled QAM, the digital tuner on your 1600 can record a different channel at the same time as your analog tuner. Also, if you use the TS setting for the digital tuner, depending on how your stations are arranged on the QAM channels, you could record two or more stations on the digital tuner at once. Most cable companies do have the local channels in unscrambled QAM. You would need to split your cable signal and attach one to each of the tuners on your 1600.

[sethmac]

If your cable provider has your local channels in unscrambled QAM, the digital tuner on your 1600 can record a different channel at the same time as your analog tuner. Also, if you use the TS setting for the digital tuner, depending on how your stations are arranged on the QAM channels, you could record two or more stations on the digital tuner at once. Most cable companies do have the local channels in unscrambled QAM. You would need to split your cable signal and attach one to each of the tuners on your 1600.

Thanks for the tip. When I first hooked up the 1600, I used the middle coaxial spot. The picture was available but grainy. Now the coax is hooked to the far right connection and is clear. When I split and hook to both, I get a clear picture. Will this same clear picture translate to recordings, even if hooking up the middle individually is grainy?

[ElihuRozen]

It depends on your setup. If a specific channel is assigned to multiple tuners, GBPVR has rules about which tuner to use based on the order of the tuners in the config.exe application list. When it records, it uses the tuner at the top of the list and works its way down. When you are watching Live TV it uses the tuner at the botton and works its way up. (The one exception is if you are watching a channel on Live TV that is not listed for both tuners and switch to channel that is on multiple tuners, it will try to keep using the tuner it was already using, even if that tuner is higher in the list in Config.) Some people will list a tuner at the top & bottom if they want it always to be used by default.

What I do is renumber the digital channels to keep them separate from the analog. So, for me, channel 2 is the analog, 802 is the HD digital and 902 is the SD digital. Same for 4, 804 & 904. And 5, 805, 905. Etc. I use mc2xml for my listings & it makes it easy to renumber the channels.

If you go to the Hauppauge product page (http://www.hauppauge.com/site/products/d...r1600.html) and click on the Overview tab, they have diagrams showing the connectors for the 1600.