The HD Personal Video Recorder 2 from Hauppauge! comes with everything you need to record TV shows and game play in HD 1080p video quality from your PC, Xbox 360, Wii U, and Playstation 3. Take advantage of a variety of inputs including one USB port to connect to your PC; one component video input to connect to your PS3 or cable/satellite set top box; two HDMI ports for connecting to your Xbox, PC game system, TV set or home theater system; one IR blaster port to control your set top box; and one optical audio input to connect to your set top box or game console.
Once configured, you can record from both cable and satellite boxes, your PC, and a variety of video game consoles. The video is recorded in H.264 format via the included ShowBizz application making it simple to transfer the video onto DVD-R discs for playback on Blu-ray disc players. The HD Personal Video Recorder 2 also makes it simple to upload your recorded video directly to YouTube.
Hardware Encoder | • H.264 AVCHD high definition video encoder, video encode to 1080p30 from HDMI or component video • No delay HDMI pass through: HDMI or Component in to HDMI out, up to 1080p • Recording datarate: from 1 to 13.5 Mbits/sec Recording formats: MP4 or TS Video down conversion |
Input/Output Connectors | • HDMI in from HDMI sources without HDCP (Xbox 360 or PC game console) • Component video in, with stereo audio • SPDIF optical audio in • IR blaster out to control channel changing on a set top box • S-Video and composite video in, with stereo audio (requires an optional cable) • HDMI output |
Recording Formats | • 1080p60p (recorded as 1080p30) • 1080p50p (recorded as 1080p25) • 1080i60 • 1080i50 • 720p60 • 720p50 • 480p60 • 480i60 • 576p50 • 576i50 |
Power | 6V at 1.6 amps |
System Requirements | Laptop or desktop PC with 3.0 GHz single core or 2.0 GHz multi-core processor Microsoft Windows 8, 7, Vista or Windows XP Service Pack 3 HD TV set with HDMI in (optional, for use with pass through) 1 GB memory recommended Graphics card with 256 MB memory Sound card 220 MB free hard disk space |
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