Hauppauge Ships WinTV-PVR

HAUPPAUGE, N.Y.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Nov. 9,
2000 via NewsEdge Corporation - Hauppauge Digital, Inc. (NASDAQ: HAUP), the
leading manufacturer of TV and data broadcast
receiver products for personal computers, today
announced retail availability of its
WinTV-PVR-pci, the company’s Personal Video
Recorder for PC’s.

WinTV-PVR allows PC users to watch TV in a
window on their PC screens, plus can pause live
TV, create instant replays, record TV shows to
disk, and create Video CD’s from television
programs.

The pause and record functions of the
WinTV-PVR make use of a high quality MPEG2
hardware compressor, which can store studio
quality video on a PC’s hard disk. MPEG2, the
same advanced technology used to create
satellite TV broadcasts and DVD movies,
provides high quality video and audio while
minimizing hard disk usage.

While displaying live TV, WinTV-PVR can pause
the TV show using a feature called “Program
Pause”. The TV program can later be continued
from where it was stopped without missing any
of the show. Also, any portion of the paused
show can also be replayed, giving the user their
own instant replay.

TV shows can also be recorded to disk using the
built-in MPEG hardware compressor. Once
recorded to disk, they can be played back either
on the PC in a window or full screen. Since the
built-in MPEG compressor does not require the
CPU, recording can be done without affecting
other PC applications. For example, a PC user
can surf the net at full speed while the
WinTV-PVR is recording a TV show to disk.

The WinTV-PVR also allows TV shows to be
recorded in a Video CD format onto CD-ROMs for
playback on home DVD players. Each CD-RW
disk, the preferred media for Video CD’s, can
contain up to 1 hour of television.