I owned up to starting, but not finishing the evaluation, and he decided to take up the slack. (As is frequently the case, other weekend pleasantries such as leaf removal, gutter cleanings, lawn mower repair and like activities won out over spending time in setting up and working the kinks out of something that involved a PC.)Įventually, my son, Andrew, happened to be home on a semester break and asked about the Hauppauge box parked next to the family room big-screen 1080p TV receiver. The Hauppauge Computer Works HD PVR with remote control The company was nice enough to promptly send out a review unit, but as the family HD television gear is located at a weekend home about 50 miles from town, some amount of time passed before the review got started. The price point is certainly low enough to make the Hauppauge unit attractive (this amount wouldn't even have purchased a reel of 2-inch videotape back in the good old days) and it seemed that it might be interesting to put the HD PVR through its paces. Even though this was marketed as a consumer product, some television station/production house applications came to mind. Their fairly recent HD PVR product looked intriguing, as the box proclaimed in big letters 'Record High Definition TV to your PC.' The resolution stated is 1080i, with H.264 compression being employed. The Hauppauge folks have been around for some time, and their name should be no stranger to TV Technology readers, as Doug Lung and others have reported on the company's various DTV demodulator products-in particular their USB 'stick' tuners. Anyone with a reasonable limit on his or her credit card can walk into a big box store and come out the other door with prosumer-and even consumer-gear with specs that would pale anything the 1960s broadcast engineer had to offer. Now, for the most part, you have to look really hard to even see it at all.

That dividing line began to shrink sometime in the 1980s, and got much thinner as we headed into the 21st century. In those days, to capture color video you needed a thousand-pound machine which, depending on options, could easily run $100,000. Once upon a time there was a very broad dividing line with broadcast gear completely on one side and consumer electronics on the other.

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