windows 7 - USB TV Tuner Not Working

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2014-07
  • ub3rst4r

    I'm trying to get a USB TV Tuner to work but I'm having troubles. It's a Hauppauge WinTV 950Q and when I connect it to my Windows 7 (x64) laptop it shows that it's detected and the lights on it will also come on. I'm unable to find the CD that came with it so I tried downloading the WinTV software from their website, but when I go to install it, it says I need the CDROM in order for it to be installed??? So instead, I tried download a program called NextPVR. It will show the WinTV 950Q in the devices list, but when I go to scan for channels, nothing is found. I have a coaxial cable connected to it from our cable box. Any ideas on what might be the problem? Could it be that WinTV needs to be installed in order for it to work?

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  • ub3rst4r

    I was finally able to get it to work with Windows Media Center. It seems NextPVR didn't want to detect channel 3 (even after changing the channel settings). I also didn't need the CD to get it to work.

  • Nicola

    I suggest you also to try SmartDVB (smartdvb.net): it works perfectly with my Hauppauge WinTV 930C and it is free, fast and light.


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  • vpram86

    TV Tuners are just a kind of PROPER receivers of TV signals through cable/wireless medium. If you have a wired connection to your TV right now, you just need to plug that wire into the TVTuner slot of PC. You also need a software to view the actual TV. Most cases, TVTuner bundles appropriate software with them. I own a Pinnacle PCTV Analog which comes with Pinnacle media center.

    TVTuners scan as good as TV for identifying channels (direct signals with no settop box), but in some cases(rare) it can miss some of channels. If you have a SetTop box, then most probably receiving will be done by that unit itself and you use TV just for displaying channels. In this case, if you connect it to PC TVTuner you wont lose any channels!

    Here is a good starting info for TVTuners.