Hauppauge Products Officially Incompatible

WinTV for Windows 7

ABANDONED -- Following in the infamous footsteps of Creative Labs, Hauppauge Computer Works is officially abandoning the greatest portion of it's installed base with regard to Windows 7 support. Hauppauge will not seek Windows 7 WHQL certification for it's WinTV-PVR products stating

"* WinTV-PVR is not certified for use with Windows 7, though it will work in many systems with Windows 7 32-bit version.
* WinTV-PVR products will not work in PC systems with 4GB or more of memory."

So as long as you run 32-bit and don't have >4GB RAM it *might* work but they're not going to lift a finger to help you either way.

I was told Hauppauge TV products were the bomb and was going to get one. Considering I have 4Gb and Win7 64-bit now, I guess I'll look elsewhere...

I use a Hauppauge WinTV Nova stick DVB-T tuner, and the latest drivers work fine on 64-bit for me. I also use Media Centre to watch TV.

Don't be put off from buying one. Looking at the link provided, it's only a couple of the PCI card tuners that this seems to affect. Like I said, my Nova USB stick works fine, and my friend has the duel tuner version on Windows 7 and that, as well, works flawlessly.

i know it sucks to have to buy new hardware for a new os, but you can get an hvr-1250 pcie x1 card for at or less than $50--maybe less if you can catch a good sale or mir.

i have this card on my computer and a usb hvr-850 for my other computer. both sets run x64 with 8gb ram each--no problems with hardware or the hauppauge wintv software--but i use media center the majority of the time.