You have to admire Hauppauge's brass. The company known for its TV tuners is marketing its XFones as wireless headphones with Dolby Headphone technology. That's all true: they are headphones, they are wireless and, yes, they do feature Dolby. But this smart sound system comes not from the hardware, but the bundled DVD playback …
Hauppauge have always been a bit hush hush about things like that.
I remember buying their standard TV Capture card fare about 5 years ago, only to find out that it recorded to some proprietary sub Mpeg 2 format which at the time was pretty unsupported by most if not all video editing software.
Not only that, but I tried getting it working as a proper HD Video recorder with timelapse etc, before such things were common and cheap, pre-windows media centre, and it just didn't want to appear as a normal capture device, especially bad was the lack of standardised support for channel changing within it.
I dont generally buy Hauppauge any more.
Wow, I didn't need to look up how to spell Hauppauge!
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Hauppauge XFones PC-2400 wireless headphones
You have to admire Hauppauge's brass. The company known for its TV tuners is marketing its XFones as wireless headphones with Dolby Headphone technology. That's all true: they are headphones, they are wireless and, yes, they do feature Dolby. But this smart sound system comes not from the hardware, but the bundled DVD playback …
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Posted Monday 17th December 2007 14:58 GMT
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Hauppauge have always been a bit hush hush about things like that.
I remember buying their standard TV Capture card fare about 5 years ago, only to find out that it recorded to some proprietary sub Mpeg 2 format which at the time was pretty unsupported by most if not all video editing software.
Not only that, but I tried getting it working as a proper HD Video recorder with timelapse etc, before such things were common and cheap, pre-windows media centre, and it just didn't want to appear as a normal capture device, especially bad was the lack of standardised support for channel changing within it.
I dont generally buy Hauppauge any more.
Wow, I didn't need to look up how to spell Hauppauge!
This topic is closed for new posts.