Hauppauge HD PVR 2 Gaming Edition record and stream your game play on your PC

Record video game play in HD on your laptop or desktop PC HD PVR 2 Gaming Edition records high definition game play video from a gaming PC, Sony PlayStation 3 or Microsoft Xbox 360 onto your Windows laptop or desktop PC. Make video recordings of your best game play in HD. Upload your favorite games to YouTube and share them with other gamers online. Or make a high definition movie of your game play to share with your friends or use it to discuss tactics with your clan members!

New! Now with Facecam for your gameplay recordings! Hauppauge Capture now includes Facecam. Point a webcam of yourself to add a video of you playing your favourite game. The Facecam window can be any size and positioned anyplace in your video.

Add your game commentary while you record or stream! Hauppauge Capture, the simple to use application for recording, editing, uploading and streaming your game play, has a built-in audio mixer. Add game commentary while you record or stream your videos. And add audio from your PC (music or Skype audio can be recorded) and even put each audio source on separate tracks for easier editing in Sony Vegas or Pinnacle Studio. The Hauppauge Capture program has all the features you need for making awesome game play recordings!

Live Twitch and YouTube streaming of your game play Stream your game play to your Twitch, YouTube or Ustream channel with the Hauppauge SteamEez application (part of the new Hauppauge Capture application). Create your own event and be watch by thousand followers! With the new Hauppauge Capture application, you can steam your game play and also add your game commentary to the stream.

With HDMI and Component Video in plus no-delay HDMI video passthrough! HD PVR 2 comes with HDMI in and out to make it easier to connect to your Xbox 360 and your HD TV set. For the PS3, HD PVR 2 comes with a PS3 Component Video gaming cable, while still using the HDMI out for no-delay passthrough to your HD TV set!

New! Now with a Record button, so you can start and stop your video recordings directly from the HD PVR 2 HD PVR 2 has a top mounted record button. Hit the record button and ShowBiz opens on your PC and starts recording. Hit the record button again and ShowBiz will stop recording. This makes recording your video gameplay super easy!

Record your PC gameplay, with no delay and no slowdown of your PC! HD PVR 2 can be connected to the HDMI output of your PC to record your gameplay. With our "no delay passthrough", you can play your game on a TV monitor while recording. And the recording will not slow down your PC since the encoding is done within HD PVR 2!

Amazing audio and video quality HD PVR 2 Gaming Edition uses a pro-quality H.264 video encoder, the same video recorder which is used in TV studios. HD PVR 2 records using amazing H.264 compression at HD resolutions up to 1080p30. HD PVR 2's H.264 recording format is used by Blu-ray disks and exceeds other compression standards in video quality, providing a crisp image with amazing digital sound. And H.264 uses 1/3 the disk space compared with the popular MPEG-2 format.

Watch recordings of your best game play on your PC monitor or HD TV set Once your recordings are on your PC hard disk, you can play them back directly on your computer screen using the included ShowBiz application. You can also transfer the recordings over your home network to your PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, or other high definition media player.

Play while you record with our no-delay HDMI video pass through! HD PVR 2 Gaming Edition comes with real-time video pass through, so you can watch your game play on your HD TV while recording your game on your PCs disk drive. Simply connect HD PVR 2 in between your game console and your HD TV set (HDMI in and out plus Component Video cables included).

Upload your best games to YouTube and share with your friends HD PVR 2 Gaming Edition comes with a one click upload to YouTube. Make HD recordings of your game play and upload your best videos to YouTube. HD PVR 2 Gaming Edition records videos in HD using H.264, which is perfect for YouTube.

Use the Personal Logo inserter to add your channel logo to all of your recordings and streams Use the Personal Logo inserter to add your own logo to all of your recordings and video streams. The HD PVR 2 Personal Logo inserter makes it easy to make sure all of your friends see your channel logo! Adding a Personal Logo is easy: just make a 150x100 pixel BMP, JPEG or PNG file and then use Hauppauge Capture to upload your logo into the HD PVR 2. After that, the logo will be automatically added to your recordings and video streams.

Hardware Encoder

H.264 AVCHD high definition video encoder, with record resolution to 1080p30 Recording datarate: from 1 to 13.5 Mbits/sec Recording video formats: AVCHD (.TS and .M2TS) plus .MP4 No Delay HDMI Passthrough

HDMI in to HDMI out - up to 1080p60 Component Video in to HDMI out - up to 1080i60 Input/Output Connections

HDMI in, from HDMI sources without HDCP such as Xbox 360 Component video in, with stereo audio S-Video and composite video in, with stereo audio (optional cable not supplied) HDMI output Size

6 in wide x 6 in deep x 1.5 in high Power

6V at 1.6 amps Weight

.75lb / .34 kg / 12 oz Recording Formats

1080p60p (recorded as 1080p30) 1080p50p (recorded as 1080p25) 1080i60 1080i50 720p60 720p50 480p60 480i60 576p50 576i50 System requirements

Laptop or desktop PC with 3.0 GHz single core or 2.0 GHz multi-core processor
Microsoft Windows 8, 7 or Vista (32 or 64-bit), or Windows XP Service Pack 3
HD PVR 2 GE Plus includes HDPVRCapture.com application which runs on Mac OSX 10.7 / 10.8 ( Intel 32/64bit only, no PPC support)
TV set with HDMI input
1 GB memory recommended
Graphics card with 256 MB memory
Sound card
220 MB free hard disk space
CD-ROM drive (for software installation) Bundled software applications

Hauppauge Capture, for recording and streaming with game commentary Facecam to add your webcam video to your recordings (requires a minimum i3 CPU) StreamEez built in for streaming on Twitch, Ustream and YouTube Hauppauge Personal Logo application, to "burn" your logos into your recordings

Included in the HD PVR 2 Gaming Edition

HD PVR 2 Gaming Edition high definition H.264 personal video recorder, USB 2.0 with built-in record button 6V 1.6 amp power supply USB cable - 9 ft. HDMI output cable - 6 ft. PS3 Component AV Cable Hauppauge A/V component adapter Installation CD-ROM Quick installation guide Note: HD PVR 2 will not record video from HDMI with HDCP copy protection. If you are recording PS3 gameplay, use the included PS3 component video gaming cable. Third Party applications for HD PVR 2

HDPVRCapture for the Mac Use HD PVR 2 with a Mac. Capture4ME

Capture4ME is compatible with HD PVR 2. It is an easy-to-use application that focuses on the core goal of capturing video. The Capture4ME app has the ability to trim the beginning or end of a recording, and also an 'Upload to YouTube' function for those that want to share their videos online