- CEO
- Kenneth Plotkin
- Full Time Employees
- 99
- Sector
- Technology
- Industry
- Computer Hardware
- Address
- 91 Cabot Court Hauppauge NY United States of America 11788
- IPO Date
- Apr 25, 1995
- Business
- Hauppauge Digital Inc. (HAUP) designs, develops, manufactures, and markets consumer electronic hardware and software products that enable personal computers to receive, watch, and record television broadcasts; its flagship WinTV family includes USB TV tuners such as hybrid analog/digital WinTV-HVR models, internal PCIe TV tuners like WinTV-quadHD and WinTV-HVR-1265, European digital TV receivers, high-definition video recorders supporting up to 1080p resolutions including HD PVR and USB-Live2 for standard definition capture, analog video capture devices, digital CableCARD tuners for U.S. Windows Media Center PCs, DVR box recorders for cable/satellite offloading, digital media adapters like MediaMVP-HD for streaming to HD TVs, and mySmarthome smart home control systems for lighting and monitoring; accompanying software encompasses WinTV applications for Windows PC viewing with picture-in-picture and full-screen options, WinTV Extend for remote mobile viewing on iPad/iPhone, and Plex integration for live TV/DVR on NVIDIA Shield. Founded in 1982 and headquartered at 91 Cabot Court in Hauppauge, New York, the company operates globally through subsidiaries including Hauppauge Computer Works Inc. and Hauppauge Digital Europe Sarl, targeting PC users, gamers, cord-cutters, and smart home consumers primarily in North America and Europe with products sold via retail and online channels. In December 2008, Hauppauge Digital acquired the Pinnacle PCTV product line from Avid, establishing a separate division with R&D in Braunschweig, Germany, marking its most recent major strategic expansion into additional tuner technologies; the company maintains its focus on analog/digital TV reception and video capture without noted acquisitions, funding rounds, partnerships, or operational shifts in the last several years.