User manual COMPRO U3 START UP GUIDE

[. . . ] For more information on using applications, please see the User's Guides in the programs, on the CDs, or at our website for the latest manuals http://www. comprousa. com. VideoMate U3 lets you watch and record digital terrestrial TV broadcast on your computer or laptop. It can efficiently capture digital terrestrial TV broadcast programs from your area. VideoMate U3 features a TV tuner for digital TV broadcast, Digital Video Recording (DVR) functions, scheduled recording at anytime, crystal video quality, and intelligent TV viewing. MINIMUM SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS 600 MHz Pentium III or equivalent CPU (for watching digital TV) 128 MB RAM Sound card Open USB 2. 0 port CD-ROM drive for software installation Windows XP SP1, Windows 2000 SP4 or above 50 MB free disk space for basic software installation. RECOMMENDED SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS 866MHz CPU (for watching and recording digital TV) 2. 4 GHz CPU for HDTV watching and recording. [. . . ] The following pages describe the ComproDTV control panel functions, and tips for using ComproDTV. The following figure gives you the function of the button with (Hot Key. ) Docking (D) Help (H) Minimize (G) Full Screen (Z) Close (CTRL+X) Timeshift bar Signal Strength Channel Surf(F) Snapshot (Space) Timeshift (T) Source (V) Options (O) Teletext (C) EPG (E) Schedule (B) Mute (M) Volume (+, -) Channel Up (Page Up) with lists( I ) Channel Down (Page down) Last Channel (N) Record (R) with record methods Stop (S) Play (P) Pause (U) Language Select (Q) Replay (Left Arrow) Advance (Right Arrow) 5 Icon HotKey A Description Enable/Disable Always-on-Top function for TV window. (Oregon circle on the upper-right corner of the TV window) Sleep function n/a L Note: Language select is only available while the program supports it. Watching After installation, just double click the ComproDTV icon on the desktop you will be able to watch TV. Channel up and down. Autoscan The first time you start ComproDTV, Autoscan will automatically scan for available TV channels for both Cable signal and Antenna signals. You can rescan the channels at any time by pressing the Autoscan button. When Autoscan is finished, detected channels are automatically enabled and marked with the green check mark . Channels, where a valid signal could not be detected, are disabled and marked with a blank. However, you can interrupt the scanning process by pressing the Stop button. Right-Click Mouse Menu If using mouse to right-click on the TV screen, you can see a menu pop up. There are many useful options for your convenience. Zooming image If you would like to see more details on a certain part of a video image, you can press the mouse right button to drag a zone of the screen. Also you can press the mouse right button and move on the screen to shift the zoomed area of the image. 6 Channel Surfing While watching TV, the channel surfing feature displays a 4x4 grid of channel images to give you an overview of available programming. EPG (Electronic Program Guide) You can press the EPG button to open the EPG dialog box. EPG can provides lots of information about the TV program when available. You can easily add a program into a recording schedule with it. 7 Recording ComproDTV is a digital video recorder and save the digital TV program which is MPEG-II format to your hard disk. ComproDTV starts recording the video source currently showing in the display window. ComproDTV will save it automatically and show the file name on the screen. You can also use the schedule recording by press Schedule button control panel of ComproDTV. on 8 Note The default folder of recorded file is on My Document, you can change to another folder by entering the Options of ComproDTV. ComproDTV will directly save them into your hard disk and can't transfer them to another format. Playback Press the Play button to open the Play dialog box. Timeshifting Timeshifting temporarily saves the video to your hard disk for a specified period of time so that you can pause, replay, or skip commercials during live TV, without interrupting an ongoing recording session. Press the Timeshifting button and the Time Monitoring bar will appear. You may also press the Advance (for commercial skip) and Replay (for instant replay) buttons on the control panel or remote control to navigate through the program. When you return to your seat, you can resume viewing the program from the point when you left. Still Image Capture Click on the capture icon on the control panel or hit the "Space Bar" of the keyboard shortcut to capture an image of the display window. You can see the screen capture dialog as below. 9 Options You can press the Options button to open the Options dialog box. After you are finished scanning for available channels, you may select OK to return to the display window, or customize the channel list according to your preferences, as described below. Channel Properties You can customize the channel names by double-click on the Description field of the channel you wish to rename. Yu can do more changes on the channel's property by right-click the mouse on the Description field of the channel you wish to edit. 10 Set Mem+ During the Autoscan process, ComproDTV automatically detects and enables channels with a valid signal. [. . . ] Digital terrestrial TV broadcast uses about the same wave frequencies as analog TV (VHF and UHF). It's recommended to have a fishbone-like antenna (see figure) on the roof for reception. Make sure you position the antenna in the direction of the TV broadcast base. The broadcast bases will be increased in order to cover the entire country. [. . . ]