User manual COMPRO U90 START UP GUIDE

[. . . ] Compro, VideoMate, Poladyne, Play with Power, and the Compro logo are trademarks of Compro Technology, Inc. Compro makes no warranties with respect to this documentation and disclaims any implied warranties of merchantability, quality, or fitness for any particular purpose. COMPRO reserves the right to make revisions to this publication without obligation to notify any person or entity of any such changes. +886 2 2918 0169, Fax +886 2 2915 2389 4/F, No. 12, Alley 6, Lane 45, Pao Shin Road Hsintein City, Taipei, Taiwan. [. . . ] Open and close display panel 8 ComproDTV 4 Control Panel The ComproDTV 4 control panel resembles the controls on a VCR. Please note that not all options are available at all times, and may be grayed out or inaccessible depending on your hardware setup and TV services available. The following figure gives you the function of the button with (Hot key) Volume (- , +) Channel Up (Page Up) with Quick Channel list (I) Stop (S) Record (R) and Record Option Num Pad (W) Play (P) / Pause (U) Channel Down (Page down) Mute (M) Help (H) Docking (D) Minimize (G) Full Screen Close (CTRL+X) Volume Rewind (Left Arrow) Timeshift bar Fast Forward (Right Arrow) (- , +) Mute (M) Digital TV Signal Strength Number Pad (W) Option (O) Left/Right Audio Switch (J) Schedule (B) Video Source (V) Repeat Playback Recorded Files Last Channel (N) Channel Surf (F) Snapshot (Space) Timeshift (T) Add Window (F3) Reduce Window (F2) Windows Alignment (F5) Close All Windows (F6) Closed Caption (C) Teletext (X) EPG (E) No function 9 Video Source Switch (V) Audio mode HotKey A L TV / Timeshifting mode Description Enable/Disable Always-on-Top function for TV window. (Oregon circle on the upper-right corner of the TV window) Sleep function Video Desktop Open snapshot dialog box F7 F8 Note: Language select is only available while the program supports it. Start ComproDTV 4 and watch TV After installation, just press the yellow button of the last line on the remote or double click the ComproDTV 4 icon on the desktop, you will be able to watch TV. Close ComproDTV 4 and even shutdown the computer with the full function remote control keypad. Options Press the Options button to open the Options dialog box. You can change detail settings of ComproDTV 4 here. TV Settings This option gives you the way to manually set the method of scanning TV programs. Select your choice here or use default channel table to do the scanning. Autoscan The first time you start ComproDTV 4, Autoscan will automatically scan for available TV channels for TV signals. Please select your TV source from analog cable/antenna or from digital antenna. 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 10 can interrupt the scanning process by pressing the Stop button. 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 Naming You can customize the channel names by double-click on the Description field of the channel you wish to rename. You 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. Custom Settings for each channel You can customize each channel properties by click the icon in "Custom Settings" filed and edit it. Using my favorite channel list You can click to select using my favorite channel list from option window. And exit the list by yourselves to makes channel switch more convenient. 11 Channel Surfing While watching TV, the channel surfing feature displays a 4x4 grid of channel images to give you an overview of available programming. Double click the channel screen can direct jump to the channel you want. PIP/POP mode Usually, digital TV station broadcasts multiple programs on one frequency. Therefore, ComproDTV 4 in U90 TV stick supports up to 1 main DVB-T channel windows, 3 sub channel windows, and playback recorded video file at the same time if available. ComproDTV 4 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 4. on 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. 13 Troubleshooting Troubleshooting steps If you have problem installing or running VideoMate U90, please check the following by step: OS issue: VideoMate U90 has to work on USB 2. 0 interface. You are welcome to www. WindowsUpdate. com website for the Service Pack update of Microsoft. [. . . ] Make sure you have a good antenna and strong digital TV signal in your location. Or you will have no TV picture at all. 15 Why does the remote control fail? Verify that the IR icon (ComproRemote) is in the system tray on the lower-right corner of the screen. If you don't have ComproRemote on the system tray, start the following program: C:\Program Files\ Common Files\VideoMate\ComproRemoteDTV. exe Then you should see the icon on the system tray. If you see it shows "No Device, " your drivers may not be not properly installed. [. . . ]