User manual ATI ALL-IN-WONDER 9800

[. . . ] ALL-IN-WONDER® 9800 Series Installation and Setup User's Guide P/N: 137-70412-10 Copyright © 2003, ATI Technologies Inc. ATI and all ATI product and product feature names are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of ATI Technologies Inc. All other company and/or product names are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of their respective owners. Features, performance and specifications are subject to change without notice. [. . . ] Many VCRs and camcorders have another video output called S-Video, which provides a higher quality display than Composite video. Composite Video S-Video 26 Using Your ALL-IN-WONDER To connect a VCR or camcorder to your ALL-IN-WONDER 1 2 3 4 Turn off your computer and your VCR or camcorder. Ensure that your graphics card is installed correctly. Determine if your VCR or camcorder has an S-Video or Composite video connection. Looking at the back of your computer, locate your graphics card. Using the ATI Input/Output Adapter, attach one end of the cable to your graphics card and the other to your VCR or camcorder. Turn on your computer and your VCR or camcorder. 5 Attaching a TV to Your Card Using your ALL-IN-WONDER card's Composite or S-Video output, you can connect a television set as your computer's display. You can use your card to view computer output directly on your television. Depending upon your television, you can choose NTSC or PAL formats. You can display images on both the TV and VGA monitor simultaneously. The ALL-IN-WONDER provides a big-screen experience for entertainment PCs that is ideal for playing games, giving presentations, watching movies, browsing the Internet, and recording videotapes of your computer's display. DVI digital flat panel and television display cannot be used simultaneously. If you are recording a videotape, you will need a television monitor to view while you record. i Using Your ALL-IN-WONDER 27 To connect your graphics card to a television · You must attach a TV before enabling TV output · In order to record audio on your VCR or hear audio through your TV speakers, you must connect the audio cables (see page 21). · If your television has cable input only, which is the case for older units, you can connect your graphics card to your television using your VCR or an RF modulator (available at most consumer electronics dealers) that accepts audio input. Connect the ALL-IN-WONDER card's audio output to the RF modulator's audio input. 1 2 3 4 Turn off your computer and your television. Determine if your television has an S-Video connection or an RCA video-in connection. Looking at the back of your computer, locate your graphics card. Connect the supplied output cable adapter to the A/V OUT connector on the card (see Input and Output Adapters on page 19). Using a cable with either S-Video or RCA connectors, attach one end of the cable to the output cable adapter and the other to your television. Turn on your computer and your television. If there is no display, you may need to enable the television output capability; see Using and adjusting TV Out on page 29. For detailed cabling diagrams and audio connections, see Input and Output Adapters on page 19. If you have a television connected to your VCR, you can use the television as your computer's display. For information about connecting a television to your VCR, see the documentation that came with your VCR. If you have a television connected to a VCR that is connected to the ALL-IN-WONDER card's A/V OUT, and you use the television as your computer's display, copy-protected DVD movies may appear alternately bright and dim. 5 6 i 28 Using Your ALL-IN-WONDER IMPORTANT INFORMATION for European Customers Some PC monitors in Europe cannot be used simultaneously with television display. [. . . ] These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference in a residential installation. This equipment generates, uses and can radiate radio frequency energy and, if not installed and used in accordance with manufacturer's instructions, may cause harmful interference to radio communications. However, there is no guarantee that interference will not occur in a particular installation. If this equipment does cause harmful interference to radio or television reception, which can be determined by turning the equipment off and on, the user is encouraged to try to correct the interference by one or more of the following measures: · Re-orient or relocate the receiving antenna. [. . . ]