User manual COMPRO M505 START UP GUIDE

[. . . ] Compro Videomate TV PCI Tuner Card Start Up Guide Compro Technology, Inc. www. comprousa. com Copyright © 2001-2005. No part of this document may be copied or reproduced in any form or by any means without the prior written consent of Compro Technology, Inc. Compro, VideoMate, Poladyne, Play with Power, and the Compro logo are trademarks of Compro Technology, Inc. [. . . ] CD-R or DVD-R is necessary to use this feature and the recorded file will not be saved in the disk. ComproPVR will estimate your CD or DVD capacity automatically. It will stop recording when it comes full. . The quality is related to the recording performance. Choosing better performance in the recording option will result in a better video quality. 18 Timeshifting Timeshifting lets you pause, replay, or skip commercials during live TV, without interrupting an ongoing recording session. Timeshifting gives you absolute control over how you watch television, like never before. For example, you watch your favorite sporting event, pause the live action and help yourself to an ice-cold beverage from the fridge. Press the Timeshifting (See below. ) button and the Time Monitoring bar will appear. The Time Monitoring bar informs you of how much of the timeshifting buffer is in use You can also use your mouse to drag the Time Control Shuttle to jump to a specific time in the program. 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. Timeshifting temporarily saves the video to your hard disk for a specified period of time. When you return to your seat, you can resume viewing the program from the point when you left. Closed Caption (NTSC only) / Teletext (PAL only) Press the Closed Caption/Teletext button to enable or disable closed captioning/Teletext. If supported, the overlaid text captions will be displayed. Closed Caption/Teletext features depend on your local TV broadcasters. Options You can press the Options button to open the Options dialog box. You can change detail settings of ComproPVR here. The first time you start ComproPVR, 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. 19 1. ComproPVR will automatically scan all available channels for content. The number of scanned channels varies according to whether you use antenna or cable TV input and your country settings. You can interrupt the scanning process by pressing the Stop button. When Autoscan is finished, detected channels are automatically enabled . Channels, where a valid and marked with the green check mark signal could not be detected, are disabled and marked with a blank. 2. 3. 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. Set Mem+ During the Autoscan process, ComproPVR automatically detects and enables channels with a valid signal. [. . . ] Make sure the driver for motherboard chipset is also up to date. The default drivers supplied with the Windows operating system are usually too old to operate correctly. If you still have problems, please install the latest ComproPVR and driver from our website. Some software, such as MSN Messenger, ICQ, Yahoo Messenger, and Norton LiveUpdate, can interfere with the Tuner card. [. . . ]