User manual COMPRO U3 START UP GUIDE

[. . . ] 4 ComproDTV 2. 5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Troubleshooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 About This Guide This manual tells you how to install and use your VideoMate U3 Digital Terrestrial USB 2. 0 TV Tuner Box. 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. [. . . ] 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. Just click the mouse left button to resume normal mode. 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. To instantly start recording: Press the Record button . ComproDTV starts recording the video source currently showing in the display window. Press the Stop button to stop recording. 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. Digital TV program is a fixed MPEG-II file format from TV station. 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. You can change detail settings of ComproDTV here. [. . . ] Digital terrestrial TV determined by government policy. The broadcast bases will be increased in order to cover the entire country. Please check the related government website for more information about the strength of digital terrestrial TV broadcast in your area. You can check how good the signal is in your location by a simple test. [. . . ]