User manual COMPRO U500 START UP GUIDE

[. . . ] 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 3/F, No. 12, Alley 6, Lane 45, Pao Shin Road Hsintein City, Taipei, Taiwan www. comprousa. com About This Guide This manual tells you how to install and use your VideoMate U500 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. VideoMate U500 lets you watch and record digital terrestrial TV broadcast on your computer or laptop. [. . . ] It is similar with full screen but the desktop icons and taskbar will remain on top. 6 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. Channel Surfing While watching TV, the channel surfing feature displays a 4x4 grid of channel images to give you an overview of available programming. Remote Power Off There are two situations for this operation. no ComproDTV running: Just press the SLEEP button on the lower-right corner on the remote keypad, you will see a dialog as shown below. If you don't want to shut down the computer, please press the SLEEP button again, in other words, pressing the SLEEP key a second time is the same as pressing the "Cancel" button. Press OK to immediately shutdown the computer. 7 When watching TV, i. e. ComproDTV is running: Just press the SLEEP button on the lower-right corner on the remote keypad repeatedly, you will see the text on the screen turns to SLEEP OFF, SLEEP ON - 30 MINUTES, SLEEP ON - 1 HOUR, SLEEP ON - 2 HOURS, and SHUTDOWN. When the text shows SHUTDOWN, the program will countdown 20 seconds to shutdown the computer. If you don't want to shutdown the computer, please press the SLEEP button again. PIP/POP (Picture In/Out Picture) mode Usually, digital TV station broadcasts multiple programs on one frequency. Therefore, ComproDTV supports up to four windows watching additional TV program of same frequency on another window if available. Main window has all features while slave window has limited functions only. Double-click on the slave window can switch the TV program to the main window. Alignment Window button will put slave window(s) into main button to open a slave window for that. Please see the window which is convenient for you to watch multiple programs on full screen mode. The buttons on the upper-left corner slave window are Channel Up, Channel Down, Mute, Windows Alignment, and Close respectively. Slave window can be resized by mouse dragging lower-left corner to any ratio. When main window changes the channel to another frequency, slave window(s) will move to available programs of another frequency. The slave window will show black if there is no additional program on this frequency. Please double-click on slave window to switch program with main window in order to do so. However, main window audio can't be muted separately from slave window(s). EPG (Electronic Program Guide) You can press the EPG button to open the EPG dialog box. EPG can provide lots of information about the TV program when available. [. . . ] Can't record: Make sure that your hard drive has plenty space for recording. ComproDTV needs to use components of Ulead PhotoExplorer 8. 5 SE on the installation CD. If your computer doesn't have PhotoExplorer, ComproDTV will fail to record. While receiving HDTV programs, VideoMate U500 needs full speed USB 2. 0 bandwidth to transfer data and a lot of CPU usage to decode. [. . . ]