VideoMate X500 equipped the new generation and high-quality silicon tuner for crystal clear universal PAL/SECAM/NTSC TV system reception and FM radio listening. Low-profile card design can easy to fit any PC case or bare-bone system. And VideoMate X500 provides Compro's exclusive Power Up Scheduling, Remote Controlled Power on/off, and superior video quality. VideoMate X500 turns your computer into a home entertainment center by bringing TV viewing and personal digital video recording (PVR) capabilities to your PC.

Universal PCI TV Tuner Card

VideoMate X500 built-in the advanced high-quality silicon tuner and only with low-profile card design, provides the powerful features with TV watching/recording, and supports universal TV system broadcasting reception (NTSC, PAL, and SECAM).

VideoMate X500 provide exclusive Remote Power On/Off function. With the brand new hardware design on VideoMate X500, your PC can be powered on/off by bundled remote control, just like your TV or VCR. It's more convenient when you're sitting on the sofa or lying in bed

• VideoMate X500 built-in enhanced Power Up Scheduling to automatically boot up your system for scheduled recording, and shutdown your system when recording is completed
• The worry-free way to record your favorite programs
• Topnotch Power Up circuit supports most mainboards at present

VideoMate X500 supports FM radio listening and MP3/WAV/WMA formats recording. As long as you connect FM antenna, which is bundled in the VideoMate X500 package, to the FM connector on the bracket, you can enjoy several benefits from that: listen to the live FM radio program, and synchronized record programs.

With Compro VideoMate X500, you may consider throwing away your VCR and cassette player.

Supports MPEG-1, MPEG-2, and plug-in MPEG-4 codec

VideoMate X500 support MPEG-1, MPEG-2 recording and 3rd party MPEG-4 codec plug-in. User can download and install the MPEG-4 codec from internet, then record video with MPEG-4 stream format. It can save more disk space and easy to share to your friends.

Besides Power Up Scheduling, people can also use timeshifting through ComproPVR 2. Timeshifting lets you control your TV viewing like never before. You can sit down to watch your favorite sporting event and pause the live action to help yourself to an ice cold beverage from the fridge and then return to your seat without missing a moment of the show. Timeshifting temporary saves the video for a user-defined amount time from now on in your hard disk. You can roll back to the time you left the seat.

For crystal-clear picture quality

The VideoMate X500 build-in the advanced high-quality silicon tuner and Conexant CX23883 10-bit ADC processor chip to provides more vivid, less noise, and sharper picture quality that outperforms standard TV sets.

In Software

• Noise Removal – In some of poor quality TV cable and video sources, the video includes a lot of noise. The noise removal feature can helps to remove the noise from video source and give you a clearer video.
• Deinterlacing – The video transmission in TV system is use interlacing, and this will has less flicker when screen is refreshed at twice the frame rate. But it will cause the bad video quality on the non-interlaced PC monitor. The compro deinterlacing technology will fix the interlacing problem and give you a clear picture on your system.
• Video Smoothing – When setup in the higher resolution of video (ex. 640*480) the video will appear aliasing (or jaggies). Aliasing is the stair-step effect on the edges of objects and can be extremely distracting for the PC user. The video smoothing technology provides more smoothing and nice looking video.