Bundled with Microsoft certified remote control for Windows Media Center

The bundled Microsoft certified remote control for Windows Media Center can directly support analog TV watching/recording in Windows Media Center of Vista Premium/Ultimate. It also supports to control ComproDTV 4 and ComproFM 2. With this powerful remote, you can watch and record TV, timeshifting, listen to FM radio, watch DVD, and control Power On/Off in hibernation or standby mode.

* The Windows XP users can also use the remove to control all functons except the Media Center of Vista Premium/Ultimate.

Certified MPEG-2 encoder directly supports TV watching and recording in Windows Media Center

The included Microsoft certified MPEG-2 encoder supports the software encoding TV card (Analog TV, ATSC, and DVB-T) to watch and record the TV shows in Windows Media Center.

HID (Human Interface Device) for Remote

The HID (Human Interface Device) for Remote function allows you to create your own remote. Users can make their own remote control key definitions to run Windows applications.

Exclusive Vista Gadget Tool

• VideoMate Vista U890F TV Stick provides the useful Vista Gadget tool to watch live TV directly from your Vista sidebar. Also, you can check schedule list and playback list from this tool.

• Vista Gadget is meant for Vista 32 bit operation system only.

Exclusive Windows Media Center scheduled recording list integration

It is easier to use the integrated Windows Media Center scheduled recording list controlling the scheduled recording.

Video/Audio input, captures and edits your own DVD

VideoMate Vista U890F TV Stick providesS-Video/composite video and stereo audio capture feature. User can easy connect with camcorder, VCR, VCD or DVD players to transfer video files into digital formats in anytime, anywhere. And create your own VCD, DVD to share with your friends

Straight-to-Disc video recording

VideoMate Vista U890F provides the convenient Straight-to-Disc video recording to directly record the TV shows on CD-ROM and DVD-ROM discs. It can save your hard disk space and editing time.

Advanced PIP/POP Feature

The advanced Picture in/out Picture feature lets you watching live TV show and playback recorded video file at the same time. You can switch the main/sub windows display as you’re required to use the PIP mode for more convenience.

Convinent Video Desktop

With the Video Desktop feature, you can set your TV watching screen as the live wallpaper. It is more convenient to watch TV and use other application on your Windows' desktop at the same time. It also supports PIP feature to watch TV and playback recorded video file.

Timeshift and Instant Replay Live TV

Timeshifting lets you control your TV viewing like never before. Timeshifting temporarily 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.

Picture Purifying Technology

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For crystal-clear picture quality

The VideoMate U890F build-in the advanced high-quality silicon tuner and professional media processor chip provides more vivid, less noisy, and sharper picture quality that outperforms standard TV sets.

• 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.