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VideoMate Action
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Features

VideoMate Action is a compact TV tuner box featuring USB 2.0 for real-time TV viewing, MPEG- 1/2/4 formats recording, timeshifting, still frame capture, video/audio capturing, with remote control without the need of an external power adaptor.

The VideoMate Action USB 2.0 TV Tuner Box series provides many different features for various needs. The VideoMate Action Ultra equipped with a 3D Y/C separation chip to separate the video inputs from TV and composite into Luminance and Chrominance signals for a crystal clear picture for watching, recording, and capturing, by simply plugging it into the USB 2.0 port of your desktop or laptop. Available in a convenient pocket-size figure, you can place it anywhere without moving any devices on your desk enabling you to watch TV programs anytime, anywhere. VideoMate Action also provides different main feature selections, the stereo version provides TV stereo (MTS or NICAM). The FM version allows you to listen the FM stereo radio on your PC and record as MP3 file format.

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Palm-size USB capture and tuner box

VideoMate Action is designed for user can take it to anywhere. Palm-size box can easily put into your pack, and connect with desktop or notebook PC immediately without open the system case. Card design remote control can let you easily to control the TV watching/recording, FM radio listening/recording(FM version), and DVD movies playing.


USB Bus Powered

VideoMate Action series tuner box using the easy-to-link USB bus power design, no external power adaptor required. It's more convenient to connect with desktop and notebook PC. Even the PAL/Stereo and 3D Y/C enabled version only need the USB Y cable for power supply.


Support MPEG-4 codec plug-in

VideoMate Action series support 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.


USB 2.0 high speed transportation plus Plug and Play

The TV tuner box with USB 1.1 interface has problem with higher resolution and good picture quality because of insufficiency for video transmission.

USB 2.0 interface is 40 times faster than USB 1.1 . It provides the high quality images and high-speed translation

VideoMate Live adapts high speed USB2.0 interface, faster than USB1.1 interface 40 times. Enable DVD quality bandwidth. Provide best video images and recording quality. VideoMate Live can also support USB1.0/1.1 interface which gives the wildest compatibility for all computers. (Note: USB1.0/1.1 interface has insufficient bandwidth for DVD quality video)


Picture Purifying Technology

Without Picture Purifying Technology

With Picture Purifying Technology

For crystal-clear picture quality

The VideoMate VideoMate Live USB 2.0 raises the performance standard for TV tuner cards with its Picture Purifying Technology in hardware design, all-new Philips digital/analog TV tuner and ComproDTV software. With the enhanced tuner card design, multiple voltage regulators, and hardware digital video scaling. Compro now 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.
 
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