Compro VideoMate TV Gold supports all video related functions: watching TV on your PC, recording programs from cable TV, editing recorded video files, and so on. Actually VideoMate TV Gold is designed for people who care about both image quality and (space efficiency?). If you don't have enough space in your room, or want to place your PC in the living room for multimedia purpose, VideoMate TV Gold would be your best shot.

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Power Up

Among all the functions that VideoMate TV Gold can provide, Power Up Scheduling would be the most distinguished one, which can differentiate it from other PCI TV cards in the retail stores.

After setting up Power Up Scheduling, ComproPVR can power up your PC from both windows stand by (ACPI S3) or shutdown (ACPI S5) modes, and automatically record your favorite programs into hard disk. With the unique Power Up Scheduling function, you no longer need to hurry home to watch big games. Just set up Power Up Scheduling and record your favorite programs at any time.

Picture Purifying Technology

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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 Hardware:

• Philips SAA7133/7134 video encoder with ADC chip and new board design to provide clear picture quality
• Multiple Voltage Regulators – For more stable voltage and reduce the noise (caused by heat). In addition, the regulator on board is far away from TV tuner, but near bracket, which can help to remove the heat.
• Hardware Digital Video Scaling – User-define aspect ratio and faster video scaling and less system resource needed.

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.

Timeshifting

Besides Power Up Scheduling, people can also use timeshifting through ComproPVR. 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.