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Hardware Equipment

VideoMate TV Gold adapts high performance encoding chip, which provides topnotch processing ability, and can easily optimized picture quality. It also supports Composite(RCA), and S-Video converter. To make use all of these features, VideoMate TV Gold can make it practical to turn your PC into the ultimate home entertainment solution.

Key features

• High performance encoding chip
• Power Up Scheduling chip, support ACPI S3/S5 power up mode -- Power Up from shut down requires:
  1. ATX power supply
  2. Motherboard with PCI 2.2 or later
  3. 2-pin switch lead from case power switch (as shown below)
• MTS function supported
• PCI bus
• Golden bracket

Audio / video connectors

• 1 Composite (RCA) in
• 1 S-Video in
• Stereo in/out
• Antenna / Cable signal input
• IR remote control / receiver

Package contents

Users can find below items in VideoMate TV Gold package:

• VideoMate TV Gold PCI Tuner card
• IR remote control / IR receiver (with 2 AAA battery)
• Manual and quick installation guide
• Audio cable
• VideoMate TV Gold driver CD / Ulead DVD Movie Factory 2 SE CD

Connect different parts to VideoMate TV Gold PCI tuner card, users can run different functions (please find quick connection guide on the back of tuner card):

• TV:connect antenna or cable
• IR IN:connect to IR remote control
• Audio In:connect to Stereo appliances
• Audio Out:connect to audio card with audio cable in the package
• S-Video In: connect to satellite tuner, VCR, digital cam, etc.
• Composite IN:connect to VCR, DV, etc.

OS support

• Windows 98SE / Me
• Windows 2000
• Windows XP

System Requirements

• CPU
  400 MHz for TV viewing
  866 MHz for recording and timeshifting
  1.7 GHz for DVD-quality recording
• 128MB memory
• 10MB free hard disk space
• Audio card with Line-In connector
• Video card with overlay supported
• Available PCI 2.2 slot
• CD-ROM (for software installation)
• MS Windows XP/2000/Me/98SE
• Updated motherboard chipset drivers
• ATX power supply for Power Up

Video File Formats

* NTSC version