Compro VideoMate TV Ultra turns your PC into a consumer product by the exclusive Remote Control Power On/Off and Power Up Scheduling features. It can power up and shut down the system from one-touch of remote control, just like using the VCR or TV set. VideoMate TV Ultra also supports all video related functions: watching TV on your PC, recording programs from cable TV, editing recorded files, and so on. Actually VideoMate TV Ultra 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 ultra will be you best shot.

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Remote Control Power On/Off

Extend the exclusive Power Up Scheduling feature. VideoMate TV Ultra provides the more convenient features of Remote Control Power On/Off. You can use the bundled remote control to boot up or shut down your PC, just like consumer product.

You can Power On your system by press any one of the PVR, TV or FM button. And press the SLEEP key to setup sleep time or shut down your system. It's more convenient when you setting on the sofa or lying on the bed.

3D Y/C Separation*

VideoMate TV Ultra adopts NEC D64083 chipset to provide 2D Y/C separation, 3D Y/C separation, and DNR (Digital Noise Reduction). It can separation video inputs into Luminance and Chrominance from TV / Composite signal. Also, the NEC 3D Y/C separation chipset can reduce video noise from S-video signals and sharpen text and brighten the live programs.

For optimize the use of the 3D Y/C separation chip. Compro provide the unique Tweak Y/C utility to enable users to adjust all parameters on Y/C separation and noise reduction

* NEC 3D Y/C separation chipset and related features only apply in NTSC system.

Compro 3D Y/C Separation Introduction

Power Up

Indeed, one of the most powerful features of Compro VideoMate TV Ultra is “Power Up Scheduling”, which can wake up your PC from S3, S4*, and S5 mode and automatically record your favorite programs into your hard disk. By doing this, you can do video editing as well, such as cutting commercials. In short, with Power Up Scheduling, you don't have to hurry home to watch MLB World Series. You can even setup Power Up Scheduling to record “Friends” from Monday to Friday.

* S4 power up needs the motherboard support S4 mode power management

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
• Multi 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.
• High-quality SMD capacitors – VideoMate TV Ultra use the SMD capacitors, which being used in most of the high-end graphics cards.
• 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.

FM radio

In addition, VideoMate TV Ultra also supports FM radio listening. As long as you connect FM antenna, which is bundled in the VideoMate TV Ultra 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 TV Ultra, you may consider throwing away your VCR and cassette player.