Compro VideoMate X500 is a universal PAL/SECAM/NTSC TV system tuner card with low-profile card design, Compro exclusive Power Up Scheduling , R emote C ontrolled Power on/off , FM radio listening, MP3 recording, and superior video quality. VideoMate TV X500 turns your computer into a home entertainment center by bringing TV viewing and personal digital video recording (PVR) capabilities to your PC.
Additional, VideoMate X500 equipped the new generation and high-quality silicon tuner for crystal clear universal PAL/SECAM/NTSC TV system reception. Low-profile card design can easy to fit any PC case or bare-bone system. Also, VideoMate X500 provides the special feature to customize the Brightness, Hue , Saturation, Contrast, and Sharpness in each TV channel , let you enjoy the best video quality in anytime.
For the best usability, VideoMate X500 is also accompanied by the latest ComproPVR 2 software to provide additional useful features, ComproDVD 2 for CD/DVD playback, ComproFM 2 for FM radio listening and MP3 recording, Ulead PtotoExplorer 8.5 SE for media files management, Ulead DVD MovieFactory 3 SE for DVD authoring, and Ulead VideoStudio 8 SE for video editing. All this hardware/software combination will enrich you PC entertainment life.
VideoMate X500 Product Key Features
- Conexant CX23883 10-bit ADC video processor
- High-quality silicon tuner for all PAL/SECAM/NTSC TV systems
- Power Up Scheduled Recording Never miss your favorite shows
- Exclusive Remote Controlled Power On/Off, just like your TV or VCR
- Low-profile card design to fit any standard or bare-bone systems
- Customize Brightness, Hue , Saturation, Contrast, and sharpness in each TV channel
- All-New ComproPVR 2 provides more enhanced features
- Supports S-Video, composite video and stereo audio capture
- Supports Closed Caption and Teletext (where available)
- Supports SAP (MTS or NICAM), stereo, and mono programs
- IR remote control for TV watch, record, FM radio, and DVD playback
- FM stereo radio and MP3/WAV/WMA format recording
- Internal and external stereo audio outputs
- Supports LCD monitor display
- Straight-to-Disc for direct burn TV shows on VCD and DVD
- ComproDVD 2 - Watch VCD and DVD movies on your PC with remote
- Bundles Ulead PhotoExplorer 8.5 SE, Ulead VideoStudio 8 SE, and Ulead DVD MovieFactory 3 SE
VideoMate X500 equipped the new generation and high-quality silicon tuner for crystal clear universal PAL/SECAM/NTSC TV system reception and FM radio listening. Low-profile card design can easy to fit any PC case or bare-bone system. And VideoMate X500 provides Compro's exclusive Power Up Scheduling, Remote Controlled Power on/off, and superior video quality. VideoMate X500 turns your computer into a home entertainment center by bringing TV viewing and personal digital video recording (PVR) capabilities to your PC.
Universal PCI TV Tuner Card
VideoMate X500 built-in the advanced high-quality silicon tuner and only with low-profile card design, provides the powerful features with TV watching/recording, and supports universal TV system broadcasting reception (NTSC, PAL, and SECAM).
Remote Control Power On/Off
VideoMate X500 provide exclusive Remote Power On/Off function. With the brand new hardware design on VideoMate X500, your PC can be powered on/off by bundled remote control, just like your TV or VCR. It's more convenient when you're sitting on the sofa or lying in bed
Enhanced Power Up Scheduled Recording
VideoMate X500 built-in enhanced Power Up Scheduling to automatically boot up your system for scheduled recording, and shutdown your system when recording is completed
- The worry-free way to record your favorite programs
- Topnotch Power Up circuit supports most mainboards at present
Video/audio capture
VideoMate X500 provide S-Video/composite video and stereo audio capture feature. User can easy connect with camcorder or VCR to transfer video files into digital formats in anytime, anywhere.
FM stereo radio and MP3 recording
VideoMate X500 supports FM radio listening and MP3/WAV/WMA formats recording. As long as you connect FM antenna, which is bundled in the VideoMate X500 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 X500, you may consider throwing away your VCR and cassette player.
Straight-to-Disc video recording
VideoMate X500 provide the convenient Straight-to-Disc video recording to direct record the TV shows on CD-ROM and DVD-ROM discs. It can save your harddisk space and editing time.
Supports MPEG-1, MPEG-2, and plug-in MPEG-4 codec
VideoMate X500 support MPEG-1, MPEG-2 recording and 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.
Timeshifting
Besides Power Up Scheduling, people can also use timeshifting through ComproPVR 2. 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.
Picture Purifying Technology
For crystal-clear picture quality
The VideoMate X500 build-in the advanced high-quality silicon tuner and Conexant CX23883 10-bit ADC processor chip to 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.
Video System TV format
NTSC, PAL, SECAM Capture format
NTSC, PAL, SECAM Video ADCs
10-bit Video CMOS Analog-to-Digital Converters (ADCs) Resolution (Screen size)
NTSC(720*480 / 640*480 / 480*480 / 352*240 / 320*240 / 176*144 / 160*120)
PAL (720*576 / 640*480 / 480*576 / 352*288 / 320*240 / 176*144 / 160*120) Video bit-rate
0.2M ~10 bit / second Video Compression
ISO / IEC 13818-2 (MPEG-2)
ISO / IEC 11172-2 (MPEG-1) Support Video Recording Formats
VCD / SVCD / DVD
MPEG-1 / MPEG-2 / MPEG-4 Audio System
Stereo format (Stereo version)
North America and Taiwan (BTSC and SAP)
Japan (EIAJ)
Europe (NICAM and A2/Dual-FM)
Audio ADCs
16-bit ADC converter
Sample rates
32KHz / 44.1KHz / 48KHz
Audio bit-rate
128k~384k bit/second
Audio Compression
ISO/IEC 11172-3 Layer 2 I/O Connectors External
- Analog TV cable/antenna input
- FM radio input
- 9-pin Mini-DIN connector (S-video, composite video input and stereo audio input/output)
- IR Receiver
Internal
- AUX-Out (4-pin, green)
- Power Up (2-pin x 2, white)
- Jumper to disable Power Up functions (Including Power Up Scheduling and Remote Power Up) Power
+3.3V
Max : 280m A
+5V
Max : 470m A
+3.3V AUX
Max : 90m A
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