Compro Technology VideoMate U680F Startup Manual

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• Compro Technology VideoMate U680F, 2 Copyright © 2001-2010. Compro Technology, Inc. No part of this document may be copied or reproduced in any form or by any means without the prior written consent of Compro Technology, Inc. Compro, VideoMate and the Compro logo are trademarks of Compro Technology, Inc. Other names and marks are trademarks of their respective owners. Compro makes no warranties with respect to this documentation and disclaims any implied warrantie

• Compro Technology VideoMate U680F, 3 Table of Contents VideoMate U680F DVB-T Stick ..................................... 4 VideoMate U680F Contents .......................................... 5 Software Installation ..................................................... 5 Windows Media Center Remote for U680F ................. 7 ComproDTV Gadget Tool for Vista/Win 7 ................. 10 ComproDTV 4.5 ........................................................... 13 ComproFM 2 ................................................................ 21 Troubleshooting .......................................................... 22

• Compro Technology VideoMate U680F, 4 VideoMate U680F DVB-T Stick VideoMate U680F lets you watch/record digital TV broadcast on your PC. VideoMate U680F features a TV tuner for either digital TV/DAB/DAB+ broadcast or analog FM signals reception, Digital Video Recording (DVR) functions, scheduled recording at anytime, crystal video quality, intelligent TV viewing and multi-functional WMC Remote Control. MINIMUM SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS Your PC must meet or exceed the following system requirements to watch TV on your PC.  PIII 1.7 GHz CPU for TV viewing  51

• Compro Technology VideoMate U680F, 5 VideoMate U680F Contents Note In order to receive digital terrestrial TV broadcast, you have to have your own antenna which is crucial. Digital terrestrial TV broadcast uses about the same wave (UHF) as analog TV. It’s recommended to have a fishbone-like antenna on the roof for receiving. More details can be found in the troubleshooting chapter of this manual. Digital TV broadcast is different than normal analog TV. You will see no picture instead of noisy or blurred picture when the signal is too weak. Make sure you have a good antenna and strong digital TV signal in your location. Or you will have no TV picture at all

• 6 Software Installation Start the computer. Make sure VideoMate U680F is connected to your computer and insert the installation CD into your CD drive. Step 1. After restarting, Windows will detect a new device and start the Add/Remove Hardware Wizard, please press Cancel and go to the next step. Step 2. Insert the installation CD

• Compro Technology VideoMate U680F, 7 Windows Media Center Remote for U680F Compro VideoMate U680F bundles the easy-to-use Microsoft certified remote control to controls the Windows Media Center and also ComproDTV, ComproFM software. Some keys are special designed for Windows 7/Vista Home Premium/Professional/Ultimate, it may not be used in Windows XP system.

• 8 No. ComproDTV 4 ComproFM 2 WMC 0-9 Number Key Preset stations Number Key 10 Into sleep mode Into sleep mode Into sleep mode 11 Videos (WMC) Videos (WMC) Videos (WMC) 12 Radio (WMC) Radio (WMC) Radio (WMC) 13 Music (WMC) Music (WMC) Music (WMC) 14 Pictures (WMC) Pictures (WMC) Pictures (WMC) 15 R

• Compro Technology VideoMate U680F, 9 Remote Power Off There are two situations for this operation. When not watching TV, i.e. no ComproDTV 4.5 running: Just press the “CLEAR” button on the lower-left corner on the remote keypad; you will see a dialog as shown below. Program will countdown 20 seconds to shutdown the computer. If you don’t want to shut down the computer, please press the CLEAR button again, in other words, pressing the CLEAR key a second time is the same as pressing the “Cancel” button. You may also use your mouse to press the cancel button. Press OK to immediat

• 10 ComproDTV Gadget Tool for Vista/Win 7 The Compro gadget tool is designed to provide the more convenient TV experience in Windows Vista/7. It will be installed from the Compro installation CD, and you can delete and add it from gadget setup. Note 1. Gadget Tool is meant for Vista/Win 7 32 bit operation system only. 2. Vista Gadget Tool needs the channel table fr

• Compro Technology VideoMate U680F, 11 If clicking any files, the gadget will change to play mode from playlist mode, then playing the file you clicked. Scheduler list mode: This mode will display the top 5 of your current scheduled list, you can click any of the scheduled item and check the detail information of it. The last mode is schedule view which has two different parts. First, there is a table that has five rows; it means that schedule view will allow the first five schedules in the list. Second, if clicking the item, it will change to another part, which show in detail about the schedule yo

• Compro Technology VideoMate U680F, 12 Gadget Settings Settings of gadget have four parts included:  Capture device: to select capture devices. (when running gadget first time or having more than one device, this item is needed)  Quality setting : to select recording quality Normal, Better, Best Quality  Record folder: a directory to place recorded files.  Snapshot folder: a directory to place picture.

• Compro Technology VideoMate U680F, 13 ComproDTV 4.5 Control Panel The DTV 4.5 control panel provides button controls for TV channel selection, video recording, image capture and more. The table below describe the functions of the buttons of DTV 4.5 control panel Windows Control Help (H) Docking (D) Minimize (G) Maximize (Z) Exit (CTRL+X) Volume Increase Volume (+) Decrease Volume (-) Mute (M) TV Channel Control Channel Up (Page Up) Channel Down (Page Down)

• Compro Technology VideoMate U680F, 14 Channel Return (N) Repeat Recorded Files (CTRL+P) Options / Video Recoder Function Options (O) Rewind (Left Arrow) Stop (S) Play (P) Fast Forward (Right Arrow) Pause (U) Record (R) Record Option (Ctrl+R) Special Function EPG (E) Channel Surfing (F) Closed Caption (C) Snapshot (Space) Timeshift (T) Teletext (X) Schedule (B) Video Source (V) Add Windows (F3) ______________________________________________________________ Note Please note that not all options are availabl

• Compro Technology VideoMate U680F, 15 Options Press the Options button to open the Options dialog box. You can change detail settings of ComproDTV 4.5 here. TV Settings This option gives you the way to manually select TV system and set the method of scanning TV programs. Choose ” Input Type” Check the ”Device List” Country /Region Autoscan Autoscan The first time you start ComproDTV 4.5, Autoscan will automatically scan for available TV channels for TV signals. You can rescan the channels at any time by pressing the Autoscan button. Also, you can enable the advanced autoscan for more precision scan result.

• 16 Listen to DAB/DAB+ digital audio broadcasting After you scan all the available DAB/DAB+ channels in the setup, you can listen to the digital audio channels by click the video source button . Channel Naming You can customize the channel names by double-click on the CH Name field of the channel you wish to rename. Import and E

• Compro Technology VideoMate U680F, 18 Channel Surfing While watching TV, the channel surfing feature gives you an overview of available programs. Double click the channel screen can direct jump to the channel you want. PIP/POP mode You can watch 1 main live digital TV and 3 sub digital TV channel, and also playback recorded video file at the same time. You can press the Add/Reduce Window / button to open a slave window for that. Main window has all features while slave window has limited functions only. Double-click on the slave window can switch the TV program to the main window. Alignment Window button will put slave window(s) into main win

• Compro Technology VideoMate U680F, 19 Video Desktop While watching TV, you may right-click on the TV screen and select video on desktop or press the hotkey (F7) to activate Video Desktop mode. This mode makes the video source as your desktop screen. It is similar with full screen but the desktop icons and taskbar will remain on top. The following picture shows the TV on the desktop. For the Video Desktop feature, you need to enable the “Use Overlay Surface” feature. OptionsVideo/AudioSelect “Use Overlay Surface”

• Compro Technology VideoMate U680F, 20 Recording ComproDTV 4.5 supports H.264/ MPEG-2/TS formats recording in digital TV. To instantly start recording: Press the Record button .ComproDTV 4.5 starts recording the video source currently showing in the display window. It will save it to a file on your disk. If you already start recording, you still can click the record button to setup 30, 60, 90, and 120 minutes recording immediately. Thus, you can go out without worry about the record still ongoing. Press the Stop button to stop recording. ComproDTV 4.5 will save it automatically and show the file name on the screen. You can also use the

• Compro Technology VideoMate U680F, 21 ComproFM 2 Introduction ComproFM lets you enjoy FM radio programs on your PC. Listen to music or other programs while you work or browse the Internet. Note The hardware needs to have FM tuner in order to use ComproFM. This section provides basic information for ComproFM. For more details, please check the help file of ComproFM or the manual in the installation CD. Control Panel The following describe the ComproFM control panel functions, and tips for using ComproFM. The following figure gives you the function of the button with (Hot Key.) Options (S) Close (CTRL+W) Last Channel (N) Backward () Schedule

• Compro Technology VideoMate U680F, 22 Troubleshooting Troubleshooting steps If you have problem installing or running VideoMate U680F, please check the following by step: 1. USB 2.0 issue: you need to check your computer has USB 2.0 or not. Usually you will see “USB 2.0 Root Hub” device in the "Sound, video and game controllers" section of Windows Device Manager. 2. Driver issue: You should see "VideoMate U680F" drivers, in the "Sound, video and game controllers" section of Windows Device Manager. If these drivers are not there, reinstalling the VideoMate U680F drivers can

• Compro Technology VideoMate U680F, 23 Why does the remote control fail? Verify that the IR icon (ComproRemote) is in the system tray on the lower-right corner of the screen. If you don't have ComproRemote on the system tray, start the following program: C:\Program Files\ Common Files\VideoMate\ComproRemoteDTV.exe Then you should see the icon on the system tray. The IR icon should turn bright when you press buttons on the remote. If you see no response, please move your mouse cursor

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