Compro Technology, an innovative leading manufacturer and developer of PC multimedia products, has launched VideoMate E800, which is a hybrid advanced PCI-E interface DVB-T and analog TV/FM tuner card with powerful real-time hardware MPEG-2 encoding. You can hardware record DVD full-D1 / MPEG-2 TV shows and hardware timeshift for instant replay of live TV without heavy CPU loading as a high-end DVD recorder. E800 combined the hardware MPEG-2 encoding which brings high quality digital terrestrial TV and universal analog TV/FM broadcasts to your desktop PC. It turns your computer into a home entertainment center by bringing you digital/analog TV viewing, video/audio capturing, high quality 480i/576i component video input and is certified for Windows Vista 32 and 64 bit system.

Key features:

• Watch DVB-T digital TV or analog TV on your PC
• Built-in high-performance real-time hardware MPEG-2 processor
• Hybrid DVB-T and analog TV reception with FM radio
• Worldwide analog TV (NTSC/SECAM/PAL) reception
• High-Speed PCI-Express x 1 interface for better performance
• Supports 480i/576i component video input
• Digital TV supports SDTV and 1080i HDTV (where available)
• Supports SAP(MTS/NICAM)/Stereo in analog TV
• FM radio and MP3/WAV/WMA recording
• Timeshift to pause and instant replay of live TV
• Compro exclusive S5/S4/S3 mode Power Up Scheduled Recording
• Convenient Remote Controlled Power On/Off
• Hardware timeshifting for instant replay live TV without CPU resource
• Advanced PIP/POP feature can open up to 4 TV channel windows. You can watch live TV and playback 1 recorded video files at once
• Video Desktop can setup the live TV screen as wallpaper
• Customize Brightness, Hue, Saturation, Contrast, Sharpness, and TV/audio format in each TV channel
• Customize channel order and favorite channel list
• Straight-to-Disc recording for analog and digital TV
• Supports hardware MPEG-2 and software MPEG-1/2/4 recording for analog TV/video (The 3rd party MPEG-4 CODEC is required)
• Supports MPEG-2/Transport Stream record/playback in digital TV
• Digital TV supports EPG, subtitle, & Teletext (where available, does not support MHEG-5 in UK)
• Analog TV supports Closed Caption
• Single/Multiple still frame captures and remote snapshot
• Splits recording file size for different media in analog TV
• Pauses while recording to skip commercials in analog TV
• Fully functional IR remote for TV , FM, and DVD
• Captures analog video from Composite, S-Video or Component
• Microsoft MCE2005 and media center feature support in DVB-T
• Certified for Windows Vista 32/64 bit

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