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Introduction to Compro VideoMate E500 TV card Review
Bluetooth 12 Jul 2007

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Introduction

If you have been reading our reviews, we have reviewed quite a number of HDTV ready mATX boards in the past months. Most of these boards, be it for the Intel or AMD platform based on the ATi RS600 or RS690 (690G) has the capability to decode the blu-ray or HD DVD movies at low CPU utilisation.

Blu-RAY and HDDVD titles are still readily available and it might will only mean that you would probably watch terrestial tv broadcasts on your PC.

As most of the boards these days all comes with a PCIe x1 which is left unused, Compro came out with a PCIe x1 TV tuner card which will fit into these mATX boards. Using PCIe x1, it has more bandwidth than the older PCI bus. Furthermore, the card is smaller and low profile design, this helps to cool down the system too.

Compro Videomate E500 is a PCI-Express universal analog TV/FM capture card, with high bandwidth and speed. It brings worldwide analog TV/FM broadcasts to your desktop PC, and turns your computer into a home entertainment center by bringing you TV viewing/recording, video/audio capturing, and high quality 480i/576i component video input. It is certified for Windows Vista.

With Compro’s exclusive ComproDTV 3 software, you can awtch analog tv broadcasts (PAL/NTSC/SECAM) and record shows. You can even watch timeshift live TV, channel surf, single/sequentially capture still frames, Straight-to-Disc record of your TV shows, and customize brightness, hue, saturation, contrast, sharpness, TV formats and Dual Sound (NICAM) in each TV channel.

In addition, VideoMate E500 comes richly bundled with ComproDVD 2 for CD/DVD playback, ComproFM 2 for FM radio listening and MP3 recording, Ulead PhotoExplorer 8.5 SE for managing your media files, and Ulead DVD MovieFactory 4 SE for DVD authoring. With the ergonomics remote control and powerful features, VideoMate E500 TV card is undoubtedly your best TV and video choice.

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