Introduction

After spending hundreds of pounds on your top-notch new PC and an equally expensive monitor, you want to make the most of it. Rather than splitting your cash on a TV as well, why not use a TV tuner? Well today I have the Compro VideoMate T750 which will hopefully prove why.

About Compro

Compro Technology, the leading company to develop and market PC graphics and multimedia products. With highly motivated and experienced engineers, innovation is the main focus at Compro. We combine the latest hardware and software technologies to provide outstanding quality products on the rapidly evolving PC and multimedia market.

Founded in 1988, Compro initially focused on the OEM business by its excellent engineering and manufacturing skills to produce high quality products. In 2000, Compro cooperated with NVIDIA, the leading graphics chip developer, and released its first self-branded product, Personal Cinema – the first integrated multimedia solution that combined high performance graphics card with direct-link TV tuner box for a complete digital entertainment solution. Also, Compro launched VideoMate PC graphics products in 2002, a complete line of 3D graphics cards with abundant video features.
From 2003, Compro introduced VideoMate PCI TV tuner cards and USB 2.0 TV tuner boxes. With Compro exclusive Power Up Scheduling, Remote Controlled Power On/Off and Picture Purifying Technologies, Compro provides the best picture quality and gains lots of worldwide awards. In 2004, Compro completed the entire product lines from main-stream to high-end TV cards and USB TV boxes with superior picture quality and powerful features.

2005, the critical year of worldwide TV system changed from traditional analogue TV to high quality digital TV. Compro also launched a whole new digital TV product lines from PCI digital TV cards, USB digital TV boxes to the most convenient hybrid digital and analogue TV card to fulfil customers' needs in the digital world. In addition, Compro released several mini-size USB digital and analogue TV boxes and cardbus interface products to provide better mobility and picture quality for laptop PC users.
In 2006, Compro will keep introducing more new products with powerful easy-to-use features and crystal clears video quality, including hardware MPEG-2 MCE TV cards and USB boxes, dual digital TV, dual digital and analogue TV, PCI-E interface TV cards, digital satellite (DVB-S) TV cards, and standalone high resolution TV boxes. Integrated Compro's hardware/software specialists and exclusive technologies, Compro will continue to provide the best video quality robust products to market and make each PC user enjoy the excellent quality of TV experience. With innovative Compro products, you will never miss your favourite TV shows.

Specs

Compro VideoMate T750 is a dual PCI DVB-T and analogue TV/FM tuner card, which brings high quality digital terrestrial TV and universal analogue TV/FM broadcasts to your desktop PC, and turns your computer into a home entertainment centre by bringing digital/analogue TV viewing, video/audio capturing, and personal digital video recording (PVR) capabilities.

Bundled All-New version Compro exclusive ComproDTV 3 software, you can watch digital and analogue TV shows at the same time, flexible scheduled recording, play recorded files, timeshift live TV, channel surfing and capture still frames of your TV experience with this handy software; and support the all-new Picture in/out Picture not only allow you to watch live TV and playback video files, but also let you open up to 1 main channel and 3 sub channel windows at once; customize channel order and my favourite channel list for more easy-to-use; Video Desktop to setup the live TV screen in wallpaper mode, customize brightness, hue, saturation, contrast, sharpness, TV formats and language selection in each TV channel.

In addition, VideoMate T750 comes richly bundled with ComproDVD 2 and Ulead PhotoExplorer 8.5 SE software for watching DVD's and managing your multimedia files. Ulead DVD MovieFactory 4 SE for DVD authoring. With the remote control and powerful features, VideoMate T750 TV card is undoubtedly your best TV and video choice.

• Dual DVB-T and analogue TV reception with FM radio
• Worldwide analogue TV (NTSC/SECAM/PAL) reception
• All-New ComproDTV 3 for more powerful features
• Watch digital and analogue TV at the same time
• Support SAP(MTS/NICAM)/Stereo in analogue TV
• FM radio and MP3/WAV/WMA recording
• Compro exclusive Power Up Scheduled Recording
• Convenient Remote Controlled Power On/Off
• Digital TV support SDTV and HDTV (where available)
• Advanced PIP/POP feature can open up to 4 TV channel windows watch and also watch live TV, playback recorded video files at the same time
• Video Desktop to 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 favourite channel list
• Straight-to-Disc recording for analogue and digital TV
• Support MPEG-1/2/4 in analogue TV and video capture
• Support MPEG-2 recording in digital TV
• Support Transport Stream record and playback in digital TV
• Digital TV support EPG, subtitle, & Teletext (where available)
• Analog TV support Closed Caption and Teletext
• Multiple still frame captures and remote snapshot
• Support Straight-to-Disc recording in digital and analogue TV
• Split recording file size for different media in analogue TV
• Pause while recording to skip commercials in analogue TV
• Fully functional IR remote for TV , FM, and DVD
• Capture analogue video from Composite or S-Video
• Microsoft BDA driver
• Microsoft MCE2005 compatible in DVB-T