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Compro VideoMate X50 Review
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Product: Manufacturer: Supplied by: Price: Review Date: VideoMate X50 Compro ARES Technology RM180 19th Nov 2005 Compro is one of the famous brands that produces...
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ComproPVR 2 Cont..
File Split Size will automatic split the recorded file to smaller size. The Quality and CODEC settings are described at below.
There are 2 formats to be chosen; MPEG-1 or MPEG-2. MPEG-1 is VCD quality while MPEG-2 is DVD quality. Dimension is the resolution size. Video/ Audio Bit Rate is expressed in KB/S. The higher KB/S, the more processing power and disk spare are required. Standard DVD audio frequency is 48KHz while other formats use 44.41KHz. When enable the Lock Current Channel Recording, channel switching is not allowed.
CODECs encode to and decode from video files, usually with a compression scheme, examples include, MPEG-4 and DiVX CODECs. In addition to the CODEC supplied by Compro, ComproPVR can use third-party CODECs that are already installed on the system. Select “Use Custom Encoder?in other to use third-party CODECs.
Path is the storing location for the Snapshot. Two kind picture format are supported; JPEG and BMP. The Aspect Ratio is the select the picture size ratio. Standard TV sets trim the edges of the TV picture but ComproPVR, on the other hand, can show you the entire picture, including the "green line"; the static strip. Video Trim is able to adjust the static strip. When OSD is enable, channel information such as channel numbers, channel names, and audio quality will be displayed when channel switching. The text color, position, and size can be customized. OSD can show two fields of Channel Info. One is Channel number. The other is Description.
While watching TV, the channel surfing feature displays a 4x4 grid of channel images to give you an overview of available programming.
Still Image Capture is allowed where six serial shoot will be shooted at once at 640x480 size. There are BMP and JPEG format available for snapshot file type.
System Devices Options, Scheduled Program Lists and Scheduled Recording Settings for the ComproPVR 2 are same as the System Devices Options for the ComproFM 2.
Performance
The TV tuner quality is fair but not very good because we have compared it with another old Model Compro TV card (VideoMate TV PVR). Since Compro Videomate X50 is a value card so the TV tuner quality is still acceptable. We found that the sound volume of the ComproPVR2 is low if compared with the ComproFM 2. We have to turn the speaker volume to a very high level to be able to hear it clearer. The recorded TV show is as clear as the live and it isn’t lagging but make sure the source is clear as the recorded file will not clearer than the source.
Article Index
1 - Introduction, Specifications and Features
2 - Packaging
3 - Videomate X50
4 - ComproFM 2
5 - ComproPVR 2
6 - ComproPVR 2 Cond?/option>
7 - Conclusion
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