Getting Started; System Requirements - VisionTek Theater 550 PRO User Manual

Important !!!!!!!
This manual covers two different VisionTek Theater 550 Pro product solutions:
(1) The VisionTek XTASY Theater 550 Pro Media Center Edition version with remote control
(2) VisionTek Theater 550 Pro Windows XP version without remote control.

Getting Started

CHAPTER 1:
Congratulations on your purchase of the VisionTek Theater 550 Pro TV Tuner card/PVR solution. Your VisionTek
THEATER™ 550 PRO TV tuner card is an advanced, analog TV tuner card that represents a vast improvement in
both video and audio quality over previous PC TV tuner products. The THEATER™ 550 PRO TV tuner card uses
hardware MPEG encoding and digital audio.
The THEATER™ 550 PRO TV tuner card provides the following features:
• NTSC analog video decoding with motion-adaptive 3D comb filtering (depending on region).
• Worldwide, analog, stereo audio decoding with digital output to the PC.
• FM radio.
• MPEG-1 Layer II, 2-channel audio encoding.
• High quality MPEG-2 video encoder.
• Hardware noise reduction.
Watch television on your computer! You can receive up to 125 cable television channels and 70 antenna channels in
smooth, full-motion video, and view them on the whole screen or in a window.

System Requirements

Hardware • Intel® Pentium® 4 or Celeron®, AMD Athlon® or
Sempron® (or compatible).
• Sound card and speakers.
• 128 MB of system memory; 256 MB or more is
recommended for best performance.
• Motherboard with a free 3.3V PCI slot.
• CD-ROM drive (for installation software).
• A DirectX 9 supported graphics card is recommended
for optimal display output quality.
• Cable TV signal or amplified antenna.
Internet connection to retrieve electronic programming
guide
Operating • Windows® XP Media Center Edition® 2005
System
• Windows® XP (Professional or Home, Service Pack 2)
Decoder • You must have an MPEG decoder (DVD or media
player) already on your system in order to play back
MPEG video captured by the THEATER™ 550 PRO-
based TV tuner card.
Monitor • High-resolution MultiSync or multi-frequency monitors
or any other type of VGA monitor.
• Digital flat-panel (DFP) displays or digital CRT display.
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