ATI Technologies 550 manual Getting Started

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CHAPTER 1:

Getting Started

Your 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 or PAL 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.

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Contents Theater 550.book Page i Friday, January 21, 2005 931 AM Disclaimer Important Safety Instructions Theater 550.book Page iv Friday, January 21, 2005 931 AM Table of Contents Getting Started Operating System RequirementsHardware SystemInstalling Hardware Quick InstallationTo perform a quick installation Detailed Installation Installation DiagramInstalling your Theater 550 PRO TV tuner card Connecting Display Devices Theater 550 PRO TV tuner card BaseplateInstalling Software Installing Drivers and Software in WindowsSoftware Installation Prerequisites To install drivers To install software PowerCinema Select SETUP.EXE from the X\PCM\SETUP.EXEUsing Your Theater 550 PRO TV tuner card Launching your Theater 550 PRO TV tuner card Using Windows XP Media Center EditionUsing CyberLink PowerCinema To start TV from Windows XP Media Center EditionTheater 550.book Page 12 Friday, January 21, 2005 931 AM Using ATI Multimedia Center To start TV from the LaunchPadATI Launchpad Troubleshooting ReferenceUnexpectedly Video RecordingStops Dropped FramesWarranty Service Compliance InformationFCC Compliance Information Informations de conformité de la CE Industry Canada Compliance StatementCE Compliance Information CE-KonformitätserklärungTheater 550.book Page 18 Friday, January 21, 2005 931 AM