IR Blaster

The IR Blaster is an infra-red transmitter and receiver. As an IR Receiver the IR Blaster acts as a receiver for the Instant TV Deluxe remote control. As an IR Blaster the device gives you the power to control external TV receiver devices.

The IR Blaster is a very powerful addition to a TV Capture card. Today many people do not receive TV signals over conventional analog cable systems. Many households today get TV content delivered via digital cable or satellite TV receivers. Instant TV Deluxe, the IR Blaster and included software allow you to schedule recordings of your favorite TV shows and capture those programs to your computer hard drive, no matter how the TV signal is delivered to your home. The IR Blaster communicates with these external tuning devices and allows you to record TV shows to your computer via the RCA or S-Video cables instead of the cable ready tuner.

Important Note: The IR Blaster is a powerful IR transmitter/receiver device but please keep

in mind that Infra-red signals are a line of sight technology. IR signals cannot pass through walls. The IR Blaster can control devices that are in the same room or proximity to the IR Blaster device.

IR Blaster as a Remote Control Receiver

The Remote control and IR Receiver function of the IR Blaster gives you complete navigation and control of the Beyond TV and Quick DVD applications.

(See the Remote Control overview section for complete remote control review.)

Applications supported by IR Blaster receiver and Remote Control

-SnapStream Beyond TV 3.5 SE

-ArcSoft Quick DVD

-CapWiz – coming soon via a free internet download.

Note: Currently only the on-screen remote control is available for CapWiz. We will have a free download patch that adds remote control to CapWiz in the near future.

IR Blaster as an IR Code Transmitter – Blaster function

The IR Blaster is also a transmitter. It has been designed to allow you to control external TV tuning devices such as Cable Set Top boxes and Satellite receivers.

Applications supported by IR Blaster function:

-SnapStream Beyond TV 3.5 SE

When you run the Beyond TV Setup Wizard and choose Cable box or Satellite receiver as your TV source the IR Blaster will send codes to your tuning device to change channels. The Beyond TV setup Wizard lists several remotes in it’s database. If your device is not in the list you can “Teach” the IR Blaster your remote control codes. The IR Blaster will learn your TV Remote TV tuning codes so that the IR Blaster can change the channels on your Cable Set Top box or satellite receiver so you can schedule recordings and automatically change channels to record the correct show.

(see instructions on Beyond TV Setup Wizard for complete setup instructions)

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