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CHAPTER 1:

Getting Started

The All-in-Wonder® X1900 Series graphics cards add TV, Personal Video Recording (PVR), and powerful video acceleration to your PC. You can use your All-in-Wonder® X1900 Series card to connect your computer to a television for playing games, giving presentations, watching movies, and browsing the Internet.

Several software features are included with your All-in-Wonder® X1900 to enhance your television experience. Your card’s advanced video recording and editing features give you video CD and DVD authoring capability.

When you connect a digital video camcorder to your All-in-Wonder® X1900 using the external IEEE 1394/FireWire® ports you can:

•Capture still images and analog video in MPEG-2 format at full 720x480 30 fps resolution.

•Use powerful video editing software to create your own personal video productions with special effects, transitions, sounds, and more.

•Create a home security system from your PC. You can capture images to a hard drive with a specified time lapse (e.g. once every 10 seconds) and play back the day’s happenings in your home or office.

All-in-Wonder® X1900 Series turns your PC into an intelligent TV with the following features:

TV-on-Demand™

ThruView™

 

 

MulTView™

TV Magazine™

 

 

EazyLook™

Zoom and pan

 

 

Scheduled viewing

Channel scanning

 

 

Video recording

Closed captioning with HotWords™

 

 

Program transcript recording

Interactive Program Guide (in

(North America only)

selected countries)