Compro
We stopped by to visit with the very friendly staff at the Compro booth to see what new and exciting products they are releasing this year. Compro is a company many of you may not have heard of, but they're looking to increase their presence in the North American market.
One of the more interesting products we noticed is the VideoMate V550 Standalone TV box. The V550 will let you turn your computer monitor into a TV. It is designed to allow watching of analog TV shows on your CRT/LCD/PDP monitor. Simply connect your TV antenna or cable feed to the box and then connect your monitor. The system does not require software driver installation for your PC. The VideoMate V550 provides up to 1600 x 1200 screen resolutions and standard 4:3, 16:9 /16:10 wide-screen LCD monitor support. The box has built-in 2D/3D Y/C separation, enhanced noise reduction, and 3D motion adaptive de-interlacing along with PIP that allows you to watch live TV and use other Windows applications at the same time. You can also preview 9 channels on one screen and connect the TV box with a DVD player, or Xbox/PS 2 game console to watch DVD movies or play games on your monitor. After using the unit, our current request to Compro is to add DVI support in the next upgrade.
The VideoMate U890 is a USB 2.0 TV Tuner stick with remote control. This very portable device allows you to watch TV on your notebook or PC by just plugging it into an available USB 2.0 capable port and attaching your TV antenna or cable feed. The unit supports universal TV standards and with the included ComproPVR 2 software, you can watch TV shows in a window or full screen mode. The software also allows recording into MPEG- 1/2/4 formats and DVD/VCD, timeshifting, channel surfing, and still frames capture with hotkey/mouse.
The VideoMate U2700 is a Hybrid USB 2.0 Analog and DVB-T TV tuner box with full support for all DVB-T audio formats.
We stopped by to visit with the very friendly staff at the Compro booth to see what new and exciting products they are releasing this year. Compro is a company many of you may not have heard of, but they're looking to increase their presence in the North American market.
One of the more interesting products we noticed is the VideoMate V550 Standalone TV box. The V550 will let you turn your computer monitor into a TV. It is designed to allow watching of analog TV shows on your CRT/LCD/PDP monitor. Simply connect your TV antenna or cable feed to the box and then connect your monitor. The system does not require software driver installation for your PC. The VideoMate V550 provides up to 1600 x 1200 screen resolutions and standard 4:3, 16:9 /16:10 wide-screen LCD monitor support. The box has built-in 2D/3D Y/C separation, enhanced noise reduction, and 3D motion adaptive de-interlacing along with PIP that allows you to watch live TV and use other Windows applications at the same time. You can also preview 9 channels on one screen and connect the TV box with a DVD player, or Xbox/PS 2 game console to watch DVD movies or play games on your monitor. After using the unit, our current request to Compro is to add DVI support in the next upgrade.
The VideoMate U890 is a USB 2.0 TV Tuner stick with remote control. This very portable device allows you to watch TV on your notebook or PC by just plugging it into an available USB 2.0 capable port and attaching your TV antenna or cable feed. The unit supports universal TV standards and with the included ComproPVR 2 software, you can watch TV shows in a window or full screen mode. The software also allows recording into MPEG- 1/2/4 formats and DVD/VCD, timeshifting, channel surfing, and still frames capture with hotkey/mouse.
The VideoMate U2700 is a Hybrid USB 2.0 Analog and DVB-T TV tuner box with full support for all DVB-T audio formats.
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Avalon - Tuesday, June 13, 2006 - link
Too bad Geil's new enthusiast memory line is Black Dragon instead of Golden Dragon. I had some DDR Golden Dragon stuff, and it was awesome...very nice looking modules too.Skobbolop - Monday, June 12, 2006 - link
haha.. :D that's so typical. after i posted my comment i just wanted to give the compro USB tuner another shot. and after som tweaking and minor adjustment is actually is quite good. Not as good as a standard televison, but watchable.Sorry.
ps. i still get a lot of those products returned though.. i wonder why.
Gary Key - Monday, June 12, 2006 - link
We found their latest products to be on par with others at the show. I think the latest update to the PVR2 software is what made the difference. After comparing the two releases, I can understand why some people would return the product. We were allowed to play with their Release 3 software and were quite impressed. We will have a couple of reviews of their products up in July.Skobbolop - Monday, June 12, 2006 - link
Well. I sell Compro products and i get alot of them returned. The customers are simply not satisfied with the quality. Don't know about the new products though.i've personally tried an analogue USB tuner for a short period of time and i can't say that i was impressed. That said, i've never really tried any other external tv tuner, so i wasn't quite sure what i was expecting when i tried the compro device.
sprockkets - Monday, June 12, 2006 - link
Hope people know push email is only with Exchange, and good luck getting it to work.xsilver - Monday, June 12, 2006 - link
I thought there was a limited timetable for moving to ddr3; but now there is one??does ddr3 just bring more bandwith improvements and lower power use at cost of latency again or is there more?
Gary Key - Monday, June 12, 2006 - link
DDR3 allows higher clocks which will eventually equate into additional bandwidth although none of the mainstream processors are currently starved for bandwidth with DDR2. Some of the original product roadmaps from SIS and Intel showed DDR3 capable chipsets in Q4 of this year. It now appears these plans have slid to late Q1 / early Q2 of next year. DDR3 samples we noticed were at CAS7 settings, for DDR3, CAS5 will be considered very low latency.