Instant TV: English Watch and Record TV Shows on CD or DVD User's Guide: First Edition Instant TV ADS Tech North America Support Hours: M-F : 8 am - 5 pm, PST Email : support@adstech.com website : www.adstech.com Tech Table of Contents Introduction. Installing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 7 Installation Instructions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Instant TV. Video@Home Instructions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Video@Home Index. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Help Resources. . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Service and Warranty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 FCC Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 © 2004 ADS Technologies. All Rights Reserved First Edition: January, 2004 Microsoft, MS-DOS, Windows, Windows 95, Windows 98SE, Windows 2000, Windows ME and Windows XP are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. IBM is a registered trademark of the International Business Machines, Inc. ADS is a registered trademark of ADS Technologies Inc. ADS Technologies (ADS) makes no warranty of any kind with regard to this material, including but not limited to, the implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose. The information furnished within this written document is for information purposes only and is subject to change without notice. ADS Technologies assumes no responsibility or liability for any errors or inaccuracies that may appear herein. ADS makes no commitment to update or to keep current information contained within this document. (rtt) 3 Introduction Package Contents: · · · · · Instant TV USB 2.0 TV Tuner device Instant TV Remote Control Battery for Remote Control 6 ft. USB cable 6 ft. A/V cable - Yellow, Red and White RCA to Yellow RCA/3.5mm Mini Stereo cable · Instant TV CD containing: · Instant TV audio and video drivers · Video@Home 2 TV watching and recording application · Windows Media Encoder · User's Guide System Requirements: · Intel Pentium IV 2 GHz or faster · Windows XP (home or professional) · 256 MB of RAM · Available USB 2.0 port · Microsoft USB 2.0 drivers · 30 MB of free hard disk space for software installation · CD-ROM drive for software installation · Sound card · AGP 2X Graphics card running at 800 x 600 or higher resolution · Internet Connection to access www.TitanTv.com · 4 GB of hard drive space for approximately 2 hours of TV record time Features: · USB 2.0 connection to the PC · Capture audio and video via the USB 2.0 port · Pause live TV in Time-Shift mode · Use remote to jump to last viewed channel · Time-Shift Recording - Rewind, pause or fast forward live TV · Scheduled recording with Electronic Program Guide (www.TitanTv.com) · Full screen TV viewing on PC monitor · Record video from any analog video source · Direct to Disk capture - Capture TV shows directly to re-writable disks (CD-RW, DVD+RW or DVD-RW disks) · Edit and update re-writable disks - Add shows to a disk, add chapters and menus · Integration with full DVD Authoring software applications * DVD burner for burning DVD disks * CD burner for burning VCD and SVCD disks 4 I N S T A L L AT I O N GUIDE NOTE: INSERT the CD and install the Drivers before plugging the Instant TV Device in your computer! 5 Instant TV lets you capture video in VCD, SVCD or DVD video formats you can easily and quickly archive your TV shows to disk. Instant TV captures video in the correct format so you don't have to waste time converting the video before you burn to disk. And if you use CD-RW or DVD+RW/DVD-RW disks you can record direct to disk. Now you can easily create your library of TV shows on disk that you can playback on the home DVD player. T h e I nstant T V Hardware: The Instant TV has the following connections: · USB Port (USB 2.0 ONLY) · Audio In (to record audio from external audio/video sources) · Audio Out (pass-through audio from external sources) · RCA (composite) Video In · S-Video (Y/C) Video In · Cable TV connector (F-Connector for NTSC, IEC for PAL) USB Port - The USB Connection for this product is for USB 2.0 connections only. USB 2.0 is required because the video is coming from the Instant TV device as un-compressed RAW (YUV) video. Your PC and the Video@Home software will do the work to convert the video stream into VCD, SVCD or DVD video files. Audio In - The audio in 3.5mm stereo jack is used to capture audio from your video sources. Use the A/V cable included to connect your other video sources such as VCR's, Camcorders, DVD players, etc. to the Instant TV for recording video from these sources to your computer hard drive. Audio Out - This is audio pass-through from your external video sources such as VCR's or DVD players. The Instant TV device is a capture only device. There is no audio or video export on this model. 6 RCA Video In - Use the supplied A/V cable to connect other video sources to this video input jack. S-Video In - If you have video sources with an S-Video output, you can connect an S-Video cable (not supplied) to Instant TV to capture from S-Video sources. Generally S-Video provides improved video quality over RCA (composite) video sources. TV Tuner - The Instant TV includes a Cable Ready TV tuner. Connect your cable TV source to Instant TV to tune up to 125 channels of Cable television. Installing your Instant TV Follow these easy steps to install the Instant TV hardware and software and you'll be watching and recording TV on your Windows XP PC in minutes. I m p o r tant Note Before you Star t: The Installation of the Instant TV hardware and device drivers is quick and simple. Please follow the instructions to install the drivers first, before connecting the Instant TV hardware to your PC. The Driver Install step will check for a Microsoft USB Update. This patch has already been distributed by Microsoft's Windows Update. If your updates are current, you probably already have this update. If this patch is not present on your system, we will install the patch during this installation step. Once the patch is installed you will be required to re-boot your PC. Once you have installed the drivers and the Microsoft update, then you can connect the Instant TV device to your USB 2.0 port, Instant TV will be recognized and the drivers will load. 7 Please follow the steps as outlined below: Install Drivers 1.) Insert the Instant TV CD into your Windows XP CD-ROM drive. 2.) Double Click the Drivers button on the Launch screen. 3.) During the Driver install process an update from Microsoft for your Windows XP system will also be installed (Fig. 1), if it is not already present on your Fig. 1 system. 4.) If this Microsoft patch is installed, you will be asked to re-boot your PC. If the patch is already present on your system, this step is bypassed and the install process goes very quickly. Connect Instant TV to your PC 1.) Once your PC has restarted use the USB 2.0 cable supplied and connect the cable between a USB 2.0 port on your PC and the USB connection on the Instant TV. 2.) Windows will recognize the device and load the drivers associated with the Instant TV device. When the "New Hardware Wizard" appears on your Fig. 2 screen, Select "Install software Automatically" as shown in Fig. 2. There will be a video device driver and an audio device driver loaded, so you will go through this process twice. 3.) The drivers for Instant TV are Windows XP compatible but at the time of this printing, the device drivers have not yet been submitted to Microsoft for a digital signature. When you see the dialog box in Fig. 3, click "Continue Anyway" and the driver will install properly. Once the video device driver is loaded, you will go through this same process a second time to install the USB Audio driver. Fig. 3 4.) At the end of the installation process for both the Video and Audio drivers the New Hardware Wizard will confirm that it has finished installing the software ­ Click Finish. 5.) Connect a Cable TV source to the TV tuner or use the Audio/Video cables to connect to a video source such as a VCR. 6.) If you had any problems during hardware installation or you want to verify that the Instant TV is present and recognized by Windows, go to the trouble shooting steps for instructions on how to check Windows Hardware Device Manager. Your Hardware is Now Installed 8 Installing the Video@Home2 software 1.) Insert the USB Instant TV CD into your CD-Rom Drive 2.) Click the Video@Home 2 button on the launch screen. 3.) Follow the steps for Video@Home Installation. 4.) A Video@Home 2 icon will be placed on your computer desktop. 5.) Start the Video@Home 2 application by double clicking this icon. 6.) The complete guide to Video@home 2 can be found later in this User Guide. The USB Instant TV Remote Control Use the Remote Control just like you would any TV Remote control. This remote can open and Close the Video@Home application, change TV channels, raise and lower audio volume and even allow one button TV or video recording. Instant TV Remote Control Buttons Overview · Power - You can press the POWER button to open or close the Video@Home 2 application any time, as long as the Video@Home TV Scheduling icon is present in the icon tray on your Windows desktop. Input - The Input button allows you to switch from TV to RCA or S-Video inputs on the Instant TV device. Mute - Pressing the Mute button will mute the TV audio. Pressing a second time will un-mute the audio. T/S Time Shift Mode - Pressing the T/S button will put you into the Time-Shift mode in Video@Home. When you are in the Time-Shift mode you can pause, rewind and fast forward through TV shows. The Time-Shift mode creates a TV recording buffer that allows you use the Time-Shift features. Live - Use the LIVE button when in the Time-Shift mode to instantly go to the current Live broadcast. To exit Time-Shift mode, press the Stop button. · · · · 9 · · · · Vol + Pressing the Vol+ button will increase the audio monitoring level Vol - Pressing the Vol ­ button will decrease the audio monitoring level Record - Press the Record button to begin video recording. Play/Pause - Use the Play/Pause button to start playback or Pause video in the Time-Shift mode or when playing back previously recorded video. CH + Press the CH+ to change the TV Channel by incrementing up the channel list. CH - Press the CH- button to change the TV Channel by decrementing down the channel list. Rewind - Use the Rewind button to step through several rewind speeds in the Time-Shift mode or when watching pre-recorded video. Fast Forward - Use the Fast Forward button to step through several Fast Forward speed in Time-Shift mode or when watching pre-recorded video. STOP - Use the Stop Button to Stop video playback, Stop Recording or to Exit the Time-Shift mode. · · · · · · 0 ­ 9 buttons - Use the number buttons to change TV channels. You need to enter at least 2 digits to change a TV channel so tuning to channel 4 you would press 0 + 4, and for channel 39, you would press 3 + 9. · Jump - The Jump button will toggle between your current TV channel and the previously tuned channel. Use the Jump button to bounce between your two favorite TV stations. 10 Schedule Recordings with TitanTV.com (Internet Connection Required) You can use TitanTV.com to schedule automatic recording of TV shows on your computer. TitanTV is an Internet based TV scheduling website. They provide local TV and Cable listings for North America. To access TitanTV you will need to be connected to the Internet. Titan TV is a FREE service. You will never pay a subscription fee to automatically schedule your TV recordings. 1. Right Click the Video@Home2 Scheduling icon located in the task bar. 2. Click "Titan TV EPG Service" 3. Once the TitanTV website is loaded, Sign up as a NEW USER, it's FREE 4. Follow the Registration form instructions. 5. When you are asked "PVR/Tuner Type" ­ select Video@Home 2 6. Under Digital Tuner, leave these boxes un-checked. 7. On the Next screen you'll select your Cable Provider and SAVE your setup. 8. Click View Programming Grid to see the Electronic Program Guide showing programs in your area. 9. Click on any of the programs with the Red Dot to select this show for Automatic recording. Just click on the Red Dot and the Video@Home 2 Programming Guide will launch to confirm your recording choice. If you get a confirmation box from TitanTV, be sure to click "enable Single Click Recording". 10. Once a scheduled recording has been programmed, Video@Home will present the Scheduled Recordings box for confirmation. The sheduled recording will take place automatically as long as your PC is turned on and the Video@Home TV Scheduling Icon is displayed in your icon tray. 11 English edition for Ulead Video@Home 2, June 2003. © 2002-2003 Ulead Systems, Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by ...