Overview and Features

PVR For Your Desktop PC or Laptop
TV Wonder™ 200 USB 2.0 gives you the freedom to watch, pause and schedule recordings of high quality TV on either your laptop or desktop PC. Save your favorite shows to your hard drive, burn to DVD, or share with your portable media devices. Additionally, you can capture video from your VCR or camcorder and create a video library.  Continue to work, send email, or surf the net while continuing to watch your TV programs as a translucent wallpaper.  With Catalyst Media Center™ you’ll be able to watch your favorite TV programs and DVD movies or burn your captured video to DVD, all within its striking 3D accelerated* interface.

An Awesome Set Of Features To Complete The Media Experience

• Watch and surf through TV channels, or schedule recordings of your favorite TV shows
• Pause live TV when you need to take a phone call or grab a snack with time shifting
• Capture and digitally archive video from external sources including a camcorder or VCR through a simple composite or s-video connection
• ThruView allows you to fade the video just enough so that you can continue to watch your favorite show while you surf the net, send email, or work on a document
• EPG / Electronic Program Guide provides detailed channel information on the TV show your watching or ones that you want to schedule for recording later
• The DVD authoring software gives your burned video DVDs a classic finish, with options to add themed menus and combine your videos into chapters on the disc

Stunning New 3D Accelerated Interface, Loaded With More Media Abilities

• Catalyst Media Center™ is the dazzling, user-friendly command center to access all of the advanced multimedia features of your TV Wonder™ 200.
• Easily author and burn a DVD filled with TV shows or video that you’ve captured and archived from your camcorder - all with just a few clicks of the mouse
• The built-in DVD decoder transforms your DVD drive into a player that will allow you to play the latest movie titles
• Capture video straight into one of many advanced media formats: MPEG-2, MPEG-4, WMV9, DivX, H.264
• Convert existing video so that you’re able to fill your Ipod Video, Sony PSP or other portable media player with videos to take on the road with you
• Large, bright easy-to-read buttons and clear, colorful icons pave a quick path to where you want to go

USB 2.0 Power Transfers Superior Video Quality
The value packed TV Wonder 200 USB 2.0 makes full use of today's advanced ATI Theater 200 technology and USB 2.0 bus standard to deliver exceptional TV and video quality to the PC at a very affordable price. The USB 2.0 standard is 40 times faster than its USB 1.1 predecessor, so it can transfer raw, uncompressed video directly to your computer. As a result of the USB 2.0's high-bandwidth interface, the video displayed with the TV Wonder 200 USB 2.0 produces a sharp, clear video image.  Thus, TV Wonder 200 USB 2.0 eliminates the degradation of video quality that resulted from the bandwidth limitation of old USB 1.1 products.

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