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PowerColor Real Angel 330 TV Tuner Card PCI   

Manual 

 
 
Overview 
This guide contains useful information to assist you during the installation of PowerColor Real Angel 330 TV Tuner Card. 
From fundamental concepts such as installation preparation to the step-by-step installation procedure, this installation 
guide will be a valuable resource as you install PowerColor Real Angel 330 TV Tuner Card. If you are looking for 
troubleshooting tips for using this software, please refer to the Software User's Guide included on the software CD. 
 
About PowerColor Real Angel TV Tuner Card 
The PowerColor Real Angel 330 TV Tuner Card comes with FM radio and uses newest 3

rd

 Generation silicon tuner 

technology.    Compare to other products with 8 bits and 9 bits ADP, the Real Angel 330 gives you the sharpest image 
quality with its 10 bit ADP.    Another convenient feature with Real Angel 330 is its ability to ‘Task Schedule” from your PC.   
Once installed, you can activate auto-timer simply by using the on/off button on your remote.    You can enjoy watching 
or recording TV programs, image/video editing with this TV tuner card.     
 
Task Scheduling is one of the most innovating features from other PCI TV Tuner cards in the Real Angel 330. Once 
activated, RA330 TVPRO will record the specified TV programs at given time. RA330 TVPRO even have an option to 
select automatic shut down for your PC after completing its task. Length of recording can go up to a week, and even a 
month of recording on a daily basis.       
 
Minimum System Requirements 
• 450 MHz Pentium II or equivalent CPU and 128 MB RAM 
• Sound Blaster or equivalent sound card 
• One PCI slot 
• CD-ROM drive for software installation 
• Windows XP, 2000 or 98SE 
• 30 MB free disk space for basic software installation 
 
Recommended System Requirements 
• 2.4 GHz Pentium 4 or equivalent CPU and 256 MB RAM 
• Sound Blaster or equivalent sound card 
• One PCI slot 
• CD-ROM for software installation 
• Windows XP SP2 with DirectX 9.0 installed 
• 30 MB free space for software installation 
• 600 MB to 3 GB per hour of recorded video 

ATX power source and Host computer can support PCI2.2 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Summary of Contents for RA330

Page 1: ...activate auto timer simply by using the on off button on your remote You can enjoy watching or recording TV programs image video editing with this TV tuner card Task Scheduling is one of the most inn...

Page 2: ...1 Packing Contents TV Tuner Card Installation Guide Remote Control Software CD External Audio Cable Multiple Function Cable IR Remote Receiver FM Antenna Batteries Low Profile Bracket Adapter...

Page 3: ...to connect to an audio source such as CD VHS DVD or VCD B External Audio Out Use the supplied audio cable not included to connect to the Line In port of your sound card C S Video In Use an S Video ca...

Page 4: ...with Composite or S video connect with Multi function composite or S video via the opposite connect cable 2 Audio cable connects to audio input port 3 Audio output and sound card input connect to mic...

Page 5: ...he blue plug to Line In port of your sound card or main board To achieve the best performance the TV Tuner card should not share its IRQ Please refer section on troubleshooting for further details Con...

Page 6: ...em System Properties Device Manager Hardware then check whether the driver has been installed correctly 4 2 Install the application for Real Angel 330 Click Software or run Real Angel 330 Steup exe to...

Page 7: ...o source 6 Fast forward 21 Open the recorded file 7 Hue control 22 Auto scan channel 8 Status window 23 Switch to FM 9 Minimize 24 16 channels preview 10 Full screen Window and video desktop switch 25...

Page 8: ...to set all the Function 5 2 1 Channel list edit Real Angel 330 TVPro auto scan all channels you can edit your favorite channels Please choose your country and area firstly and before scan channel as...

Page 9: ...you can change the channel name Step 3 Input the new name Step4 If you want to change other channel s name please repeat Step 1 to Step 3 Step5 Channel position can be revised Up and Down button 3 Cha...

Page 10: ...a and South Africa SECAM France Africa and Middle East 4 2 2 Color Control Change the brightness contrast color saturation sharpness to specified value And if you want to change back to default value...

Page 11: ...lp you save long programs 5 2 4 saving path setting You can choose the directory to save the still images or video files You also can press to check the direction of images or video files 5 3 Mouse ri...

Page 12: ...Change the video format to PAL NTSC SECAM Default as PAL BGGHI 5 3 8 Color adjust Adjust the color and brightness 5 3 9 Capture Take a single frame snapshot The format of default is saved as bmp file...

Page 13: ...15 224 600MB hr PAL DVD 720 576 6 224 2 6GB hr PAL SVCD 480 576 2 42 224 1GB hr PAL VCD 352 288 1 15 224 600MB hr AVI 352 288 224 MPEG 4 352 288 224 WMV 352 288 1 2 224 About 650MB hr MP3 224 WMA 224...

Page 14: ...ite S Video Channel Under TV condition you can choose channel you need to schedule watching or recording Duration The recording duration time of task Minimize 2mins Default as 30mins 6 2 3 Click Next...

Page 15: ...ting then you need decide how to act when finishing the recording There are three ways to do when finish recording Auto shut down After recording system auto shut down Power off the PC Exit Applicatio...

Page 16: ...lict on time of other task Please revise task time setting 6 3 Video playing 6 3 1 Press open files you recorded files earlier and choose the files you want to play double click or press Open button 6...

Page 17: ...l 6 5 2 Page Up and Page Down on keyboard or IR Remote provide the same functions Press the digital keys to jump specified TV channel If you want to watching TV which channel number is bigger than 10...

Page 18: ...he program from the point where you left Caution Time shift can use significant disk space and cannot automatically skip commercials 6 6 1 Additional Discussion In Time shift you are recording to and...

Page 19: ...LETEXT Press button activation TELETEXT function The function let user to receive TELETEXT TV Remark This function must have TeleText TV signal to support Not all the TV program has TeleText 5 8 Hue c...

Page 20: ...roadcasting setting FM can automatic sort usable broadcasting station then you can set all broadcasting list Please see below instruction 7 2 2 Auto Scan Broadcasting setting FM can automatic sort usa...

Page 21: ...ication Channel position can be revised Up and Down button 7 2 4 Channel fine tune FM provide fine tune function If the adjust is no good you will be back the default Usually FM provide the best quali...

Page 22: ...o choose save directory Timing record setting 1 Choose starting and end time in Add taskbar then click Add 2 Click Delete to cancel the task delete all can cancel all tasks 3 If appears below message...

Page 23: ...ng Press to stop recording You can name this file or save as default 8 1 2 When recording the panel of FM application software will show the real time recording information about recording 8 2 Play au...

Page 24: ...orward or back forward channel 7 3 2 By using Page Up and Page Down keys on keyboard you can change the channel rapidly or IR Remote provides the same functions Press the digital keys to jump specifie...

Page 25: ...us channel 5 Single double triple digit 6 CH CH Channel Up Down VOL VOL Volume Up Down Mute 7 Brightness up 8 Brightness down 9 AUD Stereo Mono 10 TTX Teltext 11 Record Record stop Play Play recorded...

Page 26: ...her card in different PCI slot then install driver this will help solve IRQ conflict problem Note This is a common troubleshoot since LAN Card Sound Card SCSI Card requires the use of IRQ Please check...

Page 27: ...you installed DIRECTX9 0C which is in the CD bundled with the REAL ANGEL 330 7 Why cannot see the image black screen Try to restart application software Try to reinstall REAL ANGEL 330 device driver 8...

Page 28: ...s IR receiver is not right direction to or too far away from the transmitter Please visit our FAQ for more help Also please feel free to contact us if you have any problem http www powercolor com main...

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