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Using the TV Tuner
C H A P T E R 3
Using the TV Tuner
The TV Tuner displays cable or broadcast television and
smooth, full-motion video on the whole screen or in a window.
You can use the TV Tuner to:
• Watch television on your computer as you work in another
software application.
• Watch a videotape or laser disk movie on your computer.
• Capture, save, and print TV and video images.
• Display and record closed-captioned text.
• Replace your desktop with live TV display.
The ATI-TV Wonder tuner card with the ATI Video Player
software accepts a wide range of video inputs: TV antenna or
cable, VCR, Video camera, laser disk, and video games.
Click the TV
Tuner button in
the Task control
panel.
The Control panel
changes to the TV
control panel (in
this illustration,
CATV is selected).
Context-sensitive help is always available when you press the
F1 key. All controls provide bubble-help; move the mouse
cursor over a control to see a pop-up description of its function.
You can use the Setup window to adjust color, select the
broadcast standard, add and delete channels, and set
closed-caption options (see Video, Tuner, and Closed
Caption in
Or press TAB and use the cursor keys to adjust the picture
on-screen, just like a TV.
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