Tech Specs.

User Interface Features

• Integrated application with start page for launching TV, DVD, Music, Pictures, Video, and Burn modes
• Remembers last mode of application when starting
• “Always on top” option
• Mouse hover “tool tips” for help on all functions and buttons
• Comprehensive mouse and full-screen support
• Multiple user interfaces
• Silvereye: optimized for DVD enthusiasts
• Minimal: optimized for smallest desktop footprint
• Full screen: optimized for TV and full-screen playback

TV Tuning Features

• Captures sources
• Inputs
• Analog TV
• Composite analog video input
• S-video analog video input
• Formats
• NSTC: 352x240, 352x480, 720x480 @ 29.97 frames/sec.
• PAL: 352x288, 352x576, 704x576 @ 25 frames/sec.
• SECAM: 704x576 @ 25 frames/sec.
• Vertical blanking interval (VBI)
• Closed captioning
• Teletext
• Channel auto-scanning
• Reset
• Channel names
• Channel numbers
• Channel order
• Parental locks
• Channel availability
• Favorites
• Sync to electronic program guide (EPG) data
• Audio setup wizard
• On-screen displays
• Password-protected parental-level blocking based upon TV ratings
• Audio capture: capture, save, and assign custom Windows sounds
• Frame capture: capture, save, e-mail and set as custom Windows backgrounds
• Set channel favorites
• Surf channels with full EPG info. without the guide up

Personal Video Recorder (PVR) Features

• Personal video recorder (PVR) lets you pause, fast forward/rewind, and skip forward/backward live TV
• Independently change storage location of timeshift (pause, replay) buffer and recording buffer
• Schedule recordings manually or via the EPG 
• Recording quality settings for NSTC or PAL
• DVD - low/medium/high (MPEG-2)
• SVCD - (MPEG-2)
• VCD - (MPEG-1)
• Custom setting
• Generic MPEG-1 or MPEG-2
• Resolution
• NSTC: 352×240, 352×480, 720×480
• PAL 352×288, 352×576, 720×576
• Noise reduction
• Inverse telecine
• De-interlacing
• Audio sampling rate
• 48 Hz
• 44.1 Hz
• Rate control
• Constant Bit Rate (CBR): 1.5 Mbps to 15.0 Mbps
• Variable Bit Rate (VBR): average 1.5 Mbps to 15.0 Mbps; maximum 1.5 Mbps to 15.0 Mbps
• Audio Format
• Pulse code modulation (PCM)
• MPEG-1 Layer 2
• Group of pictures (GOP) Table
• B Frames: 0/1/2
• P Frames on/off
• Time Scaling
• Taskbar icon indicates
• Sharing content status
• Recording status
• Client connection status

Networked PVR Features

• Allows clients with no TV tuner to connect to server and watch live and recorded TV
• Server can share content on a global or per show basis
• Client capabilities
• Channel surfing and viewing live programs
• Pause, rewind, and fast forward of live programs
• Browse EPG data grid stored locally on client to change channels on the server
• Synchronization of content downloads programs to the client PC hard disk
• Exclude servers
• Server capabilities
• Deliver live and recorded television to client
• Scheduling program recordings
• Monitor clients connecting to the server
• Disconnect clients from the server
• Stored or timeshifted programs can be designated for unrestricted viewing, or limited to a subset of the shows
• Servers can be designated as unavailable for requests from clients on the network

EPG Features

• Gemstar™ GUIDE Plus+™ system EPG
• Download seven days of data locally to your computer
• View show name, description, time, date, length, and more
• Easy to navigate data grid lets users browse TV schedule
• Change channels and schedule recording directly through the EPG
• Robust search engine lets you organize content by
• Stations
• Titles
• Actors
• Categories
• Movies
• Sports
• Using networked PVR, change the channel on the server directly from the client EPG
• Automatic downloading of content and GUIDE Plus+ system updates
• Filter channels for the data grid
• Online crossword puzzles
  

Disc Burning

• Burn your recorded TV shows to disc for viewing on consumer players
• Customize your DVDs
• Choose from one of the included 18 themes or create your own with customized backgrounds and colors
• Edit the disc title, chapter names, background colors, fonts, and font color
• EPG data hooked directly into burn engine for easy to find content
• Supported disc formats:
• DVD-Video: DVD–R/-RW/+R/-RW
• VCD/SVCD: CD-R/-RW/+R/+RW

DVD/VCD/SVCD Playback Features

• NVIDIA® Sceneshare™ technology
• Audio capture: capture, save, and assign custom Windows sounds
• Frame capture: capture, save, e-mail, and set as custom Windows backgrounds
• Toolbar for quick access to common functions including:
• Bookmarks
• Repeat
• Frame/audio capture
• Subtitle/audio/angle change
• Pan and Scan
• Time scaling
• Bookmark browser
• Thumbnail preview
• Custom naming
• Import/Export
• Stored on a per disc basis
• Instant replay/skip forward
• Shortcut menu
• On-screen displays
• Mouse wheel support
• Karaoke
• Smoothscan fast forward
• Time scaling with PAL True speed
• Repeat modes
• Selectable A/B points, chapter, title, bookmark
• Auto-resume modes (Disabled, Enabled, Prompt)
• “Always on top” option
• Parental controls with password protection
• Launch player when DVD inserted
• Startup in full-screen mode
• Audio format, listening mode, and indicators
• CSS and Macrovision protection
• Supported disc formats:
• DVD-Video
• VCD/SVCD
• miniDVD/cDVD/cdDVD

Music Playback Features

• Ability to play server’s music on the client
• Create custom playlists of all your music
• Integrated explorer/player
• Audio capture: capture, save, and assign custom Windows sounds
• Supports the following file formats:
• CD Audio (CDA)
• Audio Files
• MP3
• Windows Media Audio (WMA)
• AIFF (AIF, AIFC, AIFF)
• AU (AU, SND)
• MIDI (MID, MIDI, RMI)

Video Playback Features

• Ability to play servers video on the
• Create custom playlists of all your videos
• Integrated explorer/player
• Audio Capture: capture, save, and assign custom Windows sounds
• Frame Capture: capture, save, email and set as custom Windows backgrounds
• Supports the following file formats:
• DVD-Video Files (Unencrypted VOB, VRO)
• VCD (DAT, MPG)
• Video Files
• MPEG (MPG, MPEG, M1V, M2V, MP2, M2P, MPA, MPE)
• Windows Media (WMV)
• AVI (DivX, Indeo, Cinepak)
• QuickTime

Picture Playback Features

• Ability to play server’s photos on the client
• Integrated explorer/player
• Create custom playlists of all your pictures
• Control length of slides appearing on screen
• Add background music to your slideshows
• Supports the following image file formats:
• BMP
• JPEG (JPG, JPEG)
• GIF

Audio Quality Features

• Dolby® Digital 5.1 decoding*
• Dolby Pro Logic® II*
• Dolby Pro Logic*
• Dolby Headphone*
• LPCM
• DTS decoding*
• Fully compliant ISO MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 audio decoder
• Speaker setup wizard
• Audio calibration utilities
• Bass management
• Dialog normalization
• Dynamic range compression (night modes)
• Pitch shift (used with time scaling)
• S/PDIF pass through for external decoding (compatible hardware required)
• Custom audio renderer support

Video Quality Features

• Fully compliant ISO MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 video decoder
• MPEG-2 acceleration for inverse quantization (IQ), inverse discrete cosine transform (IDCT), and motion compensation (mo comp)
• Microsoft DirectX® Video Acceleration (DXVA) support
• Complete Microsoft Video Mixing Renderer (VMR) Filter 7 and VMR Filter 9 support
• Complete Overlay Mixer support
• Complete ffdshow support.
• Complete Elecard Demux support
• Complete ReClock support
• NVIDIA video post processor
• Advanced image processing film mode detection
• 3:2 pulldown film correction
• Temporal de-interlacing
• NVIDIA De-interlacing
• TV-out overscan correction
• DVD Subpicture (subtitles)
• Video on desktop
• Full color control adjustments
• NVIDIA® Digital Vibrance Control™ (DVC) technology
• Custom color schemes
• Display type calibration
• Pan and Scan
• Widescreen TV-out support
• Digital zoom
• Aspect zoom modes (for 1.85:1 and 2.35:1) working correctly on all display sizes, including widescreens
• Anamorphic aspect modes for custom video resolutions support

Supported Languages

• Chinese (simplified)
• Chinese (traditional)
• Dutch
• English
• French
• German
• Italian
• Japanese
• Korean
• Polish
• Portuguese (Brazilian)
• Russian
• Spanish
• Spanish (Latin America)
  

Certifications

• Microsoft Windows Hardware Quality Labs (WHQL) certified
• Dolby certified
• DTS certified

*Some ForceWare Multimedia bundles do not include all audio features. Please consult the documentation that came with your product to determine what audio features are in your product.