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Tv-on-demand – ATI Technologies 137-40188-60 User Manual

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Using Your ATI Multimedia Center

TV-on-Demand

TV-on-Demand (“Time-Shifting”) is available if your graphics
card supports it (for example, the ALL-IN-WONDER
RADEON and the ALL-IN-WONDER 128 PRO). TV-on-
Demand combines the immediacy of live TV with the storage
and replay capability of a VCR to create a new way to watch
and interact with TV.

Live Pause

. With a mouse click, you can pause a live TV

broadcast, and resume viewing the time-shifted video later,
without missing any of the action.

Instant Replay

. If you want to replay a sequence, you can back

up the program, see what you missed, and then catch up to live
programming. You can vary the playback speed or skip ahead
by a pre-set number of seconds. You can also export time-
shifted video as an MPEG (.MP2) file.

To view time-shifted video

Click the TV-on-Demand button or the Pause button in
the TV control panel.

• When you click the Pause button, the TV control panel

changes to the TV-on-Demand control panel, the last frame
of video is displayed, and TV-on-Demand captures live
video.

• When you click the Play button , time-shifted video is

displayed, continuing from where you paused.

Note

Because TV-on-Demand records to your hard
drive, you cannot use the Digital VCR in TV-on-
Demand mode (see

Digital VCR

on page 39).

You cannot time-shift copy-protected video
sources.

The TV control panel
changes to the TV-on-
Demand control
panel, and time-
shifted video is
displayed.

Live TV mode

TV-on-Demand mode