MyHD MDP-100 User’s Guide version 0.
FCC INFORMATION TO THE USER This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class B digital device, pursuant to part 15 of the FCC Rules. These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference in a residential installation. This equipment generates, uses and can radiate radio frequency energy and, if not installed and used in accordance with the instructions, may cause harmful interference to radio communications.
Contents 1.System Requirements ------------------------------------------------------- 1.1 PC Platform Requirements 1 ------------------------------------------------ 1 2. Hardware Installation --------------------------------------------------------- 1 2.1 Installation overview --------------------------------------------------------- 1 2.2 Install MyHD card ------------------------------------------------------------- 2 2.
.5.3 Add/Remove Favorite Channel ------------------------------------- 13 4.5 MyHD Envrionment Configuration -------------------------------------- 14 ------------------------------------------------------- 14 4.5.1 AV Setup Tab 4.5.2 VGA Setup Options 4.7 Pop-up Controls ---------------------------------------------------- 16 ------------------------------------------------------------ 17 4.
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MyHD Enjoy digital life with your PC 1. SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS To achieve optimum performance of the MyHD Board, your PC requires a minimum configuration. This chapter provides the system requirements. This chapter contains the following sections: 1.1 PC Platform Requirements The minimum requirements for you PC platform are listed below: CPU : Pentium-II 333MHz or faster DRAM : 64 Megabytes or Higher System Bus : PCI Operating System : Windows 98 Second Edition. , ME Other Software : DirectX Media 6.
MyHD l Enjoy digital life with your PC Finally, if necessary, an updated Windows Direct X Driver can be installed from the MyHD Installation CD-ROM 2.2 Install MyHD card To install MyHD card, follow the steps listed below: 1. With the power off, remove yo 2. ur computer cover and locate an available PCI slot. 3. Remove the screw attached to the bracket cover and remove the bracket plate. 4. Before handling the MyHD DTVPC card, ground yourself by touching the power supply box inside your computer. 5.
MyHD Enjoy digital life with your PC The following diagram shows the main functions and connectors of the MyHD board. Since there are several different models with different features and functions, your board may not have all of the components installed. 2.3 Connect the Cables There are three basic cable configurations for MyHD : Dual Monitor, Single Monitor. The following subsections describe each operating configuration and their cabling connections.
MyHD Enjoy digital life with your PC Figure2.2 shows the dual-monitor configuration. Video output from the MyHD board is displayed on a separate HDTV or VGA monitor, without being mixed with VGA graphics. The HDTV display monitor used should be capable of receiving RGB(HV separate sync) type or YPbPr(sync on Y) type with support of following horizontal frequency: 33.7kHz(1920x1080 interlaced), 44.9kHz(1280x720 progressive), 31.5kHz(720x480 progressive), 48.3kHz(1024x768 progressive), 15.
MyHD Enjoy digital life with your PC 2.5 Install the MyHD driver for Windows . 1. When re-starting Windows for the first time after the MyHD board has been installed, the Add New Hardware Wizard will appear. Click NEXT.. 2. Select Search for the best driver for your device (Recommended). Click NEXT. 3. When you see this dialog box, insert the MyHD Windows Installation CDROM into your CD-ROM drive. Select “Specify a location” and type “D:\Driver” or Browse the Driver irectory in your CD-ROM (Where “D”
MyHD Enjoy digital life with your PC 4. Once the MyHD video driver has been detected. click NEXT Note: If a message stating “Windows was unable to locate a driver for this device”, you did not wait long enough for the MyHD Installation CD-ROM to be read. Click Back and then click Next again for the CD to be recognized. 5. You will see a number of files being copied to your hard disk drive.
MyHD Enjoy digital life with your PC 3. QUICK TROUBLESHOOTING GUIDE l Incompatible motherboards We recommend the use of a motherboard with an Intel chipset because some other motherboards do not fully support the MyHD. l System lockups or error messages when running MyHD Some PCI cards may have interrupt conflicts with MyHD. To solve the problem, try with another PCI slot. l Poor TV reception Poor TV reception is generally the result of a weak TV signal.
MyHD Enjoy digital life with your PC 4. MYHD APPLICATION 4.1 Application Installation To install the MyHD application software on your system, run the “setup.exe” program in the App subdirectory of your MyHD install CD. If you have copied the contents of this directory to hard disk, then install from there. During the software installation, you will be asked several questions. Answer “Yes” to all of these. 4.
MyHD Enjoy digital life with your PC 4.3 User Interface Description -9- Macro Image Technology,Inc.
MyHD Enjoy digital life with your PC Freeze/Play : Toggles between Freeze and Play mode Window Size Fit to Resolution : Sets window size to overlay resolution Current Channel: Shows current channel information Signal Strength : Shows current Antenna Signal Strength Terrestrial/Cable : Shows current Broad Casting is terrestrial or Cable. Audio Info : Shows current audio information Input Select : Select source to Antenna1, Antenna2, External A/V In or File play.
MyHD Enjoy digital life with your PC 4.4 Remote Controller 1.POWER Execute and Exit MyHD Program. 2.INPUT Change The input antenna 1, antenna 2, file play and external a/v input. 3. Numeric key (0 ~ 9) Change the channel 4. AUDIO Change audio mode STEREO, Mono, Language A, Language B . This function will be served next version. 5. SUB-CH If Digital TV Channel has sub-channel. Select that channel. 6. GUIDE In Digital TV, Information such as program guide is displayed.
MyHD Enjoy digital life with your PC 4.5 Channel Property Set When press Channel List in pop-up menu, or in expansion control panel, this window will be showed. We can set channel configuration in this window. 4.5.1 AUTO CHANNEL SCAN Check Ant1 or Ant2 in Input area, and click option button. And select Terrestrial or cable you want. If you don’t know the input is whether terrestrial or not, choose auto. If set auto, It will detect the input port automatically. And, click button auto scan.
MyHD Enjoy digital life with your PC 4.5.3 ADD/REMOVE FAVORITE CHANNEL You want set favorite channel in scanned channel, select scanned channel in Active channel window, and click button >>. At same matter, you can delete favorite channel after selecting favorite channel in favorite channel window and click <<. It will be removed. - 13 - Macro Image Technology,Inc.
MyHD Enjoy digital life with your PC 4.6 MyHD Environment Configuration You can configure MyHD by selecting Config in expansion menu or pop-up menu. This window has two tabs, AV Setup and VGA Setup. 4.6.1 AV SETUP TABS Setting MyHD’s Audio and Video environment. A. Resolution Selects the output display resolution of the MyHD board’s primary video output port: either 1920x1080 interlaced, 1280x720 progressive, 720x480 progressive, 720x480 interlaced, 1440x1080 interlaced or 1024x768 progressive.
MyHD Enjoy digital life with your PC B. Set Display If you have monitor with aspect ratio 4:3 – 480i, 480p, 1440i or 1024p -, and now broadcasting video format is aspect ratio 16:9, you can choose two methods, full screen or letter box screen. Full Screen displays all video in full screen. And, Letter box screen is displays video with black bar in top and bottom screen to maintain aspect ratio. You can choose either of it. C. Set Display type MyHD has two video output format, RGB and YpbPr.
MyHD Enjoy digital life with your PC 4.5.2 VGA SETUP TABS A. Set Fixed Aspect Ratio If you set Fixed Aspect Ratio, the windows overlay window maintains aspect ratio. B. Show VGA Window Determine whether windows overlay window is on or not. C. Using Video Cable You can use single monitor mode or dual monitor mode. If this item is set, it means you use single monitor mode. If does not, you can use dual monitor mode. D. Keep Video On top If set, windows overlay window is always on top.
MyHD Enjoy digital life with your PC 4.7 Pop-up Controls An alternate “pop-up” control interface is available when playing video in a VGA window. The pop-up controls are accessed by a right-click of the mouse when pointing inside the video overlay window. The pop-up menu is illustrated in Figure below. Refer to section 4.3 User Interface Description. 4.
