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- informations concerning technical data of Elgato EyeTV
- name of the manufacturer and a year of construction of the Elgato EyeTV item
- rules of operation, control and maintenance of the Elgato EyeTV item
- safety signs and mark certificates which confirm compatibility with appropriate standards

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Usually it results from the lack of time and certainty about functionalities of purchased items. Unfortunately, networking and start-up of Elgato EyeTV alone are not enough. An instruction contains a number of clues concerning respective functionalities, safety rules, maintenance methods (what means should be used), eventual defects of Elgato EyeTV, and methods of problem resolution. Eventually, when one still can't find the answer to his problems, he will be directed to the Elgato service. Lately animated manuals and instructional videos are quite popular among customers. These kinds of user manuals are effective; they assure that a customer will familiarize himself with the whole material, and won't skip complicated, technical information of Elgato EyeTV.

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It is mostly in the manuals where we will find the details concerning construction and possibility of the Elgato EyeTV item, and its use of respective accessory, as well as information concerning all the functions and facilities.

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    Elgato Systems Hardware Reference Guide EyeTV Infrared Remote Control 2.5 © 2005 Elgato Systems LLC 900 Kearny Street • Suite 750 San Francisco, CA 94133 United States of America Elgato Systems GmbH Nymphenburgerstr . 86 80636 München support@elgato.com[...]

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    Hardware Reference Guide EyeTV Infrared Remote Control Infrared Remote Control Infrared Remote Control 2 This document describes the functions of the EyeTV infrared remote control, which is included with all EyeTV models except EyeTV USB and EyeTV W onder USB 2.0. NOTE: Button legends in IT ALICS are T eletext functions. Power If EyeTV isn’t disp[...]

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    Hardware Reference Guide EyeTV Infrared Remote Control Infrared Remote Control 3 windows playing EyeTV content, the front playing window is closed, and the next window is brought to the front. If the frontmost window is an alert dialog, pressing the Power key is like pressing Cancel or hitting Escape . Mute Click this button to mute the sound, clic[...]

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    Hardware Reference Guide EyeTV Infrared Remote Control Infrared Remote Control 4 V olume Up/Down Increases or decreases the sound volume. Instant Replay Playback jumps backwards for the duration specified in the Preferences’ Controls pane. The default is 7 seconds. Play/Pause T oggles between playing back or pausing video Jump Fast-forwards the c[...]

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    Hardware Reference Guide EyeTV Infrared Remote Control Infrared Remote Control 5 ending time. Because EyeTV has only one tuner , and can only handle one video source at a time, channels and inputs cannot be changed while recording. Once a recording has started, the cache is flushed so you cannot skip backwards beyond the start time of the recording[...]