PNotes

•Operations are confirmed when:

–you connect your camera directly to your personal computer with the USB cable (supplied), and the USB connector on your personal computer does not have any other connections

–you connect the USB keyboard and mouse which are provided as standard to your personal computer, and connect your camera to your personal computer with the USB cable (supplied) directly

•Operations are not confirmed if:

–the USB connectors on your personal computer have more than one connection

–you use a hub

–you connect other equipment with USB cables at the same time except for the USB keyboard and mouse which are provided as standard

•We cannot assure all the recommended Windows and Macintosh environments mentioned before.

•When the cables are connected to both the USB jack and the serial jack, the jack connected before the other one works.

Disconnect the cable from one jack to make the other one available.

•Communications between your camera and your personal computer may not recover after recovering from Suspend, Resume, or Sleep.

•Use the AC power adaptor/charger when your connect your camera to your personal computer. A malfunction such as a data error may occur since the battery discharges during communications.

•When using the Macintosh, connect the USB cable after your personal computer starts.

•The Macintosh may become unstable if you delete the data in “Memory Stick” right after copying the data to the hard disk.

•You may not be able to copy the whole of 100 msdcf folder at once to the hard disk on the Macintosh. In this case, open the 100 msdcf folder first, and copy the contents in the folder.

Notes on Using the PC Card Adaptor or USB Cable

•Set the LOCK switch on the “Memory Stick” to off.

•To play back an MPEG file, install Active Movie Player (Direct Show) or Media Player.

•For playing back a file recorded in MOVIE or VOICE mode, first copy it to the hard disk of your personal computer. If you play back the file from a “Memory Stick”, the picture and sound may break off.

•Install Quick Time 3.2 or later to play back MPEG files.

•New “Memory Stick”-s are already formatted so that they can be used as storage media for your personal computer without the need for formatting them.

However, when you format “Memory Stick”-s on your personal computer, note that:

–“Memory Stick” operations on your camera cannot be assured if the “Memory Stick” is formatted on a Windows machine. Format the “Memory Stick” on your camera again when you use it with your camera.

–“Memory Stick”-s formatted on a Macintosh may not work. Do not format “Memory Stick” on a Macintosh on which the Mac OS is running.

•Do not optimize the “Memory Stick” on your personal computer. It may damage the flash memory.

•Do not compress the data on the “Memory Stick” on your personal computer. Compressed files cannot be played back on your camera.

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