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Hardware Guide

Using your VAIO computer

Using the TV function

Your computer is equipped with a TV-tuner board. In combination with Sony's Giga Pocket software, it allows you to:

❑Watch, record and play back analogue broadcasted cable and terrestrial TV programmes, all by remote control;

❑Digitise analogue video and audio using the S-Video or composite and audio inputs;

❑Manage your video units (capsules), preview them and create multiple folders;❑Set up a timer to record channels at a repeated time;❑Suspend viewing TV (time-shifting);❑Stream your recorded TV contents via Ethernet (or WLAN) to connected PCs;❑Export your video capsules to MPEG2, MPEG1 and (DVI) AVI-files;

✍Sony cannot guarantee the streaming of recorded content if it is beyond a certain level of high quality.

When you watch TV with Giga Pocket, the audio output is analogue only. You cannot use the optical-out port for digital viewing with Giga Pocket.

For details on using Giga Pocket and the remote control, please see the dedicated online guide under My Documentation.