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Using your VAIO computer
Hardware Guide
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.
