Using The Tv Function - Sony PCV-V1/D Hardware Manual

Using your VAIO

Using the TV function

Your VAIO 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-programs, 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;
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Suspend viewing TV (time-shifting);
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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.
For details on using Giga Pocket and the remote control, please see the dedicated guide (click the My
Documentation
itself.
icon on the Windows desktop). Otherwise read the help files within the software
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