Chat Rooms - Sony SAT-W60 User Manual

ONLINE CONVERSATION –

CHAT ROOMS

Chat rooms are forums for "live" discussions. Messages you send to a chat room
are read immediately by everyone in that room. You can join existing chat rooms
or create your own chat rooms.
To enter a chat room and join the conversation:
From Web Home, select
1 Community
Select , then press or
2 Chat RETURN
The first time you enter Chat, you'll see an introduction to Chat. When you
complete the introduction, you'll see the Chat screen.
The Chat screen presents a few featured Chat rooms and
offering dozens of chat rooms.
Select a chat topic or , then press
3 Talk City
Talk City lets you choose from a large list of topics, or search for a chat room
about a topic.
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, then press or .
RETURN
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, a chat site
Talk City
or .
RETURN
ONLINE CONVERSATION –
To enter a listed chat room, select it and press
4
To search for a chat room, type a topic in the search box, then press
Then select a chat room from the list of search results and press
Once you are in a chat room, you will see an ongoing discussion on the
screen. Comments are appended to the bottom of the screen as people type
them. The text will scroll as people enter more comments. To move up and
down through the list of comments, use the
control or keyboard.
To enter a comment of your own, type your message with the keyboard or remote
5
control, then select from the bottom of the screen and press
Send
MAKING SIDE COMMENTS: "WHISPERING"
Once you're in a chat room, if you would like to send a comment to one person
without letting anyone else in the room see your comment, you can "whisper" to
that person.
To "whisper" to another person:
Starting from inside a chat room, select
1
screen, then press or RETURN .
A list of the people in the chat room appears on the left side of the screen.
Select the person you want to whisper to.
2
Type your message in the box to the right.
3
Select , then press
4 Whisper message
You can tell when someone whispers to you because their comment starts with
the words "to you."
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or .
RETURN
or RETURN
or .
RETURN
buttons on your remote
scroll
or
RETURN
from the left side of the
Whisper
or .
RETURN
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