How do I watch TV on my VGC LT1M

[Jairaj08]

Hi guys and girls,

Just received a new LT1m and am in love with it, but am baffled as to how to get tv on it. I have set up media center and it searched for services but found none. I was lead to believe that the LT1M has a built in digital tv tuner, is this correct? and if so what do I need to do. There was an antenna cable with the PC but where do I connect this too? Do I need an external ariel?

Please help!

Thanks in advance

Jai

[Blencogo]

Hi Jai and welcome to Club Vaio.

Yes, your LT1M does have a TV Tuner - and yes, it needs an external ariel.

Download your User Manual from here: -

ftp://ftp.vaio-link.com/pub/Manuals/Desktops/LM1_LT1/LM1_LT1_H_EN.pdf

It will take a few minutes. Have a look at page 55. Connect the ariel and re-run the TV Setup.

[rich912]

Hi Jai and welcome to the forum.

I was lead to believe that the LT1M has a built in digital tv tuner, is this correct? and if so what do I need to do. There was an antenna cable with the PC but where do I connect this too? Do I need an external ariel?

Yes your model does have a built in digital tuner but you will need to connect it to an external antenna. The attached will hopefully explain...

[Jairaj08]

Thanks very much guys, if I don't have a wall ariel socket, can I just buy a desktop ariel and connect to that - obviously the picture quality might not be as good but would this work?

Regards

Jai

[Blencogo]

Hi Jai,

That will depend on the signal strength where you are. Can you borrow a desktop ariel and try it?

[raintrek]

Not an answer to the question but the thread title covers what I need and saves a new one.

I have the same machine and setting up digital TV works fine, all displays well and I'd be happy with it if that was actually what I wanted to watch but it isn't, I just tried that to see if it was the Vaio or something else and I still don't know!

What I want to work is the Sky Box to connect up to the Vaio. There are, as I understand it, three congestion possibilities. The standard 'Ariel' type of connection using RF in/out, the SVHS and there seems to be an A/V jack, I have no idea what that is about.

I was only able to try the RF connection using the aerial out of the Sky box and aerial in of the Vaio. The problems are two fold. The picture is totally at the wrong ratio. The Sky box is set to 16:9 and worked fine on a 16:9 TV but is only showing close to 4:3 on the Vaio. Add to that there is also a significant 'lag' on the signal as well. Each key press needs something like 2-3 seconds to action.

To test things out I also connected the aerial signal for freeview into the aerial input of the Sky box and then the Sky box to the aerial input of the Vaio, again, a good freeview signal displaying correctly.

Though it was annoying to do with the lag I checked allSky box settings and can't find anything which would cause it to display differently using the RF feed to the Vaio.

Totally stumped now, any help appreciated.

[raintrek]

Apologies for stating SVHS when I mean S-Video of course!

As far as I can gather reading other threads, the Sky box needs to be connected via S-Video to work properly? If this is the case, is it true that s-video doesn't have audio? If it doesn't then, where is the best place to connect an audio in? What worries me is that if the time lag still exists on the image, would the sound being connected to the direct audio jack (near the microphone sockets) not put the sound out of synch with the picture or, can I expect the lag thing to go with the s-video connection?