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Can I install Giga Pocket?

damixa
Visitor

Can I install Giga Pocket?

Hi all,
I have just bought a FS195XP notebook and found out it dont have gigapocket (something I didnt know existed before I bought this Vaio).
What I was wondering is can I install, or have it installed on this machine?
Thanks
DaMixa

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kee-lo_
Member

Does this notebook have a TV tuner?
Or the docking station with it?

Otherwise you don't need it

Beetlejuice
Visitor

Gigapocket is only useful (thus only supplied with) when you have a TV Tuner Dock. (AV Entertainment Dock).

You can not buy/install it otherwise.

I have the software and can not use it because my Av Dock was stolen. (You cant eevn run it because it gives an error saying the dock is not connected).

Sony has definitely messed up with this AV Dock and Gigapocket Software.

Cheers

Hi all,
I have just bought a FS195XP notebook and found out it dont have gigapocket (something I didnt know existed before I bought this Vaio).
What I was wondering is can I install, or have it installed on this machine?
Thanks
DaMixa

damixa
Visitor

Gigapocket is only useful (thus only supplied with) when you have a TV Tuner Dock. (AV Entertainment Dock).

You can not buy/install it otherwise.

I have the software and can not use it because my Av Dock was stolen. (You cant eevn run it because it gives an error saying the dock is not connected).

Sony has definitely messed up with this AV Dock and Gigapocket Software.

Cheers

So basically...no...thought not....Sony is Cr*p. This is just another disappointment with my very expensive machine.
Moral : Do not buy Sony....... I never will again.......


damixa
Visitor

Does this notebook have a TV tuner? 
Or the docking station with it?

Otherwise you don't need it


. Hi , Thanks for the ansa....
No TV tuner, No docking station, so what do you mean I dont need it?? CAn I buy somthing else which will give me the same?

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robpaxton
Explorer

You can buy a USB TV card like the ones made by Hauppauge which will give you even more capabilities than Gigapocket . . . .

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kee-lo_
Member

Yes, as Rob has said you can get a USB box, it's not the end of the world, and the tech inside the Haupagge boxes is better than Gigapocket's, also it's compatible with other programs to allow direct capture in Premiere and Pinacle.