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TIP: When you plug in your camera to your HDTV to playback images, you may
find the MANUAL setting to be helpful – that way vertical images will display
vertically.

8.5 SLIDE SHOW

Menu Position MENU  1  Slide show

What it Does Displays your images for a few seconds each, either on the
display or on an HDTV

Recommended Setting n/a

The party’s nearly over, your family and friends are gathered in the living
room, and they all want to re-live the event right now on the big-screen.
Your camera has the ability to hook directly up to an HDTV and play back
your stills AND movies via a Slide show, scrolling through one image at a
time on its own. (The A77 II also has the ability to do the same thing with
a Wi-Fi enabled TV. See Section 7.3 for more details.)

The camera “optimizes”
images when they’re played
on your HDTV: The contrast
is bumped up considerably
and the image is sharpened –
so if you’re a technical
purist you might be
disappointed by the
incorrect color, increased
contrast, and over-the-top
sharpness you see on your
display. (Everyone else in Figure 8-3: You’ll scream when you see how
the room, however, is going good your pictures look in HD!
to say, “Wow! Those are
great pictures! What kind of camera do you have?” because they’re not