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342 The “Playback” Menu Settings

decided to give it a name. Here’s an article which explains how “PhotoTV
HD” worked for this Australian journalist: http://tinyurl.com/726lfq3
Another supported standard is called “Bravia Sync”, another attempt to
give a trade name to a feature that adheres to an international standard (in
this case the HDMI Consumer Electronics Control (CEC) protocol . This
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standard was designed to solve the problem of having too many remote
controls to deal with when many devices are hooked together via HDMI.
(“Wouldn’t it be swell if there were just one remote control that could talk
to all devices hooked up to our flat panel display?”) And so the CEC
standard was born, which is not proprietary and Sony says that other brands
adhere to this protocol “to an unknown degree”.

Anyway, because your camera is Bravia Sync / CEC compatible, you can
operate your camera by the TV remote control when it’s connected via
HDMI. What buttons do you press, and what functions can you operate? I
took my camera to my local Sony store to find out.
Once you manually put the camera into Playback mode, very few of the
TV’s remote control buttons will have an effect on your camera. The
remote’s LEFT and RIGHT buttons are used to scroll through the images;
if you come across a panorama the remote’s center button (equivalent to the
center button on the camera) will scroll the panorama. Then in addition to
scrolling you can also use the PLAY, PAUSE and STOP buttons on the
remote.

3 Sony’s not the only company to put their own name on their implementation of a
standard. Other trade names for CEC are Anynet+ (Samsung); Aquos Link
(Sharp); HDMI-CEC (Hitachi); E-link (AOC); Kuro Link (Pioneer); CE-Link and
Regza Link (Toshiba); RIHD (Remote Interactive over HDMI) (Onkyo);
RuncoLink (Runco International); SimpLink (LG); HDAVI Control, EZ-Sync,
VIERA Link (Panasonic); EasyLink (Philips); and NetCommand for HDMI
(Mitsubishi).

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