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366 The “Setup” (Toolbox Icon) Menu Settings

Normally, whevenever you plug in an external monitor to the camera, all
the information which normally appears on the EVF or LCD is instantly re-
routed to the external monitor, leaving the EVF and LCD blank.
When HDMI Info Display is OFF it keeps your EVF or LCD display
information intact when you’re shooting movies (not stills!) and the HDMI
port is occupied. If you have a monitor hooked up to that port, then only
the live video feed will be seen on the monitor and none of the operator’s
annunciators (such as battery life, exposure settings, audio levels, or
whatever you have the DISP button configured to show). If an external
video recorder is attached, then uncompressed video is sent out via the
HDMI port when this setting is OFF.

9.14.3 CTRL FOR HDMI
What it Does Disables the ability for your big screen’s remote control to
control your camera

Recommended Setting On

Back in Section 8.5.1 I talked about Bravia Sync, a standardized protocol
designed to let the remote control of a big-screen TV to control peripherals
that are connected to it via HDMI. And I also mentioned that it’s not a
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protocol proprietary to Sony; other 3 party big screen manufacturers try to
comply with it too
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Well, not all 3 party manufacturers implement specifications correctly
(*cough* Sigma *cough*) and so there might be circumstances where you
hook up your camera to an HDTV to view your pictures, try to use the
TV’s remote control to control the camera, and things just go wrong. When
that happens Sony recommends that you set this parameter to OFF to
disable the Bravia Sync feature.

(I talk more about playing pictures back on your HDTV in Section 8.2).

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