Hey fellas,

I need a bit of help. I'm in Japan doing some work and I have the FX7 with me. I also have a Gateway HD laptop. I can not seem to get playback on it though.

I do not need to do any edits on it just want to watch the daily's. I have used the USB connection as well as the HDMI connection and nothing.

Abviously this is operator error I just need to know what I am missing.

Info:
Gateway P-173X FX
Intel Core Duo CPU T7500 @ 2.20Ghz 2.20Ghz
4Gb of Ram
64-bit OS Vista

Windows Media Player (I think I have the latest but not sure)

I have read the manual but it's not great in this area. I don't think I can use the HDMI cable on this either not sure. I have an HD TV at home I pluged in the HDMI on that before I left and I could playback on that no problem.

Any help is greatly appreciated thanks for your time.

Michael

You capture via firewire. You'd need a special HDMI capture card to capture that way.

HDMI is for playback to a TV, not capture to a PC.

You capture via firewire. You'd need a special HDMI capture card to capture that way.

HDMI is for playback to a TV, not capture to a PC.

Thanks for the reply Adam,

So If I get a fire wire it will work?

Depending on your software, it should. Some editing SW does capture only and some does live viewing via FW.

I suppose it's possible that if you have some sort of Media Center PC you could view live over HDMI, but I'm not an expert on that.

OK dumb question is the i-link a fire wire cable?

Yes. That's Sony's name for it. Apple calls it Firewire. The official name is IEEE 1394. All the same thing.

As a note, the HDMI on your laptop is an HDMI output, as is the one on the FX7...

So you were plugging two outputs together , instead of an input and an output. :)

Michael

why du you use a laptop? Dont you have HDV-tape in?

watch your "daily's" from the tape in the camera, using the HDMI out to the HD-TV