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Chapter 5
The PC Connection
One of the most exciting features of your Topfield TF 5800 PVR
is one of the ones you probably won’t notice in day to day
use. It’s the USB connector on the rear panel. USB stands for
Universal Serial Bus, and it’s a standard connector found on
just about every modern home computer.
The USB connection on your PVR allows you to connect it to
your computer and transfer files between the computer and
the PVR. You can copy MP3 music files from the computer,
and play them on the PVR, and you can transfer recorded pro-
grammes from the PVR to your computer’s hard disk.
It’s even possible to use the USB connection to update the built
in software that controls your PVR and to add additional soft-
ware to it, to change the way that it works.
We’ll explain how to play MP3s and transfer software between
your computer and PVR in the next chapter. In this one, we’ll
explain how to set up the software on your computer and
move files to and from the PVR.
Your Topfield PVR needs special software installed on your
PC to connect to it, including a driver. You must install this
software before connecting the PVR to the PC.