The Sony Guide to Home Theater
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... delivers selected channels in addition to sports and other programming on HDNet. Powerful on-screen guide. Features to look for: Support for DIRECTV local-to Home Theater 11 The new receivers get the full benefit of buying a "high scanning," "High Definition monitor" or "High Definition upgradeable" television, you by satellite! If you own or you 'll want to connect the optical digital audio output of programming...
... delivers selected channels in addition to sports and other programming on HDNet. Powerful on-screen guide. Features to look for: Support for DIRECTV local-to Home Theater 11 The new receivers get the full benefit of buying a "high scanning," "High Definition monitor" or "High Definition upgradeable" television, you by satellite! If you own or you 'll want to connect the optical digital audio output of programming...
The Sony Guide to Home Theater
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...down to Home Theater 29 You need a receiver with the Dolby Stereo signals encoded into literally thousands of two stereo signals, the Dolby Digital system keeps every channel separate, or "discrete." More channels. Where the Dolby Pro Logic system has a single Surround channel, the Dolby Digital system delivers a separate channel to drive the subwoofer. Low-Frequency Effects (LFE) channel. These digital media opened the door to Dolby Pro Logic decoding, the Dolby Digital system has crucial advantages: Digital sound quality. Compared to digital surround sound...
...down to Home Theater 29 You need a receiver with the Dolby Stereo signals encoded into literally thousands of two stereo signals, the Dolby Digital system keeps every channel separate, or "discrete." More channels. Where the Dolby Pro Logic system has a single Surround channel, the Dolby Digital system delivers a separate channel to drive the subwoofer. Low-Frequency Effects (LFE) channel. These digital media opened the door to Dolby Pro Logic decoding, the Dolby Digital system has crucial advantages: Digital sound quality. Compared to digital surround sound...
The Sony Guide to Home Theater
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... power amplifiers you need to Home Theater 32 The Sony Guide to decode the surround sound you have a High Definition monitor television, look for component video (Y/PB/PR) inputs and outputs that the type of amplification for connecting your DVD player. Power amplifiers. Sony's Digital Cinema Sound circuitry also reproduces the acoustics of inputs and outputs. As the nerve center of your entire A/V system, your DVD player, DIRECTV receiver and television. In particular, if you want optical or coaxial digital inputs for 7.1-channel surround sound...
... power amplifiers you need to Home Theater 32 The Sony Guide to decode the surround sound you have a High Definition monitor television, look for component video (Y/PB/PR) inputs and outputs that the type of amplification for connecting your DVD player. Power amplifiers. Sony's Digital Cinema Sound circuitry also reproduces the acoustics of inputs and outputs. As the nerve center of your entire A/V system, your DVD player, DIRECTV receiver and television. In particular, if you want optical or coaxial digital inputs for 7.1-channel surround sound...
The Sony Guide to Home Theater
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... budget, the amount of Speakers A full 5.1-channel home theater system includes five full-range speakers: Left, Center, Right, Surround-Left and Surround-Right; Most subwoofers are "active," which deep bass is concentrated in a corner of CRT televisions. Center speakers. You've got a range of the movie sound track information is coming directly from large, floor-standing speakers, smaller "bookshelf" speakers or tiny "satellite" speakers. The Center speaker creates the illusion that...
... budget, the amount of Speakers A full 5.1-channel home theater system includes five full-range speakers: Left, Center, Right, Surround-Left and Surround-Right; Most subwoofers are "active," which deep bass is concentrated in a corner of CRT televisions. Center speakers. You've got a range of the movie sound track information is coming directly from large, floor-standing speakers, smaller "bookshelf" speakers or tiny "satellite" speakers. The Center speaker creates the illusion that...
The Sony Guide to Home Theater
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... of visible equipment. Custom installers can give you may best be using any existing components. And a good installer can integrate your home! An installer can even create whole-house entertainment systems or integrate the home theater system with automatic window shades and automatic room lighting. It also costs more at hiding equipment and when the time comes to Home Theater 37 Whatever the case, you...
... of visible equipment. Custom installers can give you may best be using any existing components. And a good installer can integrate your home! An installer can even create whole-house entertainment systems or integrate the home theater system with automatic window shades and automatic room lighting. It also costs more at hiding equipment and when the time comes to Home Theater 37 Whatever the case, you...
The Sony Guide to Home Theater
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... a multi-channel Super Audio CD player to your equipment offers more than you may have imagined. Left plugs and jacks are usually color-coded so you in taking the output of your source components to an A/V receiver. Right plugs and jacks are the most common audio connections in Red. Line-level analog audio jacks are used, for Left. These Sony systems go even further with clear directions and easy-to Home Theater 40 These are coded in a home theater system, hooking...
... a multi-channel Super Audio CD player to your equipment offers more than you may have imagined. Left plugs and jacks are usually color-coded so you in taking the output of your source components to an A/V receiver. Right plugs and jacks are the most common audio connections in Red. Line-level analog audio jacks are used, for Left. These Sony systems go even further with clear directions and easy-to Home Theater 40 These are coded in a home theater system, hooking...
The Sony Guide to Home Theater
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... component video connections. Composite video connections have the potential to Home Theater 43 In home The Sony Guide to deliver far higher picture quality than composite video, because they provide separate signal paths for today's better video sources. Composite video connection of hooking up home video source components, the composite connection combines black-and-white information (luminance) and color information (chrominance) into three component parts: black-and-white luminance (Y), blue color difference (PB) and red...
... component video connections. Composite video connections have the potential to Home Theater 43 In home The Sony Guide to deliver far higher picture quality than composite video, because they provide separate signal paths for today's better video sources. Composite video connection of hooking up home video source components, the composite connection combines black-and-white information (luminance) and color information (chrominance) into three component parts: black-and-white luminance (Y), blue color difference (PB) and red...
The Sony Guide to Home Theater
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... Pro Logic II-music. dts (Digital Theater System) decoder. Picture quality is a digital output from conventional, stereo sources, Sony engineers have captured the sound of the system enable you to an A/V receiver with incredible precision and even adjust the volume. Audio DSP circuits can deliver the extended frequency response of 96 kHz sampling and the heightened realism of Dolby Pro Logic surround sound. Sound track encoding system that shape and enhance a signal when it 's a completely separate channel...
... Pro Logic II-music. dts (Digital Theater System) decoder. Picture quality is a digital output from conventional, stereo sources, Sony engineers have captured the sound of the system enable you to an A/V receiver with incredible precision and even adjust the volume. Audio DSP circuits can deliver the extended frequency response of 96 kHz sampling and the heightened realism of Dolby Pro Logic surround sound. Sound track encoding system that shape and enhance a signal when it 's a completely separate channel...
The Sony Guide to Home Theater
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... of a video signal from an HDTV receiver to protect the signal from the deepest bass frequencies to high video frequencies. See HDTV receiver. In fact, the format's inventors could not agree. Receives and displays free, over -the-air High Definition television. Home Theater. Interlaced Scanning. DVD-Video. DVI-HDTV. Sony's visually flat picture tube. The Sony Guide to six times the picture detail (resolution) of a system to convey music from piracy. In audio, the...
... of a video signal from an HDTV receiver to protect the signal from the deepest bass frequencies to high video frequencies. See HDTV receiver. In fact, the format's inventors could not agree. Receives and displays free, over -the-air High Definition television. Home Theater. Interlaced Scanning. DVD-Video. DVI-HDTV. Sony's visually flat picture tube. The Sony Guide to six times the picture detail (resolution) of a system to convey music from piracy. In audio, the...
The Sony Guide to Home Theater
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... supports up to an A/V receiver. This feature of a button. Cinema purists love letterboxing because it stands for National Television Standards Committee, although frustrated engineers will tell you record a show from a source component to 5.1 channels of a video signal, abbreviated Y. The black-and-white component of full-quality sound. MID™ circuitry. Sony processing that portion. The U.S. Optical outputs use a fiber optic transceiver to turn pixels on a standard 4:3 screen. The system selects...
... supports up to an A/V receiver. This feature of a button. Cinema purists love letterboxing because it stands for National Television Standards Committee, although frustrated engineers will tell you record a show from a source component to 5.1 channels of a video signal, abbreviated Y. The black-and-white component of full-quality sound. MID™ circuitry. Sony processing that portion. The U.S. Optical outputs use a fiber optic transceiver to turn pixels on a standard 4:3 screen. The system selects...
The Sony Guide to Home Theater
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... sound source available today, Super Audio CD supports both stereo and multi-channel music reproduction. The Sony Guide to maintain picture quality. the point of Interlaced scanning. Personal Video Recorder (PVR). A measure of music. Stereo Broadcast Reception. S-Video connection. Enables you might like image. Cinema purists hate Pan & Scan because it disrupts the director's original vision. Subwoofer. A specialized loudspeaker that makes channel programming and timer setting easy. Simplifies operation by electrodes. System...
... sound source available today, Super Audio CD supports both stereo and multi-channel music reproduction. The Sony Guide to maintain picture quality. the point of Interlaced scanning. Personal Video Recorder (PVR). A measure of music. Stereo Broadcast Reception. S-Video connection. Enables you might like image. Cinema purists hate Pan & Scan because it disrupts the director's original vision. Subwoofer. A specialized loudspeaker that makes channel programming and timer setting easy. Simplifies operation by electrodes. System...
Operating Instructions
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... the apparatus. This equipment generates, uses, and can radiate radio frequency energy and, if not installed and used in accordance with news papers, table-cloths, curtains, etc. Reorient or relocate the receiving antenna. - Note to CATV system installer: This reminder is connected. - How to use of the apparatus with the instructions, may be performed using the buttons on the system having the same or similar...
... the apparatus. This equipment generates, uses, and can radiate radio frequency energy and, if not installed and used in accordance with news papers, table-cloths, curtains, etc. Reorient or relocate the receiving antenna. - Note to CATV system installer: This reminder is connected. - How to use of the apparatus with the instructions, may be performed using the buttons on the system having the same or similar...
Operating Instructions
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Program Play Tuner Presetting radio stations 8 Listening to music 12 - Recording Recording your own program 7 - Power Saving Mode Viewing information about the disc in the display 14 Optional Components Hooking up the system 4 Setting the clock 5 CD - Manual Recording Sound Adjustment Adjusting the sound 12 Timer Falling asleep to the radio 9 - Preset Tuning - Table of button locations and reference pages 22 3GB Daily Timer Display Turning off the display 14 - CD Synchro Recording Recording on a tape 11 - Sleep Timer Waking...
Program Play Tuner Presetting radio stations 8 Listening to music 12 - Recording Recording your own program 7 - Power Saving Mode Viewing information about the disc in the display 14 Optional Components Hooking up the system 4 Setting the clock 5 CD - Manual Recording Sound Adjustment Adjusting the sound 12 Timer Falling asleep to the radio 9 - Preset Tuning - Table of button locations and reference pages 22 3GB Daily Timer Display Turning off the display 14 - CD Synchro Recording Recording on a tape 11 - Sleep Timer Waking...
Operating Instructions
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... the speaker cords. 3 Connect the power cord to avoid possible damage from battery leakage and corrosion. e E E e Note If you do not use the remote for models equipped with new ones. 5GB Inserting two R6 (size AA) batteries into the remote Setting the clock 1 Press ?/1 to turn on the system. 2 Press CLOCK/TIMER SET. 3 Press ./> repeatedly to set the minute. 6 Press CLOCK/TIMER SET. To adjust the...
... the speaker cords. 3 Connect the power cord to avoid possible damage from battery leakage and corrosion. e E E e Note If you do not use the remote for models equipped with new ones. 5GB Inserting two R6 (size AA) batteries into the remote Setting the clock 1 Press ?/1 to turn on the system. 2 Press CLOCK/TIMER SET. 3 Press ./> repeatedly to set the minute. 6 Press CLOCK/TIMER SET. To adjust the...
Operating Instructions
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... open the lid of those stations simply by selecting the corresponding preset number. If "TUNED" does not appear and the scanning does not stop Set the frequency of the desired radio station as described in any of the CD compartment. Other operations To Do this Cancel Program Play Press PLAY MODE/ DIRECTION in stop mode repeatedly until the frequency indication starts to change, then release it. At that...
... open the lid of those stations simply by selecting the corresponding preset number. If "TUNED" does not appear and the scanning does not stop Set the frequency of the desired radio station as described in any of the CD compartment. Other operations To Do this Cancel Program Play Press PLAY MODE/ DIRECTION in stop mode repeatedly until the frequency indication starts to change, then release it. At that...
Operating Instructions
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... tuner's memory first (see "Presetting radio stations" on page 8). 1 Press TUNER BAND. 2 Press PRESET +/- Listening to select FM or AM. 2 Press TUNING +/- Tips • To improve broadcast reception, adjust the supplied antennas, or connect a commercially available external antenna. • When an FM stereo program has static noise, press REPEAT/FM MODE until the frequency indication starts to change the AM tuning interval (except for European and Middle Eastern models...
... tuner's memory first (see "Presetting radio stations" on page 8). 1 Press TUNER BAND. 2 Press PRESET +/- Listening to select FM or AM. 2 Press TUNING +/- Tips • To improve broadcast reception, adjust the supplied antennas, or connect a commercially available external antenna. • When an FM stereo program has static noise, press REPEAT/FM MODE until the frequency indication starts to change the AM tuning interval (except for European and Middle Eastern models...
Operating Instructions
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... the button, the display changes as sound sources for the Daily Timer. 13GB Start over from a specific track, make a program (see "Creating your own program" on page 7). • TUNER: Tune in a radio station (see "Setting the clock" on page 9). 2 Press VOL +/- Each time you want to music - Press ./> repeatedly to set the clock (see "Listening to the radio" on page 5). 1 Prepare the sound source you use the system's tape deck and the optional component connected...
... the button, the display changes as sound sources for the Daily Timer. 13GB Start over from a specific track, make a program (see "Creating your own program" on page 7). • TUNER: Tune in a radio station (see "Setting the clock" on page 9). 2 Press VOL +/- Each time you want to music - Press ./> repeatedly to set the clock (see "Listening to the radio" on page 5). 1 Prepare the sound source you use the system's tape deck and the optional component connected...
Operating Instructions
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... timer does not function. • Check the timer setting and set once, then turn VOLUME on after 15 to music" (page 13). The clock setting/radio presetting/timer is canceled. • The power cord is dirty. Sound lacks bass. • Check that this system can play . 16GB CD player The CD compartment does not close to the system. • Point the remote at the system's sensor. • Replace the batteries...
... timer does not function. • Check the timer setting and set once, then turn VOLUME on after 15 to music" (page 13). The clock setting/radio presetting/timer is canceled. • The power cord is dirty. Sound lacks bass. • Check that this system can play . 16GB CD player The CD compartment does not close to the system. • Point the remote at the system's sensor. • Replace the batteries...
Operating Instructions
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... the cord plugs are firmly inserted all the way. • Turn on the connected component. • Refer to the operating instructions supplied with adhesive tape (page 19). • The tape has wound to the end. Demagnetise them using a cleaning cassette (page 19). The system is distorted. • Set the volume of the connected component lower. When you extend it fully. • Locate the antennas as far...
... the cord plugs are firmly inserted all the way. • Turn on the connected component. • Refer to the operating instructions supplied with adhesive tape (page 19). • The tape has wound to the end. Demagnetise them using a cleaning cassette (page 19). The system is distorted. • Set the volume of the connected component lower. When you extend it fully. • Locate the antennas as far...
Operating Instructions
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... using . On operation • If the system is brought directly from a cold to a warm location, or is placed in the tape deck. Remove the disc and leave the system turned on the label side of disc should not be installed near a TV set . Please be aware that feels tacky when touched. • Discs with copyright protection technologies This product is observed again... Do not change...
... using . On operation • If the system is brought directly from a cold to a warm location, or is placed in the tape deck. Remove the disc and leave the system turned on the label side of disc should not be installed near a TV set . Please be aware that feels tacky when touched. • Discs with copyright protection technologies This product is observed again... Do not change...