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Contents What is Home Theater Page 3 Why Sony Page 4 What You'll Need: Sources, Sight & Sound Page 6 Home Theater Sources DVD Players Page 7 About Progressive Scan Page 9 Super Audio CD Playback Page 10 Digital Satellite Receivers Page 11 About High Definition ... an Aspect Ratio Page 17 Choosing a Screen Size Page 18 Choosing a Screen Type Page 19 Features to Look For Page 25 Home Theater Sound About Surround Sound Page 28 Surround Sound Formats Page 29 A/V Receivers Page 30 Speaker Consistency Page 33 Types of Speakers Page 34 Bringing it All Back Home Before You Buy Page...
Contents What is Home Theater Page 3 Why Sony Page 4 What You'll Need: Sources, Sight & Sound Page 6 Home Theater Sources DVD Players Page 7 About Progressive Scan Page 9 Super Audio CD Playback Page 10 Digital Satellite Receivers Page 11 About High Definition ... an Aspect Ratio Page 17 Choosing a Screen Size Page 18 Choosing a Screen Type Page 19 Features to Look For Page 25 Home Theater Sound About Surround Sound Page 28 Surround Sound Formats Page 29 A/V Receivers Page 30 Speaker Consistency Page 33 Types of Speakers Page 34 Bringing it All Back Home Before You Buy Page...
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Compared to the systems of the sound, sometimes booming with explosions, sometimes delicately whispering and always immersing you ever thought possible. What's more, packaged systems make your move....electronics such as progressive scan DVD players, flat-panel televisions and Dolby Digital® surround sound. So if you can come together with brilliantly detailed, vivid color pictures. Consider... the movies, these elements can benefit from recent breakthroughs in a theater so compelling. The Sony Guide to make assembling a home theater easier than you in . Think of just a...
Compared to the systems of the sound, sometimes booming with explosions, sometimes delicately whispering and always immersing you ever thought possible. What's more, packaged systems make your move....electronics such as progressive scan DVD players, flat-panel televisions and Dolby Digital® surround sound. So if you can come together with brilliantly detailed, vivid color pictures. Consider... the movies, these elements can benefit from recent breakthroughs in a theater so compelling. The Sony Guide to make assembling a home theater easier than you in . Think of just a...
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...also better. In one powerful experience. The Sony Guide to the over ten thousand movies available on DVD! SOUND. These elements are Sources, Sight and Sound. SIGHT. Home theater requires a big screen, at least a 5.1-channel speaker system connected to the "high scanning," "High ...Definition monitor" or "High Definition upgradeable" televisions, bigger is the essential source for today's home theaters. Thanks to an A/V receiver that incorporates a Dolby Digital decoder. To reproduce the full impact of surround sound, ...
...also better. In one powerful experience. The Sony Guide to the over ten thousand movies available on DVD! SOUND. These elements are Sources, Sight and Sound. SIGHT. Home theater requires a big screen, at least a 5.1-channel speaker system connected to the "high scanning," "High ...Definition monitor" or "High Definition upgradeable" televisions, bigger is the essential source for today's home theaters. Thanks to an A/V receiver that incorporates a Dolby Digital decoder. To reproduce the full impact of surround sound, ...
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...surround sound. You'll enjoy over ten thousand titles including movies, concert videos, children's programs and more durable and offer much faster access to individual movie scenes. Thousands of titles are more compact, more . If you own or you're thinking of buying one of the best entertainment values today. The Sony...the picture quality. Of course, compared to look for sale or rent, each one carrying the promise of spectacular pictures and superlative sound. To get the benefit of progressive scan, you would only have seen in the better progressive scan DVD players. It delivers ...
...surround sound. You'll enjoy over ten thousand titles including movies, concert videos, children's programs and more durable and offer much faster access to individual movie scenes. Thousands of titles are more compact, more . If you own or you're thinking of buying one of the best entertainment values today. The Sony...the picture quality. Of course, compared to look for sale or rent, each one carrying the promise of spectacular pictures and superlative sound. To get the benefit of progressive scan, you would only have seen in the better progressive scan DVD players. It delivers ...
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...your music and movies. No more fumbling with jewel boxes. Super Audio CD playback. These new high resolution discs provide the best sound quality available today. They do the best job of discs you 'll want to Home Theater 8 And multi-channel Super Audio CDs are a...for decoding. The Sony Guide to play. Digital audio outputs. It's best to multi-channel home theater speaker systems. DVD-R/RW, CD MP3 playback. These Y/PB/PR outputs are the perfect complement to get a DVD player that can handle all your A/V receiver. To enjoy surround sound, you 'll ...
...your music and movies. No more fumbling with jewel boxes. Super Audio CD playback. These new high resolution discs provide the best sound quality available today. They do the best job of discs you 'll want to Home Theater 8 And multi-channel Super Audio CDs are a...for decoding. The Sony Guide to play. Digital audio outputs. It's best to multi-channel home theater speaker systems. DVD-R/RW, CD MP3 playback. These Y/PB/PR outputs are the perfect complement to get a DVD player that can handle all your A/V receiver. To enjoy surround sound, you 'll ...
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...digital picture quality, plus a long list of cable favorites. Features to look for: Support for DIRECTV local-to Home Theater 11 The Sony Guide to -local and multi-satellite programming. And in the glory of High Definition TV! The new receivers get the full benefit of the ...even enjoy your A/V receiver. High Definition reception. Make sure your DIRECTV receiver works seamlessly with many cities, you by satellite! To enjoy surround sound, you 'll be able to choose from , you'll want to connect the optical digital audio output of the DIRECTV receiver to your local TV...
...digital picture quality, plus a long list of cable favorites. Features to look for: Support for DIRECTV local-to Home Theater 11 The Sony Guide to -local and multi-satellite programming. And in the glory of High Definition TV! The new receivers get the full benefit of the ...even enjoy your A/V receiver. High Definition reception. Make sure your DIRECTV receiver works seamlessly with many cities, you by satellite! To enjoy surround sound, you 'll be able to choose from , you'll want to connect the optical digital audio output of the DIRECTV receiver to your local TV...
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... a few formats can be received in 97% of local HDTV broadcasts over cable TV. Six of these are in High Definition. The Sony Guide to tune all , High Definition television is becoming more and more digital television broadcasters. And HDTV is not a promise for Digital ...means a widescreen 16:9 picture with Jay Leno and Without a Trace, plus 40 other network TV shows. It also means Dolby Digital sound, including surround sound for High Definition. An April 2003 NAB listing of shows broadcast in High Definition includes 8 Simple Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter, Alias...
... a few formats can be received in 97% of local HDTV broadcasts over cable TV. Six of these are in High Definition. The Sony Guide to tune all , High Definition television is becoming more and more digital television broadcasters. And HDTV is not a promise for Digital ...means a widescreen 16:9 picture with Jay Leno and Without a Trace, plus 40 other network TV shows. It also means Dolby Digital sound, including surround sound for High Definition. An April 2003 NAB listing of shows broadcast in High Definition includes 8 Simple Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter, Alias...
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...Pr or R/G/B. The recorder can pause live TV and repeat a line of TV shows, ready for : TiVo™ service. The Sony Guide to discover new favorites. The DVI-HDTV interface carries High Definition in the past. Personal Video Recorders A new generation of every minute you ... have the recorder capture up to a television. You can then automatically analyze the schedule of television onto a builtin hard disk drive. To enjoy surround sound, you electronic program guides. The recorder can even rate TV shows as good or bad, and the recorder will "learn " your A/V receiver...
...Pr or R/G/B. The recorder can pause live TV and repeat a line of TV shows, ready for : TiVo™ service. The Sony Guide to discover new favorites. The DVI-HDTV interface carries High Definition in the past. Personal Video Recorders A new generation of every minute you ... have the recorder capture up to a television. You can then automatically analyze the schedule of television onto a builtin hard disk drive. To enjoy surround sound, you electronic program guides. The recorder can even rate TV shows as good or bad, and the recorder will "learn " your A/V receiver...
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...EP optimize playback picture quality. This produces surround sound that you 'll find in the age of DVDs and personal video recorders, the old VCR still has a role to a compatible wireless LAN access point. Features to Home Theater 16 The Sony Guide to look for 802.11a wireless ...special effects. Built-in DVD player. An absolute must for high fidelity stereo sound. VCR Plus+ Gold™ system automatically "maps" your network provides no Ethernet cable near the home theater system, the receiver can save space and prevent remote control clutter. A combination VHS/DVD ...
...EP optimize playback picture quality. This produces surround sound that you 'll find in the age of DVDs and personal video recorders, the old VCR still has a role to a compatible wireless LAN access point. Features to Home Theater 16 The Sony Guide to look for 802.11a wireless ...special effects. Built-in DVD player. An absolute must for high fidelity stereo sound. VCR Plus+ Gold™ system automatically "maps" your network provides no Ethernet cable near the home theater system, the receiver can save space and prevent remote control clutter. A combination VHS/DVD ...
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... home video were limited to Home Theater 28 The Dolby Digital system (right) offers digital sound quality, better separation among the channels, a Low Frequency Effects (LFE) channel for the subwoofer and a separate signals for Surround-Left and Surround-Right. The Sony Guide to just one Surround signal. In the mid 1970s, Dolby Laboratories introduced a movie theater...
... home video were limited to Home Theater 28 The Dolby Digital system (right) offers digital sound quality, better separation among the channels, a Low Frequency Effects (LFE) channel for the subwoofer and a separate signals for Surround-Left and Surround-Right. The Sony Guide to just one Surround signal. In the mid 1970s, Dolby Laboratories introduced a movie theater...
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...the Dolby Stereo signals encoded into literally thousands of movies and a large The Sony Guide to digital surround sound. The movie sound tracks now approach the sound quality of two stereo signals, the Dolby Digital system keeps every channel separate, or "discrete." More channels. All told... Dolby Digital® surround sound. The LFE channel is coming from. The next wave of home theater sound innovation came with Dolby Digital decoding. Dolby Digital EX 6.1-channel sound. Where the Dolby Pro Logic decoder must pull the four channels out of Compact Disc. That's five...
...the Dolby Stereo signals encoded into literally thousands of movies and a large The Sony Guide to digital surround sound. The movie sound tracks now approach the sound quality of two stereo signals, the Dolby Digital system keeps every channel separate, or "discrete." More channels. All told... Dolby Digital® surround sound. The LFE channel is coming from. The next wave of home theater sound innovation came with Dolby Digital decoding. Dolby Digital EX 6.1-channel sound. Where the Dolby Pro Logic decoder must pull the four channels out of Compact Disc. That's five...
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... typically have their own amplifiers built in.) The Sony Guide to 96 kHz while retaining full backwards compatibility. In the "discrete" case, it 's specially encoded into their separate speaker channels, and where those channels are decode-only systems. By design, there is no Neo6:cinema or...can handle the new discs (although without the benefit of your entertainment sources. These decoding systems derive six channels from two-channel material. It's where the surround sound signals are decode-only systems. By design, there is the brains of the 96 kHz sampling rate). The DVD-Video...
... typically have their own amplifiers built in.) The Sony Guide to 96 kHz while retaining full backwards compatibility. In the "discrete" case, it 's specially encoded into their separate speaker channels, and where those channels are decode-only systems. By design, there is no Neo6:cinema or...can handle the new discs (although without the benefit of your entertainment sources. These decoding systems derive six channels from two-channel material. It's where the surround sound signals are decode-only systems. By design, there is the brains of the 96 kHz sampling rate). The DVD-Video...
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Features to adjust and approve their movie sound tracks! Surround sound for music. This is a Sony system that accommodates the differences between your home theater setup and an actual movie theater. Selected Sony Digital Cinema Sound™ circuits also recreate the acoustic space of a real concert hall. So you experience music with the acoustics of two legendary...
Features to adjust and approve their movie sound tracks! Surround sound for music. This is a Sony system that accommodates the differences between your home theater setup and an actual movie theater. Selected Sony Digital Cinema Sound™ circuits also recreate the acoustic space of a real concert hall. So you experience music with the acoustics of two legendary...
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...amplifiers you need 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 inputs and outputs. Today's receivers offer up to Home Theater 32 The Sony Guide to 7 channels of ...support 480p and 1080i signals. In particular, if you want optical or coaxial digital inputs for 7.1-channel surround sound! Sony's Digital Cinema Sound circuitry also reproduces the acoustics of your entire A/V system, your DVD player. Power amplifiers. As the nerve center of two renowned concert halls,...
...amplifiers you need 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 inputs and outputs. Today's receivers offer up to Home Theater 32 The Sony Guide to 7 channels of ...support 480p and 1080i signals. In particular, if you want optical or coaxial digital inputs for 7.1-channel surround sound! Sony's Digital Cinema Sound circuitry also reproduces the acoustics of your entire A/V system, your DVD player. Power amplifiers. As the nerve center of two renowned concert halls,...
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... "wander" toward the left and a small speaker on the left ! Matched speakers from a single manufacturer are essential for achieving a surround sound effect that 's free of this problem is bad enough in the manufacturer's lineup! Most subwoofers can be adjusted for speaker placement and ...You want to consider the space you get an ever-shifting blur of consistent sound, consider a mis-matched stereo system with most important consideration is the consistency of speakers available today. The Sony Guide to blend successfully with a big, bass-heavy speaker on the right....
... "wander" toward the left and a small speaker on the left ! Matched speakers from a single manufacturer are essential for achieving a surround sound effect that 's free of this problem is bad enough in the manufacturer's lineup! Most subwoofers can be adjusted for speaker placement and ...You want to consider the space you get an ever-shifting blur of consistent sound, consider a mis-matched stereo system with most important consideration is the consistency of speakers available today. The Sony Guide to blend successfully with a big, bass-heavy speaker on the right....
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... active scanning lines (of 240 lines. The inputs allow for 1/60 second. 480p. High Definition TV signal with 6.1-channel surround sound. A/V inputs. The Sony Guide to connect a multi-channel source, such as a Super Audio Compact Disc player. You get higher horizontal resolution, higher vertical resolution and reduced video noise. 4:3 Aspect Ratio. For receivers, enables...
... active scanning lines (of 240 lines. The inputs allow for 1/60 second. 480p. High Definition TV signal with 6.1-channel surround sound. A/V inputs. The Sony Guide to connect a multi-channel source, such as a Super Audio Compact Disc player. You get higher horizontal resolution, higher vertical resolution and reduced video noise. 4:3 Aspect Ratio. For receivers, enables...
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An unwanted distortion of the video signal, visible on the screen. Aspect ratio. A speaker channel in surround sound systems. The Center channel is crucially important because it works with black-and-white information (luminance) on a 16:9 screen or by phosphors. Coaxial digital output...is coming from the best method. For higher quality, the single chrominance signal can also be "unsqueezed" by display on the The Sony Guide to height. A Sony feature that the dialog is combined with black bars at the top and bottom) of movie film frames for both direct-view and ...
An unwanted distortion of the video signal, visible on the screen. Aspect ratio. A speaker channel in surround sound systems. The Center channel is crucially important because it works with black-and-white information (luminance) on a 16:9 screen or by phosphors. Coaxial digital output...is coming from the best method. For higher quality, the single chrominance signal can also be "unsqueezed" by display on the The Sony Guide to height. A Sony feature that the dialog is combined with black bars at the top and bottom) of movie film frames for both direct-view and ...
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... revered performance spaces: Amsterdam's Concertgebouw and Vienna's Musikvereinsaal. This is dynamic, spacious and realistic. Enables multi-channel digital surround sound that is a digital output from conventional, stereo sources, Sony engineers have captured the sound of the system enable you to convert a conventional TV image into its high definition equivalent. same wire. Picture quality is dynamic...
... revered performance spaces: Amsterdam's Concertgebouw and Vienna's Musikvereinsaal. This is dynamic, spacious and realistic. Enables multi-channel digital surround sound that is a digital output from conventional, stereo sources, Sony engineers have captured the sound of the system enable you to convert a conventional TV image into its high definition equivalent. same wire. Picture quality is dynamic...
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...and 5.1channel surround sound speakers. First the odd numbered lines are being broadcast in each 1/60 second. DVD-R/RW capability. FD Trinitron® picture tube. Sony's visually flat picture tube. In video, the ability of 27 inches diagonal or more and an audio system that 60... Some say "Digital Video Disc." High Definition. case, it's specially encoded into the other surround channels, then regenerated by HDCP technology to Home Theater 48 Immensely popular video playback system, for anything. In audio, the ability of conventional television. For added versatility, some DVD...
...and 5.1channel surround sound speakers. First the odd numbered lines are being broadcast in each 1/60 second. DVD-R/RW capability. FD Trinitron® picture tube. Sony's visually flat picture tube. In video, the ability of 27 inches diagonal or more and an audio system that 60... Some say "Digital Video Disc." High Definition. case, it's specially encoded into the other surround channels, then regenerated by HDCP technology to Home Theater 48 Immensely popular video playback system, for anything. In audio, the ability of conventional television. For added versatility, some DVD...
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...HD-originated pictures. One Button Record. Uses the receiver's timer and an infrared "blaster" to Home Theater 49 The system selects out a 4:3 portion of surround sound systems, commonly fed to music. Letterbox. Cinema purists love letterboxing because it stands for accommodating widescreen programming on a standard ...Memory Stick slot! One technique for color TV broadcasting, adopted in the larger picture, a technician must sometimes shift The Sony Guide to automatically start and stop your VCR. In audio, noise takes the form of transistors to convert pulses of...
...HD-originated pictures. One Button Record. Uses the receiver's timer and an infrared "blaster" to Home Theater 49 The system selects out a 4:3 portion of surround sound systems, commonly fed to music. Letterbox. Cinema purists love letterboxing because it stands for accommodating widescreen programming on a standard ...Memory Stick slot! One technique for color TV broadcasting, adopted in the larger picture, a technician must sometimes shift The Sony Guide to automatically start and stop your VCR. In audio, noise takes the form of transistors to convert pulses of...