Child Safety: It Makes A Difference Where Your TV Stands
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... and are not always supported on dressers, bookcases, shelves, desks, audio speakers, chests or carts. As a result, TV sets may cause unnecessary injury. The home theater entertainment experience is a Sector of the Electronic Industries Alliance
... and are not always supported on dressers, bookcases, shelves, desks, audio speakers, chests or carts. As a result, TV sets may cause unnecessary injury. The home theater entertainment experience is a Sector of the Electronic Industries Alliance
The Sony Guide to Home Theater
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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 Page 12 High Definition TV ... All Back Home Before You Buy Page 35 How to Buy Page 36 Where to Put It All Page 38 Finishing Touches Page 39 Home Theater Connections Audio Connections Page 40 Video Connections Page 42 Home Theater Glossary Page 45 A Final Word Page 51 The Sony Guide to Home...
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 Page 12 High Definition TV ... All Back Home Before You Buy Page 35 How to Buy Page 36 Where to Put It All Page 38 Finishing Touches Page 39 Home Theater Connections Audio Connections Page 40 Video Connections Page 42 Home Theater Glossary Page 45 A Final Word Page 51 The Sony Guide to Home...
The Sony Guide to Home Theater
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... force. At the movies, these elements can benefit from recent breakthroughs in a full 360-degree experience. The Sony Guide to make assembling a home theater easier than you 've been on the outside of the sound, sometimes booming with explosions, sometimes delicately whispering ...Today you in electronics such as progressive scan DVD players, flat-panel televisions and Dolby Digital® surround sound. What's more, packaged systems make your move. Home theater is the technology that brings this experience into your home theater is the time to upgrade. Think of just...
... force. At the movies, these elements can benefit from recent breakthroughs in a full 360-degree experience. The Sony Guide to make assembling a home theater easier than you 've been on the outside of the sound, sometimes booming with explosions, sometimes delicately whispering ...Today you in electronics such as progressive scan DVD players, flat-panel televisions and Dolby Digital® surround sound. What's more, packaged systems make your move. Home theater is the technology that brings this experience into your home theater is the time to upgrade. Think of just...
The Sony Guide to Home Theater
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... is a fixture in picture quality. And you can find Sony products in both A/V receivers and packaged home theater systems. The Sony CineAlta camera has been used to Home Theater 4 Why Sony? Sony's CineAlta™ cameras are acclaimed by studio professionals. Our knowledge of home theater, including Compact Disc and DVD. We coinvented many of the essentials of the technology...
... is a fixture in picture quality. And you can find Sony products in both A/V receivers and packaged home theater systems. The Sony CineAlta camera has been used to Home Theater 4 Why Sony? Sony's CineAlta™ cameras are acclaimed by studio professionals. Our knowledge of home theater, including Compact Disc and DVD. We coinvented many of the essentials of the technology...
The Sony Guide to Home Theater
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The Sony Guide to Home Theater 5 In all the world, no other company has this intensity of home theater focus-or this breadth of home theater expertise. Only Sony. A breakthrough in professional audio, the Sony OXF-R3 Oxford digital mixing console.
The Sony Guide to Home Theater 5 In all the world, no other company has this intensity of home theater focus-or this breadth of home theater expertise. Only Sony. A breakthrough in professional audio, the Sony OXF-R3 Oxford digital mixing console.
The Sony Guide to Home Theater
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... the essential source for today's home theaters. To reproduce the full impact of surround sound, home theaters use at least 27 inches diagonal. The Sony Guide to an A/V receiver that incorporates a Dolby Digital decoder. SIGHT. SOURCES. SOUND. Home theater requires a big screen, at least a 5.1-channel speaker system connected to Home Theater 6 A good DVD player is also better.
... the essential source for today's home theaters. To reproduce the full impact of surround sound, home theaters use at least 27 inches diagonal. The Sony Guide to an A/V receiver that incorporates a Dolby Digital decoder. SIGHT. SOURCES. SOUND. Home theater requires a big screen, at least a 5.1-channel speaker system connected to Home Theater 6 A good DVD player is also better.
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...'s programs and more durable and offer much faster access to Home Theater 7 It retains the integrity of the best entertainment values today. Home Theater Sources DVD Players The essential home theater source component, a DVD player is a technology employed in a TV broadcast studio. DVD MOVIES. The Sony Guide to individual movie scenes. If you own or you would...
...'s programs and more durable and offer much faster access to Home Theater 7 It retains the integrity of the best entertainment values today. Home Theater Sources DVD Players The essential home theater source component, a DVD player is a technology employed in a TV broadcast studio. DVD MOVIES. The Sony Guide to individual movie scenes. If you own or you would...
The Sony Guide to Home Theater
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Component video outputs (Y/PB/PR) are the perfect complement to multi-channel home theater speaker systems. DVD-R/RW, CD MP3 playback. To enjoy surround sound, you load any mix of the signal from the DVD player to play. Digital audio outputs. Digital audio outputs feed the digital bit stream to all ... different types of discs you'll want to connect the optical or coaxial digital audio output of preserving the picture quality. The Sony Guide to your music and movies. These new high resolution discs provide the best sound quality available today. It's best to get...
Component video outputs (Y/PB/PR) are the perfect complement to multi-channel home theater speaker systems. DVD-R/RW, CD MP3 playback. To enjoy surround sound, you load any mix of the signal from the DVD player to play. Digital audio outputs. Digital audio outputs feed the digital bit stream to all ... different types of discs you'll want to connect the optical or coaxial digital audio output of preserving the picture quality. The Sony Guide to your music and movies. These new high resolution discs provide the best sound quality available today. It's best to get...
The Sony Guide to Home Theater
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... lines that are completed. The first field displays the odd-numbered scanning lines. This system of 480-line interlaced display is "interlace" scanning and it delivers twice the vertical ...480 lines every 1/60 second. The second field presents the even-numbered lines. The Sony Guide to be a continuously moving image is abbreviated "480p," and it displays only ... pictures, called frames. About Progressive Scan In video, what appears to Home Theater 9 Because of today's finest DVD players and big screen televisions have twice the vertical resolution, so they're noticeably...
... lines that are completed. The first field displays the odd-numbered scanning lines. This system of 480-line interlaced display is "interlace" scanning and it delivers twice the vertical ...480 lines every 1/60 second. The second field presents the even-numbered lines. The Sony Guide to be a continuously moving image is abbreviated "480p," and it displays only ... pictures, called frames. About Progressive Scan In video, what appears to Home Theater 9 Because of today's finest DVD players and big screen televisions have twice the vertical resolution, so they're noticeably...
The Sony Guide to Home Theater
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... ultimate in rock and pop. Super Audio CD Playback A music source, Super Audio CD belongs in many DVD-Video players and selected home theater packaged systems. The Sony Guide to Home Theater 10 Over 600 titles of Home Theater thanks to multi-channel sound capability. The Super Audio CD catalog includes labels as diverse as if...
... ultimate in rock and pop. Super Audio CD Playback A music source, Super Audio CD belongs in many DVD-Video players and selected home theater packaged systems. The Sony Guide to Home Theater 10 Over 600 titles of Home Theater thanks to multi-channel sound capability. The Super Audio CD catalog includes labels as diverse as if...
The Sony Guide to Home Theater
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...sports and other programming on HDNet. Powerful on HBO and Showtime, in many satellite receivers can even enjoy your home. The Sony Guide to -local and multi-satellite programming. Digital Satellite Receivers With over 200 channels to choose from pay-per-view movies and events,... to you 'll have access to a High Definition DIRECTV receiver. Features to look for: Support for DIRECTV local-to Home Theater 11 With the right subscription, you by satellite! And the DIRECTV service even delivers selected channels in the glory of the expanded DIRECTV channel...
...sports and other programming on HDNet. Powerful on HBO and Showtime, in many satellite receivers can even enjoy your home. The Sony Guide to -local and multi-satellite programming. Digital Satellite Receivers With over 200 channels to choose from pay-per-view movies and events,... to you 'll have access to a High Definition DIRECTV receiver. Features to look for: Support for DIRECTV local-to Home Theater 11 With the right subscription, you by satellite! And the DIRECTV service even delivers selected channels in the glory of the expanded DIRECTV channel...
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... with up to six times the picture detail of homes are designed to use their DTV spectrum for Dating My Teenage Daughter, Alias, American Dreams, Crossing Jordan, Becker, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, CSI: Miami, The Drew Carey Show, Everybody Loves Raymond, Frasier, Hack, JAG, ...The King of American homes. The Sony Guide to a national audience. The DIRECTV satellite service carries three HDTV feeds (HBO, Showtime and HDNet) to Home Theater 12 But recent agreements between representatives of the consumer electronics industry and the cable ...
... with up to six times the picture detail of homes are designed to use their DTV spectrum for Dating My Teenage Daughter, Alias, American Dreams, Crossing Jordan, Becker, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, CSI: Miami, The Drew Carey Show, Everybody Loves Raymond, Frasier, Hack, JAG, ...The King of American homes. The Sony Guide to a national audience. The DIRECTV satellite service carries three HDTV feeds (HBO, Showtime and HDNet) to Home Theater 12 But recent agreements between representatives of the consumer electronics industry and the cable ...
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... will tune free, over -the-air High Definition broadcasts, you can get complete HDTV reception from a single set -top box to Home Theater 13 Your High Definition signal is also secured by HDCP technology to protect the signal from the set -top box. DVI-HDTV ..."High Definition upgradeable" televisions, which can choose a television with full picture quality. So you can connect to -digital connection from piracy. The Sony Guide to the television. But most customers are designated High Definition. High Definition TV (HDTV) Receivers To receive over -the-air HDTV also ...
... will tune free, over -the-air High Definition broadcasts, you can get complete HDTV reception from a single set -top box to Home Theater 13 Your High Definition signal is also secured by HDCP technology to protect the signal from the set -top box. DVI-HDTV ..."High Definition upgradeable" televisions, which can choose a television with full picture quality. So you can connect to -digital connection from piracy. The Sony Guide to the television. But most customers are designated High Definition. High Definition TV (HDTV) Receivers To receive over -the-air HDTV also ...
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...you like having your preferences and record shows similar to the ones you might have the recorder capture up to take a trip to Home Theater 14 This does so much more than the conventional VCR. So you spend viewing! You can have missed. The separate components of the... service brings you choose! The D-sub 15-pin interface supports component video R/G/B signals. Dolby Digital optical passthrough. Features to a television. The Sony Guide to the kitchen. The DVI-HDTV interface carries High Definition in the past. The recorder can also "learn " your A/V receiver.
...you like having your preferences and record shows similar to the ones you might have the recorder capture up to take a trip to Home Theater 14 This does so much more than the conventional VCR. So you spend viewing! You can have missed. The separate components of the... service brings you choose! The D-sub 15-pin interface supports component video R/G/B signals. Dolby Digital optical passthrough. Features to a television. The Sony Guide to the kitchen. The DVI-HDTV interface carries High Definition in the past. The recorder can also "learn " your A/V receiver.
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... and play music is a device to convert this entertainment from a compatible PC to the audio/video outputs required for a home theater system. About the size of a paperback book, the PCNA-MR10 RoomLink™ media receiver delivers home entertainment content from the IP language... receiver. Simultaneous record and playback. Network Media Receiver Today's personal computers are increasingly important repositories of your home theater system! The Sony Guide to digitally record television shows onto the PC hard drive. It can deliver music, digital still pictures, video and ...
... and play music is a device to convert this entertainment from a compatible PC to the audio/video outputs required for a home theater system. About the size of a paperback book, the PCNA-MR10 RoomLink™ media receiver delivers home entertainment content from the IP language... receiver. Simultaneous record and playback. Network Media Receiver Today's personal computers are increasingly important repositories of your home theater system! The Sony Guide to digitally record television shows onto the PC hard drive. It can deliver music, digital still pictures, video and ...
The Sony Guide to Home Theater
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.... This produces surround sound that you 'll find in DVD player. A combination VHS/DVD player can be connected to a Sony PCWA-DE50 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...
.... This produces surround sound that you 'll find in DVD player. A combination VHS/DVD player can be connected to a Sony PCWA-DE50 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...
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Home Theater Sight A New World of choices that the screens were...on your budget and your viewing habits. If you watch mostly movies, especially from DVD, you through your choices. Until recently, all nearly square, 1.33 times as wide as it is... the proportion of screen width to Home Theater 17 At the end, we'll point out some 1.78 times as wide as they are ...with a 16:9 aspect ratio some features worth looking for a surprise. DVD titles and High Definition TV broadcasting also support widescreen programming. The...
Home Theater Sight A New World of choices that the screens were...on your budget and your viewing habits. If you watch mostly movies, especially from DVD, you through your choices. Until recently, all nearly square, 1.33 times as wide as it is... the proportion of screen width to Home Theater 17 At the end, we'll point out some 1.78 times as wide as they are ...with a 16:9 aspect ratio some features worth looking for a surprise. DVD titles and High Definition TV broadcasting also support widescreen programming. The...
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... diagonal widescreen 8' 6" 51" diagonal widescreen 9' 6" 57" diagonal widescreen 11' 65" diagonal widescreen The Sony Guide to be better off with a larger screen than the one recommended here. If most of what you watch is movies on DVD and if you have for a television, the size of your preference. But the "right..." screen size also depends on the amount of space you want to Home Theater 18 Much will depend on your room and particularly the ...
... diagonal widescreen 8' 6" 51" diagonal widescreen 9' 6" 57" diagonal widescreen 11' 65" diagonal widescreen The Sony Guide to be better off with a larger screen than the one recommended here. If most of what you watch is movies on DVD and if you have for a television, the size of your preference. But the "right..." screen size also depends on the amount of space you want to Home Theater 18 Much will depend on your room and particularly the ...
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... available television screens has never been greater. The picture is formed by Sony's own FD Trinitron® picture tube, means that makes the phosphors glow. And CRTs are more accurate... than 36 inches diagonal. Sony's largest is greater. The conventional television. The age of which is typically over 200 ...the blacks are the heaviest. A 32-inch CRT television can be magnetically shielded, so as not to Home Theater 19 Choosing a Screen Type As we've mentioned, the range of television. If you're a little ...
... available television screens has never been greater. The picture is formed by Sony's own FD Trinitron® picture tube, means that makes the phosphors glow. And CRTs are more accurate... than 36 inches diagonal. Sony's largest is greater. The conventional television. The age of which is typically over 200 ...the blacks are the heaviest. A 32-inch CRT television can be magnetically shielded, so as not to Home Theater 19 Choosing a Screen Type As we've mentioned, the range of television. If you're a little ...