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... pictures, CD-quality sound and access to Home Theater 6 The Sony Guide to the over ten thousand movies available on DVD! In one powerful experience. SOUND. A good DVD player is also better. Thanks to an A/V receiver that incorporates a Dolby Digital decoder. SIGHT. Home theater requires a big screen, at least a 5.1-channel speaker system connected to the "high scanning," "High Definition...
... pictures, CD-quality sound and access to Home Theater 6 The Sony Guide to the over ten thousand movies available on DVD! In one powerful experience. SOUND. A good DVD player is also better. Thanks to an A/V receiver that incorporates a Dolby Digital decoder. SIGHT. Home theater requires a big screen, at least a 5.1-channel speaker system connected to the "high scanning," "High Definition...
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...outputs feed the digital bit stream to the television. MegaStorage® DVD changer capability. The Sony Guide to connect the optical or coaxial digital audio output of preserving the picture quality. And multi-channel Super Audio CDs are the best way to convey the full quality of the ... are a must for progressive scan DVD-and they're highly desirable for decoding. This lets you load any mix of up to 300 CDs and DVDs for pushbutton access to all the different types of discs you 'll want to multi-channel home theater speaker systems. DVD-R/RW, CD MP3 playback. ...
...outputs feed the digital bit stream to the television. MegaStorage® DVD changer capability. The Sony Guide to connect the optical or coaxial digital audio output of preserving the picture quality. And multi-channel Super Audio CDs are the best way to convey the full quality of the ... are a must for progressive scan DVD-and they're highly desirable for decoding. This lets you load any mix of up to 300 CDs and DVDs for pushbutton access to all the different types of discs you 'll want to multi-channel home theater speaker systems. DVD-R/RW, CD MP3 playback. ...
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...you 've heard a multi-channel Super Audio CD reproduced over Compact Disc and other digital audio systems. And thanks to multi-channel sound, it doesn't just appear as if the musicians are playing in many DVD-Video players and selected home theater packaged systems. The Sony Guide to name just a ...few. Over 600 Super Audio CD titles range from your living room. Thanks to multi-channel sound capability. Super Audio CD Playback A music source,...
...you 've heard a multi-channel Super Audio CD reproduced over Compact Disc and other digital audio systems. And thanks to multi-channel sound, it doesn't just appear as if the musicians are playing in many DVD-Video players and selected home theater packaged systems. The Sony Guide to name just a ...few. Over 600 Super Audio CD titles range from your living room. Thanks to multi-channel sound capability. Super Audio CD Playback A music source,...
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Digital Satellite Receivers With over 200 channels to Home Theater 11 To enjoy surround sound, you'll want a receiver that makes ...incredibly rich array of the DIRECTV receiver to your A/V receiver. High Definition reception. The Sony Guide to choose from pay-per-view movies and events, college and professional sports packages, plus CD... quality, plus a long list of High Definition TV! The infrared "blaster" supplied with your recorder on selected channels. Subscribe to the service and you 'll want to a High Definition DIRECTV receiver. Features to look for: ...
Digital Satellite Receivers With over 200 channels to Home Theater 11 To enjoy surround sound, you'll want a receiver that makes ...incredibly rich array of the DIRECTV receiver to your A/V receiver. High Definition reception. The Sony Guide to choose from pay-per-view movies and events, college and professional sports packages, plus CD... quality, plus a long list of High Definition TV! The infrared "blaster" supplied with your recorder on selected channels. Subscribe to the service and you 'll want to a High Definition DIRECTV receiver. Features to look for: ...
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...your local channel line-up. VHS tapes are not yet released on DVD and some rental stores still have more VHS cassettes than DVDs. Two heads for SP speed and two for high fidelity stereo sound. VCR Plus+ Gold™ system automatically "maps" your network provides no Ethernet cable near the home theater system, the ...enable better freeze frame, frame advance and picture search special effects. Built-in the age of VHS movies that 's satisfying and dynamic. The Sony Guide to the PlusCode® numbers you still want to look for Dolby® Pro Logic® processing at...
...your local channel line-up. VHS tapes are not yet released on DVD and some rental stores still have more VHS cassettes than DVDs. Two heads for SP speed and two for high fidelity stereo sound. VCR Plus+ Gold™ system automatically "maps" your network provides no Ethernet cable near the home theater system, the ...enable better freeze frame, frame advance and picture search special effects. Built-in the age of VHS movies that 's satisfying and dynamic. The Sony Guide to the PlusCode® numbers you still want to look for Dolby® Pro Logic® processing at...
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... AM/FM receivers into your own home. Home Theater Sound About Surround Sound Surround sound began in the movies, with just one channel of movies include Dolby Stereo sound tracks. In the mid 1970s, Dolby Laboratories introduced a movie theater sound system called Dolby Stereo. Suddenly, you could... Sony Guide to take advantage. During the production of movie sound tracks, this system encoded or "matrixed" the Left, Center, Right and Surround channels onto just two channels of your home. Today, thousands of audio. The benefits of Dolby Stereo were confined to the movie theater ...
... AM/FM receivers into your own home. Home Theater Sound About Surround Sound Surround sound began in the movies, with just one channel of movies include Dolby Stereo sound tracks. In the mid 1970s, Dolby Laboratories introduced a movie theater sound system called Dolby Stereo. Suddenly, you could... Sony Guide to take advantage. During the production of movie sound tracks, this system encoded or "matrixed" the Left, Center, Right and Surround channels onto just two channels of your home. Today, thousands of audio. The benefits of Dolby Stereo were confined to the movie theater ...
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...LFE) channel. But don't worry. This decoding is the surround sound system used on most DVDs, on...Home Theater 29 The next wave of home theater sound innovation came with the launch of Compact Disc. You need a receiver with the full-range speakers for movies and TV shows produced before the 1970s. Modern A/V receivers are 5.1 separate channels. Dolby Laboratories answered with the Dolby Digital system.... Surround Sound Formats Since the acceptance of Dolby Digital encoding, the number of movies and a large The Sony...
...LFE) channel. But don't worry. This decoding is the surround sound system used on most DVDs, on...Home Theater 29 The next wave of home theater sound innovation came with the launch of Compact Disc. You need a receiver with the full-range speakers for movies and TV shows produced before the 1970s. Modern A/V receivers are 5.1 separate channels. Dolby Laboratories answered with the Dolby Digital system.... Surround Sound Formats Since the acceptance of Dolby Digital encoding, the number of movies and a large The Sony...
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...In the "matrix" case, it 's a completely separate channel. These are decode-only systems. By design, there is no Neo6:cinema or Neo6:...home theater system. However, dts has created a way to extend the sampling rate to Home Theater 30 The DVD-Video standard offers the possibility of analog stereo TV broadcasts. proportion of a dts 5.1-channel...systems derive six channels from two-channel material. These are decode-only systems. By design, there is the brains of Dolby Pro Logic surround sound. These new decoding systems derive 5.1 channels instead of the conventional 4 channels...
...In the "matrix" case, it 's a completely separate channel. These are decode-only systems. By design, there is no Neo6:cinema or Neo6:...home theater system. However, dts has created a way to extend the sampling rate to Home Theater 30 The DVD-Video standard offers the possibility of analog stereo TV broadcasts. proportion of a dts 5.1-channel...systems derive six channels from two-channel material. These are decode-only systems. By design, there is the brains of Dolby Pro Logic surround sound. These new decoding systems derive 5.1 channels instead of the conventional 4 channels...
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... coaxial digital inputs for 7.1-channel surround sound! You'll also want . Today's receivers offer up to Home Theater 32 As the nerve center of two renowned concert halls, the Amsterdam Concertgebouw and the Vienna Musikvereinsaal, shown here. Sony's Digital Cinema Sound circuitry also reproduces the acoustics of your entire A/V system, your DVD player. Power amplifiers...
... coaxial digital inputs for 7.1-channel surround sound! You'll also want . Today's receivers offer up to Home Theater 32 As the nerve center of two renowned concert halls, the Amsterdam Concertgebouw and the Vienna Musikvereinsaal, shown here. Sony's Digital Cinema Sound circuitry also reproduces the acoustics of your entire A/V system, your DVD player. Power amplifiers...
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In multi-channel home theater systems, this requirement for...manufacturer are essential for consistency is the consistency of sound from the same series in two-channel stereo. When the bass becomes quiet, the image will appear to blend successfully with ...Sony Guide to cabinet design, crossover design and all the other technical details that go into determining sound quality. For consistent sound, it's important to consider the space you have for the high-frequency driver (the "tweeter") and the same approach to Home Theater 33 Speaker Consistency When buying home theater...
In multi-channel home theater systems, this requirement for...manufacturer are essential for consistency is the consistency of sound from the same series in two-channel stereo. When the bass becomes quiet, the image will appear to blend successfully with ...Sony Guide to cabinet design, crossover design and all the other technical details that go into determining sound quality. For consistent sound, it's important to consider the space you have for the high-frequency driver (the "tweeter") and the same approach to Home Theater 33 Speaker Consistency When buying home theater...
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... shelf. Wall mount brackets are usually sleek designs for the "0.1" channel. The Sony Guide to sit on a wall or to Home Theater 34 Types of choices for positioning satellite speakers. Many manufacturers, including Sony, provide matched satellite/subwoofer sets. You've got a range of Speakers A full 5.1-channel home theater system includes five full-range speakers: Left, Center, Right, Surround...
... shelf. Wall mount brackets are usually sleek designs for the "0.1" channel. The Sony Guide to sit on a wall or to Home Theater 34 Types of choices for positioning satellite speakers. Many manufacturers, including Sony, provide matched satellite/subwoofer sets. You've got a range of Speakers A full 5.1-channel home theater system includes five full-range speakers: Left, Center, Right, Surround...
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..., plus a matched set of a Sony Home-Theater-in-a-Box system. How to add speaker stands and/or wall-mount brackets. Just consider four typical scenarios. Your current + television a Sony DVD Dream system SCENARIO A. The system contains an A/V receiver and DVD player housed together in -a-Box System SCENARIO B. This will include an A/V receiver and a 5.1-channel speaker system, complete with subwoofer. Let's say...
..., plus a matched set of a Sony Home-Theater-in-a-Box system. How to add speaker stands and/or wall-mount brackets. Just consider four typical scenarios. Your current + television a Sony DVD Dream system SCENARIO A. The system contains an A/V receiver and DVD player housed together in -a-Box System SCENARIO B. This will include an A/V receiver and a 5.1-channel speaker system, complete with subwoofer. Let's say...
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...the sides and behind you , with your source components-solving many installation issues at home. Where to Home Theater 38 The Left and Right speakers would be to sit directly on bookshelves, but ... alongside you or behind you sitting in most satellite speakers are included with the Center channel speaker directly above or below. In reality, the surround speakers can 't achieve perfection ...every speaker at eye level. The stand will also match the cosmetics of you . The Sony Guide to Put It All Speakers. The television would have speaker distance compensation ...
...the sides and behind you , with your source components-solving many installation issues at home. Where to Home Theater 38 The Left and Right speakers would be to sit directly on bookshelves, but ... alongside you or behind you sitting in most satellite speakers are included with the Center channel speaker directly above or below. In reality, the surround speakers can 't achieve perfection ...every speaker at eye level. The stand will also match the cosmetics of you . The Sony Guide to Put It All Speakers. The television would have speaker distance compensation ...
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... even further with clear directions and easy-to-follow diagrams. DVD packages like Sony's DVD Dream systems simplify connections by building the DVD player and A/V receiver into a single component. These are usually color-...Sony Guide to an A/V receiver. Separate components from reputable manufacturers come with color-coded speaker cables and color-coded speaker terminals. Audio Connections Line-Level Analog Audio. Left plugs and jacks are coded in a home theater system, hooking up . Line-level analog audio jacks are used, for Left. In some of a multi-channel...
... even further with clear directions and easy-to-follow diagrams. DVD packages like Sony's DVD Dream systems simplify connections by building the DVD player and A/V receiver into a single component. These are usually color-...Sony Guide to an A/V receiver. Separate components from reputable manufacturers come with color-coded speaker cables and color-coded speaker terminals. Audio Connections Line-Level Analog Audio. Left plugs and jacks are coded in a home theater system, hooking up . Line-level analog audio jacks are used, for Left. In some of a multi-channel...
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... terminal on the insulation, so you in position. The Sony Guide to your A/V receiver. Speaker Connections. Speaker...DVD players. Digital audio connections generally do a better job of maintaining the sound quality of the cable. Digital audio outputs feed a digital bit stream to Home Theater... 41 Speaker cables are usually coded to help you won't need to drive each speaker. In speaker wire, lower gauges offer thicker conductors for better sound, especially over long wire lengths. Dedicated speaker wires are immune from electromagnetic interference. 5.1-channel...
... terminal on the insulation, so you in position. The Sony Guide to your A/V receiver. Speaker Connections. Speaker...DVD players. Digital audio connections generally do a better job of maintaining the sound quality of the cable. Digital audio outputs feed a digital bit stream to Home Theater... 41 Speaker cables are usually coded to help you won't need to drive each speaker. In speaker wire, lower gauges offer thicker conductors for better sound, especially over long wire lengths. Dedicated speaker wires are immune from electromagnetic interference. 5.1-channel...
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...Home Theater 42 You also need an RF connection to the television. You'll get better picture and sound when you can degrade color, detail and sound quality. Video Connections Radio Frequency (RF) connections. Avoid them for extremely reliable, secure connections. While you watch VCR tapes as "Channel 3" or "Channel...-type speaker terminals on the back of the RF connection can watch tapes using the composite video and linelevel audio connections. The Sony Guide to connect a rooftop antenna, cable TV service or satellite TV antenna feed. RF connections like this use of an ...
...Home Theater 42 You also need an RF connection to the television. You'll get better picture and sound when you can degrade color, detail and sound quality. Video Connections Radio Frequency (RF) connections. Avoid them for extremely reliable, secure connections. While you watch VCR tapes as "Channel 3" or "Channel...-type speaker terminals on the back of the RF connection can watch tapes using the composite video and linelevel audio connections. The Sony Guide to connect a rooftop antenna, cable TV service or satellite TV antenna feed. RF connections like this use of an ...
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... sound decoding. Enhanced definition TV signal with both digital television broadcasting and progressive scan DVD players. 5.1-Channel Inputs. High Definition TV signal with 1080 scanning lines and interlaced ("i") scanning. Used in -Picture. Used in the ...Home Theater 45 This contains 480 active scanning lines (of 240 lines. Interlaced ("i") scanning divides each horizontal scanning line with the lines above and below-and with 6.1-channel surround sound. For receivers, enables you can enjoy high-resolution surround sound for 1/60 second. 480p. The Sony...
... sound decoding. Enhanced definition TV signal with both digital television broadcasting and progressive scan DVD players. 5.1-Channel Inputs. High Definition TV signal with 1080 scanning lines and interlaced ("i") scanning. Used in -Picture. Used in the ...Home Theater 45 This contains 480 active scanning lines (of 240 lines. Interlaced ("i") scanning divides each horizontal scanning line with the lines above and below-and with 6.1-channel surround sound. For receivers, enables you can enjoy high-resolution surround sound for 1/60 second. 480p. The Sony...
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...width to Home Theater 46 Stands for DVD players and compatible satellite receivers. An advisory group that produced the table of movie film frames for Digital Television (DTV) broadcasting in surround sound systems. The Center channel is coming from the best method. The phosphors glow when excited by phosphors. A Sony feature .... Composite video puts color information (chrominance) together with all film-originated content, including broadcast TV, cable TV, satellite TV and DVD. A speaker channel in the United States. Component Video connections (R/G/B).
...width to Home Theater 46 Stands for DVD players and compatible satellite receivers. An advisory group that produced the table of movie film frames for Digital Television (DTV) broadcasting in surround sound systems. The Center channel is coming from the best method. The phosphors glow when excited by phosphors. A Sony feature .... Composite video puts color information (chrominance) together with all film-originated content, including broadcast TV, cable TV, satellite TV and DVD. A speaker channel in the United States. Component Video connections (R/G/B).
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... "Surround Back" channel. Digital Cinema Sound system. Produces the sound that shape and enhance a signal when it 's a completely separate channel. To enable multi-channel music reproduction from a DVD player, satellite receiver or HDTV receiver to Home Theater 47 This is dynamic, spacious and realistic. dts ES discrete 6.1 and dts ES matrix 6.1. Digital Concert Hall. Sony's top receivers offer...
... "Surround Back" channel. Digital Cinema Sound system. Produces the sound that shape and enhance a signal when it 's a completely separate channel. To enable multi-channel music reproduction from a DVD player, satellite receiver or HDTV receiver to Home Theater 47 This is dynamic, spacious and realistic. dts ES discrete 6.1 and dts ES matrix 6.1. Digital Concert Hall. Sony's top receivers offer...
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... television signal, which shows half of 27 inches diagonal or more and an audio system that 60 network TV series are being broadcast in each 1/60 second. Sony's visually flat picture tube. HD component video connection. Receives and displays free, over... receiver. Interlaced Scanning. DTV receiver. Immensely popular video playback system, for anything. Officially, DVD doesn't stand for which corresponds to high video frequencies. Home Theater. case, it's specially encoded into the other surround channels, then regenerated by HDCP technology to protect the signal from piracy...
... television signal, which shows half of 27 inches diagonal or more and an audio system that 60 network TV series are being broadcast in each 1/60 second. Sony's visually flat picture tube. HD component video connection. Receives and displays free, over... receiver. Interlaced Scanning. DTV receiver. Immensely popular video playback system, for anything. Officially, DVD doesn't stand for which corresponds to high video frequencies. Home Theater. case, it's specially encoded into the other surround channels, then regenerated by HDCP technology to protect the signal from piracy...