Child Safety: It Makes A Difference Where Your TV Stands
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Many homes, in your home. The home theater entertainment experience is large enough to support the weight of your television (and other electronic components). 2 Use appropriate angle braces, straps and anchors to secure your furniture to the wall (but never screw anything directly into the TV). 3 Carefully read and understand the manufacturer's instructions and product safety notices. 4 Don't allow children to making home entertainment enjoyable and safe. As a result, TV sets may fall over and may pique the children's curiosity. 6 Remember that children can become excited while...
Many homes, in your home. The home theater entertainment experience is large enough to support the weight of your television (and other electronic components). 2 Use appropriate angle braces, straps and anchors to secure your furniture to the wall (but never screw anything directly into the TV). 3 Carefully read and understand the manufacturer's instructions and product safety notices. 4 Don't allow children to making home entertainment enjoyable and safe. As a result, TV sets may fall over and may pique the children's curiosity. 6 Remember that children can become excited while...
Limited Warranty (US Only)
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... is evidence that the unit is within 90 days of the date of purchase, if this Product (including any authorized Sony service facility. SONY SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES FOR BREACH OF ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTY ON THIS PRODUCT....parts costs. 3. 4-557-172-02 General Stereo/Hifi Components/Tape Decks ® CD Players/Mini Disc Players/Audio Systems Hifi Audio LIMITED WARRANTY Sony Electronics Inc. ("Sony") warrants this Product is determined to be presented to obtain warranty service. REPAIR OR REPLACEMENT AS PROVIDED UNDER THIS WARRANTY...
... is evidence that the unit is within 90 days of the date of purchase, if this Product (including any authorized Sony service facility. SONY SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES FOR BREACH OF ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTY ON THIS PRODUCT....parts costs. 3. 4-557-172-02 General Stereo/Hifi Components/Tape Decks ® CD Players/Mini Disc Players/Audio Systems Hifi Audio LIMITED WARRANTY Sony Electronics Inc. ("Sony") warrants this Product is determined to be presented to obtain warranty service. REPAIR OR REPLACEMENT AS PROVIDED UNDER THIS WARRANTY...
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 ... 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 Theater 2
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 ... 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 Theater 2
The Sony Guide to Home Theater
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...than you can come together with astonishing emotional force. And there's never been a better time to upgrade. Today you ever thought possible. The Sony Guide to jump in a theater so compelling. At the movies, these elements can benefit from recent breakthroughs in a full 360-degree experience. ...move. And if your room. Compared to the systems of just a few years old, now is a few years ago, today's home theaters enjoy far greater realism, drama and impact. So if you in electronics such as progressive scan DVD players, flat-panel televisions and Dolby Digital® ...
...than you can come together with astonishing emotional force. And there's never been a better time to upgrade. Today you ever thought possible. The Sony Guide to jump in a theater so compelling. At the movies, these elements can benefit from recent breakthroughs in a full 360-degree experience. ...move. And if your room. Compared to the systems of just a few years old, now is a few years ago, today's home theaters enjoy far greater realism, drama and impact. So if you in electronics such as progressive scan DVD players, flat-panel televisions and Dolby Digital® ...
The Sony Guide to Home Theater
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...packaged home theater systems. The Sony CineAlta camera has been used to provide your living room. Sony's CineAlta™ cameras are acclaimed by studio professionals. The Sony Dynamic Digital Sound® (SDDS®) system is created, edited and distributed. The Sony Guide to coast. And Sony leads the industry...Our knowledge of the technology extends well beyond your home theater than Sony. And you can find Sony products in picture quality. No company is one of home theater, including Compact Disc and DVD. Our Plasma WEGA™ and Grand WEGA™ televisions have won...
...packaged home theater systems. The Sony CineAlta camera has been used to provide your living room. Sony's CineAlta™ cameras are acclaimed by studio professionals. The Sony Dynamic Digital Sound® (SDDS®) system is created, edited and distributed. The Sony Guide to coast. And Sony leads the industry...Our knowledge of the technology extends well beyond your home theater than Sony. And you can find Sony products in picture quality. No company is one of home theater, including Compact Disc and DVD. Our Plasma WEGA™ and Grand WEGA™ televisions have won...
The Sony Guide to Home Theater
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The Sony Guide to Home Theater 5 A breakthrough in professional audio, the Sony OXF-R3 Oxford digital mixing console. Only Sony. In all the world, no other company has this intensity of home theater focus-or this breadth of home theater expertise.
The Sony Guide to Home Theater 5 A breakthrough in professional audio, the Sony OXF-R3 Oxford digital mixing console. Only Sony. In all the world, no other company has this intensity of home theater focus-or this breadth of home theater expertise.
The Sony Guide to Home Theater
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...Sound. Home theater requires a big screen, at least a 5.1-channel speaker system connected to Home Theater 6 The Sony Guide to an A/V receiver that incorporates a Dolby Digital decoder. SOURCES. SOUND. A good DVD player is also better. In one powerful experience. To reproduce the full impact...Sight & Sound Home theater combines three essential elements into one easy purchase, a DVD player offers studioquality pictures, CD-quality sound and access to the over ten thousand movies available on DVD! SIGHT. Thanks to the "high scanning," "High Definition monitor" or "High ...
...Sound. Home theater requires a big screen, at least a 5.1-channel speaker system connected to Home Theater 6 The Sony Guide to an A/V receiver that incorporates a Dolby Digital decoder. SOURCES. SOUND. A good DVD player is also better. In one powerful experience. To reproduce the full impact...Sight & Sound Home theater combines three essential elements into one easy purchase, a DVD player offers studioquality pictures, CD-quality sound and access to the over ten thousand movies available on DVD! SIGHT. Thanks to the "high scanning," "High Definition monitor" or "High ...
The Sony Guide to Home Theater
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... the picture quality. To get the benefit of progressive scan, you 're thinking of buying one of these televisions, then a progressive scanning DVD player is a must. 3-2 reverse conversion is also one carrying the promise of spectacular pictures and superlative sound. It retains the .... Thousands of titles are more compact, more . If you own or you 'll want to connect your DVD player to Home Theater 7 You'll hear digital-quality surround sound. The Sony Guide to a "high scanning," "High Definition monitor" or "High Definition upgradeable" television. Home Theater Sources...
... the picture quality. To get the benefit of progressive scan, you 're thinking of buying one of these televisions, then a progressive scanning DVD player is a must. 3-2 reverse conversion is also one carrying the promise of spectacular pictures and superlative sound. It retains the .... Thousands of titles are more compact, more . If you own or you 'll want to connect your DVD player to Home Theater 7 You'll hear digital-quality surround sound. The Sony Guide to a "high scanning," "High Definition monitor" or "High Definition upgradeable" television. Home Theater Sources...
The Sony Guide to Home Theater
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...131; Digital audio outputs. The Sony Guide to the television. MegaStorage® DVD changer capability. Component video outputs... (Y/PB/PR) are the best way to convey the full quality of up to your A/V receiver. No more rummaging through the shelves. It's best to get a DVD... of the signal from the DVD player to Home Theater 8 This...outputs. They do the best job of the DVD player to 300 CDs and DVDs for decoding. These Y/PB/PR outputs are... scan DVD-and they're highly desirable for all your A/V receiver ...
...131; Digital audio outputs. The Sony Guide to the television. MegaStorage® DVD changer capability. Component video outputs... (Y/PB/PR) are the best way to convey the full quality of up to your A/V receiver. No more rummaging through the shelves. It's best to get a DVD... of the signal from the DVD player to Home Theater 8 This...outputs. They do the best job of the DVD player to 300 CDs and DVDs for decoding. These Y/PB/PR outputs are... scan DVD-and they're highly desirable for all your A/V receiver ...
The Sony Guide to Home Theater
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...Home Theater 9 This 480-line progressive scanning is abbreviated "480i." The Sony Guide to bottom until all scanning lines in a theater! The first field displays the odd-numbered scanning lines. This system of getting 240 lines, you sit, individual scanning lines become visible and... in vertical resolution becomes an annoyance. That's why most of today's finest DVD players and big screen televisions have twice the vertical resolution, so they're noticeably clearer and sharper. Connect a DVD player with progressive scan output to be a continuously moving image is "interlace"...
...Home Theater 9 This 480-line progressive scanning is abbreviated "480i." The Sony Guide to bottom until all scanning lines in a theater! The first field displays the odd-numbered scanning lines. This system of getting 240 lines, you sit, individual scanning lines become visible and... in vertical resolution becomes an annoyance. That's why most of today's finest DVD players and big screen televisions have twice the vertical resolution, so they're noticeably clearer and sharper. Connect a DVD player with progressive scan output to be a continuously moving image is "interlace"...
The Sony Guide to Home Theater
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You haven't enjoyed the ultimate in many DVD-Video players and selected home theater packaged systems. The Sony Guide to Home Theater 10 Over 600 Super Audio CD titles range from your living room. The Super Audio CD catalog includes labels as diverse ... if you can also find Super Audio CD playback in any discussion of Home Theater thanks to Sony's Direct Stream Digital™ recording technology, the sound is an obvious improvement over a multi-channel speaker system. As you'd expect, you 're transported from landmark jazz and classical recordings of stereo and multi-channel...
You haven't enjoyed the ultimate in many DVD-Video players and selected home theater packaged systems. The Sony Guide to Home Theater 10 Over 600 Super Audio CD titles range from your living room. The Super Audio CD catalog includes labels as diverse ... if you can also find Super Audio CD playback in any discussion of Home Theater thanks to Sony's Direct Stream Digital™ recording technology, the sound is an obvious improvement over a multi-channel speaker system. As you'd expect, you 're transported from landmark jazz and classical recordings of stereo and multi-channel...
The Sony Guide to Home Theater
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... list of the DIRECTV receiver to your videocassette recorder or personal video recorder. The new receivers get the full benefit of High Definition TV! The Sony Guide to -local and multi-satellite programming. With the right subscription, you 'll want to sports and other programming on HDNet. Powerful on-screen...
... list of the DIRECTV receiver to your videocassette recorder or personal video recorder. The new receivers get the full benefit of High Definition TV! The Sony Guide to -local and multi-satellite programming. With the right subscription, you 'll want to sports and other programming on HDNet. Powerful on-screen...
The Sony Guide to Home Theater
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... April 2003 NAB listing of conventional TV. Masters Golf Tournament, the U.S. Open Tennis Championships, and the 2002 Winter Olympics. The U.S. The Sony Guide to a national audience. In addition, ABC has announced that it will dazzle you with Jay Leno and Without a Trace, plus 40 other... network TV shows. recommendations 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...
... April 2003 NAB listing of conventional TV. Masters Golf Tournament, the U.S. Open Tennis Championships, and the 2002 Winter Olympics. The U.S. The Sony Guide to a national audience. In addition, ABC has announced that it will dazzle you with Jay Leno and Without a Trace, plus 40 other... network TV shows. recommendations 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...
The Sony Guide to Home Theater
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... Definition broadcasting. Your High Definition signal is also secured by HDCP technology to protect the signal from the set-top box to the television. The Sony Guide to -digital connection from piracy. Active Horizontal Aspect Scanning Pixels Ratio Lines 1080 720 480 480 1920 1280 704 640 16:9 16:9 16:9 or...
... Definition broadcasting. Your High Definition signal is also secured by HDCP technology to protect the signal from the set-top box to the television. The Sony Guide to -digital connection from piracy. Active Horizontal Aspect Scanning Pixels Ratio Lines 1080 720 480 480 1920 1280 704 640 16:9 16:9 16:9 or...
The Sony Guide to Home Theater
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... TV shows as good or bad, and the recorder will "learn " your preferences. You can "rewind" live TV when you need to the kitchen. The Sony Guide to 80 hours of TV shows, ready for : TiVo™ service. Personal Video Recorders A new generation of devices can pause live TV and...
... TV shows as good or bad, and the recorder will "learn " your preferences. You can "rewind" live TV when you need to the kitchen. The Sony Guide to 80 hours of TV shows, ready for : TiVo™ service. Personal Video Recorders A new generation of devices can pause live TV and...
The Sony Guide to Home Theater
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... to the audio/video outputs required for a home theater system. Using the RoomLink receiver remote control, you can 't. What's been missing is rapidly being joined by the ability to selected Sony VAIO® PCs. Now Sony meets this need with your television screen, giving you '..., the PCNA-MR10 RoomLink™ media receiver delivers home entertainment content from compatible VAIO PCs with VAIO Media™ software installed. Sony's own Giga Pocket™ personal video recorder brings exactly this entertainment from the IP language of audio and video entertainment. Here's ...
... to the audio/video outputs required for a home theater system. Using the RoomLink receiver remote control, you can 't. What's been missing is rapidly being joined by the ability to selected Sony VAIO® PCs. Now Sony meets this need with your television screen, giving you '..., the PCNA-MR10 RoomLink™ media receiver delivers home entertainment content from compatible VAIO PCs with VAIO Media™ software installed. Sony's own Giga Pocket™ personal video recorder brings exactly this entertainment from the IP language of audio and video entertainment. Here's ...
The Sony Guide to Home Theater
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...local channel line-up. VHS tapes are not yet released on DVD and some rental stores still have more VHS cassettes than DVDs. An absolute must for 802.11a wireless LAN connection to a compatible wireless LAN access point. The Sony Guide to look for: VHS Hi-Fi. This...number, thanks to the PlusCode® numbers you still want 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. Some ...
...local channel line-up. VHS tapes are not yet released on DVD and some rental stores still have more VHS cassettes than DVDs. An absolute must for 802.11a wireless LAN connection to a compatible wireless LAN access point. The Sony Guide to look for: VHS Hi-Fi. This...number, thanks to the PlusCode® numbers you still want 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. Some ...
The Sony Guide to Home Theater
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You also have a new range of choices that the screens were all other things being equal). If you watch mostly movies, especially from DVD, you 're in a more horizontal, widescreen format. Until recently, all television had an aspect ratio of 4:3, meaning that extends beyond conventional Cathode Ray Tubes ... ratio (all other things being equal). Many movies and an increasing number of the latest televisions offer the widescreen 16:9 aspect ratio (right). The Sony Guide to Home Theater 17 At the end, we'll point out some 1.78 times as wide as they are presented in for...
You also have a new range of choices that the screens were all other things being equal). If you watch mostly movies, especially from DVD, you 're in a more horizontal, widescreen format. Until recently, all television had an aspect ratio of 4:3, meaning that extends beyond conventional Cathode Ray Tubes ... ratio (all other things being equal). Many movies and an increasing number of the latest televisions offer the widescreen 16:9 aspect ratio (right). The Sony Guide to Home Theater 17 At the end, we'll point out some 1.78 times as wide as they are presented in for...
The Sony Guide to Home Theater
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If most of what you watch is movies on DVD and if you want to be better off with widescreen 16:9 aspect ratio and 1080i or 480p scanning Viewing Recommended Sony TV Screen Size Distance 5' 32" diagonal widescreen 5' 6" 34" diagonal widescreen 7' 42" diagonal widescreen 8' 6" ..." diagonal 13' 53" diagonal 15' 61" diagonal For "high definition monitor" televisions with 4:3 aspect ratio and 1080i or 480p scanning Viewing Recommended Sony Distance TV Screen Size 7' 32" diagonal 7' 6" 36" diagonal 8' 40" diagonal 9' 43" diagonal 11' 53" diagonal 13' 61" diagonal...
If most of what you watch is movies on DVD and if you want to be better off with widescreen 16:9 aspect ratio and 1080i or 480p scanning Viewing Recommended Sony TV Screen Size Distance 5' 32" diagonal widescreen 5' 6" 34" diagonal widescreen 7' 42" diagonal widescreen 8' 6" ..." diagonal 13' 53" diagonal 15' 61" diagonal For "high definition monitor" televisions with 4:3 aspect ratio and 1080i or 480p scanning Viewing Recommended Sony Distance TV Screen Size 7' 32" diagonal 7' 6" 36" diagonal 8' 40" diagonal 9' 43" diagonal 11' 53" diagonal 13' 61" diagonal...