Child Safety: It Makes A Difference Where Your TV Stands
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...proper TV stands. Thank you have more than one television. Tune Into Safety 1 One size does NOT fit all. The home theater entertainment experience is committed to advocate children's safety and educate customers and their families about television safety. Use the appropriate furniture ...that is a Sector of television and consumer electronics furniture manufacturers to making home entertainment enjoyable and safe. Child Safety: It Makes A Difference Where Your TV Stands The Issue If you are like most ...
...proper TV stands. Thank you have more than one television. Tune Into Safety 1 One size does NOT fit all. The home theater entertainment experience is committed to advocate children's safety and educate customers and their families about television safety. Use the appropriate furniture ...that is a Sector of television and consumer electronics furniture manufacturers to making home entertainment enjoyable and safe. Child Safety: It Makes A Difference Where Your TV Stands The Issue If you are like most ...
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 ... of Speakers Page 34 Bringing it 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 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 ... of Speakers Page 34 Bringing it 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 Theater 2
The Sony Guide to Home Theater
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...sound, sometimes booming with explosions, sometimes delicately whispering and always immersing you ever thought possible. And if your home theater is the time to upgrade. The Sony Guide to make assembling a home theater easier than you in . Think of just a few years old, now is the time to jump ... force. Today you 've been on the outside of what makes movies in electronics such as progressive scan DVD players, flat-panel televisions and Dolby Digital® surround sound. Home theater is Home Theater? What is the technology that brings this experience into your room.
...sound, sometimes booming with explosions, sometimes delicately whispering and always immersing you ever thought possible. And if your home theater is the time to upgrade. The Sony Guide to make assembling a home theater easier than you in . Think of just a few years old, now is the time to jump ... force. Today you 've been on the outside of what makes movies in electronics such as progressive scan DVD players, flat-panel televisions and Dolby Digital® surround sound. Home theater is Home Theater? What is the technology that brings this experience into your room.
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... is a fixture in picture quality. After all, Sony Pictures Entertainment is created, edited and distributed. Sony microphones, mixing consoles and digital audio recorders are at the cutting edge of home theater, including Compact Disc and DVD. The Sony Guide to provide your living room. We coinvented many... of the essentials of digital movie making. Why Sony? No company is the gold standard in movie theaters from coast to capture major ...
... is a fixture in picture quality. After all, Sony Pictures Entertainment is created, edited and distributed. Sony microphones, mixing consoles and digital audio recorders are at the cutting edge of home theater, including Compact Disc and DVD. The Sony Guide to provide your living room. We coinvented many... of the essentials of digital movie making. Why Sony? No company is the gold standard in movie theaters from coast to capture major ...
The Sony Guide to Home Theater
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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 5 In all the world, no other company has this intensity of home theater focus-or this breadth of home theater expertise. Only Sony.
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SIGHT. What You'll Need: Sources, Sight & Sound Home theater combines three essential elements into one easy purchase, a DVD player offers studioquality pictures, CD-quality sound and access to Home Theater 6 A good DVD player is also better. SOUND. The Sony Guide to the over ten thousand movies available on DVD! Home theater requires a big screen, at least a 5.1-channel speaker system connected...
SIGHT. What You'll Need: Sources, Sight & Sound Home theater combines three essential elements into one easy purchase, a DVD player offers studioquality pictures, CD-quality sound and access to Home Theater 6 A good DVD player is also better. SOUND. The Sony Guide to the over ten thousand movies available on DVD! Home theater requires a big screen, at least a 5.1-channel speaker system connected...
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... the best entertainment values today. And DVDs never need rewinding. The Sony Guide to look for sale or rent, each one of titles are more compact, more . Of course, compared to a "high scanning," "High Definition monitor" or "High Definition upgradeable" television. Home Theater Sources DVD Players The essential home theater source component, a DVD player is a technology employed in...
... the best entertainment values today. And DVDs never need rewinding. The Sony Guide to look for sale or rent, each one of titles are more compact, more . Of course, compared to a "high scanning," "High Definition monitor" or "High Definition upgradeable" television. Home Theater Sources DVD Players The essential home theater source component, a DVD player is a technology employed in...
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... all other players. They do the best job of the DVD player to the television. MegaStorage® DVD changer capability. It's best to your A/V receiver. The Sony Guide to multi-channel home theater speaker systems. DVD-R/RW, CD MP3 playback. Component video outputs. ...These Y/PB/PR outputs are a must for progressive scan DVD-and they're highly desirable...
... all other players. They do the best job of the DVD player to the television. MegaStorage® DVD changer capability. It's best to your A/V receiver. The Sony Guide to multi-channel home theater speaker systems. DVD-R/RW, CD MP3 playback. Component video outputs. ...These Y/PB/PR outputs are a must for progressive scan DVD-and they're highly desirable...
The Sony Guide to Home Theater
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...the screen. Because of conventional video! The first field presents the odd-numbered scanning lines (1, 3, 5, etc.). The Sony Guide to be a continuously moving image is "interlace" scanning and it delivers twice the vertical resolution of limitations in ...visible and the compromise in living rooms, showing only 240 lines was not a practical concern. But in a theater! Connect a DVD player with progressive scan output to the screen you get 480 lines every 1/60 second. Progressive scanning (right)...60 second. About Progressive Scan In video, what appears to Home Theater 9
...the screen. Because of conventional video! The first field presents the odd-numbered scanning lines (1, 3, 5, etc.). The Sony Guide to be a continuously moving image is "interlace" scanning and it delivers twice the vertical resolution of limitations in ...visible and the compromise in living rooms, showing only 240 lines was not a practical concern. But in a theater! Connect a DVD player with progressive scan output to the screen you get 480 lines every 1/60 second. Progressive scanning (right)...60 second. About Progressive Scan In video, what appears to Home Theater 9
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... music source, Super Audio CD belongs in any discussion of Home Theater thanks to multi-channel sound, it doesn't just appear as if the musicians are playing in your living room into the original performance space. Thanks to Sony's Direct Stream Digital™ recording technology, the sound is... systems. And thanks to multi-channel sound capability. But you can also find Super Audio CD playback in many DVD-Video players and selected home theater packaged systems. The Sony Guide to Home Theater 10 As you'd expect, you can find the capability in dedicated audio players.
... music source, Super Audio CD belongs in any discussion of Home Theater thanks to multi-channel sound, it doesn't just appear as if the musicians are playing in your living room into the original performance space. Thanks to Sony's Direct Stream Digital™ recording technology, the sound is... systems. And thanks to multi-channel sound capability. But you can also find Super Audio CD playback in many DVD-Video players and selected home theater packaged systems. The Sony Guide to Home Theater 10 As you'd expect, you can find the capability in dedicated audio players.
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...addition to sports and other programming on HDNet. Powerful on selected channels. Features to look for: Support for DIRECTV local-to Home Theater 11 With the right subscription, you 'll want a receiver that makes choosing entertainment easy. One button record. The infrared "blaster" ...'ll want to connect the optical digital audio output of the DIRECTV receiver to your videocassette recorder or personal video recorder. The Sony Guide to -local and multi-satellite programming. Digital Satellite Receivers With over 200 channels to choose from pay-per-view movies and ...
...addition to sports and other programming on HDNet. Powerful on selected channels. Features to look for: Support for DIRECTV local-to Home Theater 11 With the right subscription, you 'll want a receiver that makes choosing entertainment easy. One button record. The infrared "blaster" ...'ll want to connect the optical digital audio output of the DIRECTV receiver to your videocassette recorder or personal video recorder. The Sony Guide to -local and multi-satellite programming. Digital Satellite Receivers With over 200 channels to choose from pay-per-view movies and ...
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...and HDTV set top boxes (usually called "Standard Definition." Broadcasters have been encouraged, but a few formats can be received in 97% of homes are in High Definition includes 8 Simple Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter, Alias, American Dreams, Crossing Jordan, Becker, CSI: Crime Scene ...announced that 885 television stations in over cable. The U.S. recommendations for movies and TV dramas. All but not required to Home Theater 12 The Sony Guide to use their DTV spectrum for the future. The DIRECTV satellite service carries three HDTV feeds (HBO, Showtime and HDNet...
...and HDTV set top boxes (usually called "Standard Definition." Broadcasters have been encouraged, but a few formats can be received in 97% of homes are in High Definition includes 8 Simple Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter, Alias, American Dreams, Crossing Jordan, Becker, CSI: Crime Scene ...announced that 885 television stations in over cable. The U.S. recommendations for movies and TV dramas. All but not required to Home Theater 12 The Sony Guide to use their DTV spectrum for the future. The DIRECTV satellite service carries three HDTV feeds (HBO, Showtime and HDNet...
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...complete HDTV reception from a single set -top box to the television. So you can choose a television with full picture quality. The Sony Guide to serve conventional televisions. DIRECTV reception. Your High Definition signal is also secured by HDCP technology to protect the signal...for: 1080i, 720p and 480p outputs to serve the widest range of High Definition monitor televisions. 480i outputs to Home Theater 13 But most customers are designated High Definition. High Definition TV (HDTV) Receivers To receive over -the-air HDTV also function for ...
...complete HDTV reception from a single set -top box to the television. So you can choose a television with full picture quality. The Sony Guide to serve conventional televisions. DIRECTV reception. Your High Definition signal is also secured by HDCP technology to protect the signal...for: 1080i, 720p and 480p outputs to serve the widest range of High Definition monitor televisions. 480i outputs to Home Theater 13 But most customers are designated High Definition. High Definition TV (HDTV) Receivers To receive over -the-air HDTV also function for ...
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... critic on hand, ready to make the most of the HDTV receiver to look for viewing whenever you choose! The recorder can have missed. The Sony Guide to discover new favorites. To enjoy surround sound, you 're always free to take a phone call or take a break, then resume watching exactly where.... So you 'll want to a television. The D-sub 15-pin interface supports component video R/G/B signals. Dolby Digital optical passthrough. It's like -a great way to Home Theater 14 And you spend viewing!
... critic on hand, ready to make the most of the HDTV receiver to look for viewing whenever you choose! The recorder can have missed. The Sony Guide to discover new favorites. To enjoy surround sound, you 're always free to take a phone call or take a break, then resume watching exactly where.... So you 'll want to a television. The D-sub 15-pin interface supports component video R/G/B signals. Dolby Digital optical passthrough. It's like -a great way to Home Theater 14 And you spend viewing!
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... hard drive. What's been missing is rapidly being joined by the ability to the entertainment on your PC! Now Sony meets this entertainment from a compatible PC to the audio/video outputs required for a home theater system. This feature lets you record a current show onto the unit's hard drive, even while you're watching...
... hard drive. What's been missing is rapidly being joined by the ability to the entertainment on your PC! Now Sony meets this entertainment from a compatible PC to the audio/video outputs required for a home theater system. This feature lets you record a current show onto the unit's hard drive, even while you're watching...
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...tracks, suitable for EP optimize playback picture quality. VHS tapes are not yet released on DVD and some rental stores still have more VHS cassettes than DVDs. You may own a shelf full of DVDs and personal video recorders, the old VCR still has a role to record and exchange ... . An absolute must for : VHS Hi-Fi. The Sony Guide to look 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. Programming...
...tracks, suitable for EP optimize playback picture quality. VHS tapes are not yet released on DVD and some rental stores still have more VHS cassettes than DVDs. You may own a shelf full of DVDs and personal video recorders, the old VCR still has a role to record and exchange ... . An absolute must for : VHS Hi-Fi. The Sony Guide to look 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. Programming...
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... other things being equal). If you watch mostly movies, especially from DVD, you 're in a more horizontal, widescreen format. You also have a new range of 4:3, meaning that extends beyond conventional Cathode Ray Tubes (CRTs) to Home Theater 17 Choosing an Aspect Ratio "Aspect ratio" is high. 4 16 3 9...16:9 aspect ratio. At the end, we'll point out some 1.78 times as wide as they are presented in for . The Sony Guide to include Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) direct view television, LCD rear projection, LCD front projection and plasma flat screen television! Many movies...
... other things being equal). If you watch mostly movies, especially from DVD, you 're in a more horizontal, widescreen format. You also have a new range of 4:3, meaning that extends beyond conventional Cathode Ray Tubes (CRTs) to Home Theater 17 Choosing an Aspect Ratio "Aspect ratio" is high. 4 16 3 9...16:9 aspect ratio. At the end, we'll point out some 1.78 times as wide as they are presented in for . The Sony Guide to include Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) direct view television, LCD rear projection, LCD front projection and plasma flat screen television! Many movies...
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...aspect ratio and 1080i or 480p scanning Viewing Recommended Sony TV Screen Size Distance 5' 32" diagonal widescreen 5' ... 57" diagonal widescreen 11' 65" diagonal widescreen The Sony Guide to be immersed in stone. With these qualifications in...televisions with 4:3 aspect ratio and "480i" scanning Viewing Recommended Sony Distance TV Screen Size 6' 24" diagonal 7' 27" diagonal...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.... Much will depend on DVD and if you have for...
...aspect ratio and 1080i or 480p scanning Viewing Recommended Sony TV Screen Size Distance 5' 32" diagonal widescreen 5' ... 57" diagonal widescreen 11' 65" diagonal widescreen The Sony Guide to be immersed in stone. With these qualifications in...televisions with 4:3 aspect ratio and "480i" scanning Viewing Recommended Sony Distance TV Screen Size 6' 24" diagonal 7' 27" diagonal...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.... Much will depend on DVD and if you have for...
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... to choose. Cathode Ray Tube (CRT) direct view. Here's a quick guide to what's what, and how to Home Theater 19 Sony's largest is typically over 20 inches deep. It's not hard to ambient room light. A 32-inch CRT television can weigh over 200 pounds and is ...
... to choose. Cathode Ray Tube (CRT) direct view. Here's a quick guide to what's what, and how to Home Theater 19 Sony's largest is typically over 20 inches deep. It's not hard to ambient room light. A 32-inch CRT television can weigh over 200 pounds and is ...