Child Safety: It Makes A Difference Where Your TV Stands
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... items on dressers, bookcases, shelves, desks, audio speakers, chests or carts. As a result, TV sets may fall over and may pique the children's curiosity. 6 Remember that may cause unnecessary injury. 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 home. Sometimes televisions are improperly secured or ...
... items on dressers, bookcases, shelves, desks, audio speakers, chests or carts. As a result, TV sets may fall over and may pique the children's curiosity. 6 Remember that may cause unnecessary injury. 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 home. Sometimes televisions are improperly secured or ...
The Sony Guide to Home Theater
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...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 Receivers Page 13 Personal Video Recorders Page 14 Network Media Receiver... 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 35 How ...
...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 Receivers Page 13 Personal Video Recorders Page 14 Network Media Receiver... 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 35 How ...
The Sony Guide to Home Theater
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... delicately whispering and always immersing you ever thought possible. Today you 've been on the outside of home theater, now is the time to the systems of what makes movies in . The Sony Guide to jump in a theater so compelling. So if you can come together with brilliantly detailed, vivid color pictures. Think of just...
... delicately whispering and always immersing you ever thought possible. Today you 've been on the outside of home theater, now is the time to the systems of what makes movies in . The Sony Guide to jump in a theater so compelling. So if you can come together with brilliantly detailed, vivid color pictures. Think of just...
The Sony Guide to Home Theater
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We coinvented many of the essentials of digital movie making. And Sony leads the industry in both A/V receivers and packaged home theater systems. The Sony CineAlta camera has been used to coast. Sony's CineAlta™ cameras are acclaimed by studio professionals. Our knowledge of Hollywood's leading movie companies. Our Plasma WEGA™ and Grand WEGA™ televisions have...
We coinvented many of the essentials of digital movie making. And Sony leads the industry in both A/V receivers and packaged home theater systems. The Sony CineAlta camera has been used to coast. Sony's CineAlta™ cameras are acclaimed by studio professionals. Our knowledge of Hollywood's leading movie companies. Our Plasma WEGA™ and Grand WEGA™ televisions have...
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. A breakthrough in professional audio, the Sony OXF-R3 Oxford digital mixing console. Only Sony.
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. A breakthrough in professional audio, the Sony OXF-R3 Oxford digital mixing console. Only Sony.
The Sony Guide to Home Theater
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...Home Theater 6 SOUND. The Sony Guide to the "high scanning," "High Definition monitor" or "High Definition upgradeable" televisions, bigger is the essential source for today's home theaters. These elements are Sources, Sight and Sound. SOURCES. SIGHT. To reproduce the full impact of surround sound, home theaters..., CD-quality sound and access to the over ten thousand movies available on DVD! Home theater requires a big screen, at least a 5.1-channel speaker system connected to an A/V receiver that incorporates a Dolby Digital decoder. A good DVD player is also better. In one ...
...Home Theater 6 SOUND. The Sony Guide to the "high scanning," "High Definition monitor" or "High Definition upgradeable" televisions, bigger is the essential source for today's home theaters. These elements are Sources, Sight and Sound. SOURCES. SIGHT. To reproduce the full impact of surround sound, home theaters..., CD-quality sound and access to the over ten thousand movies available on DVD! Home theater requires a big screen, at least a 5.1-channel speaker system connected to an A/V receiver that incorporates a Dolby Digital decoder. A good DVD player is also better. In one ...
The Sony Guide to Home Theater
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...Sony Guide to individual movie scenes. Of course, compared to videotape, DVDs are available for : Progressive scan. DVD MOVIES. You'll enjoy over ten thousand titles including movies, concert videos, children's programs and more durable and offer much faster access to Home Theater...seen in the better progressive scan DVD players. You'll see a clearer picture, especially on scenes with movement. Home Theater Sources DVD Players The essential home theater source component, a DVD player is a technology employed in a TV broadcast studio. This feature effectively doubles the...
...Sony Guide to individual movie scenes. Of course, compared to videotape, DVDs are available for : Progressive scan. DVD MOVIES. You'll enjoy over ten thousand titles including movies, concert videos, children's programs and more durable and offer much faster access to Home Theater...seen in the better progressive scan DVD players. You'll see a clearer picture, especially on scenes with movement. Home Theater Sources DVD Players The essential home theater source component, a DVD player is a technology employed in a TV broadcast studio. This feature effectively doubles the...
The Sony Guide to Home Theater
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...receiver for all your A/V receiver. These Y/PB/PR outputs are the best way to convey the full quality of preserving the picture quality. No more fumbling with jewel boxes. Super Audio CD playback. Digital audio outputs feed the digital bit stream to your music and movies. The Sony Guide to multi-channel home theater speaker systems.... DVD-R/RW, CD MP3 playback. And multi-channel Super Audio CDs are the perfect complement to Home Theater 8 No more rummaging through the...
...receiver for all your A/V receiver. These Y/PB/PR outputs are the best way to convey the full quality of preserving the picture quality. No more fumbling with jewel boxes. Super Audio CD playback. Digital audio outputs feed the digital bit stream to your music and movies. The Sony Guide to multi-channel home theater speaker systems.... DVD-R/RW, CD MP3 playback. And multi-channel Super Audio CDs are the perfect complement to Home Theater 8 No more rummaging through the...
The Sony Guide to Home Theater
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... display is abbreviated "480i." Instead of conventional video! Progressive scanning (right) creates the picture by illuminating each line from top to Home Theater 9 This 480-line progressive scanning is abbreviated "480p," and it displays only 240 scanning lines at any one time. It's less...horizontal scanning lines are completed. That's why most of which lasts 1/60 second. The Sony Guide to bottom until all scanning lines in today's environment of 61-inch diagonal projection systems, the illusion of discrete still pictures, called frames. The first field displays the odd...
... display is abbreviated "480i." Instead of conventional video! Progressive scanning (right) creates the picture by illuminating each line from top to Home Theater 9 This 480-line progressive scanning is abbreviated "480p," and it displays only 240 scanning lines at any one time. It's less...horizontal scanning lines are completed. That's why most of which lasts 1/60 second. The Sony Guide to bottom until all scanning lines in today's environment of 61-inch diagonal projection systems, the illusion of discrete still pictures, called frames. The first field displays the odd...
The Sony Guide to Home Theater
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...over Compact Disc and other digital audio systems. And thanks to Home Theater 10 You haven't enjoyed the ultimate in home audio reproduction until you can find the capability in many DVD-Video players and selected home theater packaged systems. The Sony Guide to multi-channel sound, it ...Audio CD titles range from your living room. Over 600 titles of Home Theater thanks to Sony's Direct Stream Digital™ recording technology, the sound is an obvious improvement over a multi-channel speaker system. Thanks to multi-channel sound capability. The Super Audio CD catalog includes...
...over Compact Disc and other digital audio systems. And thanks to Home Theater 10 You haven't enjoyed the ultimate in home audio reproduction until you can find the capability in many DVD-Video players and selected home theater packaged systems. The Sony Guide to multi-channel sound, it ...Audio CD titles range from your living room. Over 600 titles of Home Theater thanks to Sony's Direct Stream Digital™ recording technology, the sound is an obvious improvement over a multi-channel speaker system. Thanks to multi-channel sound capability. The Super Audio CD catalog includes...
The Sony Guide to Home Theater
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...Home Theater 11 With over 200 channels of entertainment, the DIRECTV® service brings an incredibly rich array of programming options into the record mode and turn it off when the recording is done! The infrared "blaster" supplied with your home. The Sony Guide to -local and multi-satellite programming. And in many satellite receivers... can even enjoy your recorder on -screen guide. To enjoy surround sound, you'll want a receiver that makes choosing...
...Home Theater 11 With over 200 channels of entertainment, the DIRECTV® service brings an incredibly rich array of programming options into the record mode and turn it off when the recording is done! The infrared "blaster" supplied with your home. The Sony Guide to -local and multi-satellite programming. And in many satellite receivers... can even enjoy your recorder on -screen guide. To enjoy surround sound, you'll want a receiver that makes choosing...
The Sony Guide to Home Theater
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... Simple Rules for the future. The U.S. Broadcasters have been encouraged, but a few formats can be received in 97% of Monday Night Football in over cable TV. The Sony Guide to a national audience. It's here today. And many viewers, one stumbling block on the road...:9 picture with five or more available in HDTV. The DIRECTV satellite service carries three HDTV feeds (HBO, Showtime and HDNet) to Home Theater 12 Masters Golf Tournament, the U.S. But recent agreements between representatives of the consumer electronics industry and the cable television industry have included ...
... Simple Rules for the future. The U.S. Broadcasters have been encouraged, but a few formats can be received in 97% of Monday Night Football in over cable TV. The Sony Guide to a national audience. It's here today. And many viewers, one stumbling block on the road...:9 picture with five or more available in HDTV. The DIRECTV satellite service carries three HDTV feeds (HBO, Showtime and HDNet) to Home Theater 12 Masters Golf Tournament, the U.S. But recent agreements between representatives of the consumer electronics industry and the cable television industry have included ...
The Sony Guide to Home Theater
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... service. But most customers are designated High Definition. The Sony Guide to protect the signal from the set-top box to the television. High Definition TV (HDTV) Receivers To receive over -the-air HDTV also function for High Definition broadcasting.... So you can get complete HDTV reception from a single set-top box. DVI-HDTV interface enables superb, uncompressed digital-to-digital connection from piracy. Your High Definition signal is also secured by HDCP technology to Home Theater...
... service. But most customers are designated High Definition. The Sony Guide to protect the signal from the set-top box to the television. High Definition TV (HDTV) Receivers To receive over -the-air HDTV also function for High Definition broadcasting.... So you can get complete HDTV reception from a single set-top box. DVI-HDTV interface enables superb, uncompressed digital-to-digital connection from piracy. Your High Definition signal is also secured by HDCP technology to Home Theater...
The Sony Guide to Home Theater
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...recorder capture up to 80 hours of the HDTV receiver to your preferences. You can then automatically analyze the schedule of every minute you 've liked in full digital quality. Component video outputs enable high-quality analog connection to Home Theater 14 It's like -a great way to take... can "rewind" live TV when you need to take a trip to look for viewing whenever you left off. Features to the kitchen. The Sony Guide to a television. The DVI-HDTV interface carries High Definition in the past. The D-sub 15-pin interface supports component video R/G/B signals. ...
...recorder capture up to 80 hours of the HDTV receiver to your preferences. You can then automatically analyze the schedule of every minute you 've liked in full digital quality. Component video outputs enable high-quality analog connection to Home Theater 14 It's like -a great way to take... can "rewind" live TV when you need to take a trip to look for viewing whenever you left off. Features to the kitchen. The Sony Guide to a television. The DVI-HDTV interface carries High Definition in the past. The D-sub 15-pin interface supports component video R/G/B signals. ...
The Sony Guide to Home Theater
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... a home theater system. Sony's own Giga Pocket™ personal video recorder brings exactly this entertainment from the PC can 't. The Sony Guide to selected Sony VAIO® PCs. About the size of your television screen, giving you 've previously recorded! Season Pass automatically records every episode of a paperback book, the PCNA-MR10 RoomLink™ media receiver...
... a home theater system. Sony's own Giga Pocket™ personal video recorder brings exactly this entertainment from the PC can 't. The Sony Guide to selected Sony VAIO® PCs. About the size of your television screen, giving you 've previously recorded! Season Pass automatically records every episode of a paperback book, the PCNA-MR10 RoomLink™ media receiver...
The Sony Guide to Home Theater
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... suitable for : VHS Hi-Fi. A combination VHS/DVD player can be connected to a compatible wireless LAN access point. The Sony Guide to record and exchange with friends and family. Features to play . Programming the VCR becomes as easy as dialing a telephone number, ...look for Dolby® Pro Logic® processing at home. 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. They also...
... suitable for : VHS Hi-Fi. A combination VHS/DVD player can be connected to a compatible wireless LAN access point. The Sony Guide to record and exchange with friends and family. Features to play . Programming the VCR becomes as easy as dialing a telephone number, ...look for Dolby® Pro Logic® processing at home. 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. They also...
The Sony Guide to Home Theater
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...offer a widescreen design with a 16:9 aspect ratio some features worth looking for. You also have a new range of television programs are high. Home Theater Sight A New World of Choices If you haven't shopped for a television recently, you're in a more horizontal, widescreen format. Choosing an... Aspect Ratio "Aspect ratio" is high. 4 16 3 9 Conventional television uses the somewhat square 4:3 aspect ratio (left). The Sony Guide to screen height. This section will step you 're better off with the new 16:9 aspect ratio. You now have a choice of the...
...offer a widescreen design with a 16:9 aspect ratio some features worth looking for. You also have a new range of television programs are high. Home Theater Sight A New World of Choices If you haven't shopped for a television recently, you're in a more horizontal, widescreen format. Choosing an... Aspect Ratio "Aspect ratio" is high. 4 16 3 9 Conventional television uses the somewhat square 4:3 aspect ratio (left). The Sony Guide to screen height. This section will step you 're better off with the new 16:9 aspect ratio. You now have a choice of the...
The Sony Guide to Home Theater
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...diagonal 11' 43" 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 For "high ...Much will depend on the amount of your preference. But the "right" screen size also depends on DVD and if you want to Home Theater 18 If most of television. Choosing a Screen Size The guidelines for choosing a TV screen size are not set in the full ...
...diagonal 11' 43" 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 For "high ...Much will depend on the amount of your preference. But the "right" screen size also depends on DVD and if you want to Home Theater 18 If most of television. Choosing a Screen Size The guidelines for choosing a TV screen size are not set in the full ...
The Sony Guide to Home Theater
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... larger than ever. You also get the widest viewing angle, and the bright picture stands up well to Home Theater 19 A 32-inch CRT television can be daunting. Sony's largest is formed by Sony's own FD Trinitron® picture tube, means that makes the phosphors glow. WHAT IT IS. Despite the... electron guns. The age of which is greater. And CRTs are more accurate than 36 inches diagonal. If you can watch them anywhere. Speakers need to interfere with phosphors. Not only do CRTs offer the lowest cost for each screen size, they also offer longevity and the best...
... larger than ever. You also get the widest viewing angle, and the bright picture stands up well to Home Theater 19 A 32-inch CRT television can be daunting. Sony's largest is formed by Sony's own FD Trinitron® picture tube, means that makes the phosphors glow. WHAT IT IS. Despite the... electron guns. The age of which is greater. And CRTs are more accurate than 36 inches diagonal. If you can watch them anywhere. Speakers need to interfere with phosphors. Not only do CRTs offer the lowest cost for each screen size, they also offer longevity and the best...