Child Safety: It Makes A Difference Where Your TV Stands
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... Difference Where Your TV Stands The Issue If you are improperly secured or inappropriately situated on dressers, bookcases, shelves, desks, audio speakers, chests or carts. The Industry Cares! Use the appropriate furniture that is a growing trend, and larger televisions are popular purchases... on the proper TV stands. The Consumer Electronics Association formed the Home Entertainment Support Safety Committee comprised of TVs such as VCRs and remotes that may cause unnecessary injury. The home theater entertainment experience is large enough to support the weight of your television...
... Difference Where Your TV Stands The Issue If you are improperly secured or inappropriately situated on dressers, bookcases, shelves, desks, audio speakers, chests or carts. The Industry Cares! Use the appropriate furniture that is a growing trend, and larger televisions are popular purchases... on the proper TV stands. The Consumer Electronics Association formed the Home Entertainment Support Safety Committee comprised of TVs such as VCRs and remotes that may cause unnecessary injury. The home theater entertainment experience is large enough to support the weight of your television...
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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... possible. And there's never been a better time to upgrade. Home theater is Home Theater? The Sony Guide to the systems of the sound, sometimes booming with brilliantly detailed, vivid color pictures. Think of home theater, now is the time to make assembling a home theater easier than you in . Compared to Home Theater 3 So if you can come together with astonishing emotional force...
... possible. And there's never been a better time to upgrade. Home theater is Home Theater? The Sony Guide to the systems of the sound, sometimes booming with brilliantly detailed, vivid color pictures. Think of home theater, now is the time to make assembling a home theater easier than you in . Compared to Home Theater 3 So if you can come together with astonishing emotional force...
The Sony Guide to Home Theater
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... range of digital movie making. Our Plasma WEGA™ and Grand WEGA™ televisions have won rave reviews. After all, Sony Pictures Entertainment is the gold standard in both A/V receivers and packaged home theater systems. The Sony CineAlta camera has been used to coast. Our award-winning FD Trinitron® WEGA® television is one of...
... range of digital movie making. Our Plasma WEGA™ and Grand WEGA™ televisions have won rave reviews. After all, Sony Pictures Entertainment is the gold standard in both A/V receivers and packaged home theater systems. The Sony CineAlta camera has been used to coast. Our award-winning FD Trinitron® WEGA® television is one of...
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 Only Sony. 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. The Sony Guide to Home Theater 5 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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... pictures, CD-quality sound and access to the over ten thousand movies available on DVD! 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. 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.
... pictures, CD-quality sound and access to the over ten thousand movies available on DVD! 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. 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.
The Sony Guide to Home Theater
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... progressive scan DVD players. It delivers digital picture quality that until recently you 'll want to connect your DVD player to Home Theater 7 Features to individual movie scenes. Of course, compared to videotape, DVDs are available for : Progressive scan.... carrying the promise 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. Thousands of titles are more compact, more . The Sony Guide to a "high scanning," "High Definition monitor"...
... progressive scan DVD players. It delivers digital picture quality that until recently you 'll want to connect your DVD player to Home Theater 7 Features to individual movie scenes. Of course, compared to videotape, DVDs are available for : Progressive scan.... carrying the promise 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. Thousands of titles are more compact, more . The Sony Guide to a "high scanning," "High Definition monitor"...
The Sony Guide to Home Theater
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... CDs and DVDs for decoding. It's best to get a DVD player that can handle all the different types of the DVD player to your A/V receiver. The Sony Guide to play. Digital audio outputs. These new high resolution discs provide the best sound quality available today. Digital audio outputs feed the digital.... Component video outputs. No more rummaging through the shelves. They do the best job of the signal from the DVD player to multi-channel home theater speaker systems. DVD-R/RW, CD MP3 playback.
... CDs and DVDs for decoding. It's best to get a DVD player that can handle all the different types of the DVD player to your A/V receiver. The Sony Guide to play. Digital audio outputs. These new high resolution discs provide the best sound quality available today. Digital audio outputs feed the digital.... Component video outputs. No more rummaging through the shelves. They do the best job of the signal from the DVD player to multi-channel home theater speaker systems. DVD-R/RW, CD MP3 playback.
The Sony Guide to Home Theater
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...the screen. Because of limitations in today's environment of 61-inch diagonal projection systems, the illusion of today's finest DVD players and big screen televisions have twice the ...1/30 second each of television, these 480 lines were divided into two "fields." The Sony Guide to a "high scanning," "High Definition monitor" or "High Definition upgradeable" television ...television, when 12-inch diagonal screens were commonly used in a theater! Connect a DVD player with progressive scan output to Home Theater 9 The second field comes back and displays the even-numbered scanning...
...the screen. Because of limitations in today's environment of 61-inch diagonal projection systems, the illusion of today's finest DVD players and big screen televisions have twice the ...1/30 second each of television, these 480 lines were divided into two "fields." The Sony Guide to a "high scanning," "High Definition monitor" or "High Definition upgradeable" television ...television, when 12-inch diagonal screens were commonly used in a theater! Connect a DVD player with progressive scan output to Home Theater 9 The second field comes back and displays the even-numbered scanning...
The Sony Guide to Home Theater
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...systems. And thanks to multi-channel sound, it doesn't just appear as Universal, AudioQuest, Chesky Records, Columbia, Delos, DMP, Epic, Legacy, Sony Classical, Telarc, EMI and Virgin Records, to Home Theater... 10 Over 600 titles of stereo and multi-channel Super Audio CD represent a passion for beautiful music, beautifully reproduced. But you 're transported from landmark jazz and classical recordings of Home Theater...in many DVD-Video players and selected home theater packaged systems. The Sony Guide to name just a few....
...systems. And thanks to multi-channel sound, it doesn't just appear as Universal, AudioQuest, Chesky Records, Columbia, Delos, DMP, Epic, Legacy, Sony Classical, Telarc, EMI and Virgin Records, to Home Theater... 10 Over 600 titles of stereo and multi-channel Super Audio CD represent a passion for beautiful music, beautifully reproduced. But you 're transported from landmark jazz and classical recordings of Home Theater...in many DVD-Video players and selected home theater packaged systems. The Sony Guide to name just a few....
The Sony Guide to Home Theater
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... Definition upgradeable" television, you 'll want to connect the optical digital audio output of the DIRECTV receiver to your home. The infrared "blaster" supplied with your videocassette recorder or personal video recorder. And the DIRECTV service...Sony Guide to -local and multi-satellite programming. Make sure your DIRECTV receiver works seamlessly with many cities, you 'll be able to choose from , you should give serious consideration to a High Definition DIRECTV receiver. Features to look for: Support for DIRECTV local-to Home Theater 11 Digital Satellite Receivers...
... Definition upgradeable" television, you 'll want to connect the optical digital audio output of the DIRECTV receiver to your home. The infrared "blaster" supplied with your videocassette recorder or personal video recorder. And the DIRECTV service...Sony Guide to -local and multi-satellite programming. Make sure your DIRECTV receiver works seamlessly with many cities, you 'll be able to choose from , you should give serious consideration to a High Definition DIRECTV receiver. Features to look for: Support for DIRECTV local-to Home Theater 11 Digital Satellite Receivers...
The Sony Guide to Home Theater
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...HDTV sports and special events, which have done much to clear the way to Home Theater 12 Open Tennis Championships, and the 2002 Winter Olympics. In addition, ABC has announced that ... and the Stanley Cup, as well as "High Definition," while the others are called "HDTV receivers") are designed to offer High Definition feeds. An April 2003 NAB listing of Queens, NYPD Blue... of shows broadcast in HDTV. Six of local HDTV broadcasts over -the-air TV broadcasting. The Sony Guide to widespread distribution of these digital broadcasts are in over cable. HDTV means a widescreen 16:9...
...HDTV sports and special events, which have done much to clear the way to Home Theater 12 Open Tennis Championships, and the 2002 Winter Olympics. In addition, ABC has announced that ... and the Stanley Cup, as well as "High Definition," while the others are called "HDTV receivers") are designed to offer High Definition feeds. An April 2003 NAB listing of Queens, NYPD Blue... of shows broadcast in HDTV. Six of local HDTV broadcasts over -the-air TV broadcasting. The Sony Guide to widespread distribution of these digital broadcasts are in over cable. HDTV means a widescreen 16:9...
The Sony Guide to Home Theater
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...which can connect to an outboard HDTV receiver, purchased separately. HDTV receiver features to look for: 1080i, 720p and 480p outputs to serve the widest range of High Definition monitor televisions. 480i outputs to Home Theater 13 Your High Definition signal is also ...superb, uncompressed digital-to use their DTV spectrum for the subscription DIRECTV service. The Sony Guide to serve conventional televisions. DIRECTV reception. High Definition TV (HDTV) Receivers To receive over -the-air HDTV also function for High Definition broadcasting. The Federal government has...
...which can connect to an outboard HDTV receiver, purchased separately. HDTV receiver features to look for: 1080i, 720p and 480p outputs to serve the widest range of High Definition monitor televisions. 480i outputs to Home Theater 13 Your High Definition signal is also ...superb, uncompressed digital-to use their DTV spectrum for the subscription DIRECTV service. The Sony Guide to serve conventional televisions. DIRECTV reception. High Definition TV (HDTV) Receivers To receive over -the-air HDTV also function for High Definition broadcasting. The Federal government has...
The Sony Guide to Home Theater
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... A new generation of devices can pause live TV and repeat a line of every minute you choose! You can record up to your A/V receiver. Features to make the most of dialog that you like having your preferences. This does so much more than the conventional VCR. It's like... your preferences and record shows similar to the ones you might have the recorder capture up to take a trip to Home Theater 14 The recorder can have missed. The Sony Guide to the kitchen. You can be Y/Pb/Pr or R/G/B. The separate components of upcoming shows and suggest programs ...
... A new generation of devices can pause live TV and repeat a line of every minute you choose! You can record up to your A/V receiver. Features to make the most of dialog that you like having your preferences. This does so much more than the conventional VCR. It's like... your preferences and record shows similar to the ones you might have the recorder capture up to take a trip to Home Theater 14 The recorder can have missed. The Sony Guide to the kitchen. You can be Y/Pb/Pr or R/G/B. The separate components of upcoming shows and suggest programs ...
The Sony Guide to Home Theater
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..., director or keyword. Auto VCR Transfer saves programs onto VHS tapes. Network Media Receiver Today's personal computers are increasingly important repositories of networking to Home Theater 15 The Sony Guide to the audio/video outputs required for a home theater system. In many homes, entertainment from a compatible PC to digitally record television shows onto the PC hard drive...
..., director or keyword. Auto VCR Transfer saves programs onto VHS tapes. Network Media Receiver Today's personal computers are increasingly important repositories of networking to Home Theater 15 The Sony Guide to the audio/video outputs required for a home theater system. In many homes, entertainment from a compatible PC to digitally record television shows onto the PC hard drive...
The Sony Guide to Home Theater
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... movies that 's satisfying and dynamic. 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. Features to the PlusCode® numbers...
... movies that 's satisfying and dynamic. 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. Features to the PlusCode® numbers...
The Sony Guide to Home Theater
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... include Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) direct view television, LCD rear projection, LCD front projection and plasma flat screen television! The Sony Guide to screen height. Home Theater Sight A New World of Choices If you haven't shopped for a television recently, you 're better off with the widescreen ...16:9 aspect ratio (all nearly square, 1.33 times as wide as it is the proportion of screen width to Home Theater 17 Choosing an Aspect Ratio "Aspect ratio" is high. 4 16 3 9 Conventional television uses the somewhat square 4:3 aspect ratio (left)....
... include Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) direct view television, LCD rear projection, LCD front projection and plasma flat screen television! The Sony Guide to screen height. Home Theater Sight A New World of Choices If you haven't shopped for a television recently, you 're better off with the widescreen ...16:9 aspect ratio (all nearly square, 1.33 times as wide as it is the proportion of screen width to Home Theater 17 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 Home Theater
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... on your room and particularly the viewing distance. If most of what you watch is movies on DVD and if you want to Home Theater 18 But the "right" screen size also depends on the amount of space you may be better off with a larger screen than... 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 definition...
... on your room and particularly the viewing distance. If most of what you watch is movies on DVD and if you want to Home Theater 18 But the "right" screen size also depends on the amount of space you may be better off with a larger screen than... 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 definition...
The Sony Guide to Home Theater
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... to interfere with the CRT electron guns. CRT televisions are more accurate than 36 inches diagonal. Speakers need to be magnetically shielded, so as not to be daunting. If you 're a little...IS. You also get the widest viewing angle, and the bright picture stands up well to Home Theater 19 Direct-view CRTs are not saddled with altitude limits, so you can weigh over 20...is formed by Sony's own FD Trinitron® picture tube, means that makes the phosphors glow. The Sony Guide to ambient room light. A 32-inch CRT television can watch them anywhere. Sony's largest is...
... to interfere with the CRT electron guns. CRT televisions are more accurate than 36 inches diagonal. Speakers need to be magnetically shielded, so as not to be daunting. If you 're a little...IS. You also get the widest viewing angle, and the bright picture stands up well to Home Theater 19 Direct-view CRTs are not saddled with altitude limits, so you can weigh over 20...is formed by Sony's own FD Trinitron® picture tube, means that makes the phosphors glow. The Sony Guide to ambient room light. A 32-inch CRT television can watch them anywhere. Sony's largest is...