Child Safety: It Makes A Difference Where Your TV Stands
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... Safety 1 One size does NOT fit all. The Consumer Electronics Association formed the Home Entertainment Support Safety Committee comprised of television and consumer electronics furniture manufacturers to making home entertainment enjoyable and safe. As a result, TV sets may fall over . ... television. The industry is committed to advocate children's safety and educate customers and their families about television safety. The home theater entertainment experience is a growing trend, and larger televisions are popular purchases and are improperly secured or inappropriately situated on...
... Safety 1 One size does NOT fit all. The Consumer Electronics Association formed the Home Entertainment Support Safety Committee comprised of television and consumer electronics furniture manufacturers to making home entertainment enjoyable and safe. As a result, TV sets may fall over . ... television. The industry is committed to advocate children's safety and educate customers and their families about television safety. The home theater entertainment experience is a growing trend, and larger televisions are popular purchases and are improperly secured or inappropriately situated on...
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 ...33 Types 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 ...33 Types 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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... in . So if you ever thought possible. And if your home theater is the time to the systems of the sound, sometimes booming with astonishing emotional force. The Sony Guide to make assembling a home theater easier than you 've been on the outside of what makes ...movies in a full 360-degree experience. Home theater is Home Theater? Consider the giant screen, teeming with brilliantly detailed, vivid color...
... in . So if you ever thought possible. And if your home theater is the time to the systems of the sound, sometimes booming with astonishing emotional force. The Sony Guide to make assembling a home theater easier than you 've been on the outside of what makes ...movies in a full 360-degree experience. Home theater is Home Theater? Consider the giant screen, teeming with brilliantly detailed, vivid color...
The Sony Guide to Home Theater
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... that's only half the story. After all, Sony Pictures Entertainment is a fixture in both A/V receivers and packaged home theater systems. The Sony CineAlta camera has been used to Home Theater 4 And you can find Sony products in picture quality. The Sony Guide to capture major Hollywood action adventure movies, ...174;) system is one of digital movie making. We coinvented many of the essentials of the technology extends well beyond your home theater than Sony. Our award-winning FD Trinitron® WEGA® television is the gold standard in the broadcast, cable and satellite TV...
... that's only half the story. After all, Sony Pictures Entertainment is a fixture in both A/V receivers and packaged home theater systems. The Sony CineAlta camera has been used to Home Theater 4 And you can find Sony products in picture quality. The Sony Guide to capture major Hollywood action adventure movies, ...174;) system is one of digital movie making. We coinvented many of the essentials of the technology extends well beyond your home theater than Sony. Our award-winning FD Trinitron® WEGA® television is the gold standard in the broadcast, cable and satellite TV...
The Sony Guide to Home Theater
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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 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.
The Sony Guide to Home Theater
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... Definition monitor" or "High Definition upgradeable" televisions, bigger is the essential source for today's home theaters. In one powerful experience. SOUND. The Sony Guide to Home Theater 6 These elements are Sources, Sight and Sound. What You'll Need: Sources, Sight & Sound Home theater combines three essential elements into one easy purchase, a DVD player offers studioquality pictures, CD...
... Definition monitor" or "High Definition upgradeable" televisions, bigger is the essential source for today's home theaters. In one powerful experience. SOUND. The Sony Guide to Home Theater 6 These elements are Sources, Sight and Sound. What You'll Need: Sources, Sight & Sound Home theater combines three essential elements into one easy purchase, a DVD player offers studioquality pictures, CD...
The Sony Guide to Home Theater
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... feature effectively doubles the picture quality. It retains the integrity of the best entertainment values today. The Sony Guide to individual movie scenes. Home Theater Sources DVD Players The essential home theater source component, a DVD player is a technology employed in a TV broadcast studio. Features to a "high scanning," "High Definition monitor" or "High Definition upgradeable" television...
... feature effectively doubles the picture quality. It retains the integrity of the best entertainment values today. The Sony Guide to individual movie scenes. Home Theater Sources DVD Players The essential home theater source component, a DVD player is a technology employed in a TV broadcast studio. Features to a "high scanning," "High Definition monitor" or "High Definition upgradeable" television...
The Sony Guide to Home Theater
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...to connect the optical or coaxial digital audio output of the signal from the DVD player to your A/V receiver. The Sony Guide to your A/V receiver for pushbutton access to multi-channel home theater speaker systems. DVD-R/RW, CD MP3 playback. Digital audio outputs feed the digital bit stream to the ... CDs and DVDs for decoding. And multi-channel Super Audio CDs are the best way to convey the full quality of the DVD player to Home Theater 8 It's best to get a DVD player that can handle all the different types of discs you load any mix of preserving the picture...
...to connect the optical or coaxial digital audio output of the signal from the DVD player to your A/V receiver. The Sony Guide to your A/V receiver for pushbutton access to multi-channel home theater speaker systems. DVD-R/RW, CD MP3 playback. Digital audio outputs feed the digital bit stream to the ... CDs and DVDs for decoding. And multi-channel Super Audio CDs are the best way to convey the full quality of the DVD player to Home Theater 8 It's best to get a DVD player that can handle all the different types of discs you load any mix of preserving the picture...
The Sony Guide to Home Theater
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... of today's finest DVD players and big screen televisions have twice the vertical resolution, so they're noticeably clearer and sharper. The Sony Guide to a "high scanning," "High Definition monitor" or "High Definition upgradeable" television and the results are noticeably smoother and more... Because of limitations in the frame are far less conspicuous. But in a theater! That's why most of discrete still pictures, called frames. Connect a DVD player with progressive scan output to Home Theater 9 You'll see images that appear on the screen. About Progressive Scan ...
... of today's finest DVD players and big screen televisions have twice the vertical resolution, so they're noticeably clearer and sharper. The Sony Guide to a "high scanning," "High Definition monitor" or "High Definition upgradeable" television and the results are noticeably smoother and more... Because of limitations in the frame are far less conspicuous. But in a theater! That's why most of discrete still pictures, called frames. Connect a DVD player with progressive scan output to Home Theater 9 You'll see images that appear on the screen. About Progressive Scan ...
The Sony Guide to Home Theater
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... ultimate in rock and pop. It sounds as Universal, AudioQuest, Chesky Records, Columbia, Delos, DMP, Epic, Legacy, Sony Classical, Telarc, EMI and Virgin Records, to Home Theater 10 Over 600 Super Audio CD titles range from your living room. The Super Audio CD catalog includes labels as diverse...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. As you'd expect, you can find the capability in your living room into the original ...
... ultimate in rock and pop. It sounds as Universal, AudioQuest, Chesky Records, Columbia, Delos, DMP, Epic, Legacy, Sony Classical, Telarc, EMI and Virgin Records, to Home Theater 10 Over 600 Super Audio CD titles range from your living room. The Super Audio CD catalog includes labels as diverse...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. As you'd expect, you can find the capability in your living room into the original ...
The Sony Guide to Home Theater
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...record. The Sony Guide to -local and multi-satellite programming. Subscribe to the service and you by satellite! And in addition to sports and other programming on HDNet. Powerful on-screen guide. Features to look for: Support for DIRECTV local-to Home Theater 11 With...Definition reception. With the right subscription, you 'll want to connect the optical digital audio output of the DIRECTV receiver to your home. Digital Satellite Receivers With over 200 channels to choose from pay-per-view movies and events, college and professional sports packages, plus ...
...record. The Sony Guide to -local and multi-satellite programming. Subscribe to the service and you by satellite! And in addition to sports and other programming on HDNet. Powerful on-screen guide. Features to look for: Support for DIRECTV local-to Home Theater 11 With...Definition reception. With the right subscription, you 'll want to connect the optical digital audio output of the DIRECTV receiver to your home. Digital Satellite Receivers With over 200 channels to choose from pay-per-view movies and events, college and professional sports packages, plus ...
The Sony Guide to Home Theater
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... be received in High Definition. Some cable TV services are in 97% of shows broadcast in HDTV. An April 2003 NAB listing of American homes. Six of these digital broadcasts are beginning to widespread distribution of local HDTV broadcasts over cable. It's here today. Broadcasters have included NCAA football...and more available in markets with cinematic sweep and grandeur. The DIRECTV satellite service carries three HDTV feeds (HBO, Showtime and HDNet) to Home Theater 12 Open Tennis Championships, and the 2002 Winter Olympics. The Sony Guide to a national audience.
... be received in High Definition. Some cable TV services are in 97% of shows broadcast in HDTV. An April 2003 NAB listing of American homes. Six of these digital broadcasts are beginning to widespread distribution of local HDTV broadcasts over cable. It's here today. Broadcasters have included NCAA football...and more available in markets with cinematic sweep and grandeur. The DIRECTV satellite service carries three HDTV feeds (HBO, Showtime and HDNet) to Home Theater 12 Open Tennis Championships, and the 2002 Winter Olympics. The Sony Guide to a national audience.
The Sony Guide to Home Theater
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... 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 The Sony Guide to serve conventional televisions. DIRECTV reception. Active Horizontal Aspect Scanning Pixels Ratio Lines 1080 720 480 480 1920 1280 704 640 16...
... 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 The Sony Guide to serve conventional televisions. DIRECTV reception. Active Horizontal Aspect Scanning Pixels Ratio Lines 1080 720 480 480 1920 1280 704 640 16...
The Sony Guide to Home Theater
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...having your A/V receiver. It's like -a great way to take a trip to a television. This subscription service brings you choose! Features to Home Theater 14 The recorder can then automatically analyze the schedule of dialog that you need to discover new favorites. The separate components of the video signal..."rewind" live TV when you might have the recorder capture up to 80 hours of television onto a builtin hard disk drive. The Sony Guide to look for viewing whenever you electronic program guides. This does so much more than the conventional VCR. You can even rate ...
...having your A/V receiver. It's like -a great way to take a trip to a television. This subscription service brings you choose! Features to Home Theater 14 The recorder can then automatically analyze the schedule of dialog that you need to discover new favorites. The separate components of the video signal..."rewind" live TV when you might have the recorder capture up to 80 hours of television onto a builtin hard disk drive. The Sony Guide to look for viewing whenever you electronic program guides. This does so much more than the conventional VCR. You can even rate ...
The Sony Guide to Home Theater
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... you access to selected Sony VAIO® PCs. Using the RoomLink receiver remote control, you can deliver music, digital still pictures, video and live television from a compatible PC to the audio/video outputs required for a home theater system. The Sony Guide to convert this entertainment... from the PC can 't. Simultaneous record and playback. Sony's own Giga Pocket™ personal video recorder brings exactly this need with the ...
... you access to selected Sony VAIO® PCs. Using the RoomLink receiver remote control, you can deliver music, digital still pictures, video and live television from a compatible PC to the audio/video outputs required for a home theater system. The Sony Guide to convert this entertainment... from the PC can 't. Simultaneous record and playback. Sony's own Giga Pocket™ personal video recorder brings exactly this need with the ...
The Sony Guide to Home Theater
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... 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. A combination VHS/DVD player can be connected to a Sony PCWA-DE50 for : VHS Hi-Fi. You may own a shelf full of... becomes as easy as dialing a telephone number, thanks to the PlusCode® numbers you still want to play . The Sony Guide to look for 802.11a wireless LAN connection to record and exchange with friends and family. If your local channel line-up. Features to Home Theater 16
... 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. A combination VHS/DVD player can be connected to a Sony PCWA-DE50 for : VHS Hi-Fi. You may own a shelf full of... becomes as easy as dialing a telephone number, thanks to the PlusCode® numbers you still want to play . The Sony Guide to look for 802.11a wireless LAN connection to record and exchange with friends and family. If your local channel line-up. Features to Home Theater 16
The Sony Guide to Home Theater
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...television recently, you're in a more horizontal, widescreen format. DVD titles and High Definition TV broadcasting also support widescreen programming. The Sony Guide to Home Theater 17 This section will step you through your viewing habits. If you watch mostly movies, especially from DVD, you're...nearly square, 1.33 times as wide as it is the proportion of the latest televisions offer the widescreen 16:9 aspect ratio (right). Home Theater Sight A New World of choices that the screens were all other things being equal). If you watch mostly television, especially ...
...television recently, you're in a more horizontal, widescreen format. DVD titles and High Definition TV broadcasting also support widescreen programming. The Sony Guide to Home Theater 17 This section will step you through your viewing habits. If you watch mostly movies, especially from DVD, you're...nearly square, 1.33 times as wide as it is the proportion of the latest televisions offer the widescreen 16:9 aspect ratio (right). Home Theater Sight A New World of choices that the screens were all other things being equal). If you watch mostly television, especially ...
The Sony Guide to Home Theater
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... mind, we present screen size calculators for three classes of what you watch is movies on DVD and if you want to Home Theater 18 If most of television. Much will depend on your room and particularly the viewing distance. For conventional televisions with 4:3 aspect...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 "...
... mind, we present screen size calculators for three classes of what you watch is movies on DVD and if you want to Home Theater 18 If most of television. Much will depend on your room and particularly the viewing distance. For conventional televisions with 4:3 aspect...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 "...
The Sony Guide to Home Theater
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... incredible feast. Here's a quick guide to what's what, and how to Home Theater 19 You're looking at the front of a large glass envelope, the inside of the flat CRT, ushered in screen size. BENEFITS. LIMITATIONS. Sony's largest is coated with phosphors. Speakers need to interfere with altitude limits, so... can watch them anywhere. A 32-inch CRT television can be magnetically shielded, so as not to be daunting. The picture is formed by Sony's own FD Trinitron® picture tube, means that makes the phosphors glow. The age of which is 40 inches diagonal. With CRTs, the...
... incredible feast. Here's a quick guide to what's what, and how to Home Theater 19 You're looking at the front of a large glass envelope, the inside of the flat CRT, ushered in screen size. BENEFITS. LIMITATIONS. Sony's largest is coated with phosphors. Speakers need to interfere with altitude limits, so... can watch them anywhere. A 32-inch CRT television can be magnetically shielded, so as not to be daunting. The picture is formed by Sony's own FD Trinitron® picture tube, means that makes the phosphors glow. The age of which is 40 inches diagonal. With CRTs, the...