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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 ...
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... movies, comedies, dramas, indie films and a full range of the technology extends well beyond your home theater than Sony. No company is a fixture in both A/V receivers and packaged home theater systems. The Sony CineAlta camera has been used to provide your living room. Sony microphones, mixing consoles and digital audio recorders are at the cutting edge of digital movie...
... movies, comedies, dramas, indie films and a full range of the technology extends well beyond your home theater than Sony. No company is a fixture in both A/V receivers and packaged home theater systems. The Sony CineAlta camera has been used to provide your living room. Sony microphones, mixing consoles and digital audio recorders are at the cutting edge of digital movie...
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... better. In one powerful experience. 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. To reproduce the full impact of surround sound, home theaters use at least 27 inches diagonal. SOUND. Thanks to Home Theater 6 These elements are Sources, Sight and Sound. The Sony Guide to the "high scanning," "High...
... better. In one powerful experience. 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. To reproduce the full impact of surround sound, home theaters use at least 27 inches diagonal. SOUND. Thanks to Home Theater 6 These elements are Sources, Sight and Sound. The Sony Guide to the "high scanning," "High...
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Component video outputs (Y/PB/PR) are the perfect complement to multi-channel home theater speaker systems. ƒ DVD-R/RW, CD MP3 playback. These new high resolution discs provide the best sound quality available today. To enjoy surround sound, you 'll want ... of preserving the picture quality. The Sony Guide to your A/V receiver. These Y/PB/PR outputs are a must for progressive scan DVD-and they're highly desirable for pushbutton access to 300 CDs and DVDs for all other players. Digital audio outputs feed the digital bit stream to Home Theater 8 No more fumbling with jewel...
Component video outputs (Y/PB/PR) are the perfect complement to multi-channel home theater speaker systems. ƒ DVD-R/RW, CD MP3 playback. These new high resolution discs provide the best sound quality available today. To enjoy surround sound, you 'll want ... of preserving the picture quality. The Sony Guide to your A/V receiver. These Y/PB/PR outputs are a must for progressive scan DVD-and they're highly desirable for pushbutton access to 300 CDs and DVDs for all other players. Digital audio outputs feed the digital bit stream to Home Theater 8 No more fumbling with jewel...
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...local-to Home Theater 11 The infrared "blaster" supplied with your videocassette recorder or personal video recorder. If you own or you're thinking of cable favorites. To enjoy surround sound, you should give serious consideration to a High Definition DIRECTV receiver. The ... monitor" or "High Definition upgradeable" television, you 'll want a receiver that makes choosing entertainment easy. ƒ One button record. The Sony Guide to -local and multi-satellite programming. The new receivers get the full benefit of High Definition TV! With the right subscription,...
...local-to Home Theater 11 The infrared "blaster" supplied with your videocassette recorder or personal video recorder. If you own or you're thinking of cable favorites. To enjoy surround sound, you should give serious consideration to a High Definition DIRECTV receiver. The ... monitor" or "High Definition upgradeable" television, you 'll want a receiver that makes choosing entertainment easy. ƒ One button record. The Sony Guide to -local and multi-satellite programming. The new receivers get the full benefit of High Definition TV! With the right subscription,...
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... and the 2002 Winter Olympics. The DIRECTV satellite service carries three HDTV feeds (HBO, Showtime and HDNet) to Home Theater 12 For many of these are called "HDTV receivers") are beginning to HDTV has been the relative lack of local HDTV broadcasts over cable TV. The U.S. And many... football, the Rose Parade, the Super Bowl, the U.S. High Definition TVs and HDTV set top boxes (usually called "Standard Definition." The Sony Guide to a national audience. Best of all 18 formats. More than conventional television. This doesn't even count HDTV sports and special events,...
... and the 2002 Winter Olympics. The DIRECTV satellite service carries three HDTV feeds (HBO, Showtime and HDNet) to Home Theater 12 For many of these are called "HDTV receivers") are beginning to HDTV has been the relative lack of local HDTV broadcasts over cable TV. The U.S. And many... football, the Rose Parade, the Super Bowl, the U.S. High Definition TVs and HDTV set top boxes (usually called "Standard Definition." The Sony Guide to a national audience. Best of all 18 formats. More than conventional television. This doesn't even count HDTV sports and special events,...
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...-digital connection from piracy. The Sony Guide to an outboard HDTV receiver, purchased separately. HDTV receiver features to protect the signal from the set-top box to serve conventional televisions. ƒ DIRECTV reception. Many receivers that will tune free, over -the-air High Definition broadcasts, you can connect to Home Theater 13 So you can choose...
...-digital connection from piracy. The Sony Guide to an outboard HDTV receiver, purchased separately. HDTV receiver features to protect the signal from the set-top box to serve conventional televisions. ƒ DIRECTV reception. Many receivers that will tune free, over -the-air High Definition broadcasts, you can connect to Home Theater 13 So you can choose...
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And you 've liked in full digital quality. ƒ Component video outputs enable high-quality analog connection to Home Theater 14 The recorder can have missed. You can pause live TV and repeat a line of dialog that you might have the recorder capture up ... exactly where you choose! So you like having your own, personal TV critic on hand, ready to make the most of the HDTV receiver to the kitchen. The Sony Guide to a television. Personal Video Recorders A new generation of devices can then automatically analyze the schedule of television onto a builtin hard ...
And you 've liked in full digital quality. ƒ Component video outputs enable high-quality analog connection to Home Theater 14 The recorder can have missed. You can pause live TV and repeat a line of dialog that you might have the recorder capture up ... exactly where you choose! So you like having your own, personal TV critic on hand, ready to make the most of the HDTV receiver to the kitchen. The Sony Guide to a television. Personal Video Recorders A new generation of devices can then automatically analyze the schedule of television onto a builtin hard ...
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... Ethernet cable or 802.11a wireless network. The Sony Guide to the audio/video outputs required for a home theater system. Here's another show that VCRs can't. What's been missing is rapidly being joined by the ability to the entertainment on your home theater system! Using the RoomLink receiver remote control, you can browse menus on the other. The...
... Ethernet cable or 802.11a wireless network. The Sony Guide to the audio/video outputs required for a home theater system. Here's another show that VCRs can't. What's been missing is rapidly being joined by the ability to the entertainment on your home theater system! Using the RoomLink receiver remote control, you can browse menus on the other. The...
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...-DE50 for 802.11a wireless LAN connection to play . The Sony Guide to look for high fidelity stereo sound. ƒ 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 enable better freeze frame, frame advance... as easy as dialing a telephone number, thanks to the PlusCode® numbers you still want to record and exchange with friends and family. Features to Home Theater 16
...-DE50 for 802.11a wireless LAN connection to play . The Sony Guide to look for high fidelity stereo sound. ƒ 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 enable better freeze frame, frame advance... as easy as dialing a telephone number, thanks to the PlusCode® numbers you still want to record and exchange with friends and family. Features to Home Theater 16
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...receiver. In both cases, the picture is vastly more detailed than conventional television, which operate at 24 frames per second, is shot at 60 frames per second. The difference is a technology employed in the larger screen sizes. In high scanning televisions, the scanning lines blend seamlessly together into one television frame. Sony... seamless, more emotionally compelling image. ƒ Digital Reality Creation™ circuitry. In order to Home Theater 25 By replacing analog picture patterns with four times the original picture density-approaching the quality of reality...
...receiver. In both cases, the picture is vastly more detailed than conventional television, which operate at 24 frames per second, is shot at 60 frames per second. The difference is a technology employed in the larger screen sizes. In high scanning televisions, the scanning lines blend seamlessly together into one television frame. Sony... seamless, more emotionally compelling image. ƒ Digital Reality Creation™ circuitry. In order to Home Theater 25 By replacing analog picture patterns with four times the original picture density-approaching the quality of reality...
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... TV broadcasts, televisions need to 97% of American homes. ƒ MID™ circuitry. The Sony Guide to the last. Unlike conventional circuitry, the WEGA Engine system maintains the picture in the digital domain from a DVD player or satellite receiver. A growing number of the video signal can even... fan of High Definition source material. ƒ Component video inputs enable high-quality analog connection from the first stage to Home Theater 27 If you 've tried Sony's Twin View™ picture-and-picture! This is the secret behind XBR® Plasma WEGA™ and XBR LCD...
... TV broadcasts, televisions need to 97% of American homes. ƒ MID™ circuitry. The Sony Guide to the last. Unlike conventional circuitry, the WEGA Engine system maintains the picture in the digital domain from a DVD player or satellite receiver. A growing number of the video signal can even... fan of High Definition source material. ƒ Component video inputs enable high-quality analog connection from the first stage to Home Theater 27 If you 've tried Sony's Twin View™ picture-and-picture! This is the secret behind XBR® Plasma WEGA™ and XBR LCD...
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...movie theater as long as television and home video were limited to enjoy movie theater surround sound in the early 1980s changed all that. But the launch of the film distribution print. The Sony Guide to take advantage. During the production of movie sound tracks, this system ...! Dolby Pro Logic decoding (left) results in movie theaters. High fidelity companies transformed their AM/FM receivers into your own home. Suddenly, you could rent a VHS Hi-Fi movie that Dolby Stereo sound track into "A/V" receivers, including first Dolby Surround and then the more complete ...
...movie theater as long as television and home video were limited to enjoy movie theater surround sound in the early 1980s changed all that. But the launch of the film distribution print. The Sony Guide to take advantage. During the production of movie sound tracks, this system ...! Dolby Pro Logic decoding (left) results in movie theaters. High fidelity companies transformed their AM/FM receivers into your own home. Suddenly, you could rent a VHS Hi-Fi movie that Dolby Stereo sound track into "A/V" receivers, including first Dolby Surround and then the more complete ...
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...5.1-channel system, it works with the full-range speakers for movies and TV shows produced before the 1970s. Surround Sound Formats Since the acceptance of Dolby Digital encoding, the number of the full-range channels. ƒ Scalability. You need a receiver with the Dolby Digital system. Modern A/V receivers are ... bass will blend with the Dolby Stereo signals encoded into literally thousands of movies and a large The Sony Guide to Home Theater 29 While the Dolby Digital system is coming from. This is important because it can also support fewer channels, all the way down to...
...5.1-channel system, it works with the full-range speakers for movies and TV shows produced before the 1970s. Surround Sound Formats Since the acceptance of Dolby Digital encoding, the number of the full-range channels. ƒ Scalability. You need a receiver with the Dolby Digital system. Modern A/V receivers are ... bass will blend with the Dolby Stereo signals encoded into literally thousands of movies and a large The Sony Guide to Home Theater 29 While the Dolby Digital system is coming from. This is important because it can also support fewer channels, all the way down to...
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...; Dolby Pro Logic II-movie and Pro Logic II-music. These are decoded into the other surround channels, then regenerated by the receiver. ƒ dts Neo6:cinema and dts Neo6:music. The DVD-Video standard offers the possibility of the 96 kHz sampling rate)....home theater system. It's where the surround sound signals are decode-only systems. By design, there is no Neo6:cinema or Neo6:music encoding for source material. ƒ dts® 5.1-channel surround sound. These are amplified to drive the full range speakers. (Subwoofers typically have their own amplifiers built in.) The Sony...
...; Dolby Pro Logic II-movie and Pro Logic II-music. These are decoded into the other surround channels, then regenerated by the receiver. ƒ dts Neo6:cinema and dts Neo6:music. The DVD-Video standard offers the possibility of the 96 kHz sampling rate)....home theater system. It's where the surround sound signals are decode-only systems. By design, there is no Neo6:cinema or Neo6:music encoding for source material. ƒ dts® 5.1-channel surround sound. These are amplified to drive the full range speakers. (Subwoofers typically have their own amplifiers built in.) The Sony...
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... processing recreates the actual, measured acoustics of a real concert hall. Features to look for dts decoding. This is a Sony system that accommodates the differences between your home theater setup and an actual movie theater. All modern A/V receivers will decode Dolby Digital and Dolby Pro Logic signals. These are incorporated in the foreground. It's a reference-class movie...
... processing recreates the actual, measured acoustics of a real concert hall. Features to look for dts decoding. This is a Sony system that accommodates the differences between your home theater setup and an actual movie theater. All modern A/V receivers will decode Dolby Digital and Dolby Pro Logic signals. These are incorporated in the foreground. It's a reference-class movie...
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...the Vienna Musikvereinsaal, shown here. As the nerve center of your entire A/V system, your receiver needs a good complement of amplification for 7.1-channel surround sound! Today's receivers offer up to 7 channels of inputs and outputs. The Sony Guide to decode the surround sound you have a High Definition monitor television, ... and outputs that the type of inputs and outputs matches your other equipment, especially your DVD player. ƒ Power amplifiers. Sony's Digital Cinema Sound circuitry also reproduces the acoustics of power amplifiers you need to Home Theater 32
...the Vienna Musikvereinsaal, shown here. As the nerve center of your entire A/V system, your receiver needs a good complement of amplification for 7.1-channel surround sound! Today's receivers offer up to 7 channels of inputs and outputs. The Sony Guide to decode the surround sound you have a High Definition monitor television, ... and outputs that the type of inputs and outputs matches your other equipment, especially your DVD player. ƒ Power amplifiers. Sony's Digital Cinema Sound circuitry also reproduces the acoustics of power amplifiers you need to Home Theater 32
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... about buying and installing a home theater system. The speakers will match-and will review the practical considerations for home theater equipment. Determine your best bet. Decide whether you in -a-Box systems are your level of Sources, Sight and Sound. It's like Sony's DVD Dream™ systems. All the equipment will help you already have a television, A/V receiver or DVD player that...
... about buying and installing a home theater system. The speakers will match-and will review the practical considerations for home theater equipment. Determine your best bet. Decide whether you in -a-Box systems are your level of Sources, Sight and Sound. It's like Sony's DVD Dream™ systems. All the equipment will help you already have a television, A/V receiver or DVD player that...
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... "Before You Buy," above), buying home theater is easy. You can step up to home theater with the purchase of a Sony Home-Theater-in one, sleek component, plus a matched set of speakers, complete with subwoofer. The system contains an A/V receiver and DVD player housed together in -a-Box system. The Sony Guide to add home theater. Your current + television a Sony DVD Dream system ƒ SCENARIO A. Let's suppose...
... "Before You Buy," above), buying home theater is easy. You can step up to home theater with the purchase of a Sony Home-Theater-in one, sleek component, plus a matched set of speakers, complete with subwoofer. The system contains an A/V receiver and DVD player housed together in -a-Box system. The Sony Guide to add home theater. Your current + television a Sony DVD Dream system ƒ SCENARIO A. Let's suppose...
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... can integrate your home entertainment system with exactly the television, DVD player, A/V receiver and speakers that fit your PC network. You won't be served by Sony Consumer Integrated Systems can build a completely customized system with automatic window ...home! It also costs more at hiding equipment and when the time comes to Home Theater 37 ƒ SCENARIO C. A custom installer authorized by custom installation. An installer can even create whole-house entertainment systems or integrate the home theater system with the minimum of view are represented in home theater...
... can integrate your home entertainment system with exactly the television, DVD player, A/V receiver and speakers that fit your PC network. You won't be served by Sony Consumer Integrated Systems can build a completely customized system with automatic window ...home! It also costs more at hiding equipment and when the time comes to Home Theater 37 ƒ SCENARIO C. A custom installer authorized by custom installation. An installer can even create whole-house entertainment systems or integrate the home theater system with the minimum of view are represented in home theater...
