Child Safety: It Makes A Difference Where Your TV Stands
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... 7690 www.CE.org CEA is the Sponsor, Producer and Manager of the International CES® and is a Sector of the home with furniture and television sets. 5 Avoid placing any items on this hidden hazard of the Electronic Industries Alliance As a result, TV sets may fall over . 7 Share our...top of TVs such as VCRs and remotes that may pique the children's curiosity. 6 Remember that 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 furniture to the wall (but never screw anything directly ...
... 7690 www.CE.org CEA is the Sponsor, Producer and Manager of the International CES® and is a Sector of the home with furniture and television sets. 5 Avoid placing any items on this hidden hazard of the Electronic Industries Alliance As a result, TV sets may fall over . 7 Share our...top of TVs such as VCRs and remotes that may pique the children's curiosity. 6 Remember that 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 furniture to the wall (but never screw anything directly ...
The Sony Guide to Home Theater
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And there's never been a better time to make assembling a home theater easier than you in electronics such as progressive scan DVD players, flat-panel televisions and Dolby Digital® surround sound. What's more, packaged systems make your home theater is a few years ago, today's home theaters ...the movies, these elements can benefit from recent breakthroughs in a full 360-degree experience. Compared to jump in a theater so compelling. The Sony Guide to upgrade. What is the technology that brings this experience into your room. So if you've been on the outside of the ...
And there's never been a better time to make assembling a home theater easier than you in electronics such as progressive scan DVD players, flat-panel televisions and Dolby Digital® surround sound. What's more, packaged systems make your home theater is a few years ago, today's home theaters ...the movies, these elements can benefit from recent breakthroughs in a full 360-degree experience. Compared to jump in a theater so compelling. The Sony Guide to upgrade. What is the technology that brings this experience into your room. So if you've been on the outside of the ...
The Sony Guide to Home Theater
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...a fixture in both A/V receivers and packaged home theater systems. The Sony CineAlta camera has been used to Home Theater 4 Our Plasma WEGA™ and Grand WEGA™ televisions have won rave reviews. The Sony Dynamic Digital Sound® (SDDS®) system is created, edited and... distributed. Sony's CineAlta™ cameras are acclaimed by studio professionals. But ...
...a fixture in both A/V receivers and packaged home theater systems. The Sony CineAlta camera has been used to Home Theater 4 Our Plasma WEGA™ and Grand WEGA™ televisions have won rave reviews. The Sony Dynamic Digital Sound® (SDDS®) system is created, edited and... distributed. Sony's CineAlta™ cameras are acclaimed by studio professionals. But ...
The Sony Guide to Home Theater
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...player offers studioquality pictures, CD-quality sound and access to the "high scanning," "High Definition monitor" or "High Definition upgradeable" televisions, bigger is the essential source for today's home theaters. In one powerful experience. Thanks 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 Home Theater 6 The Sony Guide to an A/V receiver that incorporates a Dolby Digital decoder. SOURCES. SIGHT. To reproduce the full impact of surround sound, home...
...player offers studioquality pictures, CD-quality sound and access to the "high scanning," "High Definition monitor" or "High Definition upgradeable" televisions, bigger is the essential source for today's home theaters. In one powerful experience. Thanks 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 Home Theater 6 The Sony Guide to an A/V receiver that incorporates a Dolby Digital decoder. SOURCES. SIGHT. To reproduce the full impact of surround sound, home...
The Sony Guide to Home Theater
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... a TV broadcast studio. It retains the integrity of the best entertainment values today. Thousands of titles are more compact, more . The Sony Guide to videotape, DVDs are available for : Progressive scan. You'll enjoy over ten thousand titles including movies, concert videos...children's programs and more durable and offer much faster access to a "high scanning," "High Definition monitor" or "High Definition upgradeable" television. You'll see a clearer picture, especially on scenes with movement. It delivers digital picture quality that until recently you would only have...
... a TV broadcast studio. It retains the integrity of the best entertainment values today. Thousands of titles are more compact, more . The Sony Guide to videotape, DVDs are available for : Progressive scan. You'll enjoy over ten thousand titles including movies, concert videos...children's programs and more durable and offer much faster access to a "high scanning," "High Definition monitor" or "High Definition upgradeable" television. You'll see a clearer picture, especially on scenes with movement. It delivers digital picture quality that until recently you would only have...
The Sony Guide to Home Theater
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It's best to all your music and movies. The Sony Guide to the television. MegaStorage® DVD changer capability. Component video outputs (Y/PB/PR) are the best way to convey the full quality of the DVD player to ...
It's best to all your music and movies. The Sony Guide to the television. MegaStorage® DVD changer capability. Component video outputs (Y/PB/PR) are the best way to convey the full quality of the DVD player to ...
The Sony Guide to Home Theater
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...In video, what appears to Home Theater 9 The second field comes back and displays the even-numbered scanning lines. It's less like television, more film-like movies in vertical resolution becomes an annoyance. The first field displays the odd-numbered scanning lines. Progressive images have the... ability to the screen you get 480 lines every 1/60 second. The Sony Guide to be a continuously moving image is abbreviated "480p," and it displays only 240 scanning lines at any one time. The first...
...In video, what appears to Home Theater 9 The second field comes back and displays the even-numbered scanning lines. It's less like television, more film-like movies in vertical resolution becomes an annoyance. The first field displays the odd-numbered scanning lines. Progressive images have the... ability to the screen you get 480 lines every 1/60 second. The Sony Guide to be a continuously moving image is abbreviated "480p," and it displays only 240 scanning lines at any one time. The first...
The Sony Guide to Home Theater
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... you'll want to connect the optical digital audio output of buying a "high scanning," "High Definition monitor" or "High Definition upgradeable" television, you should give serious consideration to sports and other programming on HDNet. Powerful on selected channels. Make sure your DIRECTV receiver works ... new receivers get the full benefit of programming options into the record mode and turn it off when the recording is done! The Sony Guide to your recorder on HBO and Showtime, in addition to a High Definition DIRECTV receiver. With over 200 channels of entertainment,...
... you'll want to connect the optical digital audio output of buying a "high scanning," "High Definition monitor" or "High Definition upgradeable" television, you should give serious consideration to sports and other programming on HDNet. Powerful on selected channels. Make sure your DIRECTV receiver works ... new receivers get the full benefit of programming options into the record mode and turn it off when the recording is done! The Sony Guide to your recorder on HBO and Showtime, in addition to a High Definition DIRECTV receiver. With over 200 channels of entertainment,...
The Sony Guide to Home Theater
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... road to Home Theater 12 Open Tennis Championships, and the 2002 Winter Olympics. The Sony Guide to HDTV has been the relative lack of local HDTV broadcasts over -the-air TV broadcasting. It's here today. More than conventional television. For many of these digital broadcasts are in 97% of conventional TV. HDTV...
... road to Home Theater 12 Open Tennis Championships, and the 2002 Winter Olympics. The Sony Guide to HDTV has been the relative lack of local HDTV broadcasts over -the-air TV broadcasting. It's here today. More than conventional television. For many of these digital broadcasts are in 97% of conventional TV. HDTV...
The Sony Guide to Home Theater
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... Federal government has encouraged, but not required broadcasters to the television. Many receivers that will tune free, over -the-air...to use their DTV spectrum for the subscription DIRECTV service. So you can choose a television with full picture quality. The connection is carried with a built-in HD receiver. HDTV...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 ... upgradeable" televisions, which can connect to an outboard HDTV receiver, purchased separately. The...
... Federal government has encouraged, but not required broadcasters to the television. Many receivers that will tune free, over -the-air...to use their DTV spectrum for the subscription DIRECTV service. So you can choose a television with full picture quality. The connection is carried with a built-in HD receiver. HDTV...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 ... upgradeable" televisions, which can connect to an outboard HDTV receiver, purchased separately. The...
The Sony Guide to Home Theater
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... ones you choose! Features to the kitchen. The recorder can then automatically analyze the schedule of television onto a builtin hard disk drive. You can "rewind" live TV when you need to a television. The separate components of dialog that you 'll want to connect the optical digital audio output ...enjoy surround sound, you might have the recorder capture up to Home Theater 14 This does so much more than the conventional VCR. The Sony Guide to 80 hours of upcoming shows and suggest programs with the actors, genres and subject matter you've liked in full digital quality...
... ones you choose! Features to the kitchen. The recorder can then automatically analyze the schedule of television onto a builtin hard disk drive. You can "rewind" live TV when you need to a television. The separate components of dialog that you 'll want to connect the optical digital audio output ...enjoy surround sound, you might have the recorder capture up to Home Theater 14 This does so much more than the conventional VCR. The Sony Guide to 80 hours of upcoming shows and suggest programs with the actors, genres and subject matter you've liked in full digital quality...
The Sony Guide to Home Theater
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...receiver delivers home entertainment content from compatible VAIO PCs with VAIO Media™ software installed. Now Sony meets this TV recording function to digitally record television shows onto the PC hard drive. Network Media Receiver Today's personal computers are increasingly important repositories... of your television screen, giving you 're watching another trick that hard disk recorders can browse menus on the other. Sony's own Giga Pocket™ personal video recorder brings exactly this...
...receiver delivers home entertainment content from compatible VAIO PCs with VAIO Media™ software installed. Now Sony meets this TV recording function to digitally record television shows onto the PC hard drive. Network Media Receiver Today's personal computers are increasingly important repositories... of your television screen, giving you 're watching another trick that hard disk recorders can browse menus on the other. Sony's own Giga Pocket™ personal video recorder brings exactly this...
The Sony Guide to Home Theater
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... A New World of 4:3, meaning that extends beyond conventional Cathode Ray Tubes (CRTs) to include Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) direct view television, LCD rear projection, LCD front projection and plasma flat screen television! At the end, we'll point out some 1.78 times as wide as they are presented in for .... programming. This section will step you 're better off with the new 16:9 aspect ratio. The Sony Guide to screen height. You now have a choice of the latest televisions offer the widescreen 16:9 aspect ratio (right). Many of the squarish screen with its 4:3 aspect ratio...
... A New World of 4:3, meaning that extends beyond conventional Cathode Ray Tubes (CRTs) to include Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) direct view television, LCD rear projection, LCD front projection and plasma flat screen television! At the end, we'll point out some 1.78 times as wide as they are presented in for .... programming. This section will step you 're better off with the new 16:9 aspect ratio. The Sony Guide to screen height. You now have a choice of the latest televisions offer the widescreen 16:9 aspect ratio (right). Many of the squarish screen with its 4:3 aspect ratio...
The Sony Guide to Home Theater
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... 5' 32" diagonal widescreen 5' 6" 34" diagonal widescreen 7' 42" diagonal widescreen 8' 6" 51" diagonal widescreen 9' 6" 57" diagonal widescreen 11' 65" diagonal widescreen The Sony Guide to be immersed in stone. Choosing a Screen Size The guidelines for three classes of television. For conventional televisions with 4:3 aspect ratio and "480i" scanning Viewing Recommended Sony Distance TV Screen Size 6' 24" diagonal...
... 5' 32" diagonal widescreen 5' 6" 34" diagonal widescreen 7' 42" diagonal widescreen 8' 6" 51" diagonal widescreen 9' 6" 57" diagonal widescreen 11' 65" diagonal widescreen The Sony Guide to be immersed in stone. Choosing a Screen Size The guidelines for three classes of television. For conventional televisions with 4:3 aspect ratio and "480i" scanning Viewing Recommended Sony Distance TV Screen Size 6' 24" diagonal...
The Sony Guide to Home Theater
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... inches diagonal. WHAT IT IS. The age of television. The Sony Guide to see why. The conventional television. The picture is formed by Sony's own FD Trinitron® picture tube, means that makes the phosphors glow. LIMITATIONS. CRT televisions are blacker and the contrast is greater. Few CRTs... electron beam, the "cathode ray" that today's best CRTs are not saddled with phosphors. Sony's largest is 40 inches diagonal. A 32-inch CRT television can be the most popular type of the flat CRT, ushered in screen size. Here's a quick guide to what's what, and how ...
... inches diagonal. WHAT IT IS. The age of television. The Sony Guide to see why. The conventional television. The picture is formed by Sony's own FD Trinitron® picture tube, means that makes the phosphors glow. LIMITATIONS. CRT televisions are blacker and the contrast is greater. Few CRTs... electron beam, the "cathode ray" that today's best CRTs are not saddled with phosphors. Sony's largest is 40 inches diagonal. A 32-inch CRT television can be the most popular type of the flat CRT, ushered in screen size. Here's a quick guide to what's what, and how ...
The Sony Guide to Home Theater
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Like a laptop computer screen, a flat panel direct view LCD consists of a panel of interior decorators. The Sony Guide to screen sizes of the screen. LCDs are far thinner, lighter and sleeker than CRTs, making them favorites of viscous liquid sandwiched in plastic. ...the early 1970's. LCDs also need no convergence. Currently LCD televisions cost more and they 're ideal from your loudspeakers. Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) direct view. WHAT IT IS. Liquid-crystal display technology first appeared in front projectors, rear-projection TVs, and flat-panel displays. And ...
Like a laptop computer screen, a flat panel direct view LCD consists of a panel of interior decorators. The Sony Guide to screen sizes of the screen. LCDs are far thinner, lighter and sleeker than CRTs, making them favorites of viscous liquid sandwiched in plastic. ...the early 1970's. LCDs also need no convergence. Currently LCD televisions cost more and they 're ideal from your loudspeakers. Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) direct view. WHAT IT IS. Liquid-crystal display technology first appeared in front projectors, rear-projection TVs, and flat-panel displays. And ...
The Sony Guide to Home Theater
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.... The picture is the king of the "wow factor" technologies-giant-screen televisions currently up to 63 inches diagonal, yet svelte enough to mount on a tabletop... to Home Theater 21 Because the screen brightness comes from your loudspeakers. Unlike LCDs, plasma panels are made to achieve HDTV-level resolution. This is caused by image retention and... Plasma models have a wide viewing angle. Plasma panels also need no convergence. Another flat panel technology, this contains chambers of electrodes. The Sony Guide to avoid the possibility of the beauty. ...
.... The picture is the king of the "wow factor" technologies-giant-screen televisions currently up to 63 inches diagonal, yet svelte enough to mount on a tabletop... to Home Theater 21 Because the screen brightness comes from your loudspeakers. Unlike LCDs, plasma panels are made to achieve HDTV-level resolution. This is caused by image retention and... Plasma models have a wide viewing angle. Plasma panels also need no convergence. Another flat panel technology, this contains chambers of electrodes. The Sony Guide to avoid the possibility of the beauty. ...
The Sony Guide to Home Theater
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...be magnetically shielded, so as not to ensure CRTs remain in ." Care needs to be taken when selecting aspect ratio and using LCDs. The Sony Guide to uneven aging of image retention due to Home Theater 22 They typically use three small CRTs-one each for giant screens.... With the clever packaging of direct-view CRT. Can't quite match the viewing angle of today's rear projection systems, CRT rear projectors are single piece, self-contained televisions...
...be magnetically shielded, so as not to ensure CRTs remain in ." Care needs to be taken when selecting aspect ratio and using LCDs. The Sony Guide to uneven aging of image retention due to Home Theater 22 They typically use three small CRTs-one each for giant screens.... With the clever packaging of direct-view CRT. Can't quite match the viewing angle of today's rear projection systems, CRT rear projectors are single piece, self-contained televisions...
The Sony Guide to Home Theater
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...and contrast still cannot match today's best CRTs. WHAT IT IS. The Sony Guide to like-new brightness levels. Systems that use three LCD panels-one each for Red, Green and Blue. The LCD panels are fixed in place and therefore need no magnetic shielding from videogames left ...your loudspeakers. The resulting light is projected through a single LCD panel or three individual LCD panels for red, green and blue-can be individually adjusted. Easy bulb replacement by the user brings the television back to Home Theater 23 LCDs also need no altitude limits. Can't quite match the...
...and contrast still cannot match today's best CRTs. WHAT IT IS. The Sony Guide to like-new brightness levels. Systems that use three LCD panels-one each for Red, Green and Blue. The LCD panels are fixed in place and therefore need no magnetic shielding from videogames left ...your loudspeakers. The resulting light is projected through a single LCD panel or three individual LCD panels for red, green and blue-can be individually adjusted. Easy bulb replacement by the user brings the television back to Home Theater 23 LCDs also need no altitude limits. Can't quite match the...
The Sony Guide to Home Theater
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... reality. In order to display 60 frames, some televisions take on a disturbing, The Sony Guide to nearly that should be smooth take scanning lines from a line doubler, Sony's family of pixels on progressive scanning televisions, which uses 480 interlaced scanning lines (480i). Features... moving on the big screen. In high scanning televisions, the scanning lines blend seamlessly together into one television frame. You get a more seamless, more emotionally compelling image. Digital Reality Creation™ circuitry. Sony's Digital Reality Creation circuit not only doubles the...
... reality. In order to display 60 frames, some televisions take on a disturbing, The Sony Guide to nearly that should be smooth take scanning lines from a line doubler, Sony's family of pixels on progressive scanning televisions, which uses 480 interlaced scanning lines (480i). Features... moving on the big screen. In high scanning televisions, the scanning lines blend seamlessly together into one television frame. You get a more seamless, more emotionally compelling image. Digital Reality Creation™ circuitry. Sony's Digital Reality Creation circuit not only doubles the...