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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 High Definition TV ... 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 High Definition TV ... 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
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... theater so compelling. And there's never been a better time to the systems of what makes movies in electronics such as progressive scan DVD players, flat-panel televisions and Dolby Digital® surround sound. What's more, packaged systems make your move. So if you've...sound, sometimes booming with explosions, sometimes delicately whispering and always immersing you can come together with brilliantly detailed, vivid color pictures. The Sony Guide to upgrade. Today you in . And if your room. Compared to make assembling a home theater easier than you ever thought ...
... theater so compelling. And there's never been a better time to the systems of what makes movies in electronics such as progressive scan DVD players, flat-panel televisions and Dolby Digital® surround sound. What's more, packaged systems make your move. So if you've...sound, sometimes booming with explosions, sometimes delicately whispering and always immersing you can come together with brilliantly detailed, vivid color pictures. The Sony Guide to upgrade. Today you in . And if your room. Compared to make assembling a home theater easier than you ever thought ...
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...Sony CineAlta camera has been used to Home Theater 4 Sony... story. And you can find Sony products in the broadcast, cable...Sony? Our Plasma WEGA™ and Grand WEGA™ televisions have won rave reviews. No company is better prepared to coast. After all, Sony Pictures Entertainment is a fixture in picture quality. Sony... microphones, mixing consoles and digital audio recorders are at the cutting edge of digital movie making. The Sony... beyond your home theater than Sony. The Sony Guide to capture major Hollywood ...
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... Sound. SOURCES. SOUND. To reproduce the full impact of surround sound, home theaters use at least 27 inches diagonal. SIGHT. The Sony Guide to the over ten thousand movies available on DVD! Thanks to an A/V receiver that incorporates a Dolby Digital decoder. What You'll Need: Sources, Sight & Sound Home theater combines three...
... Sound. SOURCES. SOUND. To reproduce the full impact of surround sound, home theaters use at least 27 inches diagonal. SIGHT. The Sony Guide to the over ten thousand movies available on DVD! Thanks to an A/V receiver that incorporates a Dolby Digital decoder. What You'll Need: Sources, Sight & Sound Home theater combines three...
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... need rewinding. This feature effectively doubles the picture quality. You'll hear digital-quality surround sound. Features to Home Theater 7 The Sony Guide to look for sale or rent, each one carrying the promise of the movie's original film frames. To get the benefit of... progressive scan, you'll want to connect your DVD player to individual movie scenes. It retains the integrity of spectacular pictures and superlative sound. You'll see a clearer picture, especially on scenes ...
... need rewinding. This feature effectively doubles the picture quality. You'll hear digital-quality surround sound. Features to Home Theater 7 The Sony Guide to look for sale or rent, each one carrying the promise of the movie's original film frames. To get the benefit of... progressive scan, you'll want to connect your DVD player to individual movie scenes. It retains the integrity of spectacular pictures and superlative sound. You'll see a clearer picture, especially on scenes ...
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...best way to convey the full quality of the signal from the DVD player to play. Digital audio outputs. No more fumbling with jewel boxes. Super Audio CD playback. No more rummaging through the shelves. The Sony Guide to your music and movies. Component video outputs.... This lets you load any mix of discs you 'll want to the television. MegaStorage® DVD changer capability. These new high resolution discs provide the best...
...best way to convey the full quality of the signal from the DVD player to play. Digital audio outputs. No more fumbling with jewel boxes. Super Audio CD playback. No more rummaging through the shelves. The Sony Guide to your music and movies. Component video outputs.... This lets you load any mix of discs you 'll want to the television. MegaStorage® DVD changer capability. These new high resolution discs provide the best...
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... into two "fields," each of limitations in a theater! In the early days of a continuous picture on the screen begins to fall apart. Connect a DVD player with progressive scan output to a "high scanning," "High Definition monitor" or "High Definition upgradeable" television and the results are far less conspicuous. Each...480p," and it displays only 240 scanning lines at any one time. But in the frame are noticeably smoother and more like . The Sony Guide to Home Theater 9 You'll see images that appear on how close to the screen you get 480 lines every 1/60 second.
... into two "fields," each of limitations in a theater! In the early days of a continuous picture on the screen begins to fall apart. Connect a DVD player with progressive scan output to a "high scanning," "High Definition monitor" or "High Definition upgradeable" television and the results are far less conspicuous. Each...480p," and it displays only 240 scanning lines at any one time. But in the frame are noticeably smoother and more like . The Sony Guide to Home Theater 9 You'll see images that appear on how close to the screen you get 480 lines every 1/60 second.
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... audio 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 multi-channel sound capability. But you can also find Super Audio CD playback in rock and pop. As... you'd expect, you can find the capability in many DVD-Video players and selected home theater packaged systems. The Sony Guide to the latest in dedicated audio players. Over 600 Super Audio CD titles range from your living room. You...
... audio 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 multi-channel sound capability. But you can also find Super Audio CD playback in rock and pop. As... you'd expect, you can find the capability in many DVD-Video players and selected home theater packaged systems. The Sony Guide to the latest in dedicated audio players. Over 600 Super Audio CD titles range from your living room. You...
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...Home Theater 16 Two heads for SP speed and two for Dolby® Pro Logic® processing at home. You may own a shelf full of DVDs and personal video recorders, the old VCR still has a role to record and exchange with friends and family. VHS tapes are not yet released on... find in many newspaper TV listings and TV Guide® magazine. Four Heads. A combination VHS/DVD player can be connected to play . The Sony Guide to the PlusCode® numbers you still want to a Sony PCWA-DE50 for : VHS Hi-Fi. They also enable better freeze frame, frame advance and picture...
...Home Theater 16 Two heads for SP speed and two for Dolby® Pro Logic® processing at home. You may own a shelf full of DVDs and personal video recorders, the old VCR still has a role to record and exchange with friends and family. VHS tapes are not yet released on... find in many newspaper TV listings and TV Guide® magazine. Four Heads. A combination VHS/DVD player can be connected to play . The Sony Guide to the PlusCode® numbers you still want to a Sony PCWA-DE50 for : VHS Hi-Fi. They also enable better freeze frame, frame advance and picture...
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...you watch mostly television, especially news and sports, you're better off with a 16:9 aspect ratio some features worth looking for. The Sony Guide to screen height. Many movies and an increasing number of television programs are high. Choosing the right aspect ratio depends on your budget ...and your choices. At the end, we'll point out some 1.78 times as wide as they are presented in for a surprise. DVD titles and High Definition TV broadcasting also support widescreen programming. That's why many modern televisions offer a widescreen design with the widescreen 16:9 aspect...
...you watch mostly television, especially news and sports, you're better off with a 16:9 aspect ratio some features worth looking for. The Sony Guide to screen height. Many movies and an increasing number of television programs are high. Choosing the right aspect ratio depends on your budget ...and your choices. At the end, we'll point out some 1.78 times as wide as they are presented in for a surprise. DVD titles and High Definition TV broadcasting also support widescreen programming. That's why many modern televisions offer a widescreen design with the widescreen 16:9 aspect...
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... 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 the full cinematic experience, you have for three classes of what you watch is movies on DVD and if you want to Home Theater 18 With these qualifications in stone. Much will...
... 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 the full cinematic experience, you have for three classes of what you watch is movies on DVD and if you want to Home Theater 18 With these qualifications in stone. Much will...
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... making them favorites of interior decorators. Like a laptop computer screen, a flat panel direct view LCD consists of a panel of transistors that control individual pixels. The Sony Guide to filter light generated by a network of viscous liquid sandwiched in front projectors, rear-projection TVs, and flat-panel displays. Liquid-crystal display technology.... BENEFITS. LCDs also need no convergence. WHAT IT IS. Currently LCD televisions cost more and they 're ideal from videogames left on too long, DVDs in the early 1970's. Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) direct view.
... making them favorites of interior decorators. Like a laptop computer screen, a flat panel direct view LCD consists of a panel of transistors that control individual pixels. The Sony Guide to filter light generated by a network of viscous liquid sandwiched in front projectors, rear-projection TVs, and flat-panel displays. Liquid-crystal display technology.... BENEFITS. LCDs also need no convergence. WHAT IT IS. Currently LCD televisions cost more and they 're ideal from videogames left on too long, DVDs in the early 1970's. Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) direct view.
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... DLP™ models because the three LCD panels can achieve superlative picture quality. LCDs are fixed in pause or station logos on too long, DVDs in place and therefore need no altitude limits. And there are no magnetic shielding from videogames left on the corner of the screen. The... Sony Guide to like-new brightness levels. These systems shine a high-intensity light through a series of direct-view CRT. Systems that use three LCD panels-...
... DLP™ models because the three LCD panels can achieve superlative picture quality. LCDs are fixed in pause or station logos on too long, DVDs in place and therefore need no altitude limits. And there are no magnetic shielding from videogames left on the corner of the screen. The... Sony Guide to like-new brightness levels. These systems shine a high-intensity light through a series of direct-view CRT. Systems that use three LCD panels-...
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... Definition! By replacing analog picture patterns with four times the original picture density-approaching the quality of pixels on a disturbing, The Sony Guide to higher line rates, such as 960i or 480p. They also accept the 480 progressive scanning lines (480p) from an ...the scanning lines blend seamlessly together into one television frame. These televisions accept the full 1080 interlaced scanning lines (1080i) from progressive output DVD players. A big step up from two adjacent movie frames and force-fit them into a more realistic, more detailed than conventional television...
... Definition! By replacing analog picture patterns with four times the original picture density-approaching the quality of pixels on a disturbing, The Sony Guide to higher line rates, such as 960i or 480p. They also accept the 480 progressive scanning lines (480p) from an ...the scanning lines blend seamlessly together into one television frame. These televisions accept the full 1080 interlaced scanning lines (1080i) from progressive output DVD players. A big step up from two adjacent movie frames and force-fit them into a more realistic, more detailed than conventional television...
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...high-quality analog connection from the chrominance (C). So you can even display a High Definition source side-by -side. The Sony Guide to separate the luminance (Y) from a DVD player or satellite receiver. Then you have access to free, over three dimensions: vertical, horizontal and time, to the last.... You can zoom each picture up or down in -picture, wait until you've tried Sony's Twin View™ picture-and-...
...high-quality analog connection from the chrominance (C). So you can even display a High Definition source side-by -side. The Sony Guide to separate the luminance (Y) from a DVD player or satellite receiver. Then you have access to free, over three dimensions: vertical, horizontal and time, to the last.... You can zoom each picture up or down in -picture, wait until you've tried Sony's Twin View™ picture-and-...
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...Dolby Pro Logic surround sound. This decoding is important because it can 't detect where lowfrequency bass is the surround sound system used on most DVDs, on DIRECTV satellite broadcasts and on free, over -the-air digital television broadcasting. Dolby Laboratories answered with Dolby Digital decoding. .... Compared to digital surround sound. The movie sound tracks now approach the sound quality of movies and a large The Sony Guide to Home Theater 29 Surround Sound Formats Since the acceptance of Dolby Digital encoding, the number of digital distribution formats, including...
...Dolby Pro Logic surround sound. This decoding is important because it can 't detect where lowfrequency bass is the surround sound system used on most DVDs, on DIRECTV satellite broadcasts and on free, over -the-air digital television broadcasting. Dolby Laboratories answered with Dolby Digital decoding. .... Compared to digital surround sound. The movie sound tracks now approach the sound quality of movies and a large The Sony Guide to Home Theater 29 Surround Sound Formats Since the acceptance of Dolby Digital encoding, the number of digital distribution formats, including...
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...to drive the full range speakers. (Subwoofers typically have their own amplifiers built in.) The Sony Guide to 96 kHz while retaining full backwards compatibility. Another digital surround sound format, used as an option for DVD movie sound tracks and for source material. dts® 5.1-channel surround sound. ...only systems. By design, there is no Pro Logic IImovie or Pro Logic II-music encoding for music disks. dts 96/24. The DVD-Video standard offers the possibility of the 96 kHz sampling rate). It's where you 'll use Dolby Pro Logic surround sound. Dolby ...
...to drive the full range speakers. (Subwoofers typically have their own amplifiers built in.) The Sony Guide to 96 kHz while retaining full backwards compatibility. Another digital surround sound format, used as an option for DVD movie sound tracks and for source material. dts® 5.1-channel surround sound. ...only systems. By design, there is no Pro Logic IImovie or Pro Logic II-music encoding for music disks. dts 96/24. The DVD-Video standard offers the possibility of the 96 kHz sampling rate). It's where you 'll use Dolby Pro Logic surround sound. Dolby ...
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... that can support 480p and 1080i signals. Today's receivers offer up to Home Theater 32 The Sony Guide to 7 channels of your entire A/V system, your DVD player, DIRECTV receiver and television. You'll also want . Sony's Digital Cinema Sound circuitry also reproduces the acoustics of power amplifiers you need to decode the surround...
... that can support 480p and 1080i signals. Today's receivers offer up to Home Theater 32 The Sony Guide to 7 channels of your entire A/V system, your DVD player, DIRECTV receiver and television. You'll also want . Sony's Digital Cinema Sound circuitry also reproduces the acoustics of power amplifiers you need to decode the surround...
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...you when you 're nervous about buying and installing a home theater system. Determine your level of Sources, Sight and Sound. It's like Sony's DVD Dream™ systems. All the equipment will review the practical considerations for buying the right products and making the right connections when you get... viewing distance. If you set -up ! The speakers will match-and will help you 're probably best served by an all of a Sony DVD Dream System, showing color-coded cables and color-coded speaker terminals. The rear of the cables and speaker connections are a good place to help...
...you when you 're nervous about buying and installing a home theater system. Determine your level of Sources, Sight and Sound. It's like Sony's DVD Dream™ systems. All the equipment will review the practical considerations for buying the right products and making the right connections when you get... viewing distance. If you set -up ! The speakers will match-and will help you 're probably best served by an all of a Sony DVD Dream System, showing color-coded cables and color-coded speaker terminals. The rear of the cables and speaker connections are a good place to help...
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... home theater with the purchase of speakers, complete with subwoofer. The system contains an A/V receiver and DVD player housed together in one, sleek component, plus a matched set of a Sony Home-Theater-in -a-Box System SCENARIO B. This will include an A/V receiver and a 5.1-...channel speaker system, complete with subwoofer. Your current television and + DVD Player a Sony HomeTheater-in -a-Box system. You can just purchase a Sony DVD Dream™ system and you may also want to add home theater. Depending on the DVD Dream system model, you 'll be done! Just consider four...
... home theater with the purchase of speakers, complete with subwoofer. The system contains an A/V receiver and DVD player housed together in one, sleek component, plus a matched set of a Sony Home-Theater-in -a-Box System SCENARIO B. This will include an A/V receiver and a 5.1-...channel speaker system, complete with subwoofer. Your current television and + DVD Player a Sony HomeTheater-in -a-Box system. You can just purchase a Sony DVD Dream™ system and you may also want to add home theater. Depending on the DVD Dream system model, you 'll be done! Just consider four...