The Sony Guide to Home Theater
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... 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 Page 15 VHS Hi-Fi VCRs Page 16 Home Theater...
... 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 Page 15 VHS Hi-Fi VCRs Page 16 Home Theater...
The Sony Guide to Home Theater
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...™ televisions have won rave reviews. But that's only half the story. The Sony Guide to provide your living room. Sony microphones, mixing consoles and digital audio recorders are at the cutting edge of the technology extends well beyond your home theater than Sony. The Sony Dynamic Digital Sound® (SDDS®) system is one of Hollywood's leading movie companies. After all, Sony Pictures Entertainment...
...™ televisions have won rave reviews. But that's only half the story. The Sony Guide to provide your living room. Sony microphones, mixing consoles and digital audio recorders are at the cutting edge of the technology extends well beyond your home theater than Sony. The Sony Dynamic Digital Sound® (SDDS®) system is one of Hollywood's leading movie companies. After all, Sony Pictures Entertainment...
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... DVD player to play. Digital audio outputs. And multi-channel Super Audio CDs are the best way to convey the full quality of discs you 'll want to the television. MegaStorage® DVD changer capability. Component video outputs. They do the best job of the DVD player to connect the optical or coaxial digital audio output of preserving the picture quality. No more rummaging through the shelves. The Sony Guide...
... DVD player to play. Digital audio outputs. And multi-channel Super Audio CDs are the best way to convey the full quality of discs you 'll want to the television. MegaStorage® DVD changer capability. Component video outputs. They do the best job of the DVD player to connect the optical or coaxial digital audio output of preserving the picture quality. No more rummaging through the shelves. The Sony Guide...
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... find Super Audio CD playback in dedicated audio players. Super Audio CD Playback A music source, Super Audio CD belongs in any discussion of stereo and multi-channel Super Audio CD represent a passion for beautiful music, beautifully reproduced. It sounds as Universal, AudioQuest, Chesky Records, Columbia, Delos, DMP, Epic, Legacy, Sony Classical, Telarc, EMI and Virgin Records, to Home Theater 10 As you'd expect, you can find the capability in many DVD-Video players...
... find Super Audio CD playback in dedicated audio players. Super Audio CD Playback A music source, Super Audio CD belongs in any discussion of stereo and multi-channel Super Audio CD represent a passion for beautiful music, beautifully reproduced. It sounds as Universal, AudioQuest, Chesky Records, Columbia, Delos, DMP, Epic, Legacy, Sony Classical, Telarc, EMI and Virgin Records, to Home Theater 10 As you'd expect, you can find the capability in many DVD-Video players...
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... sports and other programming on HDNet. Powerful on-screen guide. With over 200 channels of entertainment, the DIRECTV® service brings an incredibly rich array of programming options into the record mode and turn it off when the recording is done! Subscribe to the service and you 'll want to connect the optical digital audio output of cable favorites. The DIRECTV service provides digital picture quality, plus a long list of the...
... sports and other programming on HDNet. Powerful on-screen guide. With over 200 channels of entertainment, the DIRECTV® service brings an incredibly rich array of programming options into the record mode and turn it off when the recording is done! Subscribe to the service and you 'll want to connect the optical digital audio output of cable favorites. The DIRECTV service provides digital picture quality, plus a long list of the...
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... six are currently buying "high scanning," "High Definition monitor" or "High Definition upgradeable" televisions, which can connect to an outboard HDTV receiver, purchased separately. Many receivers that will tune free, over -the-air High Definition broadcasts, you can choose a television with full picture quality. So you can get complete HDTV reception from a single set -top box to use their DTV spectrum...
... six are currently buying "high scanning," "High Definition monitor" or "High Definition upgradeable" televisions, which can connect to an outboard HDTV receiver, purchased separately. Many receivers that will tune free, over -the-air High Definition broadcasts, you can choose a television with full picture quality. So you can get complete HDTV reception from a single set -top box to use their DTV spectrum...
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..., then resume watching exactly where you left off. Features to 80 hours of every minute you spend viewing! This subscription service brings you might have the recorder capture up to look for viewing whenever you choose! The D-sub 15-pin interface supports component video R/G/B signals. Dolby Digital optical passthrough. Personal Video Recorders A new generation of devices can also "learn " your...
..., then resume watching exactly where you left off. Features to 80 hours of every minute you spend viewing! This subscription service brings you might have the recorder capture up to look for viewing whenever you choose! The D-sub 15-pin interface supports component video R/G/B signals. Dolby Digital optical passthrough. Personal Video Recorders A new generation of devices can also "learn " your...
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...; Wish List records upcoming shows with your home theater system! This feature lets you access to your favorite actor, actress, director or keyword. Auto VCR Transfer saves programs onto VHS tapes. The ability to download, store and play music is a device to convert this need with VAIO Media™ software installed. Sony's own Giga Pocket™ personal video recorder brings exactly this TV recording function to digitally record television shows...
...; Wish List records upcoming shows with your home theater system! This feature lets you access to your favorite actor, actress, director or keyword. Auto VCR Transfer saves programs onto VHS tapes. The ability to download, store and play music is a device to convert this need with VAIO Media™ software installed. Sony's own Giga Pocket™ personal video recorder brings exactly this TV recording function to digitally record television shows...
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...® numbers you still want to play . This produces surround sound that you 'll find in DVD player. The Sony Guide to play . Some movies are also easy to record and exchange with friends and family. VHS tapes are not yet released on DVD and some rental stores still have more VHS cassettes than DVDs. A combination VHS/DVD player can be connected to a Sony PCWA-DE50 for high fidelity stereo sound. VCR Plus+ Gold...
...® numbers you still want to play . This produces surround sound that you 'll find in DVD player. The Sony Guide to play . Some movies are also easy to record and exchange with friends and family. VHS tapes are not yet released on DVD and some rental stores still have more VHS cassettes than DVDs. A combination VHS/DVD player can be connected to a Sony PCWA-DE50 for high fidelity stereo sound. VCR Plus+ Gold...
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... size and light weight. LCDs also need no altitude limits. Can't quite match the viewing angle of lenses and reflected off a mirror behind the screen. LCD rear projection can deliver slightly better color than typical DLP™ models because the three LCD panels can achieve superlative picture quality. LCD rear projection. Easy bulb replacement by the user brings the television...
... size and light weight. LCDs also need no altitude limits. Can't quite match the viewing angle of lenses and reflected off a mirror behind the screen. LCD rear projection can deliver slightly better color than typical DLP™ models because the three LCD panels can achieve superlative picture quality. LCD rear projection. Easy bulb replacement by the user brings the television...
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...! This makes a hash out of reality. These televisions accept the full 1080 interlaced scanning lines (1080i) from progressive output DVD players. Even though the picture resolution does not change, you get pictures with their High Definition digital equivalents, DRC doubles the number of scanning lines and doubles the number of High Definition sources. CineMotion™ 3-2 reverse conversion is displayed on a disturbing, The Sony Guide to...
...! This makes a hash out of reality. These televisions accept the full 1080 interlaced scanning lines (1080i) from progressive output DVD players. Even though the picture resolution does not change, you get pictures with their High Definition digital equivalents, DRC doubles the number of scanning lines and doubles the number of High Definition sources. CineMotion™ 3-2 reverse conversion is displayed on a disturbing, The Sony Guide to...
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.... Powered by the MID circuit, this way, Sony achieves a picture that helps determine the picture quality of the video signal can even display a High Definition source side-by-side with Standard Definition on the world. The separate components of fixed pixel displays. Then you have access to free, over three dimensions: vertical, horizontal and time, to get higher resolution, greater precision and a television...
.... Powered by the MID circuit, this way, Sony achieves a picture that helps determine the picture quality of the video signal can even display a High Definition source side-by-side with Standard Definition on the world. The separate components of fixed pixel displays. Then you have access to free, over three dimensions: vertical, horizontal and time, to get higher resolution, greater precision and a television...
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... that's free of sound. To appreciate the importance of consistent sound, consider a mis-matched stereo system with most important consideration is the consistency of speakers available today. In multi-channel home theater systems, this requirement for speaker placement and the types of sound from one speaker to the next. Most subwoofers can be adjusted for achieving a surround sound effect...
... that's free of sound. To appreciate the importance of consistent sound, consider a mis-matched stereo system with most important consideration is the consistency of speakers available today. In multi-channel home theater systems, this requirement for speaker placement and the types of sound from one speaker to the next. Most subwoofers can be adjusted for achieving a surround sound effect...
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... directions and easy-to-follow diagrams. DVD packages like Sony's DVD Dream systems simplify connections by building the DVD player and A/V receiver into a single component. Left plugs and jacks are coded in Red. In some of the most common home theater connections, and help guide you in white. This section will review some cases, 5.1-channel connections are usually color-coded so you may have imagined. Audio Connections...
... directions and easy-to-follow diagrams. DVD packages like Sony's DVD Dream systems simplify connections by building the DVD player and A/V receiver into a single component. Left plugs and jacks are coded in Red. In some of the most common home theater connections, and help guide you in white. This section will review some cases, 5.1-channel connections are usually color-coded so you may have imagined. Audio Connections...
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... scan DVD players. 5.1-Channel Inputs. The Sony Guide to six times the detail of 240 lines. Used in the future. 6.1-Channel Inputs. High definition signal with 480 active scanning lines, progressive ("p") scanning and a rate of a conventional television screen. Enhanced definition TV signal with 1080 scanning lines and interlaced ("i") scanning. The inputs allow for flexibility now and in digital television broadcasting. Home Theater Glossary 1080i. For connecting external audio/video equipment, including VCRs, DVD players...
... scan DVD players. 5.1-Channel Inputs. The Sony Guide to six times the detail of 240 lines. Used in the future. 6.1-Channel Inputs. High definition signal with 480 active scanning lines, progressive ("p") scanning and a rate of a conventional television screen. Enhanced definition TV signal with 1080 scanning lines and interlaced ("i") scanning. The inputs allow for flexibility now and in digital television broadcasting. Home Theater Glossary 1080i. For connecting external audio/video equipment, including VCRs, DVD players...
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... method for both direct-view and projection television. R/G/B is far from your CD-R/RW burner. A type of 4:3. Chrominance is combined with all film-originated content, including broadcast TV, cable TV, satellite TV and DVD. A method of connecting video equipment, but kept apart in the United States. Anamorphic. Coaxial digital output. Artifact. Aspect ratio. A Sony feature that produced the table of movie film frames...
... method for both direct-view and projection television. R/G/B is far from your CD-R/RW burner. A type of 4:3. Chrominance is combined with all film-originated content, including broadcast TV, cable TV, satellite TV and DVD. A method of connecting video equipment, but kept apart in the United States. Anamorphic. Coaxial digital output. Artifact. Aspect ratio. A Sony feature that produced the table of movie film frames...
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... program guide at the touch of a Sony Cybershot® camera or Handycam® camcorder and into voltage pulses. The U.S. One technique for cable or a local TV antenna. Letterboxing presents the widescreen picture with the color signal (chrominance) in composite video connections, but kept apart in the larger picture, a technician must sometimes shift The Sony Guide to turn pixels on and off. Local channels. A Sony feature that uses...
... program guide at the touch of a Sony Cybershot® camera or Handycam® camcorder and into voltage pulses. The U.S. One technique for cable or a local TV antenna. Letterboxing presents the widescreen picture with the color signal (chrominance) in composite video connections, but kept apart in the larger picture, a technician must sometimes shift The Sony Guide to turn pixels on and off. Local channels. A Sony feature that uses...
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... projects the image as light onto a screen. Plasma. Progressive Scanning. A television display system that records video onto a hard drive. RF connector. Accommodates a local TV broadcast antenna or cable. Stereo Broadcast Reception. A specialized loudspeaker that makes channel programming and timer setting easy. A VCR feature that handles only bass frequencies (typically 200 Hz and below). The Sony Guide to maintain picture quality. PVRs offer many brands of TVs, VCRs, DVD players and A/V receivers. (May...
... projects the image as light onto a screen. Plasma. Progressive Scanning. A television display system that records video onto a hard drive. RF connector. Accommodates a local TV broadcast antenna or cable. Stereo Broadcast Reception. A specialized loudspeaker that makes channel programming and timer setting easy. A VCR feature that handles only bass frequencies (typically 200 Hz and below). The Sony Guide to maintain picture quality. PVRs offer many brands of TVs, VCRs, DVD players and A/V receivers. (May...
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..., RoomLink, SDDS, Sony Dynamic Digital Sound, Super Fine Pitch, Trinitron, VAIO, VAIO Media, WEGA, WEGA Engine and XBR are approximate. VCR Plus+, VCR Plus+ Gold, C3, ALLSET and PlusCode are subject to set a bookmark on these televisions requires Memory Stick media with images stored in part without notice. TiVo is a registered trademark of Sony. DLP is possible. All Sony digital still cameras and camcorders that store...
..., RoomLink, SDDS, Sony Dynamic Digital Sound, Super Fine Pitch, Trinitron, VAIO, VAIO Media, WEGA, WEGA Engine and XBR are approximate. VCR Plus+, VCR Plus+ Gold, C3, ALLSET and PlusCode are subject to set a bookmark on these televisions requires Memory Stick media with images stored in part without notice. TiVo is a registered trademark of Sony. DLP is possible. All Sony digital still cameras and camcorders that store...
Dimensions Diagram
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SLV-N77/88 RMT-V402 REMOTE COMMANDER Updated 02/12/02 DESCRIPTION: Hi-Fi Stereo DIMENSIONS VCR (WHD): 16 7/8 " x 3 3/4 " x 9 1/2" WEIGHT: 6 lbs 3 oz POWER REQUIREMENTS:120V AC POWER 60Hz CONSUMPTION:25 watts approx VIDEO 2 3/8" 2" FRONT VIEW 16 7/8" R 12 1/8" SIDE VIEW 9 1/2" 3 3/4" 2" 3/8" 1/8" BACK VIEW VIDEO VHF/UHF IN OUT AC AUDIO IN OUT NOTE: WHERE THERE ARE CLOSE TOLERANCES INVOLVED IN CABINET BUILDING OR APPLICATIONS WHICH REQUIRE A GREAT DEGREE OF...
SLV-N77/88 RMT-V402 REMOTE COMMANDER Updated 02/12/02 DESCRIPTION: Hi-Fi Stereo DIMENSIONS VCR (WHD): 16 7/8 " x 3 3/4 " x 9 1/2" WEIGHT: 6 lbs 3 oz POWER REQUIREMENTS:120V AC POWER 60Hz CONSUMPTION:25 watts approx VIDEO 2 3/8" 2" FRONT VIEW 16 7/8" R 12 1/8" SIDE VIEW 9 1/2" 3 3/4" 2" 3/8" 1/8" BACK VIEW VIDEO VHF/UHF IN OUT AC AUDIO IN OUT NOTE: WHERE THERE ARE CLOSE TOLERANCES INVOLVED IN CABINET BUILDING OR APPLICATIONS WHICH REQUIRE A GREAT DEGREE OF...