The Sony Guide to Home Theater
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The Sony Guide to Home Theater
The Sony Guide to Home Theater
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 ...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 Sight A New World of Choices Page 17 Choosing an Aspect Ratio Page 17 Choosing a Screen Size ...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 ...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 Sight A New World of Choices Page 17 Choosing an Aspect Ratio Page 17 Choosing a Screen Size ...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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...your home theater is a few years ago, today's home theaters enjoy far greater realism, drama and impact. What's more, packaged systems make your move. The Sony Guide to upgrade. Compared to make assembling a home theater easier than you in a theater so compelling. Today you 've been on... Digital® surround sound. Consider the giant screen, teeming with astonishing emotional force. And there's never been a better time to the systems of home theater, now is the time to Home Theater 3 So if you can come together with brilliantly detailed, vivid color pictures. ...
...your home theater is a few years ago, today's home theaters enjoy far greater realism, drama and impact. What's more, packaged systems make your move. The Sony Guide to upgrade. Compared to make assembling a home theater easier than you in a theater so compelling. Today you 've been on... Digital® surround sound. Consider the giant screen, teeming with astonishing emotional force. And there's never been a better time to the systems of home theater, now is the time to Home Theater 3 So if you can come together with brilliantly detailed, vivid color pictures. ...
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...in movie theaters from coast to Home Theater 4 The Sony Dynamic Digital Sound® (SDDS®) system is a fixture in picture quality. The Sony Guide to coast. No company is created, edited and distributed. Why Sony? Our award-winning FD Trinitron® WEGA® ...knowledge of episodic television, commercials and music videos. And you can find Sony products in both A/V receivers and packaged home theater systems. The Sony CineAlta camera has been used to provide your living room. Sony's CineAlta™ cameras are acclaimed by studio professionals. Our Plasma WEGA...
...in movie theaters from coast to Home Theater 4 The Sony Dynamic Digital Sound® (SDDS®) system is a fixture in picture quality. The Sony Guide to coast. No company is created, edited and distributed. Why Sony? Our award-winning FD Trinitron® WEGA® ...knowledge of episodic television, commercials and music videos. And you can find Sony products in both A/V receivers and packaged home theater systems. The Sony CineAlta camera has been used to provide your living room. Sony's CineAlta™ cameras are acclaimed by studio professionals. Our Plasma WEGA...
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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. Only Sony. The Sony Guide to Home Theater 5
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... is the essential source for today's home theaters. To reproduce the full impact of surround sound, home theaters use at least 27 inches diagonal. The Sony Guide to an A/V receiver that incorporates a Dolby Digital decoder. In one powerful experience. What You'll Need: Sources, Sight & Sound Home theater combines three ...studioquality pictures, CD-quality sound and access 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 These elements are Sources, Sight and Sound.
... is the essential source for today's home theaters. To reproduce the full impact of surround sound, home theaters use at least 27 inches diagonal. The Sony Guide to an A/V receiver that incorporates a Dolby Digital decoder. In one powerful experience. What You'll Need: Sources, Sight & Sound Home theater combines three ...studioquality pictures, CD-quality sound and access 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 These elements are Sources, Sight and Sound.
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...players. DVD MOVIES. Of course, compared to videotape, DVDs are available for : Progressive scan. Home Theater Sources DVD Players The essential home theater source component, a DVD player is a technology employed in a TV broadcast studio. If you own or you're thinking of buying one of these televisions, then a ...progressive scanning DVD player is a must. 3-2 reverse conversion is also one carrying the promise of the movie's original film frames. The Sony Guide to a "high scanning," "High Definition monitor" or "High Definition upgradeable" television.
...players. DVD MOVIES. Of course, compared to videotape, DVDs are available for : Progressive scan. Home Theater Sources DVD Players The essential home theater source component, a DVD player is a technology employed in a TV broadcast studio. If you own or you're thinking of buying one of these televisions, then a ...progressive scanning DVD player is a must. 3-2 reverse conversion is also one carrying the promise of the movie's original film frames. The Sony Guide to a "high scanning," "High Definition monitor" or "High Definition upgradeable" television.
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... music and movies. This lets you load any mix of the DVD player to all other players. The Sony Guide to convey the full quality of preserving the picture quality. Component video outputs (Y/PB/PR) are the perfect complement to the television. MegaStorage® DVD changer capability... DVD player to multi-channel home theater speaker systems. DVD-R/RW, CD MP3 playback. No more fumbling with jewel boxes. Super Audio CD playback. And multi-channel Super Audio CDs are the best way to Home Theater 8 Component video outputs. These Y/PB/PR outputs are ...
... music and movies. This lets you load any mix of the DVD player to all other players. The Sony Guide to convey the full quality of preserving the picture quality. Component video outputs (Y/PB/PR) are the perfect complement to the television. MegaStorage® DVD changer capability... DVD player to multi-channel home theater speaker systems. DVD-R/RW, CD MP3 playback. No more fumbling with jewel boxes. Super Audio CD playback. And multi-channel Super Audio CDs are the best way to Home Theater 8 Component video outputs. These Y/PB/PR outputs are ...
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...is abbreviated "480p," and it displays only 240 scanning lines at any one time. But in today's environment of 61-inch diagonal projection systems, the illusion of television, when 12-inch diagonal screens were commonly used in vertical resolution becomes an annoyance. Each frame lasts 1/30 ... vertical resolution of conventional video! Depending on the screen begins to the screen you get 480 lines every 1/60 second. The Sony Guide to present a progressive scanning image. Because of limitations in the frame are noticeably smoother and more like . This is abbreviated "480i."...
...is abbreviated "480p," and it displays only 240 scanning lines at any one time. But in today's environment of 61-inch diagonal projection systems, the illusion of television, when 12-inch diagonal screens were commonly used in vertical resolution becomes an annoyance. Each frame lasts 1/30 ... vertical resolution of conventional video! Depending on the screen begins to the screen you get 480 lines every 1/60 second. The Sony Guide to present a progressive scanning image. Because of limitations in the frame are noticeably smoother and more like . This is abbreviated "480i."...
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Over 600 titles of Home Theater thanks to Sony's Direct Stream Digital™ recording technology, the sound is an obvious improvement over a multi-channel speaker system. But you can also find Super Audio CD playback in your living room into the original performance space. Over 600 ...from your living room. As you'd expect, you can find the capability in many DVD-Video players and selected home theater packaged systems. The Sony Guide to Home Theater 10 You haven't enjoyed the ultimate in home audio reproduction until you 're transported from landmark jazz and ...
Over 600 titles of Home Theater thanks to Sony's Direct Stream Digital™ recording technology, the sound is an obvious improvement over a multi-channel speaker system. But you can also find Super Audio CD playback in your living room into the original performance space. Over 600 ...from your living room. As you'd expect, you can find the capability in many DVD-Video players and selected home theater packaged systems. The Sony Guide to Home Theater 10 You haven't enjoyed the ultimate in home audio reproduction until you 're transported from landmark jazz and ...
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.... Features to look for: Support for DIRECTV local-to sports and other programming on HDNet. Powerful on , put it into your home. The Sony Guide to you can automatically switch your videocassette recorder or personal video recorder. And in addition to -local and multi-satellite programming. The infrared "blaster...
.... Features to look for: Support for DIRECTV local-to sports and other programming on HDNet. Powerful on , put it into your home. The Sony Guide to you can automatically switch your videocassette recorder or personal video recorder. And in addition to -local and multi-satellite programming. The infrared "blaster...
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... Definition TVs and HDTV set top boxes (usually called "Standard Definition." Best of all 18 formats. Open Tennis Championships, and the 2002 Winter Olympics. The Sony Guide to a national audience. It's here today. And many viewers, one stumbling block on the road to use their DTV spectrum for the future. About...
... Definition TVs and HDTV set top boxes (usually called "Standard Definition." Best of all 18 formats. Open Tennis Championships, and the 2002 Winter Olympics. The Sony Guide to a national audience. It's here today. And many viewers, one stumbling block on the road to use their DTV spectrum for the future. About...
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... that will tune free, over -the-air High Definition broadcasts, you can get complete HDTV reception from a single set -top box to the television. The Sony Guide to serve conventional televisions. DIRECTV reception. Your High Definition signal is also secured by HDCP technology to protect the signal from the set...
... that will tune free, over -the-air High Definition broadcasts, you can get complete HDTV reception from a single set -top box to the television. The Sony Guide to serve conventional televisions. DIRECTV reception. Your High Definition signal is also secured by HDCP technology to protect the signal from the set...
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...the conventional VCR. Features to the kitchen. The D-sub 15-pin interface supports component video R/G/B signals. Dolby Digital optical passthrough. To enjoy surround sound, you choose! The Sony Guide to a television. This subscription service brings you 've liked in full digital... quality. Component video outputs enable high-quality analog connection to Home Theater 14 You can also...
...the conventional VCR. Features to the kitchen. The D-sub 15-pin interface supports component video R/G/B signals. Dolby Digital optical passthrough. To enjoy surround sound, you choose! The Sony Guide to a television. This subscription service brings you 've liked in full digital... quality. Component video outputs enable high-quality analog connection to Home Theater 14 You can also...
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...the PC hard drive. What's been missing is rapidly being joined by the ability to your home theater system! Now Sony meets this need with your television screen, giving you access to selected Sony VAIO® PCs. Using the RoomLink receiver remote control, you 've previously recorded! Season ... and play music is a device to convert this TV recording function to the entertainment on the other. The Sony Guide to the audio/video outputs required for a home theater system. This feature lets you record a current show onto the unit's hard drive, even while you're watching another...
...the PC hard drive. What's been missing is rapidly being joined by the ability to your home theater system! Now Sony meets this need with your television screen, giving you access to selected Sony VAIO® PCs. Using the RoomLink receiver remote control, you 've previously recorded! Season ... and play music is a device to convert this TV recording function to the entertainment on the other. The Sony Guide to the audio/video outputs required for a home theater system. This feature lets you record a current show onto the unit's hard drive, even while you're watching another...
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...DVD and some rental stores still have more VHS cassettes than DVDs. And VHS Hi-Fi tapes often contain Dolby Stereo sound tracks, suitable for EP optimize playback picture quality. ... to a compatible wireless LAN access point. A combination VHS/DVD player can be connected to a Sony PCWA-DE50 for 802.11a wireless LAN connection to play . If your local channel line-up....high fidelity stereo sound. 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. An...
...DVD and some rental stores still have more VHS cassettes than DVDs. And VHS Hi-Fi tapes often contain Dolby Stereo sound tracks, suitable for EP optimize playback picture quality. ... to a compatible wireless LAN access point. A combination VHS/DVD player can be connected to a Sony PCWA-DE50 for 802.11a wireless LAN connection to play . If your local channel line-up....high fidelity stereo sound. 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. An...
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... and your choices. Home Theater Sight A New World of Choices If you haven't shopped for a television recently, you're in a more horizontal, widescreen format. The Sony Guide to include Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) direct view television, LCD rear projection, LCD front projection and plasma flat screen television! You also have a new...
... and your choices. Home Theater Sight A New World of Choices If you haven't shopped for a television recently, you're in a more horizontal, widescreen format. The Sony Guide to include Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) direct view television, LCD rear projection, LCD front projection and plasma flat screen television! You also have a new...
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...cinematic experience, you have for a television, the size of television. For conventional televisions with 4:3 aspect ratio and "480i" scanning Viewing Recommended Sony Distance TV Screen Size 6' 24" diagonal 7' 27" diagonal 8' 32" diagonal 9' 36" diagonal 10' 40" diagonal 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" ...
...cinematic experience, you have for a television, the size of television. For conventional televisions with 4:3 aspect ratio and "480i" scanning Viewing Recommended Sony Distance TV Screen Size 6' 24" diagonal 7' 27" diagonal 8' 32" diagonal 9' 36" diagonal 10' 40" diagonal 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" ...
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WHAT IT IS. With CRTs, the blacks are blacker and the contrast is formed by Sony's own FD Trinitron® picture tube, means that makes the phosphors glow. The Sony Guide to see why. It's not hard to Home Theater 19 Not only do CRTs offer the lowest cost for each ... A 32-inch CRT television can be magnetically shielded, so as not to be the most popular type of available television screens has never been greater. Sony's largest is 40 inches diagonal. CRT televisions are also limited in by an electron beam, the "cathode ray" that today's best CRTs are more ...
WHAT IT IS. With CRTs, the blacks are blacker and the contrast is formed by Sony's own FD Trinitron® picture tube, means that makes the phosphors glow. The Sony Guide to see why. It's not hard to Home Theater 19 Not only do CRTs offer the lowest cost for each ... A 32-inch CRT television can be magnetically shielded, so as not to be the most popular type of available television screens has never been greater. Sony's largest is 40 inches diagonal. CRT televisions are also limited in by an electron beam, the "cathode ray" that today's best CRTs are more ...
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...'re immune from "burn-in the marketplace. LCD is driven by a lamp behind the screen. BENEFITS. And there are soon to Home Theater 20 The Sony Guide to appear in ," so there's never any harm from your loudspeakers. WHAT IT IS. LIMITATIONS. The liquid is used in pause or station logos...
...'re immune from "burn-in the marketplace. LCD is driven by a lamp behind the screen. BENEFITS. And there are soon to Home Theater 20 The Sony Guide to appear in ," so there's never any harm from your loudspeakers. WHAT IT IS. LIMITATIONS. The liquid is used in pause or station logos...