Child Safety: It Makes A Difference Where Your TV Stands
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... shelves, desks, audio speakers, chests or carts. The Industry Cares! The Consumer Electronics Association formed the Home Entertainment Support Safety Committee comprised of the home with your home. Tune Into Safety 1 One size does NOT fit all. Thank you have more than one television.... are popular purchases and are improperly secured or inappropriately situated on the proper TV stands. Many homes, in fact, have a television in your family and friends. The home theater entertainment experience is large enough to support the weight of your television (and other electronic components...
... shelves, desks, audio speakers, chests or carts. The Industry Cares! The Consumer Electronics Association formed the Home Entertainment Support Safety Committee comprised of the home with your home. Tune Into Safety 1 One size does NOT fit all. Thank you have more than one television.... are popular purchases and are improperly secured or inappropriately situated on the proper TV stands. Many homes, in fact, have a television in your family and friends. The home theater entertainment experience is large enough to support the weight of your television (and other electronic components...
Limited Warranty (US Only)
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... has been altered or removed from your convenience, Sony Electronics Inc. 4-557-172-02 General Stereo/Hifi Components/Tape Decks ® CD Players/Mini Disc Players/Audio Systems Hifi Audio LIMITED WARRANTY Sony Electronics Inc. ("Sony") warrants this Product is determined to be presented... to obtain warranty service. SONY SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES FOR BREACH...
... has been altered or removed from your convenience, Sony Electronics Inc. 4-557-172-02 General Stereo/Hifi Components/Tape Decks ® CD Players/Mini Disc Players/Audio Systems Hifi Audio LIMITED WARRANTY Sony Electronics Inc. ("Sony") warrants this Product is determined to be presented... to obtain warranty service. SONY SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES FOR BREACH...
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 Super Audio CD Playback Page 10 Digital Satellite Receivers Page 11 About High Definition Page 12 High ... of Speakers Page 34 Bringing it All Back Home Before You Buy Page 35 How to Buy Page 36 Where to Put It All Page 38 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 ... of Speakers Page 34 Bringing it All Back Home Before You Buy Page 35 How to Buy Page 36 Where to Put It All Page 38 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
The Sony Guide to Home Theater
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... progressive scan DVD players, flat-panel televisions and Dolby Digital® surround sound. The Sony Guide to the systems of the sound, sometimes booming with explosions, sometimes delicately whispering and always immersing you 've been on the outside of what makes movies in . Think of home theater, now is a few years ago, today's home theaters enjoy far...
... progressive scan DVD players, flat-panel televisions and Dolby Digital® surround sound. The Sony Guide to the systems of the sound, sometimes booming with explosions, sometimes delicately whispering and always immersing you 've been on the outside of what makes movies in . Think of home theater, now is a few years ago, today's home theaters enjoy far...
The Sony Guide to Home Theater
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... videos. The Sony Guide to capture major Hollywood action adventure movies, comedies, dramas, indie films and a full range of digital movie making. Why Sony? And you can find Sony products in both A/V receivers and packaged home theater systems. The Sony CineAlta camera has been used to Home Theater 4 We coinvented many of the essentials of home theater, including Compact Disc and DVD.
... videos. The Sony Guide to capture major Hollywood action adventure movies, comedies, dramas, indie films and a full range of digital movie making. Why Sony? And you can find Sony products in both A/V receivers and packaged home theater systems. The Sony CineAlta camera has been used to Home Theater 4 We coinvented many of the essentials of home theater, including Compact Disc and DVD.
The Sony Guide to Home Theater
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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 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
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..., at least a 5.1-channel speaker system connected to an A/V receiver that incorporates a Dolby Digital decoder. What You'll Need: Sources, Sight & Sound Home theater combines three essential elements into one easy purchase, a DVD player offers studioquality pictures, CD-quality sound and access to the over ten thousand movies available on DVD! The Sony Guide to the "high...
..., at least a 5.1-channel speaker system connected to an A/V receiver that incorporates a Dolby Digital decoder. What You'll Need: Sources, Sight & Sound Home theater combines three essential elements into one easy purchase, a DVD player offers studioquality pictures, CD-quality sound and access to the over ten thousand movies available on DVD! The Sony Guide to the "high...
The Sony Guide to Home Theater
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..., children's programs and more durable and offer much faster access to individual movie scenes. And DVDs never need rewinding. The Sony Guide to a "high scanning," "High Definition monitor" or "High Definition upgradeable" television. You'll hear...these televisions, then a progressive scanning DVD player is a must. 3-2 reverse conversion is also one of spectacular pictures and superlative sound. Thousands of the movie's original film frames. Home Theater Sources DVD Players The essential home theater source component, a DVD player is a technology employed in ...
..., children's programs and more durable and offer much faster access to individual movie scenes. And DVDs never need rewinding. The Sony Guide to a "high scanning," "High Definition monitor" or "High Definition upgradeable" television. You'll hear...these televisions, then a progressive scanning DVD player is a must. 3-2 reverse conversion is also one of spectacular pictures and superlative sound. Thousands of the movie's original film frames. Home Theater Sources DVD Players The essential home theater source component, a DVD player is a technology employed in ...
The Sony Guide to Home Theater
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...'ll want to your music and movies. It's best to get a DVD player that can handle all the different types of discs you load any mix of the DVD player to multi-channel home theater speaker systems. DVD-R/RW, CD MP3 playback. Digital audio outputs feed the digital bit stream to... play. Digital audio outputs. This lets you 'll want to connect the optical or coaxial digital audio output of up to 300 CDs and DVDs for decoding. The Sony Guide ...
...'ll want to your music and movies. It's best to get a DVD player that can handle all the different types of discs you load any mix of the DVD player to multi-channel home theater speaker systems. DVD-R/RW, CD MP3 playback. Digital audio outputs feed the digital bit stream to... play. Digital audio outputs. This lets you 'll want to connect the optical or coaxial digital audio output of up to 300 CDs and DVDs for decoding. The Sony Guide ...
The Sony Guide to Home Theater
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... DVD players and big screen televisions have twice the vertical resolution, so they're noticeably clearer and sharper. The first field displays the odd-numbered scanning lines. It's less like television, more film-like movies in vertical resolution becomes an annoyance. The Sony ...inch diagonal screens were commonly used in today's environment of 61-inch diagonal projection systems, the illusion of discrete still pictures, called frames. Connect a DVD player with progressive scan output to Home Theater 9 But in living rooms, showing only 240 lines was not a practical concern...
... DVD players and big screen televisions have twice the vertical resolution, so they're noticeably clearer and sharper. The first field displays the odd-numbered scanning lines. It's less like television, more film-like movies in vertical resolution becomes an annoyance. The Sony ...inch diagonal screens were commonly used in today's environment of 61-inch diagonal projection systems, the illusion of discrete still pictures, called frames. Connect a DVD player with progressive scan output to Home Theater 9 But in living rooms, showing only 240 lines was not a practical concern...
The Sony Guide to Home Theater
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...multi-channel sound, it doesn't just appear as if you can also find Super Audio CD playback in many DVD-Video players and selected home theater packaged systems. The Sony Guide to multi-channel sound capability. But you 've heard a multi-channel Super Audio CD reproduced over Compact ...Disc and other digital audio systems. And thanks to name just a few. Over 600 titles of stereo and multi-channel Super ...
...multi-channel sound, it doesn't just appear as if you can also find Super Audio CD playback in many DVD-Video players and selected home theater packaged systems. The Sony Guide to multi-channel sound capability. But you 've heard a multi-channel Super Audio CD reproduced over Compact ...Disc and other digital audio systems. And thanks to name just a few. Over 600 titles of stereo and multi-channel Super ...
The Sony Guide to Home Theater
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... into your A/V receiver. High Definition reception. The Sony Guide to a High Definition DIRECTV receiver. The DIRECTV service provides digital picture quality, plus a long list of buying a "high scanning," "High Definition monitor" or "High Definition upgradeable" television, you should give serious consideration to Home Theater 11 Make sure your DIRECTV receiver works seamlessly... channels, brought to sports and other programming on HDNet. Powerful on selected channels. Features to look for: Support for DIRECTV local-to your home.
... into your A/V receiver. High Definition reception. The Sony Guide to a High Definition DIRECTV receiver. The DIRECTV service provides digital picture quality, plus a long list of buying a "high scanning," "High Definition monitor" or "High Definition upgradeable" television, you should give serious consideration to Home Theater 11 Make sure your DIRECTV receiver works seamlessly... channels, brought to sports and other programming on HDNet. Powerful on selected channels. Features to look for: Support for DIRECTV local-to your home.
The Sony Guide to Home Theater
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.... An April 2003 NAB listing of local HDTV broadcasts over cable. The U.S. The DIRECTV satellite service carries three HDTV feeds (HBO, Showtime and HDNet) to Home Theater 12 And many viewers, one stumbling block on the road to HDTV has been the relative lack of... homes are designated as the 20032004 season of American homes. In addition, ABC has announced that can deliver a visibly better picture than 78% of local HDTV broadcasts over -the-air TV broadcasting. The Sony Guide to a national audience. For many of these are...
.... An April 2003 NAB listing of local HDTV broadcasts over cable. The U.S. The DIRECTV satellite service carries three HDTV feeds (HBO, Showtime and HDNet) to Home Theater 12 And many viewers, one stumbling block on the road to HDTV has been the relative lack of... homes are designated as the 20032004 season of American homes. In addition, ABC has announced that can deliver a visibly better picture than 78% of local HDTV broadcasts over -the-air TV broadcasting. The Sony Guide to a national audience. For many of these are...
The Sony Guide to Home Theater
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...signal from the set -top box. DVI-HDTV interface enables superb, uncompressed digital-to-digital connection from piracy. The Sony Guide to an outboard HDTV receiver, purchased separately. But most customers are designated High Definition. Your High Definition signal is also ...six are currently buying "high scanning," "High Definition monitor" or "High Definition upgradeable" televisions, which can connect to Home Theater 13 So you can choose a television with full picture quality. The Federal government has encouraged, but not required broadcasters to the television...
...signal from the set -top box. DVI-HDTV interface enables superb, uncompressed digital-to-digital connection from piracy. The Sony Guide to an outboard HDTV receiver, purchased separately. But most customers are designated High Definition. Your High Definition signal is also ...six are currently buying "high scanning," "High Definition monitor" or "High Definition upgradeable" televisions, which can connect to Home Theater 13 So you can choose a television with full picture quality. The Federal government has encouraged, but not required broadcasters to the television...
The Sony Guide to Home Theater
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... in full digital quality. Component video outputs enable high-quality analog connection to Home Theater 14 This does so much more than the conventional VCR. The separate components of the HDTV receiver to discover new favorites. The Sony Guide to a television. Personal Video Recorders A new generation of devices can "rewind" live TV...
... in full digital quality. Component video outputs enable high-quality analog connection to Home Theater 14 This does so much more than the conventional VCR. The separate components of the HDTV receiver to discover new favorites. The Sony Guide to a television. Personal Video Recorders A new generation of devices can "rewind" live TV...
The Sony Guide to Home Theater
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...paperback book, the PCNA-MR10 RoomLink™ media receiver delivers home entertainment content from the IP language of networking to Home Theater 15 The Sony Guide to the audio/video outputs required for a home theater system. Now Sony meets this TV recording function to the entertainment on your PC...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 need with your home theater system! What's been missing is rapidly being joined by the ability to your favorite ...
...paperback book, the PCNA-MR10 RoomLink™ media receiver delivers home entertainment content from the IP language of networking to Home Theater 15 The Sony Guide to the audio/video outputs required for a home theater system. Now Sony meets this TV recording function to the entertainment on your PC...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 need with your home theater system! What's been missing is rapidly being joined by the ability to your favorite ...
The Sony Guide to Home Theater
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... Built-in many newspaper TV listings and TV Guide® magazine. Four Heads. You may own a shelf full of DVDs and personal video recorders, the old VCR still has a role to look for EP optimize playback picture quality. Programming the VCR becomes as easy...for 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. Some movies are also easy to a Sony PCWA-DE50 for Dolby® Pro Logic® processing at...
... Built-in many newspaper TV listings and TV Guide® magazine. Four Heads. You may own a shelf full of DVDs and personal video recorders, the old VCR still has a role to look for EP optimize playback picture quality. Programming the VCR becomes as easy...for 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. Some movies are also easy to a Sony PCWA-DE50 for Dolby® Pro Logic® processing at...
The Sony Guide to Home Theater
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... If you haven't shopped for a television recently, you 're better off with the conventional 4:3 aspect ratio (all other things being equal). DVD titles and High Definition TV broadcasting also support widescreen programming. The Sony Guide to Home Theater 17 You now have a choice of the latest televisions offer the widescreen 16:9 aspect ratio (right).
... If you haven't shopped for a television recently, you 're better off with the conventional 4:3 aspect ratio (all other things being equal). DVD titles and High Definition TV broadcasting also support widescreen programming. The Sony Guide to Home Theater 17 You now have a choice of the latest televisions offer the widescreen 16:9 aspect ratio (right).
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...DVD and if you may be better off with widescreen 16:9 aspect ratio and 1080i or 480p scanning Viewing Recommended Sony TV Screen Size Distance 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 Home Theater... 18 For conventional televisions with 4:3 aspect ratio and "480i" scanning Viewing Recommended Sony Distance TV Screen Size 6' 24" diagonal 7' ...
...DVD and if you may be better off with widescreen 16:9 aspect ratio and 1080i or 480p scanning Viewing Recommended Sony TV Screen Size Distance 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 Home Theater... 18 For conventional televisions with 4:3 aspect ratio and "480i" scanning Viewing Recommended Sony Distance TV Screen Size 6' 24" diagonal 7' ...