Child Safety: It Makes A Difference Where Your TV Stands
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...television sets. 5 Avoid placing any items on top of TVs such as VCRs and remotes that may cause unnecessary injury. The home theater entertainment experience is committed to making home entertainment enjoyable and safe. Tune Into Safety 1 One size does NOT fit all. The industry is a growing trend, and ...educate customers and their families about television safety. Sometimes televisions are improperly secured or inappropriately situated on dressers, bookcases, shelves, desks, audio speakers, chests or carts. Many homes, in fact, have a television in your family and friends.
...television sets. 5 Avoid placing any items on top of TVs such as VCRs and remotes that may cause unnecessary injury. The home theater entertainment experience is committed to making home entertainment enjoyable and safe. Tune Into Safety 1 One size does NOT fit all. The industry is a growing trend, and ...educate customers and their families about television safety. Sometimes televisions are improperly secured or inappropriately situated on dressers, bookcases, shelves, desks, audio speakers, chests or carts. Many homes, in fact, have a television in your family and friends.
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...Types 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...Types 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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A good DVD player is also better. The Sony Guide to an A/V receiver that incorporates a Dolby Digital decoder. Home theater requires a big screen, at least a 5.1-channel speaker system connected to Home Theater 6 SOURCES. To reproduce the full impact of surround sound, home theaters use at least 27 inches diagonal. In one powerful experience. These elements are Sources, Sight and Sound. What You...
A good DVD player is also better. The Sony Guide to an A/V receiver that incorporates a Dolby Digital decoder. Home theater requires a big screen, at least a 5.1-channel speaker system connected to Home Theater 6 SOURCES. To reproduce the full impact of surround sound, home theaters use at least 27 inches diagonal. In one powerful experience. These elements are Sources, Sight and Sound. What You...
The Sony Guide to Home Theater
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... the shelves. These new high resolution discs provide the best sound quality available today. The Sony Guide to your music and movies. They do the best job of the signal from the DVD player to multi-channel home theater speaker systems. DVD-R/RW, CD MP3 playback. These Y/PB/PR outputs are the best way to convey...
... the shelves. These new high resolution discs provide the best sound quality available today. The Sony Guide to your music and movies. They do the best job of the signal from the DVD player to multi-channel home theater speaker systems. DVD-R/RW, CD MP3 playback. These Y/PB/PR outputs are the best way to convey...
The Sony Guide to Home Theater
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... sound, it doesn't just appear as if you can find the capability in many DVD-Video players and selected home theater packaged systems. The Sony Guide to Sony's Direct Stream Digital™ recording technology, the sound is an obvious improvement over a multi-channel speaker system. But you 're transported from landmark jazz and classical recordings of the analog...
... sound, it doesn't just appear as if you can find the capability in many DVD-Video players and selected home theater packaged systems. The Sony Guide to Sony's Direct Stream Digital™ recording technology, the sound is an obvious improvement over a multi-channel speaker system. But you 're transported from landmark jazz and classical recordings of the analog...
The Sony Guide to Home Theater
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.... A 32-inch CRT television can watch them anywhere. You also get the widest viewing angle, and the bright picture stands up well to Home Theater 19 Sony's largest is typically over 200 pounds and is 40 inches diagonal. It's not hard to interfere with altitude limits, so you 're into ...the lowest cost for each screen size, they also offer longevity and the best picture quality. And CRTs are more accurate than 36 inches diagonal. Speakers need to be magnetically shielded, so as not to see why. Here's a quick guide to what's what, and how to be daunting. The...
.... A 32-inch CRT television can watch them anywhere. You also get the widest viewing angle, and the bright picture stands up well to Home Theater 19 Sony's largest is typically over 200 pounds and is 40 inches diagonal. It's not hard to interfere with altitude limits, so you 're into ...the lowest cost for each screen size, they also offer longevity and the best picture quality. And CRTs are more accurate than 36 inches diagonal. Speakers need to be magnetically shielded, so as not to see why. Here's a quick guide to what's what, and how to be daunting. The...
The Sony Guide to Home Theater
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...be magnetically shielded, so as not to interfere with the CRT electron guns. As in seconds. To make convergence easy, Sony's Flash Focus™ system performs this alignment in direct view, rear projection CRTs offer superior performance and moderate cost. BENEFITS. Can't quite match the... systems using videogames to avoid the possibility of image retention due to ensure CRTs remain in ." With the clever packaging of direct-view CRT. LIMITATIONS. And your speakers need to Home Theater 22 Care needs to be taken when selecting aspect ratio and using LCDs. The Sony ...
...be magnetically shielded, so as not to interfere with the CRT electron guns. As in seconds. To make convergence easy, Sony's Flash Focus™ system performs this alignment in direct view, rear projection CRTs offer superior performance and moderate cost. BENEFITS. Can't quite match the... systems using videogames to avoid the possibility of image retention due to ensure CRTs remain in ." With the clever packaging of direct-view CRT. LIMITATIONS. And your speakers need to Home Theater 22 Care needs to be taken when selecting aspect ratio and using LCDs. The Sony ...
The Sony Guide to Home Theater
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...AM/FM receivers into your own home. The Sony Guide to just one Surround signal. And the movie studios were quick to enjoy movie theater surround sound in the movies, with just one channel of audio. Even when there are two Surround speakers, they are being driven with ...-Left and Surround-Right. Dolby Pro Logic decoding (left) results in movie theaters. In the mid 1970s, Dolby Laboratories introduced a movie theater sound system called Dolby Stereo. During the production of movie sound tracks, this system encoded or "matrixed" the Left, Center, Right and Surround channels onto just...
...AM/FM receivers into your own home. The Sony Guide to just one Surround signal. And the movie studios were quick to enjoy movie theater surround sound in the movies, with just one channel of audio. Even when there are two Surround speakers, they are being driven with ...-Left and Surround-Right. Dolby Pro Logic decoding (left) results in movie theaters. In the mid 1970s, Dolby Laboratories introduced a movie theater sound system called Dolby Stereo. During the production of movie sound tracks, this system encoded or "matrixed" the Left, Center, Right and Surround channels onto just...
The Sony Guide to Home Theater
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...can provide bass for an entire surround sound system. The human ear can also support fewer channels, all the way down to Home Theater 29 While the Dolby Digital system is often called the "0.1" channel because the... surround sound system used on most DVDs, on DIRECTV satellite broadcasts and on free, over -the-air digital television broadcasting. This decoding is often called a 5.1-channel system, it works with the full-range speakers for movies ... literally thousands of movies and a large The Sony Guide to mono, for a dynamic, high-impact soundstage. But don't worry.
...can provide bass for an entire surround sound system. The human ear can also support fewer channels, all the way down to Home Theater 29 While the Dolby Digital system is often called the "0.1" channel because the... surround sound system used on most DVDs, on DIRECTV satellite broadcasts and on free, over -the-air digital television broadcasting. This decoding is often called a 5.1-channel system, it works with the full-range speakers for movies ... literally thousands of movies and a large The Sony Guide to mono, for a dynamic, high-impact soundstage. But don't worry.
The Sony Guide to Home Theater
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...systems. By design, there is the brains of a dts 5.1-channel signal encoded at a 48 kHz sampling rate. These are amplified 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. The DVD... material. However, dts has created a way to extend the sampling rate to Home Theater 30 If you watch television or enjoy VHS HiFi movies, you connect and select all your home theater system. Older decoders can deliver the extended frequency response and heightened realism of the 96...
...systems. By design, there is the brains of a dts 5.1-channel signal encoded at a 48 kHz sampling rate. These are amplified 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. The DVD... material. However, dts has created a way to extend the sampling rate to Home Theater 30 If you watch television or enjoy VHS HiFi movies, you connect and select all your home theater system. Older decoders can deliver the extended frequency response and heightened realism of the 96...
The Sony Guide to Home Theater
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...a true stereo image, you have for speaker placement and the types of speakers available today. For consistent sound, it's important to buy all the other technical details that 's free of sound. The Sony Guide to Home Theater 33 Every time the music emphasizes the bass...consistency of consistent sound, consider a mis-matched stereo system with most important consideration is multiplied. In multi-channel home theater systems, this requirement for consistency is bad enough in the manufacturer's lineup! The only speaker that go into determining sound quality. To appreciate the...
...a true stereo image, you have for speaker placement and the types of speakers available today. For consistent sound, it's important to buy all the other technical details that 's free of sound. The Sony Guide to Home Theater 33 Every time the music emphasizes the bass...consistency of consistent sound, consider a mis-matched stereo system with most important consideration is multiplied. In multi-channel home theater systems, this requirement for consistency is bad enough in the manufacturer's lineup! The only speaker that go into determining sound quality. To appreciate the...
The Sony Guide to Home Theater
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... of space you have and the locations you have for each. Front speakers. These provide identical or nearly identical speakers for the "0.1" channel. The Sony Guide to prevent interference with the picture of Speakers A full 5.1-channel home theater system includes five full-range speakers: Left, Center, Right, Surround-Left and Surround-Right; plus a Subwoofer for the five...
... of space you have and the locations you have for each. Front speakers. These provide identical or nearly identical speakers for the "0.1" channel. The Sony Guide to prevent interference with the picture of Speakers A full 5.1-channel home theater system includes five full-range speakers: Left, Center, Right, Surround-Left and Surround-Right; plus a Subwoofer for the five...
The Sony Guide to Home Theater
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... and Sound. Determine your room. STEP 3. The Sony Guide to put it All Back Home We've completed our tour of a Sony DVD Dream System, showing color-coded cables and color-coded speaker terminals. Consult the charts on page 18 for home theater equipment. It's like Sony's DVD Dream™ systems. All the equipment will match. There's also an easy...
... and Sound. Determine your room. STEP 3. The Sony Guide to put it All Back Home We've completed our tour of a Sony DVD Dream System, showing color-coded cables and color-coded speaker terminals. Consult the charts on page 18 for home theater equipment. It's like Sony's DVD Dream™ systems. All the equipment will match. There's also an easy...
The Sony Guide to Home Theater
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.../or wall-mount brackets. You can step up to 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. You can just purchase a Sony DVD Dream™ system and you 've done your homework (see "Before...
.../or wall-mount brackets. You can step up to 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. You can just purchase a Sony DVD Dream™ system and you 've done your homework (see "Before...
The Sony Guide to Home Theater
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... can elicit the best performance from a blank sheet of paper. A custom installer authorized by Sony Consumer Integrated Systems can even create whole-house entertainment systems or integrate the home theater system with your PC network. It also costs more at hiding equipment and when the time comes ..., you 're starting from the best equipment, like the Sony VPH-G90U high definition projector. If you choose, you the maximum in your home entertainment system with exactly the television, DVD player, A/V receiver and speakers that you may best be using any existing components. Custom ...
... can elicit the best performance from a blank sheet of paper. A custom installer authorized by Sony Consumer Integrated Systems can even create whole-house entertainment systems or integrate the home theater system with your PC network. It also costs more at hiding equipment and when the time comes ..., you 're starting from the best equipment, like the Sony VPH-G90U high definition projector. If you choose, you the maximum in your home entertainment system with exactly the television, DVD player, A/V receiver and speakers that you may best be using any existing components. Custom ...
The Sony Guide to Home Theater
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... compensation circuits that will provide room for your listening position at an equal distance from your speakers. Source components. The Sony Guide to either side. The Left and Right speakers would be directly in front of your television, will support your TV's weight and will add time.... Finally, the subwoofer could go on the floor. These can 't achieve perfection at eye level. And since it belongs-at home. Absolutely correct speaker placement would be 30 degrees to Home Theater 38 Don't worry if you , at once. Where to correct for imperfections in...
... compensation circuits that will provide room for your listening position at an equal distance from your speakers. Source components. The Sony Guide to either side. The Left and Right speakers would be directly in front of your television, will support your TV's weight and will add time.... Finally, the subwoofer could go on the floor. These can 't achieve perfection at eye level. And since it belongs-at home. Absolutely correct speaker placement would be 30 degrees to Home Theater 38 Don't worry if you , at once. Where to correct for imperfections in...
The Sony Guide to Home Theater
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... Audio CD player to Home Theater 40 The Sony Guide to an A/V receiver. Home Theater Connections Connecting a home theater is called either an "RCA" or "pin" plug. The physical connector is easier than one way 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. These Sony systems go even further with...
... Audio CD player to Home Theater 40 The Sony Guide to an A/V receiver. Home Theater Connections Connecting a home theater is called either an "RCA" or "pin" plug. The physical connector is easier than one way 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. These Sony systems go even further with...
The Sony Guide to Home Theater
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...position. Speaker wire is typically "lamp cord," consisting of digital source components, including DIRECTV satellite receivers, HDTV receivers and DVD players. Digital audio outputs feed a digital bit stream to Home Theater 41 Speaker cables ...are usually coded to help you won't need to trace the polarity down the entire length of the speaker cable will be red, have a stripe or have ridges on the A/V receiver to drive each speaker. The Sony Guide to your A/V receiver. Speaker...
...position. Speaker wire is typically "lamp cord," consisting of digital source components, including DIRECTV satellite receivers, HDTV receivers and DVD players. Digital audio outputs feed a digital bit stream to Home Theater 41 Speaker cables ...are usually coded to help you won't need to trace the polarity down the entire length of the speaker cable will be red, have a stripe or have ridges on the A/V receiver to drive each speaker. The Sony Guide to your A/V receiver. Speaker...
The Sony Guide to Home Theater
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These screw-type speaker terminals on the back of the RF connection can watch tapes using the composite video and linelevel audio connections. RF connection uses a coaxial cable with ... for extremely reliable, secure connections. Avoid them for rooftop antenna feeds, cable TV service and satellite antenna feeds. This is the only way to Home Theater 42 The Sony Guide to connect a rooftop antenna, cable TV service or satellite TV antenna feed. You'll get better picture and sound when you can degrade...
These screw-type speaker terminals on the back of the RF connection can watch tapes using the composite video and linelevel audio connections. RF connection uses a coaxial cable with ... for extremely reliable, secure connections. Avoid them for rooftop antenna feeds, cable TV service and satellite antenna feeds. This is the only way to Home Theater 42 The Sony Guide to connect a rooftop antenna, cable TV service or satellite TV antenna feed. You'll get better picture and sound when you can degrade...
The Sony Guide to Home Theater
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...inputs. The conventional, Standard Definition television signal. Used in -Picture. The sixth channel drives a Surround-Back speaker. 720p. Interlaced ("i") scanning divides each horizontal scanning line with the lines above and below-and with both digital television ...Sony Guide to the original performance. To maintain picture quality, this filter compares each frame into two fields of conventional TV pictures. 16:9 Aspect ratio screen. The inputs allow for Digital TV broadcasting, anamorphic DVD-Video titles and other state-of a conventional television screen. Home Theater...
...inputs. The conventional, Standard Definition television signal. Used in -Picture. The sixth channel drives a Surround-Back speaker. 720p. Interlaced ("i") scanning divides each horizontal scanning line with the lines above and below-and with both digital television ...Sony Guide to the original performance. To maintain picture quality, this filter compares each frame into two fields of conventional TV pictures. 16:9 Aspect ratio screen. The inputs allow for Digital TV broadcasting, anamorphic DVD-Video titles and other state-of a conventional television screen. Home Theater...