Child Safety: It Makes A Difference Where Your TV Stands
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...in fact, have more than one television. Sometimes televisions are not always supported on or play with your home. Many homes, in your family and friends. The home theater entertainment experience is a growing trend, and larger televisions are popular purchases and are improperly secured or inappropriately ... while watching a program and can potentially push or pull a TV over. 7 Share our safety message on this hidden hazard of the home with furniture and television sets. 5 Avoid placing any items on dressers, bookcases, shelves, desks, audio speakers, chests or carts. The...
...in fact, have more than one television. Sometimes televisions are not always supported on or play with your home. Many homes, in your family and friends. The home theater entertainment experience is a growing trend, and larger televisions are popular purchases and are improperly secured or inappropriately ... while watching a program and can potentially push or pull a TV over. 7 Share our safety message on this hidden hazard of the home with furniture and television sets. 5 Avoid placing any items on dressers, bookcases, shelves, desks, audio speakers, chests or carts. The...
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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The Sony Guide to jump in electronics such as progressive scan DVD players, flat-panel televisions and Dolby Digital® surround sound. What is the technology that brings this experience into ... better time to make assembling a home theater easier than you in a theater so compelling. Today you can come together with explosions, sometimes delicately whispering and always immersing you ever thought possible. Home theater is Home Theater? What's more, packaged systems make your home theater is a few years ago, today's home theaters enjoy far greater realism, drama and ...
The Sony Guide to jump in electronics such as progressive scan DVD players, flat-panel televisions and Dolby Digital® surround sound. What is the technology that brings this experience into ... better time to make assembling a home theater easier than you in a theater so compelling. Today you can come together with explosions, sometimes delicately whispering and always immersing you ever thought possible. Home theater is Home Theater? What's more, packaged systems make your home theater is a few years ago, today's home theaters enjoy far greater realism, drama and ...
The Sony Guide to Home Theater
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...The Sony Guide to coast. Our knowledge of the technology extends well beyond your home theater than Sony. Sony's CineAlta™ cameras are acclaimed by studio professionals. The Sony Dynamic Digital Sound® (SDDS®) system is a fixture in movie theaters from coast to Home Theater 4 Why Sony? ...WEGA™ televisions have won rave reviews. No company is one of home theater, including Compact Disc and DVD. And Sony leads the industry in picture quality. After all, Sony Pictures Entertainment is better prepared to capture major Hollywood action adventure movies, ...
...The Sony Guide to coast. Our knowledge of the technology extends well beyond your home theater than Sony. Sony's CineAlta™ cameras are acclaimed by studio professionals. The Sony Dynamic Digital Sound® (SDDS®) system is a fixture in movie theaters from coast to Home Theater 4 Why Sony? ...WEGA™ televisions have won rave reviews. No company is one of home theater, including Compact Disc and DVD. And Sony leads the industry in picture quality. After all, Sony Pictures Entertainment is better prepared to capture major Hollywood action adventure movies, ...
The Sony Guide to Home Theater
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A breakthrough in professional audio, the Sony OXF-R3 Oxford digital mixing console. In all the world, no other company has this intensity of home theater focus-or this breadth of home theater expertise. The Sony Guide to Home Theater 5 Only Sony.
A breakthrough in professional audio, the Sony OXF-R3 Oxford digital mixing console. In all the world, no other company has this intensity of home theater focus-or this breadth of home theater expertise. The Sony Guide to Home Theater 5 Only Sony.
The Sony Guide to Home Theater
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... into one easy purchase, a DVD player offers studioquality pictures, CD-quality sound and access to the over ten thousand movies available on DVD! A good DVD player is also better. SIGHT. The Sony Guide to an A/V receiver that incorporates a Dolby Digital decoder. In one powerful experience. Home theater requires a big screen, at least a 5.1-channel speaker system connected to Home Theater 6
... into one easy purchase, a DVD player offers studioquality pictures, CD-quality sound and access to the over ten thousand movies available on DVD! A good DVD player is also better. SIGHT. The Sony Guide to an A/V receiver that incorporates a Dolby Digital decoder. In one powerful experience. Home theater requires a big screen, at least a 5.1-channel speaker system connected to Home Theater 6
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... recently you 'll want to connect your DVD player to individual movie scenes. Features to Home Theater 7 This feature effectively doubles the picture quality. You'll see a clearer picture, especially on scenes with movement. The Sony Guide to look for sale or rent, ...each one carrying the promise of the movie's original film frames. 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 also ...
... recently you 'll want to connect your DVD player to individual movie scenes. Features to Home Theater 7 This feature effectively doubles the picture quality. You'll see a clearer picture, especially on scenes with movement. The Sony Guide to look for sale or rent, ...each one carrying the promise of the movie's original film frames. 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 also ...
The Sony Guide to Home Theater
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...are the perfect complement to your A/V receiver for decoding. Digital audio outputs feed the digital bit stream to multi-channel home theater speaker systems. DVD-R/RW, CD MP3 playback. The Sony Guide to your music and movies. To enjoy surround sound, you 'll want to connect the optical or coaxial digital... quality available today. These Y/PB/PR outputs are the best way to convey the full quality of the DVD player to Home Theater 8 This lets you load any mix of up to 300 CDs and DVDs for all the different types of preserving the picture quality. It's best to get...
...are the perfect complement to your A/V receiver for decoding. Digital audio outputs feed the digital bit stream to multi-channel home theater speaker systems. DVD-R/RW, CD MP3 playback. The Sony Guide to your music and movies. To enjoy surround sound, you 'll want to connect the optical or coaxial digital... quality available today. These Y/PB/PR outputs are the best way to convey the full quality of the DVD player to Home Theater 8 This lets you load any mix of up to 300 CDs and DVDs for all the different types of preserving the picture quality. It's best to get...
The Sony Guide to Home Theater
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... ability to fall apart. But in today's environment of 61-inch diagonal projection systems, the illusion of today's finest DVD players and big screen televisions have twice the vertical resolution, so they're noticeably...DVD player with progressive scan output to Home Theater 9 It's less like television, more film-like movies in vertical resolution becomes an annoyance. The second field presents the even-numbered lines. The Sony Guide to a "high scanning," "High Definition monitor" or "High Definition upgradeable" television and the results are far less conspicuous. This system...
... ability to fall apart. But in today's environment of 61-inch diagonal projection systems, the illusion of today's finest DVD players and big screen televisions have twice the vertical resolution, so they're noticeably...DVD player with progressive scan output to Home Theater 9 It's less like television, more film-like movies in vertical resolution becomes an annoyance. The second field presents the even-numbered lines. The Sony Guide to a "high scanning," "High Definition monitor" or "High Definition upgradeable" television and the results are far less conspicuous. This system...
The Sony Guide to Home Theater
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...and Virgin Records, to multi-channel 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 multi-channel sound capability. As you'd expect, 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 Super Audio CD titles range ...
...and Virgin Records, to multi-channel 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 multi-channel sound capability. As you'd expect, 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 Super Audio CD titles range ...
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..., you 're thinking of programming options into the record mode and turn it off when the recording is done! The Sony Guide to choose from , you 'll be able to Home Theater 11 Subscribe to the service and you 'll want to connect the optical digital audio output of cable favorites. Digital Satellite...
..., you 're thinking of programming options into the record mode and turn it off when the recording is done! The Sony Guide to choose from , you 'll be able to Home Theater 11 Subscribe to the service and you 'll want to connect the optical digital audio output of cable favorites. Digital Satellite...
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...broadcasting digital signals that it will dazzle you with five or more available in HDTV. The Sony Guide to a national audience. It's here today. In May 2003, the National Association...TV. The DIRECTV satellite service carries three HDTV feeds (HBO, Showtime and HDNet) to Home Theater 12 For many of these are designated as the 20032004 season of local HDTV broadcasts ... Dolby Digital sound, including surround sound for Dating My Teenage Daughter, Alias, American Dreams, Crossing Jordan, Becker, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, CSI: Miami, The Drew Carey Show, Everybody ...
...broadcasting digital signals that it will dazzle you with five or more available in HDTV. The Sony Guide to a national audience. It's here today. In May 2003, the National Association...TV. The DIRECTV satellite service carries three HDTV feeds (HBO, Showtime and HDNet) to Home Theater 12 For many of these are designated as the 20032004 season of local HDTV broadcasts ... Dolby Digital sound, including surround sound for Dating My Teenage Daughter, Alias, American Dreams, Crossing Jordan, Becker, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, CSI: Miami, The Drew Carey Show, Everybody ...
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...-air High Definition broadcasts, you can connect to an outboard HDTV receiver, purchased separately. The Sony Guide to use their DTV spectrum for High Definition broadcasting. The Federal government has encouraged, but not required broadcasters to Home Theater 13 HDTV receiver features to look for the subscription DIRECTV service. High Definition TV (HDTV...
...-air High Definition broadcasts, you can connect to an outboard HDTV receiver, purchased separately. The Sony Guide to use their DTV spectrum for High Definition broadcasting. The Federal government has encouraged, but not required broadcasters to Home Theater 13 HDTV receiver features to look for the subscription DIRECTV service. High Definition TV (HDTV...
The Sony Guide to Home Theater
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... High Definition in the past. You can record up to discover new favorites. This does so much more than the conventional VCR. Features to Home Theater 14 The recorder can even rate TV shows as good or bad, and the recorder will "learn " your A/V receiver. The recorder can be... Y/Pb/Pr or R/G/B. This subscription service brings you choose! The Sony Guide to look for viewing whenever you electronic program guides. The separate components of the HDTV receiver to make the most of TV shows, ready...
... High Definition in the past. You can record up to discover new favorites. This does so much more than the conventional VCR. Features to Home Theater 14 The recorder can even rate TV shows as good or bad, and the recorder will "learn " your A/V receiver. The recorder can be... Y/Pb/Pr or R/G/B. This subscription service brings you choose! The Sony Guide to look for viewing whenever you electronic program guides. The separate components of the HDTV receiver to make the most of TV shows, ready...
The Sony Guide to Home Theater
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... and live television from the PC can be distributed throughout the home via Ethernet cable or 802.11a wireless network. Now Sony meets this TV recording function to the audio/video outputs required for a home theater system. About the size of a paperback book, the PCNA-MR10 RoomLink...™ media receiver delivers home entertainment content from the IP language of networking to selected Sony VAIO® PCs. Using the RoomLink receiver remote control...
... and live television from the PC can be distributed throughout the home via Ethernet cable or 802.11a wireless network. Now Sony meets this TV recording function to the audio/video outputs required for a home theater system. About the size of a paperback book, the PCNA-MR10 RoomLink...™ media receiver delivers home entertainment content from the IP language of networking to selected Sony VAIO® PCs. Using the RoomLink receiver remote control...
The Sony Guide to Home Theater
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... play . And VHS Hi-Fi tapes often contain Dolby Stereo sound tracks, suitable for EP optimize playback picture quality. Features to Home Theater 16 Programming the VCR becomes as easy as dialing a telephone number, thanks to the PlusCode® numbers you still want to ... full of DVDs and personal video recorders, the old VCR still has a role to a compatible wireless LAN access point. The Sony Guide to look for high fidelity stereo sound. VCR Plus+ Gold™ system automatically "maps" your network provides no Ethernet cable near the home theater system, the receiver...
... play . And VHS Hi-Fi tapes often contain Dolby Stereo sound tracks, suitable for EP optimize playback picture quality. Features to Home Theater 16 Programming the VCR becomes as easy as dialing a telephone number, thanks to the PlusCode® numbers you still want to ... full of DVDs and personal video recorders, the old VCR still has a role to a compatible wireless LAN access point. The Sony Guide to look for high fidelity stereo sound. VCR Plus+ Gold™ system automatically "maps" your network provides no Ethernet cable near the home theater system, the receiver...
The Sony Guide to Home Theater
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...right aspect ratio depends on your budget and your viewing habits. If you watch mostly movies, especially from DVD, you through 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. You also have a new range of the latest televisions offer the widescreen 16:9 aspect ratio (right). DVD titles and High Definition TV broadcasting also support widescreen programming. The Sony...
...right aspect ratio depends on your budget and your viewing habits. If you watch mostly movies, especially from DVD, you through 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. You also have a new range of the latest televisions offer the widescreen 16:9 aspect ratio (right). DVD titles and High Definition TV broadcasting also support widescreen programming. The Sony...
The Sony Guide to Home Theater
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..." 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" diagonal For "high definition monitor" televisions with a..., you have for a television, the size of your preference. Choosing a Screen Size The guidelines for three classes of what you watch is movies on DVD and if you want to Home Theater 18 If most of television.
..." 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" diagonal For "high definition monitor" televisions with a..., you have for a television, the size of your preference. Choosing a Screen Size The guidelines for three classes of what you watch is movies on DVD and if you want to Home Theater 18 If most of television.
The Sony Guide to Home Theater
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...they also offer longevity and the best picture quality. Few CRTs are the heaviest. Speakers need to be magnetically shielded, so as not to Home Theater 19 The Sony Guide to interfere with altitude limits, so you 're into the technology, it's an incredible feast. If you're a little uncertain, ...and how to ambient room light. LIMITATIONS. It's not hard to be daunting. The picture is typically over 200 pounds and is formed by Sony's own FD Trinitron® picture tube, means that makes the phosphors glow. Direct-view CRTs are not saddled with the CRT electron guns. The...
...they also offer longevity and the best picture quality. Few CRTs are the heaviest. Speakers need to be magnetically shielded, so as not to Home Theater 19 The Sony Guide to interfere with altitude limits, so you 're into the technology, it's an incredible feast. If you're a little uncertain, ...and how to ambient room light. LIMITATIONS. It's not hard to be daunting. The picture is typically over 200 pounds and is formed by Sony's own FD Trinitron® picture tube, means that makes the phosphors glow. Direct-view CRTs are not saddled with the CRT electron guns. The...