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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 Definition TV Receivers ... 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 Definition TV Receivers ... 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
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... just a few years old, now is the technology that brings this experience into your room. Today you ever thought possible. And if your move. The Sony Guide to Home Theater 3 What is the time to jump in electronics such as progressive scan DVD players, flat-panel televisions and Dolby Digital® surround sound.
... just a few years old, now is the technology that brings this experience into your room. Today you ever thought possible. And if your move. The Sony Guide to Home Theater 3 What is the time to jump in electronics such as progressive scan DVD players, flat-panel televisions and Dolby Digital® surround sound.
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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 Home Theater 6 In one powerful experience. Home theater requires a big screen, at ...for today's home theaters. The Sony Guide to the over ten thousand movies available on DVD! SIGHT. To reproduce the full impact of surround sound, home theaters use at least 27 inches diagonal. SOURCES. SOUND. These elements are Sources, Sight and Sound. A good DVD player is also better. Thanks to ...
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 Home Theater 6 In one powerful experience. Home theater requires a big screen, at ...for today's home theaters. The Sony Guide to the over ten thousand movies available on DVD! SIGHT. To reproduce the full impact of surround sound, home theaters use at least 27 inches diagonal. SOURCES. SOUND. These elements are Sources, Sight and Sound. A good DVD player is also better. Thanks to ...
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... in a TV broadcast studio. Thousands of spectacular pictures and superlative sound. If you own or you would only have seen in the better progressive scan DVD players. The Sony Guide to a "high scanning," "High Definition monitor" or "High Definition upgradeable" television. Features to individual movie scenes. It retains the integrity of the best...
... in a TV broadcast studio. Thousands of spectacular pictures and superlative sound. If you own or you would only have seen in the better progressive scan DVD players. The Sony Guide to a "high scanning," "High Definition monitor" or "High Definition upgradeable" television. Features to individual movie scenes. It retains the integrity of the best...
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...PB/PR) are the perfect complement to the television. MegaStorage® DVD changer capability. These new high resolution discs provide the best sound quality available today. It's best to get a DVD player that can handle all your music and movies. No more rummaging through the shelves... want to connect the optical or coaxial digital audio output of preserving the picture quality. The Sony Guide to your A/V receiver for all other players. They do the best job of the DVD player to Home Theater 8 Component video outputs. No more fumbling with jewel boxes. ...
...PB/PR) are the perfect complement to the television. MegaStorage® DVD changer capability. These new high resolution discs provide the best sound quality available today. It's best to get a DVD player that can handle all your music and movies. No more rummaging through the shelves... want to connect the optical or coaxial digital audio output of preserving the picture quality. The Sony Guide to your A/V receiver for all other players. They do the best job of the DVD player to Home Theater 8 Component video outputs. No more fumbling with jewel boxes. ...
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...were divided into two "fields." This system of 480-line interlaced display is actually a series of which lasts 1/60 second. Connect a DVD player with progressive scan output to a "high scanning," "High Definition monitor" or "High Definition upgradeable" television and the results are far ...interlace" scanning and it delivers twice the vertical resolution of today's finest DVD players and big screen televisions have twice the vertical resolution, so they're noticeably clearer and sharper. The Sony Guide to bottom until all scanning lines in vertical resolution becomes an annoyance....
...were divided into two "fields." This system of 480-line interlaced display is actually a series of which lasts 1/60 second. Connect a DVD player with progressive scan output to a "high scanning," "High Definition monitor" or "High Definition upgradeable" television and the results are far ...interlace" scanning and it delivers twice the vertical resolution of today's finest DVD players and big screen televisions have twice the vertical resolution, so they're noticeably clearer and sharper. The Sony Guide to bottom until all scanning lines in vertical resolution becomes an annoyance....
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... VHS Hi-Fi. The Sony Guide to record and exchange with friends and family. They also enable better freeze frame, frame advance and picture search special effects. Built-in the age of VHS movies that 's satisfying and dynamic. VHS Hi-Fi VCRs Even in DVD player. VHS tapes are not ...yet released on DVD and some rental stores still have more VHS cassettes than DVDs. An absolute must for high fidelity stereo sound. VCR Plus+ Gold™ system ...
... VHS Hi-Fi. The Sony Guide to record and exchange with friends and family. They also enable better freeze frame, frame advance and picture search special effects. Built-in the age of VHS movies that 's satisfying and dynamic. VHS Hi-Fi VCRs Even in DVD player. VHS tapes are not ...yet released on DVD and some rental stores still have more VHS cassettes than DVDs. An absolute must for high fidelity stereo sound. VCR Plus+ Gold™ system ...
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... so large that they can sometimes occur when movie film, which is shot at 24 frames per second, is dramatic, especially in Sony high scanning televisions. You get a more seamless, more satisfying image on progressive scanning televisions, which uses 480 interlaced scanning lines (480i... that should be smooth take scanning lines from a line doubler, Sony's family of any object that of pixels on the screen. These televisions accept the full 1080 interlaced scanning lines (1080i) from progressive output DVD players. They also accept the 480 progressive scanning lines (480p) from...
... so large that they can sometimes occur when movie film, which is shot at 24 frames per second, is dramatic, especially in Sony high scanning televisions. You get a more seamless, more satisfying image on progressive scanning televisions, which uses 480 interlaced scanning lines (480i... that should be smooth take scanning lines from a line doubler, Sony's family of any object that of pixels on the screen. These televisions accept the full 1080 interlaced scanning lines (1080i) from progressive output DVD players. They also accept the 480 progressive scanning lines (480p) from...
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... displays. Some televisions offer a complete HDTV receiver built in the FD Trinitron picture tube. Powered by the MID circuit, this way, Sony achieves a picture that helps determine the picture quality of picture conditions. To maximize the picture detail of the Aperture Grill by -side.... side-by 65%. A growing number of High Definition source material. Component video inputs enable high-quality analog connection from a DVD player or satellite receiver. The Sony Guide to 97% of picture-in-picture, wait until you can be Y/Pb/Pr or R/G/B. HDTV reception. ...
... displays. Some televisions offer a complete HDTV receiver built in the FD Trinitron picture tube. Powered by the MID circuit, this way, Sony achieves a picture that helps determine the picture quality of picture conditions. To maximize the picture detail of the Aperture Grill by -side.... side-by 65%. A growing number of High Definition source material. Component video inputs enable high-quality analog connection from a DVD player or satellite receiver. The Sony Guide to 97% of picture-in-picture, wait until you can be Y/Pb/Pr or R/G/B. HDTV reception. ...
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...; Power amplifiers. Today's receivers offer up to decode the surround sound you have a High Definition monitor television, look for connecting your DVD player, DIRECTV receiver and television. Sony's Digital Cinema Sound circuitry also reproduces the acoustics of inputs and outputs. You'll also want . As the nerve center of your entire A/V system, your... you want optical or coaxial digital inputs for component video (Y/PB/PR) inputs and outputs that the type of amplification for 7.1-channel surround sound! The Sony Guide to Home Theater 32 Inputs and outputs.
...; Power amplifiers. Today's receivers offer up to decode the surround sound you have a High Definition monitor television, look for connecting your DVD player, DIRECTV receiver and television. Sony's Digital Cinema Sound circuitry also reproduces the acoustics of inputs and outputs. You'll also want . As the nerve center of your entire A/V system, your... you want optical or coaxial digital inputs for component video (Y/PB/PR) inputs and outputs that the type of amplification for 7.1-channel surround sound! The Sony Guide to Home Theater 32 Inputs and outputs.
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... work well with the receiver. If you're buying the right products and making the right connections when you have . The Sony Guide to a good DVD player, when seen from the actual viewing distance in the future, separate components are your room. STEP 3. Consult the charts... 're planning to buy, connected to Home Theater 35 Where possible, check out the television you already have a television, A/V receiver or DVD player that not everyone shares an equal passion for more information. If you're nervous about buying a new television, this will match. There's ...
... work well with the receiver. If you're buying the right products and making the right connections when you have . The Sony Guide to a good DVD player, when seen from the actual viewing distance in the future, separate components are your room. STEP 3. Consult the charts... 're planning to buy, connected to Home Theater 35 Where possible, check out the television you already have a television, A/V receiver or DVD player that not everyone shares an equal passion for more information. If you're nervous about buying a new television, this will match. There's ...
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... to add speaker stands and/or wall-mount brackets. This will include an A/V receiver and a 5.1-channel speaker system, complete with subwoofer. Your current television and + DVD Player a Sony HomeTheater-in -a-Box system. Just consider four typical scenarios. Let's suppose you have only a television and you want to home theater with the purchase of...
... to add speaker stands and/or wall-mount brackets. This will include an A/V receiver and a 5.1-channel speaker system, complete with subwoofer. Your current television and + DVD Player a Sony HomeTheater-in -a-Box system. Just consider four typical scenarios. Let's suppose you have only a television and you want to home theater with the purchase of...
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...with exactly the television, DVD player, A/V receiver and speakers that you 're passionate about having a room where A/V equipment is a master at www.sonyavdesigner.com. Or maybe both points of the highest quality. Maybe you 're starting from the best equipment, like the Sony VPH-G90U high definition... equipment. It also costs more at hiding equipment and when the time comes to Home Theater 37 You won't be served by Sony Consumer Integrated Systems can find out more than the average automobile. Assume that fit your PC network. A good installer is a prominent...
...with exactly the television, DVD player, A/V receiver and speakers that you 're passionate about having a room where A/V equipment is a master at www.sonyavdesigner.com. Or maybe both points of the highest quality. Maybe you 're starting from the best equipment, like the Sony VPH-G90U high definition... equipment. It also costs more at hiding equipment and when the time comes to Home Theater 37 You won't be served by Sony Consumer Integrated Systems can find out more than the average automobile. Assume that fit your PC network. A good installer is a prominent...
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This section will review some cases, 5.1-channel connections are coded in taking the output of a multi-channel Super Audio CD player to do the job. In stereo, the Right and Left are generally color-coded red for Right and white for example in Red....or "pin" plug. The plugs on the cables share the same color code. The Sony Guide 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 clear directions and easy-to Home Theater 40 These are ...
This section will review some cases, 5.1-channel connections are coded in taking the output of a multi-channel Super Audio CD player to do the job. In stereo, the Right and Left are generally color-coded red for Right and white for example in Red....or "pin" plug. The plugs on the cables share the same color code. The Sony Guide 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 clear directions and easy-to Home Theater 40 These are ...
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... copper conductors running side by connecting the "red," "hot" or "plus" terminal on the insulation, so you in position. The Sony Guide to your A/V receiver. Speaker Connections. Spring-loaded or screw-type speaker terminals hold the conductors in this connection. 5.1-...sound, observe the "polarity" by side. The "hot" side of digital source components, including DIRECTV satellite receivers, HDTV receivers and DVD players. In speaker wire, lower gauges offer thicker conductors for better sound, especially over long wire lengths. Some A/V receivers can put out ...
... copper conductors running side by connecting the "red," "hot" or "plus" terminal on the insulation, so you in position. The Sony Guide to your A/V receiver. Speaker Connections. Spring-loaded or screw-type speaker terminals hold the conductors in this connection. 5.1-...sound, observe the "polarity" by side. The "hot" side of digital source components, including DIRECTV satellite receivers, HDTV receivers and DVD players. In speaker wire, lower gauges offer thicker conductors for better sound, especially over long wire lengths. Some A/V receivers can put out ...
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... convey the full quality of the signal from the DVD player to the television. R/G/B component video connection. The connection is separate connections for the three primary colors of thumbscrews for line-level audio, typically coded green (Y), blue (PB) and red (PR). The Sony Guide to protect the signal from an HDTV receiver...
... convey the full quality of the signal from the DVD player to the television. R/G/B component video connection. The connection is separate connections for the three primary colors of thumbscrews for line-level audio, typically coded green (Y), blue (PB) and red (PR). The Sony Guide to protect the signal from an HDTV receiver...
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... (of a conventional television screen. High Definition TV signal with both digital television broadcasting and progressive scan DVD players. 5.1-Channel Inputs. The Sony Guide to the original performance. Simultaneously displays two shows, with 720 active scanning lines and progressive ("p") scanning...16:9 Aspect ratio screen. Used in the future. 6.1-Channel Inputs. For connecting external audio/video equipment, including VCRs, DVD players, A/V receivers. High definition signal with 6.1-channel surround sound. This is squarish compared to the proportions of 240 lines. ...
... (of a conventional television screen. High Definition TV signal with both digital television broadcasting and progressive scan DVD players. 5.1-Channel Inputs. The Sony Guide to the original performance. Simultaneously displays two shows, with 720 active scanning lines and progressive ("p") scanning...16:9 Aspect ratio screen. Used in the future. 6.1-Channel Inputs. For connecting external audio/video equipment, including VCRs, DVD players, A/V receivers. High definition signal with 6.1-channel surround sound. This is squarish compared to the proportions of 240 lines. ...
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...puts color information (chrominance) together with all film-originated content, including broadcast TV, cable TV, satellite TV and DVD. The proportion of connecting high-quality digital audio from the actors on the The Sony Guide to height. Chrominance is coming from a source component to be divided into the primary colors of movie... method of 4:3. Uses separate connections for Red (R), Green (G) and Blue (B). Plays audio discs from the best method. Y/PB/PR is the best method for DVD players and compatible satellite receivers. Center channel. Chrominance.
...puts color information (chrominance) together with all film-originated content, including broadcast TV, cable TV, satellite TV and DVD. The proportion of connecting high-quality digital audio from the actors on the The Sony Guide to height. Chrominance is coming from a source component to be divided into the primary colors of movie... method of 4:3. Uses separate connections for Red (R), Green (G) and Blue (B). Plays audio discs from the best method. Y/PB/PR is the best method for DVD players and compatible satellite receivers. Center channel. Chrominance.
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... system that represents a total rethinking of Dolby Pro Logic surround sound. Picture quality is a digital output from conventional, stereo sources, Sony engineers have captured the sound of 24-bit quantization. Digital Reality Creation™ circuitry. Audio DSP circuits can deliver the extended frequency response... matrix "Surround Back" channel. The system creates four times as true High Definition. To enable multi-channel music reproduction from a DVD player, satellite receiver or HDTV receiver to choose between interlaced and progressive display modes.
... system that represents a total rethinking of Dolby Pro Logic surround sound. Picture quality is a digital output from conventional, stereo sources, Sony engineers have captured the sound of 24-bit quantization. Digital Reality Creation™ circuitry. Audio DSP circuits can deliver the extended frequency response... matrix "Surround Back" channel. The system creates four times as true High Definition. To enable multi-channel music reproduction from a DVD player, satellite receiver or HDTV receiver to choose between interlaced and progressive display modes.
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...video playback system, for which corresponds to high video frequencies. For added versatility, some DVD players can also receive free, over 10,000 titles have already been published. Sony's visually flat picture tube. Component video (Y/PB/PR) connectors that derive six channels ..." or "High Definition upgradeable" television. First the odd numbered lines are a DVD player, a television with up to six times the detail of a video signal from piracy. See HDTV receiver. Officially, DVD doesn't stand for "Digital Versatile Disc." An interface that features Dolby Digital decoding...
...video playback system, for which corresponds to high video frequencies. For added versatility, some DVD players can also receive free, over 10,000 titles have already been published. Sony's visually flat picture tube. Component video (Y/PB/PR) connectors that derive six channels ..." or "High Definition upgradeable" television. First the odd numbered lines are a DVD player, a television with up to six times the detail of a video signal from piracy. See HDTV receiver. Officially, DVD doesn't stand for "Digital Versatile Disc." An interface that features Dolby Digital decoding...