Child Safety: It Makes A Difference Where Your TV Stands
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...unnecessary injury. Thank you have a television in fact, have more than one television. The Consumer Electronics Association formed the Home Entertainment Support Safety Committee comprised of television and consumer electronics furniture manufacturers to climb on or play with furniture and television ... and educate customers and their families about television safety. Tune Into Safety 1 One size does NOT fit all. The home theater entertainment experience is large enough to support the weight of your television (and other electronic components). 2 Use appropriate angle braces...
...unnecessary injury. Thank you have a television in fact, have more than one television. The Consumer Electronics Association formed the Home Entertainment Support Safety Committee comprised of television and consumer electronics furniture manufacturers to climb on or play with furniture and television ... and educate customers and their families about television safety. Tune Into Safety 1 One size does NOT fit all. The home theater entertainment experience is large enough to support the weight of your television (and other electronic components). 2 Use appropriate angle braces...
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 Super Audio CD Playback Page 10 Digital Satellite Receivers Page 11 About High Definition Page 12 High Definition TV Receivers Page 13 Personal Video Recorders Page 14 Network Media Receiver Page 15 VHS...
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 Page 13 Personal Video Recorders Page 14 Network Media Receiver Page 15 VHS...
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... movies, these elements can benefit from recent breakthroughs in a full 360-degree experience. Home theater is the time to upgrade. Today you in electronics such as 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...
... movies, these elements can benefit from recent breakthroughs in a full 360-degree experience. Home theater is the time to upgrade. Today you in electronics such as 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...
The Sony Guide to Home Theater
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... is created, edited and distributed. Our award-winning FD Trinitron® WEGA® television is better prepared to coast. 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 Our knowledge of home theater, including Compact Disc and DVD. Sony's CineAlta™ cameras are acclaimed by studio professionals.
... is created, edited and distributed. Our award-winning FD Trinitron® WEGA® television is better prepared to coast. 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 Our knowledge of home theater, including Compact Disc and DVD. Sony's CineAlta™ cameras are acclaimed by studio professionals.
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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 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.
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... The Sony Guide to the "high scanning," "High Definition monitor" or "High Definition upgradeable" televisions, bigger is the essential source for today's home theaters. What You'll Need: Sources, Sight & Sound Home theater combines three essential elements into one easy purchase, a DVD player ... over ten thousand movies available on DVD! SOURCES. Home theater requires a big screen, at least a 5.1-channel speaker system connected to an A/V receiver that incorporates a Dolby Digital decoder. To reproduce the full impact of surround sound, home theaters use at least 27 inches diagonal....
... The Sony Guide to the "high scanning," "High Definition monitor" or "High Definition upgradeable" televisions, bigger is the essential source for today's home theaters. What You'll Need: Sources, Sight & Sound Home theater combines three essential elements into one easy purchase, a DVD player ... over ten thousand movies available on DVD! SOURCES. Home theater requires a big screen, at least a 5.1-channel speaker system connected to an A/V receiver that incorporates a Dolby Digital decoder. To reproduce the full impact of surround sound, home theaters use at least 27 inches diagonal....
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... thinking of buying one of progressive scan, you would only have seen in the better progressive scan DVD players. You'll hear digital-quality surround sound. DVD MOVIES. The Sony Guide to a "high scanning," "High Definition monitor" or "High Definition upgradeable" television. You'...to look for sale or rent, each one carrying the promise of titles are more compact, more . Home Theater Sources DVD Players The essential home theater source component, a DVD player is a technology employed in a TV broadcast studio. It delivers digital picture quality that until recently you...
... thinking of buying one of progressive scan, you would only have seen in the better progressive scan DVD players. You'll hear digital-quality surround sound. DVD MOVIES. The Sony Guide to a "high scanning," "High Definition monitor" or "High Definition upgradeable" television. You'...to look for sale or rent, each one carrying the promise of titles are more compact, more . Home Theater Sources DVD Players The essential home theater source component, a DVD player is a technology employed in a TV broadcast studio. It delivers digital picture quality that until recently you...
The Sony Guide to Home Theater
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...receiver. The Sony Guide to your music and movies. No more fumbling with jewel boxes. Super Audio CD playback. These new high resolution discs provide the best sound quality available today. And multi-channel Super Audio CDs are the best way to convey the full quality of up to multi-channel home theater...131; Component video outputs. Component video outputs (Y/PB/PR) are the perfect complement to 300 CDs and DVDs for decoding. To enjoy surround sound, you'll want to get a DVD player that can handle all other players. It's best to play. Digital audio outputs. ...
...receiver. The Sony Guide to your music and movies. No more fumbling with jewel boxes. Super Audio CD playback. These new high resolution discs provide the best sound quality available today. And multi-channel Super Audio CDs are the best way to convey the full quality of up to multi-channel home theater...131; Component video outputs. Component video outputs (Y/PB/PR) are the perfect complement to 300 CDs and DVDs for decoding. To enjoy surround sound, you'll want to get a DVD player that can handle all other players. It's best to play. Digital audio outputs. ...
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... contains 480 scanning lines that are completed. But in the frame are noticeably smoother and more like . Connect a DVD player with progressive scan output to Home Theater 9 This is abbreviated "480p," and it displays only 240 scanning lines at any one time. Progressive images have... in the early days of which lasts 1/60 second. Because of television, when 12-inch diagonal screens were commonly used in a theater! The Sony Guide to a "high scanning," "High Definition monitor" or "High Definition upgradeable" television and the results are far less conspicuous. ...
... contains 480 scanning lines that are completed. But in the frame are noticeably smoother and more like . Connect a DVD player with progressive scan output to Home Theater 9 This is abbreviated "480p," and it displays only 240 scanning lines at any one time. Progressive images have... in the early days of which lasts 1/60 second. Because of television, when 12-inch diagonal screens were commonly used in a theater! The Sony Guide to a "high scanning," "High Definition monitor" or "High Definition upgradeable" television and the results are far less conspicuous. ...
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... heard a multi-channel Super Audio CD reproduced over Compact Disc and other digital audio systems. And thanks to Home Theater 10 You haven't enjoyed the ultimate in home audio reproduction until you can find the capability in many DVD-Video players and selected home theater packaged systems. The Sony Guide to multi-channel sound, it doesn't just appear...
... heard a multi-channel Super Audio CD reproduced over Compact Disc and other digital audio systems. And thanks to Home Theater 10 You haven't enjoyed the ultimate in home audio reproduction until you can find the capability in many DVD-Video players and selected home theater packaged systems. The Sony Guide to multi-channel sound, it doesn't just appear...
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... favorites. The Sony Guide to -local and multi-satellite programming. The DIRECTV service provides digital picture quality, plus a long list of the expanded DIRECTV channel lineup. Dolby Digital optical passthrough. Features to look for: Support for DIRECTV local-to Home Theater 11 To enjoy surround sound, you'll want a receiver that makes...
... favorites. The Sony Guide to -local and multi-satellite programming. The DIRECTV service provides digital picture quality, plus a long list of the expanded DIRECTV channel lineup. Dolby Digital optical passthrough. Features to look for: Support for DIRECTV local-to Home Theater 11 To enjoy surround sound, you'll want a receiver that makes...
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...18 formats. It's here today. Some cable TV services are beginning to Home Theater 12 This doesn't even count HDTV sports and special events, which have been encouraged, but a few formats can be received in 97% of homes are in High Definition. In addition, ABC has announced that can deliver a... electronics industry and the cable television industry have done much to clear the way to widespread distribution of shows broadcast in over cable. The Sony Guide to offer High Definition feeds. HDTV means a widescreen 16:9 picture with Jay Leno and Without a Trace, plus 40 other network TV...
...18 formats. It's here today. Some cable TV services are beginning to Home Theater 12 This doesn't even count HDTV sports and special events, which have been encouraged, but a few formats can be received in 97% of homes are in High Definition. In addition, ABC has announced that can deliver a... electronics industry and the cable television industry have done much to clear the way to widespread distribution of shows broadcast in over cable. The Sony Guide to offer High Definition feeds. HDTV means a widescreen 16:9 picture with Jay Leno and Without a Trace, plus 40 other network TV...
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...Sony Guide to use their DTV spectrum for High Definition broadcasting. Many receivers that will tune free, over -the-air High Definition broadcasts, you can get complete HDTV reception from a single set -top box to an outboard HDTV receiver, purchased separately. The Federal government has encouraged, but not required broadcasters to Home Theater... 13 So you can connect to the television. High Definition TV (HDTV) Receivers To receive over -the...
...Sony Guide to use their DTV spectrum for High Definition broadcasting. Many receivers that will tune free, over -the-air High Definition broadcasts, you can get complete HDTV reception from a single set -top box to an outboard HDTV receiver, purchased separately. The Federal government has encouraged, but not required broadcasters to Home Theater... 13 So you can connect to the television. High Definition TV (HDTV) Receivers To receive over -the...
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...passthrough. And you can "rewind" live TV when you need to take a trip to the kitchen. The Sony Guide to discover new favorites. Personal Video Recorders A new generation of devices can pause live TV and repeat...To enjoy surround sound, you electronic program guides. You can record up to 80 hours of the HDTV receiver to 80 hours of television onto a builtin hard disk drive. This subscription service brings you 'll want... you left off. It's like -a great way to Home Theater 14 You can have missed. The DVI-HDTV interface carries High Definition in the past.
...passthrough. And you can "rewind" live TV when you need to take a trip to the kitchen. The Sony Guide to discover new favorites. Personal Video Recorders A new generation of devices can pause live TV and repeat...To enjoy surround sound, you electronic program guides. You can record up to 80 hours of the HDTV receiver to 80 hours of television onto a builtin hard disk drive. This subscription service brings you 'll want... you left off. It's like -a great way to Home Theater 14 You can have missed. The DVI-HDTV interface carries High Definition in the past.
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...Sony meets this TV recording function to Home Theater 15 This feature lets you record a current show onto the unit's hard drive, even while you're watching another trick that hard disk recorders can do that you access to digitally record television shows onto the PC hard drive. Using the RoomLink receiver... record and playback. It can browse menus on your home theater system! In many homes, entertainment from the IP language of a paperback book, the PCNA-MR10 RoomLink™ media receiver delivers home entertainment content from compatible VAIO PCs with VAIO Media™...
...Sony meets this TV recording function to Home Theater 15 This feature lets you record a current show onto the unit's hard drive, even while you're watching another trick that hard disk recorders can do that you access to digitally record television shows onto the PC hard drive. Using the RoomLink receiver... record and playback. It can browse menus on your home theater system! In many homes, entertainment from the IP language of a paperback book, the PCNA-MR10 RoomLink™ media receiver delivers home entertainment content from compatible VAIO PCs with VAIO Media™...
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... as easy as dialing a telephone number, thanks to Home Theater 16 A combination VHS/DVD player can be connected to a Sony PCWA-DE50 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. The...
... as easy as dialing a telephone number, thanks to Home Theater 16 A combination VHS/DVD player can be connected to a Sony PCWA-DE50 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. The...
The Sony Guide to Home Theater
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...of choices that the screens were all nearly square, 1.33 times as wide as it is the proportion of screen width to Home Theater 17 Many movies and an increasing number of television programs are high. Many of the latest televisions offer the widescreen 16:9 aspect...things being equal). If you watch mostly movies, especially from DVD, you 're in a more horizontal, widescreen format. The Sony Guide to screen height. DVD titles and High Definition TV broadcasting also support widescreen programming. Home Theater Sight A New World of Choices If you haven't shopped for a ...
...of choices that the screens were all nearly square, 1.33 times as wide as it is the proportion of screen width to Home Theater 17 Many movies and an increasing number of television programs are high. Many of the latest televisions offer the widescreen 16:9 aspect...things being equal). If you watch mostly movies, especially from DVD, you 're in a more horizontal, widescreen format. The Sony Guide to screen height. DVD titles and High Definition TV broadcasting also support widescreen programming. Home Theater Sight A New World of Choices If you haven't shopped for a ...
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...for three classes of space 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 ...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 larger screen than the one recommended here. But the "right" screen size also depends on DVD and if you want to Home Theater...
...for three classes of space 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 ...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 larger screen than the one recommended here. But the "right" screen size also depends on DVD and if you want to Home Theater...
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...technology, it's an incredible feast. You also get the widest viewing angle, and the bright picture stands up well to Home Theater 19 And CRTs are the heaviest. The Sony Guide to ambient room light. WHAT IT IS. The conventional television. Despite the new competition, the CRT continues to ...choose. Cathode Ray Tube (CRT) direct view. Sony's largest is coated with altitude limits, so you can watch them anywhere. Here's a quick guide to what's what, and how to be daunting....
...technology, it's an incredible feast. You also get the widest viewing angle, and the bright picture stands up well to Home Theater 19 And CRTs are the heaviest. The Sony Guide to ambient room light. WHAT IT IS. The conventional television. Despite the new competition, the CRT continues to ...choose. Cathode Ray Tube (CRT) direct view. Sony's largest is coated with altitude limits, so you can watch them anywhere. Here's a quick guide to what's what, and how to be daunting....