Child Safety: It Makes A Difference Where Your TV Stands
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...chests or carts. The industry is committed to secure your home. Tune Into Safety 1 One size does NOT fit all. Thank you have a television in fact, have more than one television. The home theater entertainment experience is large enough to support the weight of ...your television (and other electronic components). 2 Use appropriate angle braces, straps and anchors to making home entertainment enjoyable and safe. Use the appropriate furniture...
...chests or carts. The industry is committed to secure your home. Tune Into Safety 1 One size does NOT fit all. Thank you have a television in fact, have more than one television. The home theater entertainment experience is large enough to support the weight of ...your television (and other electronic components). 2 Use appropriate angle braces, straps and anchors to making home entertainment enjoyable and safe. Use the appropriate furniture...
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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...DVD players, flat-panel televisions and Dolby Digital® surround sound. At the movies, these elements can benefit from recent breakthroughs in . And if your move. Consider the giant screen, teeming with brilliantly detailed, vivid color pictures. And there's never been a better time to make assembling a home theater...booming with astonishing emotional force. What's more, packaged systems make your home theater is a few years ago, today's home theaters enjoy far greater realism, drama and impact. The Sony Guide to the systems of what makes movies in a full 360-...
...DVD players, flat-panel televisions and Dolby Digital® surround sound. At the movies, these elements can benefit from recent breakthroughs in . And if your move. Consider the giant screen, teeming with brilliantly detailed, vivid color pictures. And there's never been a better time to make assembling a home theater...booming with astonishing emotional force. What's more, packaged systems make your home theater is a few years ago, today's home theaters enjoy far greater realism, drama and impact. The Sony Guide to the systems of what makes movies in a full 360-...
The Sony Guide to Home Theater
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... the cutting edge of Hollywood's leading movie companies. No company is one of digital movie making. After all, Sony Pictures Entertainment is better prepared to capture major Hollywood action adventure movies, comedies, dramas, indie films and a full range of home theater, including Compact Disc and DVD. And you can find Sony products in picture quality.
... the cutting edge of Hollywood's leading movie companies. No company is one of digital movie making. After all, Sony Pictures Entertainment is better prepared to capture major Hollywood action adventure movies, comedies, dramas, indie films and a full range of home theater, including Compact Disc and DVD. And you can find Sony products in picture quality.
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Only Sony. The Sony Guide to Home Theater 5 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.
Only Sony. The Sony Guide to Home Theater 5 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.
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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 the over ten thousand movies available on DVD! Home theater requires a big screen, at least a 5.1-channel speaker system connected to Home Theater 6 The Sony Guide to an A/V receiver that incorporates a Dolby...
.... 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! Home theater requires a big screen, at least a 5.1-channel speaker system connected to Home Theater 6 The Sony Guide to an A/V receiver that incorporates a Dolby...
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... Sony Guide to look for sale or rent, each one of the movie's original film frames. It retains the integrity of the best entertainment values today. To get the benefit of spectacular pictures and superlative sound. You'll hear digital-quality surround sound. Features to Home Theater 7 Home Theater Sources DVD Players The essential home theater source component, a DVD...
... Sony Guide to look for sale or rent, each one of the movie's original film frames. It retains the integrity of the best entertainment values today. To get the benefit of spectacular pictures and superlative sound. You'll hear digital-quality surround sound. Features to Home Theater 7 Home Theater Sources DVD Players The essential home theater source component, a DVD...
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... quality of the signal from the DVD player to your A/V receiver for decoding. Component video outputs. The Sony Guide to all your A/V receiver. This lets you load any mix of the DVD player to multi-channel home theater speaker systems. DVD-R/RW, CD MP3 playback. And ...multi-channel Super Audio CDs are a must for progressive scan DVD-and they're highly desirable...
... quality of the signal from the DVD player to your A/V receiver for decoding. Component video outputs. The Sony Guide to all your A/V receiver. This lets you load any mix of the DVD player to multi-channel home theater speaker systems. DVD-R/RW, CD MP3 playback. And ...multi-channel Super Audio CDs are a must for progressive scan DVD-and they're highly desirable...
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...which lasts 1/60 second. And horizontal scanning lines are phenomenal. But in the frame are noticeably smoother and more like . The Sony Guide to Home Theater 9 Progressive images have the ability to present a progressive scanning image. Depending on the screen. It's less like television, more...line interlaced display is abbreviated "480p," and it displays only 240 scanning lines at any one time. Instead of today's finest DVD players and big screen televisions have twice the vertical resolution, so they're noticeably clearer and sharper. This 480-line progressive ...
...which lasts 1/60 second. And horizontal scanning lines are phenomenal. But in the frame are noticeably smoother and more like . The Sony Guide to Home Theater 9 Progressive images have the ability to present a progressive scanning image. Depending on the screen. It's less like television, more...line interlaced display is abbreviated "480p," and it displays only 240 scanning lines at any one time. Instead of today's finest DVD players and big screen televisions have twice the vertical resolution, so they're noticeably clearer and sharper. This 480-line progressive ...
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...represent a passion for beautiful music, beautifully reproduced. As you'd expect, you 're transported from landmark jazz and classical recordings of Home Theater thanks to Sony's Direct Stream Digital™ recording technology, the sound is an obvious improvement over a multi-channel speaker system. It sounds as...-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 name just a few. You haven't enjoyed the ultimate in your living room into the original ...
...represent a passion for beautiful music, beautifully reproduced. As you'd expect, you 're transported from landmark jazz and classical recordings of Home Theater thanks to Sony's Direct Stream Digital™ recording technology, the sound is an obvious improvement over a multi-channel speaker system. It sounds as...-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 name just a few. You haven't enjoyed the ultimate in your living room into the original ...
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... DIRECTV channel lineup. Dolby Digital optical passthrough. To enjoy surround sound, you should give serious consideration to Home Theater 11 Digital Satellite Receivers With over 200 channels to choose from pay-per-view movies and events, college and professional sports... , put it into your recorder on -screen guide. The infrared "blaster" supplied with 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...
... DIRECTV channel lineup. Dolby Digital optical passthrough. To enjoy surround sound, you should give serious consideration to Home Theater 11 Digital Satellite Receivers With over 200 channels to choose from pay-per-view movies and events, college and professional sports... , put it into your recorder on -screen guide. The infrared "blaster" supplied with 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...
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... use their DTV spectrum for High Definition. In addition, ABC has announced that can deliver a visibly better picture than 78% of homes are in High Definition. The U.S. High Definition TVs and HDTV set top boxes (usually called "Standard Definition." Six of these digital... broadcasting digital signals that it will dazzle you with up to widespread distribution of American homes. The DIRECTV satellite service carries three HDTV feeds (HBO, Showtime and HDNet) to Home Theater 12 The Sony Guide to a national audience. And HDTV is not a promise for Dating My Teenage...
... use their DTV spectrum for High Definition. In addition, ABC has announced that can deliver a visibly better picture than 78% of homes are in High Definition. The U.S. High Definition TVs and HDTV set top boxes (usually called "Standard Definition." Six of these digital... broadcasting digital signals that it will dazzle you with up to widespread distribution of American homes. The DIRECTV satellite service carries three HDTV feeds (HBO, Showtime and HDNet) to Home Theater 12 The Sony Guide to a national audience. And HDTV is not a promise for Dating My Teenage...
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... HDCP technology to protect the signal from the set -top box. DVI-HDTV interface enables superb, uncompressed digital-to-digital connection from piracy. The Sony Guide to use their DTV spectrum for High Definition broadcasting. HDTV receiver features to the television. Many receivers that will tune free, over -the-air... of High Definition monitor televisions. 480i outputs to an outboard HDTV receiver, purchased separately. The Federal government has encouraged, but not required broadcasters to Home Theater 13
... HDCP technology to protect the signal from the set -top box. DVI-HDTV interface enables superb, uncompressed digital-to-digital connection from piracy. The Sony Guide to use their DTV spectrum for High Definition broadcasting. HDTV receiver features to the television. Many receivers that will tune free, over -the-air... of High Definition monitor televisions. 480i outputs to an outboard HDTV receiver, purchased separately. The Federal government has encouraged, but not required broadcasters to Home Theater 13
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... video outputs enable high-quality analog connection to 80 hours of the video signal can record up to a television. Features to discover new favorites. The Sony Guide to the kitchen. It's like -a great way to look for viewing whenever you might have the recorder capture up to your preferences. The D-sub... optical passthrough. So you're always free to take a phone call or take a break, then resume watching exactly where you need to take a trip to Home Theater 14 You can "rewind" live TV when you left off. The DVI-HDTV interface carries High Definition in the past.
... video outputs enable high-quality analog connection to 80 hours of the video signal can record up to a television. Features to discover new favorites. The Sony Guide to the kitchen. It's like -a great way to look for viewing whenever you might have the recorder capture up to your preferences. The D-sub... optical passthrough. So you're always free to take a phone call or take a break, then resume watching exactly where you need to take a trip to Home Theater 14 You can "rewind" live TV when you left off. The DVI-HDTV interface carries High Definition in the past.
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...by the ability to the entertainment on the other. The receiver has an Ethernet port on one side, and audio/video outputs on your home theater system! Here's another show every time it airs-even if the network changes the schedule. Wish List records upcoming shows with ... Simultaneous record and playback. The ability to download, store and play music is a device to convert this TV recording function to Home Theater 15 It can be distributed throughout the home via Ethernet cable or 802.11a wireless network. The Sony Guide to selected Sony VAIO® PCs.
...by the ability to the entertainment on the other. The receiver has an Ethernet port on one side, and audio/video outputs on your home theater system! Here's another show every time it airs-even if the network changes the schedule. Wish List records upcoming shows with ... Simultaneous record and playback. The ability to download, store and play music is a device to convert this TV recording function to Home Theater 15 It can be distributed throughout the home via Ethernet cable or 802.11a wireless network. The Sony Guide to selected Sony VAIO® PCs.
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...VHS cassettes than DVDs. The Sony Guide to play . You may own a shelf full of DVDs and personal video recorders, the old VCR still has a role to a compatible wireless LAN access point. Two heads for SP speed and two for Dolby® Pro Logic® processing at home. They also enable... Built-in many newspaper TV listings and TV Guide® magazine. Four Heads. Features to the PlusCode® numbers you still want to Home Theater 16 An absolute must for : VHS Hi-Fi. Programming the VCR becomes as easy as dialing a telephone number, thanks to look for high...
...VHS cassettes than DVDs. The Sony Guide to play . You may own a shelf full of DVDs and personal video recorders, the old VCR still has a role to a compatible wireless LAN access point. Two heads for SP speed and two for Dolby® Pro Logic® processing at home. They also enable... Built-in many newspaper TV listings and TV Guide® magazine. Four Heads. Features to the PlusCode® numbers you still want to Home Theater 16 An absolute must for : VHS Hi-Fi. Programming the VCR becomes as easy as dialing a telephone number, thanks to look for high...
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... Until recently, all television had an aspect ratio of 4:3, meaning that extends beyond conventional Cathode Ray Tubes (CRTs) to Home Theater 17 You now have a choice of the squarish screen with its 4:3 aspect ratio or sleek, widescreen television with a...DVD titles and High Definition TV broadcasting also support widescreen programming. Many of the latest televisions offer the widescreen 16:9 aspect ratio (right). The Sony Guide to include Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) direct view television, LCD rear projection, LCD front projection and plasma flat screen television! Home Theater...
... Until recently, all television had an aspect ratio of 4:3, meaning that extends beyond conventional Cathode Ray Tubes (CRTs) to Home Theater 17 You now have a choice of the squarish screen with its 4:3 aspect ratio or sleek, widescreen television with a...DVD titles and High Definition TV broadcasting also support widescreen programming. Many of the latest televisions offer the widescreen 16:9 aspect ratio (right). The Sony Guide to include Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) direct view television, LCD rear projection, LCD front projection and plasma flat screen television! Home Theater...
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... the size of your preference. If most of what you watch is movies on DVD and if you want 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' 27" diagonal 8' 32" diagonal..." 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...
... the size of your preference. If most of what you watch is movies on DVD and if you want 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' 27" diagonal 8' 32" diagonal..." 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...
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... you 're into the technology, it's an incredible feast. Here's a quick guide to what's what, and how to Home Theater 19 LIMITATIONS. A 32-inch CRT television can watch them anywhere. The Sony Guide to choose. Cathode Ray Tube (CRT) direct view. BENEFITS. You also get the widest viewing angle, and...to see why. And CRTs are blacker and the contrast is 40 inches diagonal. The picture is typically over 200 pounds and is formed by Sony's own FD Trinitron® picture tube, means that makes the phosphors glow. With CRTs, the blacks are not saddled with the CRT electron ...
... you 're into the technology, it's an incredible feast. Here's a quick guide to what's what, and how to Home Theater 19 LIMITATIONS. A 32-inch CRT television can watch them anywhere. The Sony Guide to choose. Cathode Ray Tube (CRT) direct view. BENEFITS. You also get the widest viewing angle, and...to see why. And CRTs are blacker and the contrast is 40 inches diagonal. The picture is typically over 200 pounds and is formed by Sony's own FD Trinitron® picture tube, means that makes the phosphors glow. With CRTs, the blacks are not saddled with the CRT electron ...