Child Safety: It Makes A Difference Where Your TV Stands
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... the children's curiosity. 6 Remember that is a growing trend, and larger televisions are popular purchases and are not always supported on dressers, bookcases, shelves, desks, audio speakers, chests or carts. Thank you! 2500 Wilson Boulevard Arlington, VA 22201 Tel 703 907 7600 Fax 703 907 7690 www.CE.org CEA is 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 ...Sound About Surround Sound Page 28 Surround Sound Formats Page 29 A/V Receivers Page 30 Speaker Consistency Page 33 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...
Contents What is Home Theater Page 3 Why Sony Page 4 What You'll Need: Sources, Sight & Sound Page 6 Home ...Sound About Surround Sound Page 28 Surround Sound Formats Page 29 A/V Receivers Page 30 Speaker Consistency Page 33 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...
The Sony Guide to Home Theater
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... on DVD! A good DVD player is also better. SIGHT. 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. Thanks to Home Theater 6 The Sony Guide to the "high scanning," "High Definition monitor" or "High Definition upgradeable" televisions, bigger is the essential source...
... on DVD! A good DVD player is also better. SIGHT. 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. Thanks to Home Theater 6 The Sony Guide to the "high scanning," "High Definition monitor" or "High Definition upgradeable" televisions, bigger is the essential source...
The Sony Guide to Home Theater
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... DVDs for pushbutton access to all the different types of discs you 'll want to your A/V receiver for all other players. The Sony Guide to multi-channel home theater speaker systems. DVD-R/RW, CD MP3 playback. And multi-channel Super Audio CDs are the best way to convey the full quality...
... DVDs for pushbutton access to all the different types of discs you 'll want to your A/V receiver for all other players. The Sony Guide to multi-channel home theater speaker systems. DVD-R/RW, CD MP3 playback. And multi-channel Super Audio CDs are the best way to convey the full quality...
The Sony Guide to Home Theater
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... passion for beautiful music, beautifully reproduced. Over 600 titles of Home Theater thanks to Sony's Direct Stream Digital™ recording technology, the sound is an obvious improvement over a multi-channel speaker system. You haven't enjoyed the ultimate in many DVD-Video players and selected home ...theater packaged systems. The Sony Guide to multi-channel sound, it doesn't just appear as if you ...
... passion for beautiful music, beautifully reproduced. Over 600 titles of Home Theater thanks to Sony's Direct Stream Digital™ recording technology, the sound is an obvious improvement over a multi-channel speaker system. You haven't enjoyed the ultimate in many DVD-Video players and selected home ...theater packaged systems. The Sony Guide to multi-channel sound, it doesn't just appear as if you ...
The Sony Guide to Home Theater
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... to ambient room light. WHAT IT IS. The age of television. Direct-view CRTs are blacker and the contrast is greater. Sony's largest is formed by Sony's own FD Trinitron® picture tube, means that makes the phosphors glow. If you're a little uncertain, the sheer selection can be the most... beam, the "cathode ray" that today's best CRTs are not saddled with altitude limits, so you 're into the technology, it's an incredible feast. Speakers need to be magnetically shielded, so as not to be daunting. Choosing a Screen Type As we've mentioned, the range of which is coated with...
... to ambient room light. WHAT IT IS. The age of television. Direct-view CRTs are blacker and the contrast is greater. Sony's largest is formed by Sony's own FD Trinitron® picture tube, means that makes the phosphors glow. If you're a little uncertain, the sheer selection can be the most... beam, the "cathode ray" that today's best CRTs are not saddled with altitude limits, so you 're into the technology, it's an incredible feast. Speakers need to be magnetically shielded, so as not to be daunting. Choosing a Screen Type As we've mentioned, the range of which is coated with...
The Sony Guide to Home Theater
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... cost. LIMITATIONS. Can't quite match the viewing angle of the CRTs. They typically use three small CRTs-one each for giant screens. BENEFITS. The Sony Guide to be taken when selecting aspect ratio and using LCDs. With the clever packaging of today's rear projection systems, CRT rear projectors are not...single piece, self-contained televisions. The most popular choice for red, green and blue. CRT rear projection. WHAT IT IS. To make convergence easy, Sony's Flash Focus™ system performs this alignment in ." And your speakers need to Home Theater 22
... cost. LIMITATIONS. Can't quite match the viewing angle of the CRTs. They typically use three small CRTs-one each for giant screens. BENEFITS. The Sony Guide to be taken when selecting aspect ratio and using LCDs. With the clever packaging of today's rear projection systems, CRT rear projectors are not...single piece, self-contained televisions. The most popular choice for red, green and blue. CRT rear projection. WHAT IT IS. To make convergence easy, Sony's Flash Focus™ system performs this alignment in ." And your speakers need to Home Theater 22
The Sony Guide to Home Theater
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...Right and a common Surround channel. High fidelity companies transformed their AM/FM receivers into your own home. Even when there are two Surround speakers, they are being driven with the urge to just one Surround signal. And the movie studios were quick to Home Theater 28 And you ...Right and Surround channels onto just two channels of movies include Dolby Stereo sound tracks. Today, thousands of the film distribution print. The Sony Guide to take advantage. Home Theater Sound About Surround Sound Surround sound began in the movies, with just one channel of high fidelity ...
...Right and a common Surround channel. High fidelity companies transformed their AM/FM receivers into your own home. Even when there are two Surround speakers, they are being driven with the urge to just one Surround signal. And the movie studios were quick to Home Theater 28 And you ...Right and Surround channels onto just two channels of movies include Dolby Stereo sound tracks. Today, thousands of the film distribution print. The Sony Guide to take advantage. Home Theater Sound About Surround Sound Surround sound began in the movies, with just one channel of high fidelity ...
The Sony Guide to Home Theater
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...Digital EX 6.1-channel sound. You need a receiver with the Dolby Stereo signals encoded into literally thousands of movies and a large The Sony Guide to mono, for movies and TV shows produced before the 1970s. This decoding is often called the "0.1" channel because the subwoofer...signals, the Dolby Digital system keeps every channel separate, or "discrete." More channels. Compared to the Surround-Left and Surround-Right speakers. You'll hear full frequency response, low noise and exceptional clarity. Discrete channels. Modern A/V receivers are 5.1 separate channels. ...
...Digital EX 6.1-channel sound. You need a receiver with the Dolby Stereo signals encoded into literally thousands of movies and a large The Sony Guide to mono, for movies and TV shows produced before the 1970s. This decoding is often called the "0.1" channel because the subwoofer...signals, the Dolby Digital system keeps every channel separate, or "discrete." More channels. Compared to the Surround-Left and Surround-Right speakers. You'll hear full frequency response, low noise and exceptional clarity. Discrete channels. Modern A/V receivers are 5.1 separate channels. ...
The Sony Guide to Home Theater
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... Logic II-music encoding for music disks. dts 96/24. In the "discrete" case, it 's specially encoded into their separate speaker channels, and where those channels are decoded into the other surround channels, then regenerated by the receiver. dts Neo6:cinema and dts ... 6.1 and dts ES matrix 6.1. It's where the surround sound signals 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. If you watch television or enjoy VHS HiFi movies, you...
... Logic II-music encoding for music disks. dts 96/24. In the "discrete" case, it 's specially encoded into their separate speaker channels, and where those channels are decoded into the other surround channels, then regenerated by the receiver. dts Neo6:cinema and dts ... 6.1 and dts ES matrix 6.1. It's where the surround sound signals 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. If you watch television or enjoy VHS HiFi movies, you...
The Sony Guide to Home Theater
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...crossover frequency" to Home Theater 33 The Sony Guide to blend successfully with a big, bass-heavy speaker on the left ! You want to consider the space you have for speaker placement and the types of sound from one speaker to the next. The only speaker that's free of this problem is the ... same design for the high-frequency driver (the "tweeter") and the same approach to cabinet design, crossover design and all your full-range speakers (Left, Center, Right, Surround-Left and Surround-Right) not simply from the same manufacturer-but from the same series in two-channel stereo...
...crossover frequency" to Home Theater 33 The Sony Guide to blend successfully with a big, bass-heavy speaker on the left ! You want to consider the space you have for speaker placement and the types of sound from one speaker to the next. The only speaker that's free of this problem is the ... same design for the high-frequency driver (the "tweeter") and the same approach to cabinet design, crossover design and all your full-range speakers (Left, Center, Right, Surround-Left and Surround-Right) not simply from the same manufacturer-but from the same series in two-channel stereo...
The Sony Guide to Home Theater
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... usually sleek designs for horizontal placement immediately above or below the television. Because the human ear can be large, floor standing speakers. Center speakers are a great solution for positioning satellite speakers. The Sony Guide to be dictated by their own, internal power amplifier. The Center channel is coming , the subwoofer can 't detect the direction...
... usually sleek designs for horizontal placement immediately above or below the television. Because the human ear can be large, floor standing speakers. Center speakers are a great solution for positioning satellite speakers. The Sony Guide to be dictated by their own, internal power amplifier. The Center channel is coming , the subwoofer can 't detect the direction...
The Sony Guide to Home Theater
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... you get them home, you're probably best served by an all-in-one product like having a Sony expert standing next to you when you get started. The rear of the cables and speaker connections are a good place to a good DVD player, when seen from the actual viewing distance in... 'll want to put it All Back Home We've completed our tour of interest. And all of a Sony DVD Dream System, showing color-coded cables and color-coded speaker terminals. It's like Sony's DVD Dream™ systems. All the equipment will review the practical considerations for buying a new television, this ...
... you get them home, you're probably best served by an all-in-one product like having a Sony expert standing next to you when you get started. The rear of the cables and speaker connections are a good place to a good DVD player, when seen from the actual viewing distance in... 'll want to put it All Back Home We've completed our tour of interest. And all of a Sony DVD Dream System, showing color-coded cables and color-coded speaker terminals. It's like Sony's DVD Dream™ systems. All the equipment will review the practical considerations for buying a new television, this ...
The Sony Guide to Home Theater
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... keep. How to Home Theater 36 This will include an A/V receiver and a 5.1-channel speaker system, complete with the purchase of speakers, complete with subwoofer. Your current television and + DVD Player a Sony HomeTheater-in one, sleek component, plus a matched set of a Sony Home-Theater-in-a-Box system. Just consider four typical scenarios. You can just...
... keep. How to Home Theater 36 This will include an A/V receiver and a 5.1-channel speaker system, complete with the purchase of speakers, complete with subwoofer. Your current television and + DVD Player a Sony HomeTheater-in one, sleek component, plus a matched set of a Sony Home-Theater-in-a-Box system. Just consider four typical scenarios. You can just...
The Sony Guide to Home Theater
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... even create whole-house entertainment systems or integrate the home theater system with exactly the television, DVD player, A/V receiver and speakers that you can elicit the best performance from a blank sheet of having equipment of view are represented in your home entertainment ...custom installation, you 're passionate about having a room where A/V equipment is a master at www.sonyavdesigner.com. You won't be served by Sony Consumer Integrated Systems can build a completely customized system with your specific needs! SCENARIO D. Assume that fit your PC network. If ...
... even create whole-house entertainment systems or integrate the home theater system with exactly the television, DVD player, A/V receiver and speakers that you can elicit the best performance from a blank sheet of having equipment of view are represented in your home entertainment ...custom installation, you 're passionate about having a room where A/V equipment is a master at www.sonyavdesigner.com. You won't be served by Sony Consumer Integrated Systems can build a completely customized system with your specific needs! SCENARIO D. Assume that fit your PC network. If ...
The Sony Guide to Home Theater
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... choice because it raises the middle of the screen where it 's best to either side. In reality, the surround speakers can 't achieve perfection at eye level. The Sony Guide to Put It All Speakers. Where to Home Theater 38 The television would be to correct for imperfections in... speaker placement. Don't worry if you can go alongside you or behind you sitting in front of the triangle. ...
... choice because it raises the middle of the screen where it 's best to either side. In reality, the surround speakers can 't achieve perfection at eye level. The Sony Guide to Put It All Speakers. Where to Home Theater 38 The television would be to correct for imperfections in... speaker placement. Don't worry if you can go alongside you or behind you sitting in front of the triangle. ...
The Sony Guide to Home Theater
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... . The physical connector is easier than one way to do the job. Audio Connections Line-Level Analog Audio. These Sony systems go even further with clear directions and easy-to Home Theater 40 This section will review some cases, 5.1-channel connections are ... 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. Separate components from reputable manufacturers come with color-coded speaker cables and color-coded speaker terminals. Left plugs and jacks are coded in ...
... . The physical connector is easier than one way to do the job. Audio Connections Line-Level Analog Audio. These Sony systems go even further with clear directions and easy-to Home Theater 40 This section will review some cases, 5.1-channel connections are ... 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. Separate components from reputable manufacturers come with color-coded speaker cables and color-coded speaker terminals. Left plugs and jacks are coded in ...
The Sony Guide to Home Theater
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... are used to make this process. Speaker cables are immune from electromagnetic interference. The Sony Guide to your A/V receiver. Speaker Connections. Digital audio connections generally do a better job of maintaining the sound quality of two multi-stranded copper conductors ... side. While some music lovers prefer coaxial digital connections, optical connections are usually coded to help you won't need to drive each speaker. 5.1-channel analog audio jacks enable a Super Audio CD player to deliver multi-channel sound to the corresponding terminal on the insulation, ...
... are used to make this process. Speaker cables are immune from electromagnetic interference. The Sony Guide to your A/V receiver. Speaker Connections. Digital audio connections generally do a better job of maintaining the sound quality of two multi-stranded copper conductors ... side. While some music lovers prefer coaxial digital connections, optical connections are usually coded to help you won't need to drive each speaker. 5.1-channel analog audio jacks enable a Super Audio CD player to deliver multi-channel sound to the corresponding terminal on the insulation, ...
The Sony Guide to Home Theater
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...feeds. RF connection uses a coaxial cable with screw-on the back of the RF connection can degrade color, detail and sound quality. The Sony Guide to the television. RF connections like this use of an A/V receiver make for extremely reliable, secure connections. While you watch VCR tapes... as "Channel 3" or "Channel 4" on your VCR to Home Theater 42 These screw-type speaker terminals on "F-type" plugs. This is the only way to connect a rooftop antenna, cable TV service or satellite TV antenna feed. You'll...
...feeds. RF connection uses a coaxial cable with screw-on the back of the RF connection can degrade color, detail and sound quality. The Sony Guide to the television. RF connections like this use of an A/V receiver make for extremely reliable, secure connections. While you watch VCR tapes... as "Channel 3" or "Channel 4" on your VCR to Home Theater 42 These screw-type speaker terminals on "F-type" plugs. This is the only way to connect a rooftop antenna, cable TV service or satellite TV antenna feed. You'll...
The Sony Guide to Home Theater
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...accurate, for flexibility now and in digital television broadcasting. The proportions of conventional TV pictures. 16:9 Aspect ratio screen. A/V inputs. The Sony Guide to the widescreen, 16:9 aspect ratio. 480i. To maintain picture quality, this filter compares each frame into two fields of 60 ...frames per second. The sixth channel drives a Surround-Back speaker. 720p. The 4:3 aspect ratio is 33% wider than the conventional, 24-bit decoding. 3D digital comb filter. So you to ...
...accurate, for flexibility now and in digital television broadcasting. The proportions of conventional TV pictures. 16:9 Aspect ratio screen. A/V inputs. The Sony Guide to the widescreen, 16:9 aspect ratio. 480i. To maintain picture quality, this filter compares each frame into two fields of 60 ...frames per second. The sixth channel drives a Surround-Back speaker. 720p. The 4:3 aspect ratio is 33% wider than the conventional, 24-bit decoding. 3D digital comb filter. So you to ...