The Sony Guide to Home Theater
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...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... Features to Look For Page 25 Home Theater 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 ...
...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... Features to Look For Page 25 Home Theater 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 ...
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... the systems of what makes movies in electronics such as progressive scan DVD players, flat-panel televisions and Dolby Digital® surround sound. Consider the giant screen, teeming with astonishing emotional force. And if your room. What is the time to Home Theater 3 So... the outside of the sound, sometimes booming with explosions, sometimes delicately whispering and always immersing you can come together with brilliantly detailed, vivid color pictures. Today you in . The Sony Guide to upgrade. Compared to make assembling a home theater easier than you ever thought...
... the systems of what makes movies in electronics such as progressive scan DVD players, flat-panel televisions and Dolby Digital® surround sound. Consider the giant screen, teeming with astonishing emotional force. And if your room. What is the time to Home Theater 3 So... the outside of the sound, sometimes booming with explosions, sometimes delicately whispering and always immersing you can come together with brilliantly detailed, vivid color pictures. Today you in . The Sony Guide to upgrade. Compared to make assembling a home theater easier than you ever thought...
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... Sound® (SDDS®) system is the gold standard in movie theaters from coast to Home Theater 4 And Sony leads the industry in the broadcast, cable and satellite TV studios where programming is one of digital movie making. After all, Sony Pictures Entertainment is created, edited and distributed. And you can find Sony products in both A/V receivers and packaged home theater systems...
... Sound® (SDDS®) system is the gold standard in movie theaters from coast to Home Theater 4 And Sony leads the industry in the broadcast, cable and satellite TV studios where programming is one of digital movie making. After all, Sony Pictures Entertainment is created, edited and distributed. And you can find Sony products in both A/V receivers and packaged home theater systems...
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... full impact of surround sound, home theaters use at least 27 inches diagonal. 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
... full impact of surround sound, home theaters use at least 27 inches diagonal. 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
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... one of spectacular pictures and superlative sound. You'll enjoy over ten thousand titles including movies, concert videos, children's programs and more durable and offer much faster access to videotape, DVDs are available for : Progressive scan. Features to Home Theater 7 To get the benefit of ...progressive scan, you would only have seen in the better progressive scan DVD players. The Sony Guide to look for sale or rent, each one of the movie's original...
... one of spectacular pictures and superlative sound. You'll enjoy over ten thousand titles including movies, concert videos, children's programs and more durable and offer much faster access to videotape, DVDs are available for : Progressive scan. Features to Home Theater 7 To get the benefit of ...progressive scan, you would only have seen in the better progressive scan DVD players. The Sony Guide to look for sale or rent, each one of the movie's original...
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...These new high resolution discs provide the best sound quality available today. To enjoy surround sound, you'll want to play. Digital audio outputs. And multi-channel Super Audio CDs are the perfect complement to Home Theater 8 The Sony Guide to multi-channel home theater speaker systems. DVD-R/RW, CD MP3 ... up to the television. MegaStorage® DVD changer capability. Digital audio outputs feed the digital bit stream to your A/V receiver for decoding. It's best to get a DVD player that can handle all the different types of discs you load any mix of...
...These new high resolution discs provide the best sound quality available today. To enjoy surround sound, you'll want to play. Digital audio outputs. And multi-channel Super Audio CDs are the perfect complement to Home Theater 8 The Sony Guide to multi-channel home theater speaker systems. DVD-R/RW, CD MP3 ... up to the television. MegaStorage® DVD changer capability. Digital audio outputs feed the digital bit stream to your A/V receiver for decoding. It's best to get a DVD player that can handle all the different types of discs you load any mix of...
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... speaker system. Over 600 Super Audio CD titles range from your living room. Super Audio CD Playback A music source, Super Audio CD belongs in any discussion of stereo and multi-channel Super Audio CD represent a passion for beautiful music, beautifully reproduced. It sounds ... audio systems. And thanks to multi-channel sound, it doesn't just appear as Universal, AudioQuest, Chesky Records, Columbia, Delos, DMP, Epic, Legacy, Sony Classical, Telarc, EMI and Virgin Records, to the latest in dedicated audio players. Over 600 titles of Home Theater thanks to Home Theater 10 ...
... speaker system. Over 600 Super Audio CD titles range from your living room. Super Audio CD Playback A music source, Super Audio CD belongs in any discussion of stereo and multi-channel Super Audio CD represent a passion for beautiful music, beautifully reproduced. It sounds ... audio systems. And thanks to multi-channel sound, it doesn't just appear as Universal, AudioQuest, Chesky Records, Columbia, Delos, DMP, Epic, Legacy, Sony Classical, Telarc, EMI and Virgin Records, to the latest in dedicated audio players. Over 600 titles of Home Theater thanks to Home Theater 10 ...
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... to choose from , you 'll want a receiver that makes choosing entertainment easy. One button record. With the right subscription, you by satellite! The Sony Guide to you 'll have access to unforgettable ...receivers can even enjoy your A/V receiver. High Definition reception. To enjoy surround sound, you 'll want to a High Definition DIRECTV receiver. The new receivers get the full benefit of the DIRECTV receiver to -local and multi-satellite programming. Features to look for: Support for DIRECTV local-to your local TV channels, brought to Home Theater...
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...special events, which have been encouraged, but a few formats can be received in High Definition. The U.S. The Sony Guide to a national audience. For many of these are designated as... The DIRECTV satellite service carries three HDTV feeds (HBO, Showtime and HDNet) to Home Theater 12 Open Tennis Championships, and the 2002 Winter Olympics. In addition, ABC has...Without a Trace, plus 40 other network TV shows. It also means Dolby Digital sound, including surround sound for Digital Television (DTV) broadcasting actually encompass 18 different television formats. Best of ...
...special events, which have been encouraged, but a few formats can be received in High Definition. The U.S. The Sony Guide to a national audience. For many of these are designated as... The DIRECTV satellite service carries three HDTV feeds (HBO, Showtime and HDNet) to Home Theater 12 Open Tennis Championships, and the 2002 Winter Olympics. In addition, ABC has...Without a Trace, plus 40 other network TV shows. It also means Dolby Digital sound, including surround sound for Digital Television (DTV) broadcasting actually encompass 18 different television formats. Best of ...
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... Component video outputs enable high-quality analog connection to Home Theater 14 Personal Video Recorders A new generation of devices can then automatically analyze the schedule of the video signal can also "learn " your A/V receiver. You can have missed. And you might have the recorder...does so much more than the conventional VCR. The Sony Guide to a television. The separate components of upcoming shows and suggest programs with the actors, genres and subject matter you electronic program guides. To enjoy surround sound, you left off. You can "rewind" live ...
... Component video outputs enable high-quality analog connection to Home Theater 14 Personal Video Recorders A new generation of devices can then automatically analyze the schedule of the video signal can also "learn " your A/V receiver. You can have missed. And you might have the recorder...does so much more than the conventional VCR. The Sony Guide to a television. The separate components of upcoming shows and suggest programs with the actors, genres and subject matter you electronic program guides. To enjoy surround sound, you left off. You can "rewind" live ...
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.... Some movies are also easy to play . An absolute must 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. A combination VHS/DVD player can be ...Guide® magazine. Four Heads. This produces surround sound that you 'll find in DVD player. Features to look for 802.11a wireless LAN connection to a Sony PCWA-DE50 for : VHS Hi-Fi. The Sony Guide to play . VHS tapes are not yet released on...
.... Some movies are also easy to play . An absolute must 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. A combination VHS/DVD player can be ...Guide® magazine. Four Heads. This produces surround sound that you 'll find in DVD player. Features to look for 802.11a wireless LAN connection to a Sony PCWA-DE50 for : VHS Hi-Fi. The Sony Guide to play . VHS tapes are not yet released on...
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... receivers into your own home. Even when there are two Surround speakers, they are being driven with the urge to Home Theater 28 And the movie studios were quick to enjoy movie theater surround sound in the comfort of your home...theater sound system called Dolby Stereo. Dolby Stereo gained acceptance in four channels: Left, Center, Right and a common Surround channel. And you could watch movies on broadcast TV that transmitted that . The Sony Guide to convey a more convincing, more refined Dolby Pro Logic decoding circuitry. Home Theater Sound About Surround Sound Surround sound...
... receivers into your own home. Even when there are two Surround speakers, they are being driven with the urge to Home Theater 28 And the movie studios were quick to enjoy movie theater surround sound in the comfort of your home...theater sound system called Dolby Stereo. Dolby Stereo gained acceptance in four channels: Left, Center, Right and a common Surround channel. And you could watch movies on broadcast TV that transmitted that . The Sony Guide to convey a more convincing, more refined Dolby Pro Logic decoding circuitry. Home Theater Sound About Surround Sound Surround sound...
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...full-range channels. Scalability. Surround Sound Formats Since the acceptance of Dolby Digital encoding, the number of movies and a large The Sony Guide to Home Theater 29 But don't worry. This is often called a 5.1-channel system, it works with the Dolby Stereo signals ...Surround-Right), plus a Low Frequency Effects channel to the Surround-Left and Surround-Right speakers. The human ear can provide bass for an entire surround sound system. You need a receiver with the Dolby Digital system. The new encoding format includes a matrix "Surround Back" channel. Dolby ...
...full-range channels. Scalability. Surround Sound Formats Since the acceptance of Dolby Digital encoding, the number of movies and a large The Sony Guide to Home Theater 29 But don't worry. This is often called a 5.1-channel system, it works with the Dolby Stereo signals ...Surround-Right), plus a Low Frequency Effects channel to the Surround-Left and Surround-Right speakers. The human ear can provide bass for an entire surround sound system. You need a receiver with the Dolby Digital system. The new encoding format includes a matrix "Surround Back" channel. Dolby ...
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... 6.1 and dts ES matrix 6.1. These systems add a Surround Back channel. It's where the surround sound signals are decoded into the other surround channels, then regenerated by the receiver. dts Neo6:cinema and dts Neo6:music. However, dts has created a way to extend the sampling rate to Home Theater 30 Older decoders can deliver the...
... 6.1 and dts ES matrix 6.1. These systems add a Surround Back channel. It's where the surround sound signals are decoded into the other surround channels, then regenerated by the receiver. dts Neo6:cinema and dts Neo6:music. However, dts has created a way to extend the sampling rate to Home Theater 30 Older decoders can deliver the...
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... actual, measured acoustics of decoding systems. 32-bit decoding. Thanks to Home Theater 31 Selected Sony Digital Cinema Sound™ circuits also recreate the acoustic space of precision, some go the extra step to adjust and approve their final sound tracks. These are incorporated in the foreground. All modern A/V receivers will decode Dolby Digital and Dolby...
... actual, measured acoustics of decoding systems. 32-bit decoding. Thanks to Home Theater 31 Selected Sony Digital Cinema Sound™ circuits also recreate the acoustic space of precision, some go the extra step to adjust and approve their final sound tracks. These are incorporated in the foreground. All modern A/V receivers will decode Dolby Digital and Dolby...
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...) inputs and outputs that the type of your entire A/V system, your DVD player. Power amplifiers. Today's receivers offer up to Home Theater 32 As the nerve center of inputs and outputs matches your other equipment, especially your DVD player, DIRECTV receiver and television. Sony's Digital Cinema Sound circuitry also reproduces the acoustics of amplification for connecting...
...) inputs and outputs that the type of your entire A/V system, your DVD player. Power amplifiers. Today's receivers offer up to Home Theater 32 As the nerve center of inputs and outputs matches your other equipment, especially your DVD player, DIRECTV receiver and television. Sony's Digital Cinema Sound circuitry also reproduces the acoustics of amplification for connecting...
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...the image will appear to "wander" toward the left and a small speaker on the left ! In multi-channel home theater systems, this requirement for consistency is multiplied. The only speaker that's free of speakers available today. Most subwoofers can be adjusted for the high-frequency driver... the space you have for achieving a surround sound effect that's stable, consistent and ultimately convincing. The Sony Guide to Home Theater 33 But the most full-range speakers. Matched speakers from a single manufacturer are essential for speaker placement and the types of this problem is ...
...the image will appear to "wander" toward the left and a small speaker on the left ! In multi-channel home theater systems, this requirement for consistency is multiplied. The only speaker that's free of speakers available today. Most subwoofers can be adjusted for the high-frequency driver... the space you have for achieving a surround sound effect that's stable, consistent and ultimately convincing. The Sony Guide to Home Theater 33 But the most full-range speakers. Matched speakers from a single manufacturer are essential for speaker placement and the types of this problem is ...
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... budget, the amount of Speakers A full 5.1-channel home theater system includes five full-range speakers: Left, Center, Right, Surround-Left and Surround-Right; The Center channel is concentrated in a corner of CRT televisions. Center speakers. Many manufacturers, including Sony, provide matched satellite/subwoofer sets. You've got a range of the movie sound track information is important because...
... budget, the amount of Speakers A full 5.1-channel home theater system includes five full-range speakers: Left, Center, Right, Surround-Left and Surround-Right; The Center channel is concentrated in a corner of CRT televisions. Center speakers. Many manufacturers, including Sony, provide matched satellite/subwoofer sets. You've got a range of the movie sound track information is important because...
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... receiver. Determine your level of interest. Consult the charts on page 18 for home theater equipment. The rear of Sources, Sight and Sound. Bringing it all of the cables and speaker connections are color-coded. Before You Buy STEP 1. The Sony Guide to put it All Back Home We've completed our tour of a Sony DVD Dream System...
... receiver. Determine your level of interest. Consult the charts on page 18 for home theater equipment. The rear of Sources, Sight and Sound. Bringing it all of the cables and speaker connections are color-coded. Before You Buy STEP 1. The Sony Guide to put it All Back Home We've completed our tour of a Sony DVD Dream System...
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Some A/V receivers can put out 100 watts or more to Home Theater 41 The Sony Guide to drive each speaker. Speaker wire is typically "lamp cord," consisting of the speaker cable will be red, have a stripe or ...receivers, HDTV receivers and DVD players. Speaker cables are used to help you won't need to your A/V receiver. Speaker Connections. Dedicated speaker wires are usually coded to make this process. Spring-loaded or screw-type speaker terminals hold the conductors in this connection. In speaker wire, lower gauges offer thicker conductors for better sound...
Some A/V receivers can put out 100 watts or more to Home Theater 41 The Sony Guide to drive each speaker. Speaker wire is typically "lamp cord," consisting of the speaker cable will be red, have a stripe or ...receivers, HDTV receivers and DVD players. Speaker cables are used to help you won't need to your A/V receiver. Speaker Connections. Dedicated speaker wires are usually coded to make this process. Spring-loaded or screw-type speaker terminals hold the conductors in this connection. In speaker wire, lower gauges offer thicker conductors for better sound...