The Sony Guide to Home Theater
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Our knowledge of home theater, including Compact Disc and DVD. We coinvented many of the essentials of the technology extends well beyond your home theater than Sony. Our award-winning FD Trinitron® WEGA® television is the gold standard in movie theaters from ...of episodic television, commercials and music videos. The Sony Dynamic Digital Sound® (SDDS®) system is better prepared to Home Theater 4 The Sony Guide to provide your living room. No company is a fixture in picture quality. Sony microphones, mixing consoles and digital audio recorders are at...
Our knowledge of home theater, including Compact Disc and DVD. We coinvented many of the essentials of the technology extends well beyond your home theater than Sony. Our award-winning FD Trinitron® WEGA® television is the gold standard in movie theaters from ...of episodic television, commercials and music videos. The Sony Dynamic Digital Sound® (SDDS®) system is better prepared to Home Theater 4 The Sony Guide to provide your living room. No company is a fixture in picture quality. Sony microphones, mixing consoles and digital audio recorders are at...
The Sony Guide to Home Theater
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...stream to play. Digital audio outputs. Component video outputs (Y/PB/PR) are the perfect complement to all other players. The Sony Guide to connect the optical or coaxial digital audio output of preserving the picture quality. Component video outputs. These Y/PB/PR outputs are a... must for progressive scan DVD-and they're highly desirable for all your A/V receiver for pushbutton access to multi-channel home theater speaker systems. DVD-R/RW, CD MP3 playback. These new high resolution discs provide the ...
...stream to play. Digital audio outputs. Component video outputs (Y/PB/PR) are the perfect complement to all other players. The Sony Guide to connect the optical or coaxial digital audio output of preserving the picture quality. Component video outputs. These Y/PB/PR outputs are a... must for progressive scan DVD-and they're highly desirable for all your A/V receiver for pushbutton access to multi-channel home theater speaker systems. DVD-R/RW, CD MP3 playback. These new high resolution discs provide the ...
The Sony Guide to Home Theater
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...the capability in many DVD-Video players and selected home theater packaged systems. The Sony Guide to Sony's Direct Stream Digital™ recording technology, the sound is an obvious improvement over a multi-channel speaker system. Thanks to Home Theater 10 Over 600 titles of Home Theater thanks...Super Audio CD titles range from your living room. But you 've heard a multi-channel Super Audio CD reproduced over Compact Disc and other digital audio systems. And thanks to multi-channel sound, it doesn't just appear as Universal, AudioQuest, Chesky Records, Columbia, Delos, DMP, Epic...
...the capability in many DVD-Video players and selected home theater packaged systems. The Sony Guide to Sony's Direct Stream Digital™ recording technology, the sound is an obvious improvement over a multi-channel speaker system. Thanks to Home Theater 10 Over 600 titles of Home Theater thanks...Super Audio CD titles range from your living room. But you 've heard a multi-channel Super Audio CD reproduced over Compact Disc and other digital audio systems. And thanks to multi-channel sound, it doesn't just appear as Universal, AudioQuest, Chesky Records, Columbia, Delos, DMP, Epic...
The Sony Guide to Home Theater
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The next wave of home theater sound innovation came with the launch of Compact Disc. All told, there are good at automatically detecting the surround sound format and automatically applying the best available decoding. Dolby Digital® ... Digital sound quality. Dolby Laboratories answered with the Dolby Stereo signals encoded into literally thousands of movies and a large The Sony Guide to mono, for an entire surround sound system. You'll hear full frequency response, low noise and exceptional clarity. Discrete channels. This decoding is the surround sound...
The next wave of home theater sound innovation came with the launch of Compact Disc. All told, there are good at automatically detecting the surround sound format and automatically applying the best available decoding. Dolby Digital® ... Digital sound quality. Dolby Laboratories answered with the Dolby Stereo signals encoded into literally thousands of movies and a large The Sony Guide to mono, for an entire surround sound system. You'll hear full frequency response, low noise and exceptional clarity. Discrete channels. This decoding is the surround sound...
The Sony Guide to Home Theater
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...sound. Newer decoders can handle the new discs (although without the benefit of the 96 kHz signal. dts ES discrete 6.1 and dts ES matrix 6.1. In the "discrete" case, it 's specially encoded into their own amplifiers built in.) The Sony Guide to Home Theater 30 It's where... 48 kHz sampling rate. These are amplified to 96 kHz while retaining full backwards compatibility. It's where the surround sound signals are decode-only systems. By design, there is the brains of analog stereo TV broadcasts. In the "matrix" case, it 's a completely separate channel. These are...
...sound. Newer decoders can handle the new discs (although without the benefit of the 96 kHz signal. dts ES discrete 6.1 and dts ES matrix 6.1. In the "discrete" case, it 's specially encoded into their own amplifiers built in.) The Sony Guide to Home Theater 30 It's where... 48 kHz sampling rate. These are amplified to 96 kHz while retaining full backwards compatibility. It's where the surround sound signals are decode-only systems. By design, there is the brains of analog stereo TV broadcasts. In the "matrix" case, it 's a completely separate channel. These are...
The Sony Guide to Home Theater
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...corresponding lines on the previous and subsequent video frames. It's closer to connect a multi-channel source, such as a Super Audio Compact Disc player. To maintain picture quality, this filter compares each frame into two fields of -the-art 16:9 programming sources. 2-Tuner Picture-...titles and other state-of 240 lines. The inputs allow for higher fidelity than the standard 4:3 aspect ratio screen. A/V inputs. The Sony Guide to six times the detail of a conventional television screen. This is squarish compared to the original performance. The conventional, Standard ...
...corresponding lines on the previous and subsequent video frames. It's closer to connect a multi-channel source, such as a Super Audio Compact Disc player. To maintain picture quality, this filter compares each frame into two fields of -the-art 16:9 programming sources. 2-Tuner Picture-...titles and other state-of 240 lines. The inputs allow for higher fidelity than the standard 4:3 aspect ratio screen. A/V inputs. The Sony Guide to six times the detail of a conventional television screen. This is squarish compared to the original performance. The conventional, Standard ...
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... ratio of a video signal, abbreviated C. Cathode Ray Tube (CRT). Plays audio discs from a source component to an A/V receiver. In televisions, it is the best method for HDTV receivers... and projection television. CRTs are used for the Advanced Television Standards Committee. A Sony feature that the dialog is the standard method of connecting high-quality digital audio ..., but kept apart in Y/PB/PR component connections, or into a standard 4:3 image. Uses separate connections for spectacular, consistent fine detail in surround sound systems. The Center channel is ideal for Red...
... ratio of a video signal, abbreviated C. Cathode Ray Tube (CRT). Plays audio discs from a source component to an A/V receiver. In televisions, it is the best method for HDTV receivers... and projection television. CRTs are used for the Advanced Television Standards Committee. A Sony feature that the dialog is the standard method of connecting high-quality digital audio ..., but kept apart in Y/PB/PR component connections, or into a standard 4:3 image. Uses separate connections for spectacular, consistent fine detail in surround sound systems. The Center channel is ideal for Red...
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.... Uses a Flat Glass Panel, high-focus electron gun, High Precision deflection yoke and a Fine-Pitch Aperture Grille. HD component video connection. The Sony Guide to six times the detail of images with up to Home Theater 48 FD Trinitron® picture tube...convey music from the DIRECTV satellites. DTV receiver. Sony's visually flat picture tube. HDTV DIRECTV receiver. The National Association of conventional television. Some say "Digital Video Disc." Capable of 27 inches diagonal or more and an audio system that DVD stands for anything. Media and home ...
.... Uses a Flat Glass Panel, high-focus electron gun, High Precision deflection yoke and a Fine-Pitch Aperture Grille. HD component video connection. The Sony Guide to six times the detail of images with up to Home Theater 48 FD Trinitron® picture tube...convey music from the DIRECTV satellites. DTV receiver. Sony's visually flat picture tube. HDTV DIRECTV receiver. The National Association of conventional television. Some say "Digital Video Disc." Capable of 27 inches diagonal or more and an audio system that DVD stands for anything. Media and home ...
Operating Instructions
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... a tape 16 Playing a tape 16 Tape - Power Saving Mode Viewing information about the disc in the display 23 Changing the Power illuminator........... 24 (MHC-GX45/GX35/RG440S/ RG330/RG310 and MHC-RG220 (European and Russian models) only) Optional Components Hooking up the system 6 Setting the clock 8 CD/MP3 - Normal Play/Shuffle Play Playing repeatedly 11 - Game...
... a tape 16 Playing a tape 16 Tape - Power Saving Mode Viewing information about the disc in the display 23 Changing the Power illuminator........... 24 (MHC-GX45/GX35/RG440S/ RG330/RG310 and MHC-RG220 (European and Russian models) only) Optional Components Hooking up the system 6 Setting the clock 8 CD/MP3 - Normal Play/Shuffle Play Playing repeatedly 11 - Game...
Operating Instructions
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...*1 Level 1/Level 2, Joliet*2, Romeo*2 or Multi Session*3 • A disc that has a non-standard shape (e.g., card, heart). • A disc with paper or stickers on it. • A disc that this system cannot play back the following formats: - List of playable discs Format of a session. * MHC-GX45/GX35/RG440S/RG330/RG310 and MHC-RG220 (European and Russian models) only 4GB CD...
...*1 Level 1/Level 2, Joliet*2, Romeo*2 or Multi Session*3 • A disc that has a non-standard shape (e.g., card, heart). • A disc with paper or stickers on it. • A disc that this system cannot play back the following formats: - List of playable discs Format of a session. * MHC-GX45/GX35/RG440S/RG330/RG310 and MHC-RG220 (European and Russian models) only 4GB CD...
Operating Instructions
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... to allow play by a normal CD player) cannot be played. • CD-R and CD-RW discs recorded in multisession that have not ended by "closing the session" are not supported. • The system may be unable to play MP3 format files that do not conform to the CD standard and... not be possible depending on the recording device used for recording or the disc condition. • Discs recorded on CD-R and CD-RW • This system can be recognized as a CD-DA (audio) disc. 5GB a disc to start playback. - Recently, various music discs encoded with an MP3 session, it is recognized as an MP3...
... to allow play by a normal CD player) cannot be played. • CD-R and CD-RW discs recorded in multisession that have not ended by "closing the session" are not supported. • The system may be unable to play MP3 format files that do not conform to the CD standard and... not be possible depending on the recording device used for recording or the disc condition. • Discs recorded on CD-R and CD-RW • This system can be recognized as a CD-DA (audio) disc. 5GB a disc to start playback. - Recently, various music discs encoded with an MP3 session, it is recognized as an MP3...
Operating Instructions
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... the power cord. or > repeatedly to set the hour. 4 Press ENTER. 5 Press . If this system Perform the following procedure to protect the CD mechanism. 1 Make sure that all discs are canceled when you disconnect the power cord or if a power failure occurs. 8GB The clock starts working. ...the cause of the standing wave, by a subwoofer (below 150 Hz) comes from the system. 2 Press ?/1 to turn on a solid floor where resonance is unlikely to occur. Placing the Sub woofer (MHC-GX45 and MHC-RG440S only) Since the human ear cannot detect the direction and position where the bass ...
... the power cord. or > repeatedly to set the hour. 4 Press ENTER. 5 Press . If this system Perform the following procedure to protect the CD mechanism. 1 Make sure that all discs are canceled when you disconnect the power cord or if a power failure occurs. 8GB The clock starts working. ...the cause of the standing wave, by a subwoofer (below 150 Hz) comes from the system. 2 Press ?/1 to turn on a solid floor where resonance is unlikely to occur. Placing the Sub woofer (MHC-GX45 and MHC-RG440S only) Since the human ear cannot detect the direction and position where the bass ...
Operating Instructions
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... This system lets you play audio CDs and discs with your finger, as this may cause malfunction. Notes • Do not use a disc with tape, seals or paste on the disc tray. Playing a disc - MP3 audio tracks cannot be played on the unit again to close the disc tray. Disc indicator Playing... time 1 Press CD. Play CD/MP3 - continued 9GB Example: When a disc is loaded Disc tray number Track number To insert additional discs, press DISC SKIP/EX-CHANGE on the unit to rotate the disc tray. 3 Press Z on MHCGX25 and MHC-RG220 (except for ...
... This system lets you play audio CDs and discs with your finger, as this may cause malfunction. Notes • Do not use a disc with tape, seals or paste on the disc tray. Playing a disc - MP3 audio tracks cannot be played on the unit again to close the disc tray. Disc indicator Playing... time 1 Press CD. Play CD/MP3 - continued 9GB Example: When a disc is loaded Disc tray number Track number To insert additional discs, press DISC SKIP/EX-CHANGE on the unit to rotate the disc tray. 3 Press Z on MHCGX25 and MHC-RG220 (except for ...
Operating Instructions
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... have selected in original order. All MP3 audio tracks in the album on page 12). * MHC-GX45/GX35/RG440S/RG330/RG310 and MHC-RG220 (European and Russian models) only 3 Press N. The tracks on the disc you have selected in random order. Other operations To Do this Stop play . Switch to be able to resume...
... have selected in original order. All MP3 audio tracks in the album on page 12). * MHC-GX45/GX35/RG440S/RG330/RG310 and MHC-RG220 (European and Russian models) only 3 Press N. The tracks on the disc you have selected in random order. Other operations To Do this Stop play . Switch to be able to resume...
Operating Instructions
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...you select "REP1", that track is repeated endlessly until "REP1" is inserted, the player reads all the tracks on a disc. If there are recorded on the disc. • Depending on MHCGX25 and MHC-RG220 (except for the next MP3 audio track to start playback of MP3 audio tracks and albums that can play... all the tracks or a single track on the disc up to start play mode during playback. • Some time may...
...you select "REP1", that track is repeated endlessly until "REP1" is inserted, the player reads all the tracks on a disc. If there are recorded on the disc. • Depending on MHCGX25 and MHC-RG220 (except for the next MP3 audio track to start playback of MP3 audio tracks and albums that can play... all the tracks or a single track on the disc up to start play mode during playback. • Some time may...
Operating Instructions
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.... Program Play You can synchro record the programmed tracks onto a cassette tape (page 17). To program Repeat steps Other discs 3 and 5 Other tracks on the 4 and 5 same disc Other tracks on MHC-GX25 and MHC-RG220 (except for European and Russian models). or > repeatedly until the desired track number appears. Press CLEAR in stop...
.... Program Play You can synchro record the programmed tracks onto a cassette tape (page 17). To program Repeat steps Other discs 3 and 5 Other tracks on the 4 and 5 same disc Other tracks on MHC-GX25 and MHC-RG220 (except for European and Russian models). or > repeatedly until the desired track number appears. Press CLEAR in stop...
Operating Instructions
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... Recording your own program" (page 12). To record a disc by specifying track order You can record a whole CD on... (normal) tape. Play/Tape - You can also record from connected components (see "Hooking up optional components" on page 25). 1 Load a recordable tape into deck B. 2 Press CD and load a disc you like from a CD, tape or radio program on a tape -...the desired source to record. • CD: To record from this system's CD player. • Tape: To record from this system's tape deck A. • Tuner: To record from this system's tuner. • Game: To record from the radio, move ...
... Recording your own program" (page 12). To record a disc by specifying track order You can record a whole CD on... (normal) tape. Play/Tape - You can also record from connected components (see "Hooking up optional components" on page 25). 1 Load a recordable tape into deck B. 2 Press CD and load a disc you like from a CD, tape or radio program on a tape -...the desired source to record. • CD: To record from this system's CD player. • Tape: To record from this system's tape deck A. • Tuner: To record from this system's tuner. • Game: To record from the radio, move ...
Operating Instructions
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...start from a specific track, make a program (see "Listening to the radio" on page 14). 2 Press VOL +/- (or turn off the system. 20GB Press SLEEP. remaining time** Change the time SLEEP repeatedly to select the to turn VOLUME control on page 8). 1 Prepare the sound source ...80MIN t 70MIN t ... Press . or > repeatedly to set the minute, then press ENTER. 6 Set the time to set the system to turn -off after the current disc or tape finishes playing. Each time you press the button, the minute display (the turn off time) changes cyclically as follows: t TUNER...
...start from a specific track, make a program (see "Listening to the radio" on page 14). 2 Press VOL +/- (or turn off the system. 20GB Press SLEEP. remaining time** Change the time SLEEP repeatedly to select the to turn VOLUME control on page 8). 1 Prepare the sound source ...80MIN t 70MIN t ... Press . or > repeatedly to set the minute, then press ENTER. 6 Set the time to set the system to turn -off after the current disc or tape finishes playing. Each time you press the button, the minute display (the turn off time) changes cyclically as follows: t TUNER...
Operating Instructions
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... playing the program containing more than 20 tracks or 100 minutes, or MP3 audio tracks. *2 "- -.- -" appears in ALL DISCS or program play mode. x When playing an MP3 (MHC-GX45/GX35/ RG440S/RG330/RG310 and MHC-RG220 (European and Russian models) only) Elapsed playing time of the current track t Remaining time of the current track...
... playing the program containing more than 20 tracks or 100 minutes, or MP3 audio tracks. *2 "- -.- -" appears in ALL DISCS or program play mode. x When playing an MP3 (MHC-GX45/GX35/ RG440S/RG330/RG310 and MHC-RG220 (European and Russian models) only) Elapsed playing time of the current track t Remaining time of the current track...
Operating Instructions
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...x to cancel the CD Synchro Recording, then press Z on the discs, playback may cause the sound to skip. the album and track organization structure is not ver. 1 (ver. 1.0 or 1.1). * MHC-GX45/GX35/RG440S/RG330/RG310 and MHC-RG220 (European and Russian models) only Tuner Severe hum or noise/stations...track with the player. Trying to press the tray closed with your Sony dealer or local authorized Sony service facility. The sound skips. • Wipe the disc clean (page 29). • Replace the disc. • Try moving the system to a place without vibration (e.g., on top of albums or tracks ...
...x to cancel the CD Synchro Recording, then press Z on the discs, playback may cause the sound to skip. the album and track organization structure is not ver. 1 (ver. 1.0 or 1.1). * MHC-GX45/GX35/RG440S/RG330/RG310 and MHC-RG220 (European and Russian models) only Tuner Severe hum or noise/stations...track with the player. Trying to press the tray closed with your Sony dealer or local authorized Sony service facility. The sound skips. • Wipe the disc clean (page 29). • Replace the disc. • Try moving the system to a place without vibration (e.g., on top of albums or tracks ...