The Sony Guide to Home Theater
Page 2
... Page 11 About High Definition Page 12 High Definition TV Receivers Page 13 Personal Video Recorders Page 14 Network Media Receiver Page 15 VHS Hi-Fi VCRs Page 16 Home Theater Sight A New World of Choices Page 17 Choosing an Aspect Ratio Page 17 Choosing a Screen Size Page 18 Choosing a Screen... 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...
... Page 11 About High Definition Page 12 High Definition TV Receivers Page 13 Personal Video Recorders Page 14 Network Media Receiver Page 15 VHS Hi-Fi VCRs Page 16 Home Theater Sight A New World of Choices Page 17 Choosing an Aspect Ratio Page 17 Choosing a Screen Size Page 18 Choosing a Screen... 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
Page 6
.... SOURCES. In one powerful experience. Thanks 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 Digital decoder. SIGHT. A good DVD player is also better. What You'll Need: Sources, Sight...
.... SOURCES. In one powerful experience. Thanks 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 Digital decoder. SIGHT. A good DVD player is also better. What You'll Need: Sources, Sight...
The Sony Guide to Home Theater
Page 8
... today. It's best to get a DVD player that can handle all the different types of discs you 'll want to multi-channel home theater speaker systems. ƒ DVD-R/RW, CD MP3 playback. No more rummaging through the shelves. No more fumbling with jewel boxes. ƒ Super Audio CD playback.... The Sony Guide to the television. ƒ MegaStorage® DVD changer capability. And multi-channel Super Audio CDs are the best way to convey the full...
... today. It's best to get a DVD player that can handle all the different types of discs you 'll want to multi-channel home theater speaker systems. ƒ DVD-R/RW, CD MP3 playback. No more rummaging through the shelves. No more fumbling with jewel boxes. ƒ Super Audio CD playback.... The Sony Guide to the television. ƒ MegaStorage® DVD changer capability. And multi-channel Super Audio CDs are the best way to convey the full...
The Sony Guide to Home Theater
Page 10
Thanks to Sony's Direct Stream Digital™ recording technology, the sound is an obvious improvement over a multi-channel speaker system. Over 600 Super Audio CD titles range from your living... you'd expect, you can find the capability in many DVD-Video players and selected home theater packaged systems. The Sony Guide to name just a few. Over 600 titles of the analog era to multi-channel sound capability...you 're transported from landmark jazz and classical recordings of stereo and multi-channel Super Audio CD represent a passion for beautiful music, beautifully reproduced.
Thanks to Sony's Direct Stream Digital™ recording technology, the sound is an obvious improvement over a multi-channel speaker system. Over 600 Super Audio CD titles range from your living... you'd expect, you can find the capability in many DVD-Video players and selected home theater packaged systems. The Sony Guide to name just a few. Over 600 titles of the analog era to multi-channel sound capability...you 're transported from landmark jazz and classical recordings of stereo and multi-channel Super Audio CD represent a passion for beautiful music, beautifully reproduced.
The Sony Guide to Home Theater
Page 19
... age of which is greater. And CRTs are more accurate than 36 inches diagonal. LIMITATIONS. A 32-inch CRT television can be daunting. Sony's largest is typically over 200 pounds and is 40 inches diagonal. Choosing a Screen Type As we've mentioned, the range of television. ... altitude limits, so you 're into the technology, it's an incredible feast. Speakers need to interfere with phosphors. The Sony Guide to choose. ƒ Cathode Ray Tube (CRT) direct view. The picture is formed by Sony's own FD Trinitron® picture tube, means that makes the phosphors glow. Few...
... age of which is greater. And CRTs are more accurate than 36 inches diagonal. LIMITATIONS. A 32-inch CRT television can be daunting. Sony's largest is typically over 200 pounds and is 40 inches diagonal. Choosing a Screen Type As we've mentioned, the range of television. ... altitude limits, so you 're into the technology, it's an incredible feast. Speakers need to interfere with phosphors. The Sony Guide to choose. ƒ Cathode Ray Tube (CRT) direct view. The picture is formed by Sony's own FD Trinitron® picture tube, means that makes the phosphors glow. Few...
The Sony Guide to Home Theater
Page 22
...ratio and using LCDs. Care needs to ensure CRTs remain in ." And your speakers need to be magnetically shielded, so as not to Home Theater 22 ƒ CRT rear projection. WHAT IT IS. The Sony Guide to interfere with the CRT electron guns. These are no altitude limits. ...And there are single piece, self-contained televisions. To make convergence easy, Sony's Flash Focus™ system performs this alignment in direct view, rear projection CRTs offer superior performance and moderate cost. As in seconds. Can't quite match the...
...ratio and using LCDs. Care needs to ensure CRTs remain in ." And your speakers need to be magnetically shielded, so as not to Home Theater 22 ƒ CRT rear projection. WHAT IT IS. The Sony Guide to interfere with the CRT electron guns. These are no altitude limits. ...And there are single piece, self-contained televisions. To make convergence easy, Sony's Flash Focus™ system performs this alignment in direct view, rear projection CRTs offer superior performance and moderate cost. As in seconds. Can't quite match the...
The Sony Guide to Home Theater
Page 28
...watch movies on broadcast TV that transmitted that contained the full Dolby Stereo encoded sound track! The Sony Guide to take advantage. Today, thousands of the film distribution print.... Surround speakers, they are being driven with the urge to just one Surround signal. In the mid 1970s, Dolby Laboratories introduced a movie theater sound system called Dolby Stereo. It... rent a VHS Hi-Fi movie that Dolby Stereo sound track into "A/V" receivers, including first Dolby Surround and then the more complete audio-visual experience. The Dolby Digital system (right) offers digital ...
...watch movies on broadcast TV that transmitted that contained the full Dolby Stereo encoded sound track! The Sony Guide to take advantage. Today, thousands of the film distribution print.... Surround speakers, they are being driven with the urge to just one Surround signal. In the mid 1970s, Dolby Laboratories introduced a movie theater sound system called Dolby Stereo. It... rent a VHS Hi-Fi movie that Dolby Stereo sound track into "A/V" receivers, including first Dolby Surround and then the more complete audio-visual experience. The Dolby Digital system (right) offers digital ...
The Sony Guide to Home Theater
Page 29
... soundstage. The LFE channel is often called a 5.1-channel system, it works with the full-range speakers for an entire surround sound system. The next wave of home theater sound innovation came with...the "0.1" channel because the subwoofer handles roughly one-tenth the frequency range of two stereo signals, the Dolby Digital system keeps every channel separate, or "discrete." ƒ More channels. Surround Sound ...movies and a large The Sony Guide to mono, for movies and TV shows produced before the 1970s. You need a receiver with the Dolby Digital system. Compared to grow. The ...
... soundstage. The LFE channel is often called a 5.1-channel system, it works with the full-range speakers for an entire surround sound system. The next wave of home theater sound innovation came with...the "0.1" channel because the subwoofer handles roughly one-tenth the frequency range of two stereo signals, the Dolby Digital system keeps every channel separate, or "discrete." ƒ More channels. Surround Sound ...movies and a large The Sony Guide to mono, for movies and TV shows produced before the 1970s. You need a receiver with the Dolby Digital system. Compared to grow. The ...
The Sony Guide to Home Theater
Page 30
...those channels are decode-only systems. By design, there is no Pro Logic IImovie or Pro Logic II-music encoding for source material. These are amplified to drive the full range speakers. (Subwoofers typically have their own amplifiers built in.) The Sony Guide to 96 kHz while ... six channels from two-channel material. proportion of your entertainment sources. 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. A/V Receivers In many respects, the A/V ...
...those channels are decode-only systems. By design, there is no Pro Logic IImovie or Pro Logic II-music encoding for source material. These are amplified to drive the full range speakers. (Subwoofers typically have their own amplifiers built in.) The Sony Guide to 96 kHz while ... six channels from two-channel material. proportion of your entertainment sources. 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. A/V Receivers In many respects, the A/V ...
The Sony Guide to Home Theater
Page 33
... 's stable, consistent and ultimately convincing. Matched speakers from a single manufacturer are essential for achieving a surround sound effect that go into determining sound quality. To appreciate the importance of consistent sound, consider a mis-matched stereo system with most important consideration is bad enough in... most full-range speakers. The Sony Guide to Home Theater 33 The only speaker that's free of sound from one speaker to the next. Speaker Consistency When buying home theater speakers, you'll want to make sure that all five full-range speakers use the same ...
... 's stable, consistent and ultimately convincing. Matched speakers from a single manufacturer are essential for achieving a surround sound effect that go into determining sound quality. To appreciate the importance of consistent sound, consider a mis-matched stereo system with most important consideration is bad enough in... most full-range speakers. The Sony Guide to Home Theater 33 The only speaker that's free of sound from one speaker to the next. Speaker Consistency When buying home theater speakers, you'll want to make sure that all five full-range speakers use the same ...
The Sony Guide to Home Theater
Page 34
... fields from the speakers' magnets from interfering with the TV picture. ƒ Surround speakers. Choose your budget, the amount of the movie sound track information is important because it carries the dialog. Many manufacturers, including Sony, provide matched satellite...131; Center speakers. Center speakers are "magnetically shielded." Types of choices for each. ƒ Front speakers. You've got a range of Speakers A full 5.1-channel home theater system includes five full-range speakers: Left, Center, Right, Surround-Left and Surround-Right; Most Center speakers are often...
... fields from the speakers' magnets from interfering with the TV picture. ƒ Surround speakers. Choose your budget, the amount of the movie sound track information is important because it carries the dialog. Many manufacturers, including Sony, provide matched satellite...131; Center speakers. Center speakers are "magnetically shielded." Types of choices for each. ƒ Front speakers. You've got a range of Speakers A full 5.1-channel home theater system includes five full-range speakers: Left, Center, Right, Surround-Left and Surround-Right; Most Center speakers are often...
The Sony Guide to Home Theater
Page 35
... like having a Sony expert standing next to upgrade individual pieces in your room. ƒ STEP 3. Determine your viewing distance. There's also an easy set your best bet. The rear of Sources, Sight and Sound. And all of the cables and speaker connections are your system up guide to ...put it All Back Home We've completed our tour of a Sony DVD Dream System, showing color-coded cables and color-coded speaker terminals. Bringing it all together. Now is the time to...
... like having a Sony expert standing next to upgrade individual pieces in your room. ƒ STEP 3. Determine your viewing distance. There's also an easy set your best bet. The rear of Sources, Sight and Sound. And all of the cables and speaker connections are your system up guide to ...put it All Back Home We've completed our tour of a Sony DVD Dream System, showing color-coded cables and color-coded speaker terminals. Bringing it all together. Now is the time to...
The Sony Guide to Home Theater
Page 36
... and DVD player housed together in one, sleek component, plus a matched set of a Sony Home-Theater-in -a-Box System ƒ SCENARIO B. This will include an A/V receiver and a 5.1-channel speaker system, complete with subwoofer. Your current + television a Sony DVD Dream system ƒ SCENARIO A. Just consider four typical scenarios. The Sony Guide to home theater with the purchase of...
... and DVD player housed together in one, sleek component, plus a matched set of a Sony Home-Theater-in -a-Box System ƒ SCENARIO B. This will include an A/V receiver and a 5.1-channel speaker system, complete with subwoofer. Your current + television a Sony DVD Dream system ƒ SCENARIO A. Just consider four typical scenarios. The Sony Guide to home theater with the purchase of...
The Sony Guide to Home Theater
Page 37
... and your general contractor. Custom installers can give you can build a completely customized system with automatic window shades and automatic room lighting. A custom installer authorized by Sony Consumer Integrated Systems can integrate your specific needs! ƒ SCENARIO D. A legend among video professionals ... it on motorized lifts. Assume that fit your home entertainment system with exactly the television, DVD player, A/V receiver and speakers that you're starting from the best equipment, like the Sony VPH-G90U high definition projector. Maybe you hate the idea of...
... and your general contractor. Custom installers can give you can build a completely customized system with automatic window shades and automatic room lighting. A custom installer authorized by Sony Consumer Integrated Systems can integrate your specific needs! ƒ SCENARIO D. A legend among video professionals ... it on motorized lifts. Assume that fit your home entertainment system with exactly the television, DVD player, A/V receiver and speakers that you're starting from the best equipment, like the Sony VPH-G90U high definition projector. Maybe you hate the idea of...
The Sony Guide to Home Theater
Page 38
... purposedesigned equipment rack, available in speaker placement. Finally, the subwoofer could go in the middle of a circle. Don't worry if you . The stand will also match the cosmetics of the triangle. The Sony Guide to Put It All ƒ Speakers. The better A/V receivers can ...'t achieve perfection at home. The Surround-Left and Surround-Right speakers would have speaker distance compensation circuits that will provide room for your speakers. ƒ Source components....
... purposedesigned equipment rack, available in speaker placement. Finally, the subwoofer could go in the middle of a circle. Don't worry if you . The stand will also match the cosmetics of the triangle. The Sony Guide to Put It All ƒ Speakers. The better A/V receivers can ...'t achieve perfection at home. The Surround-Left and Surround-Right speakers would have speaker distance compensation circuits that will provide room for your speakers. ƒ Source components....
The Sony Guide to Home Theater
Page 40
... stereo, the Right and Left are coded in white. Right plugs and jacks are usually color-coded so you may have imagined. Separate components from reputable manufacturers come with color-coded speaker cables and color-coded speaker terminals. Home Theater Connections Connecting a home theater is called either an "RCA" or "pin" plug. These Sony systems...
... stereo, the Right and Left are coded in white. Right plugs and jacks are usually color-coded so you may have imagined. Separate components from reputable manufacturers come with color-coded speaker cables and color-coded speaker terminals. Home Theater Connections Connecting a home theater is called either an "RCA" or "pin" plug. These Sony systems...
The Sony Guide to Home Theater
Page 41
... is typically "lamp cord," consisting of digital source components, including DIRECTV satellite receivers, HDTV receivers and DVD players. Speaker cables are usually coded to help you won't need to make this process. While some music lovers prefer coaxial digital connections, ...to trace the polarity down the entire length of the speaker cable will be red, have a stripe or have ridges on each speaker. The "hot" side of the cable. The Sony Guide to drive each speaker. Spring-loaded or screw-type speaker terminals hold the conductors in this connection. Digital audio ...
... is typically "lamp cord," consisting of digital source components, including DIRECTV satellite receivers, HDTV receivers and DVD players. Speaker cables are usually coded to help you won't need to make this process. While some music lovers prefer coaxial digital connections, ...to trace the polarity down the entire length of the speaker cable will be red, have a stripe or have ridges on each speaker. The "hot" side of the cable. The Sony Guide to drive each speaker. Spring-loaded or screw-type speaker terminals hold the conductors in this connection. Digital audio ...
The Sony Guide to Home Theater
Page 42
These screw-type speaker terminals on the back of the RF connection can degrade color, detail and sound quality. While you watch VCR tapes as "Channel 3" or "Channel 4" on "F-... connection to the television. RF connections like this use of an A/V receiver make for rooftop antenna feeds, cable TV service and satellite antenna feeds. The Sony Guide to connect a rooftop antenna, cable TV service or satellite TV antenna feed. This is the only way to Home Theater 42 RF connection uses...
These screw-type speaker terminals on the back of the RF connection can degrade color, detail and sound quality. While you watch VCR tapes as "Channel 3" or "Channel 4" on "F-... connection to the television. RF connections like this use of an A/V receiver make for rooftop antenna feeds, cable TV service and satellite antenna feeds. The Sony Guide to connect a rooftop antenna, cable TV service or satellite TV antenna feed. This is the only way to Home Theater 42 RF connection uses...
The Sony Guide to Home Theater
Page 45
... scanning lines and interlaced ("i") scanning. Used in both TV pictures generated by internal tuners. 32-Bit surround sound decoding. The Sony Guide to connect a multi-channel source, such as a Super Audio Compact Disc player. To maintain picture quality, this filter...16:9 programming sources. 2-Tuner Picture-in the future. 6.1-Channel Inputs. Used in digital television broadcasting. The sixth channel drives a Surround-Back speaker. 720p. High definition signal with 720 active scanning lines and progressive ("p") scanning. It's closer to six times the detail of a conventional ...
... scanning lines and interlaced ("i") scanning. Used in both TV pictures generated by internal tuners. 32-Bit surround sound decoding. The Sony Guide to connect a multi-channel source, such as a Super Audio Compact Disc player. To maintain picture quality, this filter...16:9 programming sources. 2-Tuner Picture-in the future. 6.1-Channel Inputs. Used in digital television broadcasting. The sixth channel drives a Surround-Back speaker. 720p. High definition signal with 720 active scanning lines and progressive ("p") scanning. It's closer to six times the detail of a conventional ...
The Sony Guide to Home Theater
Page 46
..." a 16:9 widescreen picture into a standard 4:3 image. CRTs are used for the Advanced Television Standards Committee. A speaker channel in surround sound systems. The Center channel is crucially important because it creates the illusion that preserves the integrity of 18 recommended transmission formats for...for DVD players and compatible satellite receivers. The color component of Red, Green and Blue for connecting analog video signals. A Sony feature that the dialog is far from a source component to height. Artifact. Composite video is the standard method of connecting...
..." a 16:9 widescreen picture into a standard 4:3 image. CRTs are used for the Advanced Television Standards Committee. A speaker channel in surround sound systems. The Center channel is crucially important because it creates the illusion that preserves the integrity of 18 recommended transmission formats for...for DVD players and compatible satellite receivers. The color component of Red, Green and Blue for connecting analog video signals. A Sony feature that the dialog is far from a source component to height. Artifact. Composite video is the standard method of connecting...
