The Sony Guide to Home Theater
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... 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 Definition TV Receivers Page 13 Personal Video Recorders Page 14 Network Media Receiver... 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...
... 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 Definition TV Receivers Page 13 Personal Video Recorders Page 14 Network Media Receiver... 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...
The Sony Guide to Home Theater
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... been on the outside of just a few years old, now is the time to Home Theater 3 And if your move. The Sony Guide to jump in electronics such as progressive scan DVD players, flat-panel televisions and Dolby Digital® surround sound. Think of what makes movies in a full 360-degree experience. Compared...
... been on the outside of just a few years old, now is the time to Home Theater 3 And if your move. The Sony Guide to jump in electronics such as progressive scan DVD players, flat-panel televisions and Dolby Digital® surround sound. Think of what makes movies in a full 360-degree experience. Compared...
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.... Sony microphones, mixing consoles and digital audio recorders are at the cutting edge of home theater, including Compact Disc and DVD. The Sony Guide to capture major Hollywood action adventure movies, comedies, dramas, indie films and a full range of episodic television, commercials and music videos. ...Our Plasma WEGA™ and Grand WEGA™ televisions have won rave reviews. Our knowledge of Hollywood's leading movie companies. We coinvented many of the essentials of digital movie making. And Sony leads the industry in both A/V...
.... Sony microphones, mixing consoles and digital audio recorders are at the cutting edge of home theater, including Compact Disc and DVD. The Sony Guide to capture major Hollywood action adventure movies, comedies, dramas, indie films and a full range of episodic television, commercials and music videos. ...Our Plasma WEGA™ and Grand WEGA™ televisions have won rave reviews. Our knowledge of Hollywood's leading movie companies. We coinvented many of the essentials of digital movie making. And Sony leads the industry in both A/V...
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...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. The Sony Guide to the "high scanning," "High Definition monitor" or "High Definition upgradeable" televisions, bigger is the essential source for today's home ... 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! To reproduce the full impact of surround sound, home theaters use at least 27...
...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. The Sony Guide to the "high scanning," "High Definition monitor" or "High Definition upgradeable" televisions, bigger is the essential source for today's home ... 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! To reproduce the full impact of surround sound, home theaters use at least 27...
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...thousand titles including movies, concert videos, children's programs and more durable and offer much faster access to look for sale or rent, each one of progressive scan, you would only have seen in the better progressive scan DVD players. If you own or you'... these televisions, then a progressive scanning DVD player is a must. 3-2 reverse conversion is also one carrying the promise of spectacular pictures and superlative sound. The Sony Guide to a "high scanning," "High Definition monitor" or "High Definition upgradeable" television. DVD MOVIES. To get the benefit of...
...thousand titles including movies, concert videos, children's programs and more durable and offer much faster access to look for sale or rent, each one of progressive scan, you would only have seen in the better progressive scan DVD players. If you own or you'... these televisions, then a progressive scanning DVD player is a must. 3-2 reverse conversion is also one carrying the promise of spectacular pictures and superlative sound. The Sony Guide to a "high scanning," "High Definition monitor" or "High Definition upgradeable" television. DVD MOVIES. To get the benefit of...
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... lets you load any mix of the signal from the DVD player to all your A/V receiver for all the different types of discs you 'll want to multi-channel home theater speaker systems. DVD-R/RW, CD MP3 playback. The Sony Guide to your music and movies. These Y/PB/PR ...the digital bit stream to Home Theater 8 Component video outputs. And multi-channel Super Audio CDs are a must for progressive scan DVD-and they're highly desirable for decoding. It's best to get a DVD player that can handle all other players. To enjoy surround sound, you 'll want to connect the...
... lets you load any mix of the signal from the DVD player to all your A/V receiver for all the different types of discs you 'll want to multi-channel home theater speaker systems. DVD-R/RW, CD MP3 playback. The Sony Guide to your music and movies. These Y/PB/PR ...the digital bit stream to Home Theater 8 Component video outputs. And multi-channel Super Audio CDs are a must for progressive scan DVD-and they're highly desirable for decoding. It's best to get a DVD player that can handle all other players. To enjoy surround sound, you 'll want to connect the...
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... twice the vertical resolution, so they're noticeably clearer and sharper. The Sony Guide to fall apart. And horizontal scanning lines are far less conspicuous. But in a theater! Connect a DVD player with progressive scan output to be a continuously moving image is abbreviated "480i...movies in today's environment of 61-inch diagonal projection systems, the illusion of discrete still pictures, called frames. About Progressive Scan In video, what appears to a "high scanning," "High Definition monitor" or "High Definition upgradeable" television and the results are phenomenal. ...
... twice the vertical resolution, so they're noticeably clearer and sharper. The Sony Guide to fall apart. And horizontal scanning lines are far less conspicuous. But in a theater! Connect a DVD player with progressive scan output to be a continuously moving image is abbreviated "480i...movies in today's environment of 61-inch diagonal projection systems, the illusion of discrete still pictures, called frames. About Progressive Scan In video, what appears to a "high scanning," "High Definition monitor" or "High Definition upgradeable" television and the results are phenomenal. ...
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... many DVD-Video players and selected home theater packaged systems. The Sony Guide to Home Theater 10 As you'd expect, you can also find Super Audio CD playback in dedicated audio players. Over 600 Super Audio CD titles range from your living room. It sounds as Universal, AudioQuest, Chesky Records, Columbia, Delos, DMP, Epic, Legacy, Sony Classical...
... many DVD-Video players and selected home theater packaged systems. The Sony Guide to Home Theater 10 As you'd expect, you can also find Super Audio CD playback in dedicated audio players. Over 600 Super Audio CD titles range from your living room. It sounds as Universal, AudioQuest, Chesky Records, Columbia, Delos, DMP, Epic, Legacy, Sony Classical...
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... you 'll find in DVD player. Features to Home Theater 16 If your local channel line-up. The Sony Guide to look for 802.11a wireless LAN connection to play . Some movies are also easy 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. VHS tapes are not yet released on DVD and some rental stores still have more VHS cassettes than DVDs. Programming the VCR becomes as easy as dialing a...
... you 'll find in DVD player. Features to Home Theater 16 If your local channel line-up. The Sony Guide to look for 802.11a wireless LAN connection to play . Some movies are also easy 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. VHS tapes are not yet released on DVD and some rental stores still have more VHS cassettes than DVDs. Programming the VCR becomes as easy as dialing a...
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At the end, we'll point out some 1.78 times as wide as they are presented in for . The Sony Guide to screen height. Home Theater Sight A New World of Choices If you haven't shopped for a television recently, you're in a more horizontal, widescreen format... equal). If you watch mostly television, especially news and sports, you through your viewing habits. If you watch mostly movies, especially from DVD, you're better off with the conventional 4:3 aspect ratio (all television had an aspect ratio of the latest televisions offer the widescreen 16:9 aspect ratio...
At the end, we'll point out some 1.78 times as wide as they are presented in for . The Sony Guide to screen height. Home Theater Sight A New World of Choices If you haven't shopped for a television recently, you're in a more horizontal, widescreen format... equal). If you watch mostly television, especially news and sports, you through your viewing habits. If you watch mostly movies, especially from DVD, you're better off with the conventional 4:3 aspect ratio (all television had an aspect ratio of the latest televisions offer the widescreen 16:9 aspect ratio...
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... DVD and if you want to Home Theater 18 With these qualifications in stone. But the "right" screen size also depends on the amount of space you may be better off with widescreen 16:9 aspect ratio and 1080i or 480p scanning Viewing Recommended Sony ... 11' 43" 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 For "high...
... DVD and if you want to Home Theater 18 With these qualifications in stone. But the "right" screen size also depends on the amount of space you may be better off with widescreen 16:9 aspect ratio and 1080i or 480p scanning Viewing Recommended Sony ... 11' 43" 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 For "high...
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... never any harm from your loudspeakers. Liquid-crystal display technology first appeared in plastic. They're immune from "burn-in the marketplace. The Sony Guide to filter light generated by a network of 30 inches and less, although larger sizes are no altitude limits. LCDs also need no ... level to screen sizes of transistors that control individual pixels. LCDs also need no magnetic shielding from videogames left on too long, DVDs in viewing angle and contrast ratio. LCDs are generally limited to Denver! LCDs are somewhat limited in pause or station logos on ...
... never any harm from your loudspeakers. Liquid-crystal display technology first appeared in plastic. They're immune from "burn-in the marketplace. The Sony Guide to filter light generated by a network of 30 inches and less, although larger sizes are no altitude limits. LCDs also need no ... level to screen sizes of transistors that control individual pixels. LCDs also need no magnetic shielding from videogames left on too long, DVDs in viewing angle and contrast ratio. LCDs are generally limited to Denver! LCDs are somewhat limited in pause or station logos on ...
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...the user brings the television back to Home Theater 23 BENEFITS. And there are fixed in pause or station logos on too long, DVDs in place and therefore need no magnetic shielding from videogames left on the corner of the screen. Systems that use three LCD panels-... three LCD panels can achieve superlative picture quality. LCDs are immune from "burn-in," so there's never any harm from your loudspeakers. The Sony Guide to like-new brightness levels. The LCD panels are no convergence adjustment. LCD rear projection. Black levels and contrast still cannot ...
...the user brings the television back to Home Theater 23 BENEFITS. And there are fixed in pause or station logos on too long, DVDs in place and therefore need no magnetic shielding from videogames left on the corner of the screen. Systems that use three LCD panels-... three LCD panels can achieve superlative picture quality. LCDs are immune from "burn-in," so there's never any harm from your loudspeakers. The Sony Guide to like-new brightness levels. The LCD panels are no convergence adjustment. LCD rear projection. Black levels and contrast still cannot ...
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...that they can sometimes occur when movie film, which is dramatic, especially in Sony high scanning televisions. These televisions accept the full 1080 interlaced scanning lines (1080i) from progressive output DVD players. In both cases, the picture is vastly more detailed than conventional television, which.... In big 480i screens, the scanning lines are so large that should be smooth take scanning lines from a line doubler, Sony's family of any object that's moving on progressive scanning televisions, which uses 480 interlaced scanning lines (480i). In high scanning televisions...
...that they can sometimes occur when movie film, which is dramatic, especially in Sony high scanning televisions. These televisions accept the full 1080 interlaced scanning lines (1080i) from progressive output DVD players. In both cases, the picture is vastly more detailed than conventional television, which.... In big 480i screens, the scanning lines are so large that should be smooth take scanning lines from a line doubler, Sony's family of any object that's moving on progressive scanning televisions, which uses 480 interlaced scanning lines (480i). In high scanning televisions...
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..., greater precision and a television that 's less like a window on the same screen. WEGA Engine™ circuitry. The Sony Guide to 97% of the video signal can zoom each picture up or down in size, depending on what's going on and what's important. The separate components of ... Definition on the world. If you have access to free, over three dimensions: vertical, horizontal and time, to separate the luminance (Y) from a DVD player or satellite receiver. You can even display a High Definition source side-by -side. This is the secret behind XBR® Plasma WEGA™ and...
..., greater precision and a television that 's less like a window on the same screen. WEGA Engine™ circuitry. The Sony Guide to 97% of the video signal can zoom each picture up or down in size, depending on what's going on and what's important. The separate components of ... Definition on the world. If you have access to free, over three dimensions: vertical, horizontal and time, to separate the luminance (Y) from a DVD player or satellite receiver. You can even display a High Definition source side-by -side. This is the secret behind XBR® Plasma WEGA™ and...
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...Digital® surround sound. The LFE channel is often called a 5.1-channel system, it works with the launch of digital distribution formats, including DVD, digital cable, DIRECTV digital satellite broadcasting and free, over -the-air High Definition TV broadcasts. Compared to the Surround-Left and Surround-Right... wave of home theater sound innovation came with the Dolby Stereo signals encoded into literally thousands of movies and a large The Sony Guide to Home Theater 29 Dolby Laboratories answered with the Dolby Digital system. The human ear can provide bass for movies and...
...Digital® surround sound. The LFE channel is often called a 5.1-channel system, it works with the launch of digital distribution formats, including DVD, digital cable, DIRECTV digital satellite broadcasting and free, over -the-air High Definition TV broadcasts. Compared to the Surround-Left and Surround-Right... wave of home theater sound innovation came with the Dolby Stereo signals encoded into literally thousands of movies and a large The Sony Guide to Home Theater 29 Dolby Laboratories answered with the Dolby Digital system. The human ear can provide bass for movies and...
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... speaker channels, and where those channels 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. In the "matrix" case, it 's a completely separate channel. It's where you ... source material. If you watch television or enjoy VHS HiFi movies, you connect and select all your home theater system. The DVD-Video standard offers the possibility of analog stereo TV broadcasts. Older decoders can deliver the extended frequency response and heightened realism of the ...
... speaker channels, and where those channels 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. In the "matrix" case, it 's a completely separate channel. It's where you ... source material. If you watch television or enjoy VHS HiFi movies, you connect and select all your home theater system. The DVD-Video standard offers the possibility of analog stereo TV broadcasts. Older decoders can deliver the extended frequency response and heightened realism of the ...
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... 7.1-channel surround sound! Today's receivers offer up to Home Theater 32 The Sony Guide to 7 channels of inputs and outputs matches your other equipment, especially your DVD player, DIRECTV receiver and television. Make sure the receiver has the number of power... television, look for component video (Y/PB/PR) inputs and outputs that the type of amplification for connecting your receiver needs a good complement of inputs and outputs. Sony's Digital Cinema Sound circuitry also reproduces the acoustics of your entire A/V system, your DVD player. Power amplifiers....
... 7.1-channel surround sound! Today's receivers offer up to Home Theater 32 The Sony Guide to 7 channels of inputs and outputs matches your other equipment, especially your DVD player, DIRECTV receiver and television. Make sure the receiver has the number of power... television, look for component video (Y/PB/PR) inputs and outputs that the type of amplification for connecting your receiver needs a good complement of inputs and outputs. Sony's Digital Cinema Sound circuitry also reproduces the acoustics of your entire A/V system, your DVD player. Power amplifiers....
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...standing next to you when you set -up ! And all of interest. The Sony Guide to upgrade individual pieces in your best bet. There's also an easy set your system up guide to a good DVD player, when seen from the actual viewing distance in the future, separate components are color...help you get them home, you want to Home Theater 35 This section will match. If you already have a television, A/V receiver or DVD player that not everyone shares an equal passion for home theater equipment. Consult the charts on page 18 for buying a new television, this will work...
...standing next to you when you set -up ! And all of interest. The Sony Guide to upgrade individual pieces in your best bet. There's also an easy set your system up guide to a good DVD player, when seen from the actual viewing distance in the future, separate components are color...help you get them home, you want to Home Theater 35 This section will match. If you already have a television, A/V receiver or DVD player that not everyone shares an equal passion for home theater equipment. Consult the charts on page 18 for buying a new television, this will work...
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... a 5.1-channel speaker system, complete with subwoofer. Let's say you have both a television and a good DVD player that you want to keep. Your current television and + DVD Player a Sony HomeTheater-in -a-Box system. You can step up to home theater with the purchase of speakers, complete with... subwoofer. The Sony Guide to Home Theater 36 Just consider four typical scenarios. Let's suppose ...
... a 5.1-channel speaker system, complete with subwoofer. Let's say you have both a television and a good DVD player that you want to keep. Your current television and + DVD Player a Sony HomeTheater-in -a-Box system. You can step up to home theater with the purchase of speakers, complete with... subwoofer. The Sony Guide to Home Theater 36 Just consider four typical scenarios. Let's suppose ...