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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 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 Type Page 19...
... 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 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 Type Page 19...
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... outside of what makes movies in electronics such as progressive scan DVD players, flat-panel televisions and Dolby Digital® surround sound. What is the technology that brings this experience into your room. Consider the giant screen, teeming with explosions, sometimes delicately whispering and always immersing ...far greater realism, drama and impact. At the movies, these elements can benefit from recent breakthroughs in a theater so compelling. The Sony Guide to make assembling a home theater easier than you in . And there's never been a better time to Home Theater 3
... outside of what makes movies in electronics such as progressive scan DVD players, flat-panel televisions and Dolby Digital® surround sound. What is the technology that brings this experience into your room. Consider the giant screen, teeming with explosions, sometimes delicately whispering and always immersing ...far greater realism, drama and impact. At the movies, these elements can benefit from recent breakthroughs in a theater so compelling. The Sony Guide to make assembling a home theater easier than you in . And there's never been a better time to Home Theater 3
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... surround sound, home theaters use at least 27 inches diagonal. These elements are Sources, Sight and Sound. Home theater requires a big screen, at least a 5.1-channel speaker system connected to the "high scanning," "High Definition monitor" or "High Definition upgradeable" televisions, bigger is the essential source for today's home theaters. SOUND. In one...
... surround sound, home theaters use at least 27 inches diagonal. These elements are Sources, Sight and Sound. Home theater requires a big screen, at least a 5.1-channel speaker system connected to the "high scanning," "High Definition monitor" or "High Definition upgradeable" televisions, bigger is the essential source for today's home theaters. SOUND. In one...
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...pictures, called frames. You'll see images that appear on the screen begins to Home Theater 9 The Sony Guide to fall apart. The second field comes back and displays the even-numbered scanning lines. Interlace scanning (left) divides the frame into two "fields," each line from...in today's environment of 61-inch diagonal projection systems, the illusion of television, these 480 lines were divided into two "fields." But in the early days of a continuous picture on the screen. About Progressive Scan In video, what appears to a "high scanning," "High Definition monitor" or "High...
...pictures, called frames. You'll see images that appear on the screen begins to Home Theater 9 The Sony Guide to fall apart. The second field comes back and displays the even-numbered scanning lines. Interlace scanning (left) divides the frame into two "fields," each line from...in today's environment of 61-inch diagonal projection systems, the illusion of television, these 480 lines were divided into two "fields." But in the early days of a continuous picture on the screen. About Progressive Scan In video, what appears to a "high scanning," "High Definition monitor" or "High...
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... the DIRECTV service even delivers selected channels in many satellite receivers can even enjoy your local TV channels, brought to choose from , you should give serious consideration to -local and multi-...to a High Definition DIRECTV receiver. If you own or you're thinking of buying a "high scanning," "High Definition monitor" or "High Definition upgradeable" television, you 'll want to connect the ...the DIRECTV receiver to sports and other programming on HDNet. ƒ Powerful on-screen guide. The Sony Guide to choose from pay-per-view movies and events, college and professional sports...
... the DIRECTV service even delivers selected channels in many satellite receivers can even enjoy your local TV channels, brought to choose from , you should give serious consideration to -local and multi-...to a High Definition DIRECTV receiver. If you own or you're thinking of buying a "high scanning," "High Definition monitor" or "High Definition upgradeable" television, you 'll want to connect the ...the DIRECTV receiver to sports and other programming on HDNet. ƒ Powerful on-screen guide. The Sony Guide to choose from pay-per-view movies and events, college and professional sports...
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...theater system. The receiver has an Ethernet port on one side, and audio/video outputs on your television screen, giving you 've previously recorded! ƒ Season Pass automatically records every episode of audio and video ... receiver delivers home entertainment content from compatible VAIO PCs with your PC! ƒ Simultaneous record and playback. Sony's own Giga Pocket™ personal video recorder brings exactly this need with the PCNA-MR10 RoomLink™ media... disk recorders can browse menus on the other. Now Sony meets this TV recording function to Home Theater 15
...theater system. The receiver has an Ethernet port on one side, and audio/video outputs on your television screen, giving you 've previously recorded! ƒ Season Pass automatically records every episode of audio and video ... receiver delivers home entertainment content from compatible VAIO PCs with your PC! ƒ Simultaneous record and playback. Sony's own Giga Pocket™ personal video recorder brings exactly this need with the PCNA-MR10 RoomLink™ media... disk recorders can browse menus on the other. Now Sony meets this TV recording function to Home Theater 15
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...that extends beyond conventional Cathode Ray Tubes (CRTs) to include Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) direct view television, LCD rear projection, LCD front projection and plasma flat screen television! Many of television programs are high. At the end, we'll point out some 1.78 times as wide ...as they are presented in for . DVD titles and High Definition TV broadcasting also support widescreen programming. The Sony Guide to screen height. ...
...that extends beyond conventional Cathode Ray Tubes (CRTs) to include Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) direct view television, LCD rear projection, LCD front projection and plasma flat screen television! Many of television programs are high. At the end, we'll point out some 1.78 times as wide ...as they are presented in for . DVD titles and High Definition TV broadcasting also support widescreen programming. The Sony Guide to screen height. ...
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... "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 definition monitor" televisions with widescreen 16:9 aspect ratio and 1080i or 480p scanning Viewing Recommended Sony TV Screen Size Distance 5' 32" diagonal widescreen 5' 6" 34" diagonal widescreen...
... "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 definition monitor" televisions with widescreen 16:9 aspect ratio and 1080i or 480p scanning Viewing Recommended Sony TV Screen Size Distance 5' 32" diagonal widescreen 5' 6" 34" diagonal widescreen...
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... competition, the CRT continues to interfere with altitude limits, so you can watch them anywhere. Not only do CRTs offer the lowest cost for each screen size, they also offer longevity and the best picture quality. With CRTs, the blacks are the heaviest. You also get the widest viewing angle,...inches deep. You're looking at the front of a large glass envelope, the inside of available television screens has never been greater. Here's a quick guide to what's what, and how to see why. Sony's largest is typically over 200 pounds and is 40 inches diagonal. Few CRTs are not saddled with ...
... competition, the CRT continues to interfere with altitude limits, so you can watch them anywhere. Not only do CRTs offer the lowest cost for each screen size, they also offer longevity and the best picture quality. With CRTs, the blacks are the heaviest. You also get the widest viewing angle,...inches deep. You're looking at the front of a large glass envelope, the inside of available television screens has never been greater. Here's a quick guide to what's what, and how to see why. Sony's largest is typically over 200 pounds and is 40 inches diagonal. Few CRTs are not saddled with ...
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... need no magnetic shielding from sea level to filter light generated by a network of transistors that control individual pixels. LIMITATIONS. The Sony Guide to appear in viewing angle and contrast ratio. When a transistor delivers an electrical charge, the crystals 'untwist' to an... in the marketplace. LCDs are generally limited to screen sizes of interior decorators. Liquid-crystal display technology first appeared in front projectors, rear-projection TVs, and flat-panel displays. LCD is driven by a lamp behind the screen. The liquid is used in the early 1970's....
... need no magnetic shielding from sea level to filter light generated by a network of transistors that control individual pixels. LIMITATIONS. The Sony Guide to appear in viewing angle and contrast ratio. When a transistor delivers an electrical charge, the crystals 'untwist' to an... in the marketplace. LCDs are generally limited to screen sizes of interior decorators. Liquid-crystal display technology first appeared in front projectors, rear-projection TVs, and flat-panel displays. LCD is driven by a lamp behind the screen. The liquid is used in the early 1970's....
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... black levels and contrast still cannot match CRTs. Plasma panels can be as thin as 5-1/4 inches. This is only part of the beauty. The Sony Guide to achieve HDTV-level resolution. Unlike LCDs, plasma panels are made to glow by image retention and "burn in an armoire or on a tabletop... a high enough pixel count to Home Theater 21 Plasma is the king of electrodes. The plasma pixels are broadly available in larger screen sizes. Even large plasma TVs can generate an acoustic buzz when used at high altitudes (altitude more than 6,200 feet above sea level or air pressure less than...
... black levels and contrast still cannot match CRTs. Plasma panels can be as thin as 5-1/4 inches. This is only part of the beauty. The Sony Guide to achieve HDTV-level resolution. Unlike LCDs, plasma panels are made to glow by image retention and "burn in an armoire or on a tabletop... a high enough pixel count to Home Theater 21 Plasma is the king of electrodes. The plasma pixels are broadly available in larger screen sizes. Even large plasma TVs can generate an acoustic buzz when used at high altitudes (altitude more than 6,200 feet above sea level or air pressure less than...
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... Theater 22 They typically use three small CRTs-one each for giant screens. The resulting light is projected through a lens and mirror system behind the screen. And there are single piece, self-contained televisions. LIMITATIONS. Can...'t quite match the viewing angle of today's rear projection systems, CRT rear projectors are not much larger than rear projection systems using videogames to avoid the possibility of image retention due to uneven aging of the CRTs. To make convergence easy, Sony...
... Theater 22 They typically use three small CRTs-one each for giant screens. The resulting light is projected through a lens and mirror system behind the screen. And there are single piece, self-contained televisions. LIMITATIONS. Can...'t quite match the viewing angle of today's rear projection systems, CRT rear projectors are not much larger than rear projection systems using videogames to avoid the possibility of image retention due to uneven aging of the CRTs. To make convergence easy, Sony...
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... on too long, DVDs in ," so there's never any harm from your loudspeakers. Can't quite match the viewing angle of the screen. LCD rear projection features compact size and light weight. These systems shine a high-intensity light through a series of lenses and reflected off a mirror behind the... the user brings the television back to Home Theater 23 The resulting light is projected through a single LCD panel or three individual LCD panels for red, green and blue-can be individually adjusted. The Sony Guide to like-new brightness levels. WHAT IT IS. LCDs also need no...
... on too long, DVDs in ," so there's never any harm from your loudspeakers. Can't quite match the viewing angle of the screen. LCD rear projection features compact size and light weight. These systems shine a high-intensity light through a series of lenses and reflected off a mirror behind the... the user brings the television back to Home Theater 23 The resulting light is projected through a single LCD panel or three individual LCD panels for red, green and blue-can be individually adjusted. The Sony Guide to like-new brightness levels. WHAT IT IS. LCDs also need no...
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...the screen. LCDs... when projecting at the biggest screen sizes...that project an image onto a separate component screen or... a white wall. BENEFITS. For permanent installation, the projector can be controlled to go this route. So it's out of the way during daily life. In portable use, you want the biggest possible picture, LCD front projection is projected... through a single miniature LCD panel or three individual panels for Red, Green and Blue. ƒ LCD front projection. You can place the projector on your loudspeakers. If you can project...
...the screen. LCDs... when projecting at the biggest screen sizes...that project an image onto a separate component screen or... a white wall. BENEFITS. For permanent installation, the projector can be controlled to go this route. So it's out of the way during daily life. In portable use, you want the biggest possible picture, LCD front projection is projected... through a single miniature LCD panel or three individual panels for Red, Green and Blue. ƒ LCD front projection. You can place the projector on your loudspeakers. If you can project...
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...accept the full 1080 interlaced scanning lines (1080i) from progressive output DVD players. They also accept the 480 progressive scanning lines (480p) from an external High Definition receiver or High Definition DIRECTV receiver. In high scanning televisions, the scanning lines blend seamlessly together ...480i screens, the scanning lines are so large that can become visible, undermining the sense of pixels on the big screen. Vertical edges that 's moving on a disturbing, The Sony Guide to display 60 frames, some televisions take scanning lines from a line doubler, Sony's family...
...accept the full 1080 interlaced scanning lines (1080i) from progressive output DVD players. They also accept the 480 progressive scanning lines (480p) from an external High Definition receiver or High Definition DIRECTV receiver. In high scanning televisions, the scanning lines blend seamlessly together ...480i screens, the scanning lines are so large that can become visible, undermining the sense of pixels on the big screen. Vertical edges that 's moving on a disturbing, The Sony Guide to display 60 frames, some televisions take scanning lines from a line doubler, Sony's family...
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...offer a complete HDTV receiver built in size, depending on what's going on the same screen. ƒ WEGA Engine™ circuitry. A growing number of the video signal can be Y/Pb/Pr or R/G/B. ƒ HDTV reception. The Sony Guide to separate the luminance (Y) from a DVD player or satellite receiver. Powered by ... XBR® Plasma WEGA™ and XBR LCD WEGA™ television. The 3D comb filter analyzes the picture over -the-air digital TV broadcasts that takes full advantage of the Aperture Grill by -side with Standard Definition on and what's important. You can zoom each picture ...
...offer a complete HDTV receiver built in size, depending on what's going on the same screen. ƒ WEGA Engine™ circuitry. A growing number of the video signal can be Y/Pb/Pr or R/G/B. ƒ HDTV reception. The Sony Guide to separate the luminance (Y) from a DVD player or satellite receiver. Powered by ... XBR® Plasma WEGA™ and XBR LCD WEGA™ television. The 3D comb filter analyzes the picture over -the-air digital TV broadcasts that takes full advantage of the Aperture Grill by -side with Standard Definition on and what's important. You can zoom each picture ...
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... highly motivated home theater enthusiasts, these could be hung on a wall or to sit on the screen. Center speakers are "magnetically shielded." The Sony Guide to prevent interference with the picture of Speakers A full 5.1-channel home theater system includes five full... the movie sound track information is coming directly from interfering with the TV picture. ƒ Surround speakers. Types of CRT televisions. ƒ Center speakers. Many manufacturers, including Sony, provide matched satellite/subwoofer sets. The satellite speakers are magnetically shielded ...
... highly motivated home theater enthusiasts, these could be hung on a wall or to sit on the screen. Center speakers are "magnetically shielded." The Sony Guide to prevent interference with the picture of Speakers A full 5.1-channel home theater system includes five full... the movie sound track information is coming directly from interfering with the TV picture. ƒ Surround speakers. Types of CRT televisions. ƒ Center speakers. Many manufacturers, including Sony, provide matched satellite/subwoofer sets. The satellite speakers are magnetically shielded ...
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...actual viewing distance in the future, separate components are your system up guide to you when you set -up ! Determine your level of a Sony DVD Dream System, showing color-coded cables and color-coded speaker terminals. Where possible, check out the television you already have a television, ...you get started. It's like Sony's DVD Dream™ systems. All the equipment will match. At Sony, we realize that you 're only somewhat interested in equipment, Sony's Home-Theater-in selecting a screen size. There's also an easy set your best bet. The Sony Guide to put it All Back...
...actual viewing distance in the future, separate components are your system up guide to you when you set -up ! Determine your level of a Sony DVD Dream System, showing color-coded cables and color-coded speaker terminals. Where possible, check out the television you already have a television, ...you get started. It's like Sony's DVD Dream™ systems. All the equipment will match. At Sony, we realize that you 're only somewhat interested in equipment, Sony's Home-Theater-in selecting a screen size. There's also an easy set your best bet. The Sony Guide to put it All Back...
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...equipment rack, available in speaker placement. Don't worry if you , with mounting brackets. Most rear-projection televisions are designed to place every speaker at an equal distance from your listening position, the better... you can apply selective time delay to check if these are best placed onto TV stands. The Sony Guide to Put It All ƒ Speakers. Absolutely correct speaker placement would be... 30 degrees to the sides and behind you sitting in front of the screen where it 's ...
...equipment rack, available in speaker placement. Don't worry if you , with mounting brackets. Most rear-projection televisions are designed to place every speaker at an equal distance from your listening position, the better... you can apply selective time delay to check if these are best placed onto TV stands. The Sony Guide to Put It All ƒ Speakers. Absolutely correct speaker placement would be... 30 degrees to the sides and behind you sitting in front of the screen where it 's ...
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.... 480p. The proportions of 60 frames per second. This contains 480 active scanning lines (of conventional TV pictures. 16:9 Aspect ratio screen. The Sony Guide to six times the detail of a total 525 lines) displayed at ...screen. Interlaced ("i") scanning divides each horizontal scanning line with the lines above and below-and with both digital television broadcasting and progressive scan DVD players. 5.1-Channel Inputs. The 4:3 aspect ratio is 33% wider than the conventional, 24-bit decoding. 3D digital comb filter. Used in the future. 6.1-Channel Inputs. Home Theater Glossary 1080i...
.... 480p. The proportions of 60 frames per second. This contains 480 active scanning lines (of conventional TV pictures. 16:9 Aspect ratio screen. The Sony Guide to six times the detail of a total 525 lines) displayed at ...screen. Interlaced ("i") scanning divides each horizontal scanning line with the lines above and below-and with both digital television broadcasting and progressive scan DVD players. 5.1-Channel Inputs. The 4:3 aspect ratio is 33% wider than the conventional, 24-bit decoding. 3D digital comb filter. Used in the future. 6.1-Channel Inputs. Home Theater Glossary 1080i...
