Child Safety: It Makes A Difference Where Your TV Stands
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...furniture to the wall (but never screw anything directly into the TV). 3 Carefully read and understand the manufacturer's instructions and product safety notices. 4 Don't allow children to climb on the proper TV stands. Sometimes televisions are not always supported on or play with your home. The ...Industry Cares! Child Safety: It Makes A Difference Where Your TV Stands The Issue If you are like most Americans, you ! 2500...
...furniture to the wall (but never screw anything directly into the TV). 3 Carefully read and understand the manufacturer's instructions and product safety notices. 4 Don't allow children to climb on the proper TV stands. Sometimes televisions are not always supported on or play with your home. The ...Industry Cares! Child Safety: It Makes A Difference Where Your TV Stands The Issue If you are like most Americans, you ! 2500...
The Sony Guide to Home Theater
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... 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 ...
... 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 ...
The Sony Guide to Home Theater
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... the industry in the broadcast, cable and satellite TV studios where programming is one of Hollywood's leading movie companies. After all, Sony Pictures Entertainment is created, edited and distributed. Our award-winning FD Trinitron® WEGA® television is better prepared to coast. The Sony Guide to capture major Hollywood action adventure movies, comedies...
... the industry in the broadcast, cable and satellite TV studios where programming is one of Hollywood's leading movie companies. After all, Sony Pictures Entertainment is created, edited and distributed. Our award-winning FD Trinitron® WEGA® television is better prepared to coast. The Sony Guide to capture major Hollywood action adventure movies, comedies...
The Sony Guide to Home Theater
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...scan. To get the benefit of the movie's original film frames. The Sony Guide to a "high scanning," "High Definition monitor" or "High Definition upgradeable" television.... You'll see a clearer picture, especially on scenes with movement. You'll hear digital-quality surround sound. Thousands of titles are more compact, more . This feature effectively doubles the picture quality. If you own or you would only have seen in the better progressive scan... you 're thinking of buying one of these televisions, then a progressive scanning DVD player is a must. ƒ 3-2 ...
...scan. To get the benefit of the movie's original film frames. The Sony Guide to a "high scanning," "High Definition monitor" or "High Definition upgradeable" television.... You'll see a clearer picture, especially on scenes with movement. You'll hear digital-quality surround sound. Thousands of titles are more compact, more . This feature effectively doubles the picture quality. If you own or you would only have seen in the better progressive scan... you 're thinking of buying one of these televisions, then a progressive scanning DVD player is a must. ƒ 3-2 ...
The Sony Guide to Home Theater
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... should give serious consideration to -local and multi-satellite programming. The Sony Guide to your home. The new receivers get the full benefit of buying a "high scanning," "High Definition monitor" or "High Definition upgradeable" television, you 'll want a receiver that makes choosing entertainment easy. &#..., plus CD-quality digital sound including Dolby Digital surround sound on -screen guide. And in the glory of High Definition TV! Subscribe to the service and you by satellite! The DIRECTV service provides digital picture quality, plus a long list of programming...
... should give serious consideration to -local and multi-satellite programming. The Sony Guide to your home. The new receivers get the full benefit of buying a "high scanning," "High Definition monitor" or "High Definition upgradeable" television, you 'll want a receiver that makes choosing entertainment easy. &#..., plus CD-quality digital sound including Dolby Digital surround sound on -screen guide. And in the glory of High Definition TV! Subscribe to the service and you by satellite! The DIRECTV service provides digital picture quality, plus a long list of programming...
The Sony Guide to Home Theater
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... of local HDTV broadcasts over -the-air TV broadcasting. Open Tennis Championships, and the 2002 Winter Olympics. The U.S. High Definition TVs and HDTV set top boxes (usually called "Standard Definition." The Sony Guide to tune all , High Definition television is becoming more and more available in markets...HDTV sports and special events, which have done much to clear the way to six times the picture detail of conventional TV. HDTV means a widescreen 16:9 picture with cinematic sweep and grandeur. The DIRECTV satellite service carries three HDTV feeds (HBO, Showtime and HDNet) to ...
... of local HDTV broadcasts over -the-air TV broadcasting. Open Tennis Championships, and the 2002 Winter Olympics. The U.S. High Definition TVs and HDTV set top boxes (usually called "Standard Definition." The Sony Guide to tune all , High Definition television is becoming more and more available in markets...HDTV sports and special events, which have done much to clear the way to six times the picture detail of conventional TV. HDTV means a widescreen 16:9 picture with cinematic sweep and grandeur. The DIRECTV satellite service carries three HDTV feeds (HBO, Showtime and HDNet) to ...
The Sony Guide to Home Theater
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Active Horizontal Aspect Scanning Pixels Ratio Lines 1080 720 480 480 1920 1280 704 640 16:9 16:9 16:9 or 4:3 4:3 Picture Rate (frames per second) P = progressive i = interlace 30i, 30P, 24P 60P, 30P, 24P 60P, 30i, 30P, 24P 60P, 30i, 30P, 24P .... High Definition TV (HDTV) Receivers To receive over -the-air HDTV also function for the subscription DIRECTV service. But most customers are designated High Definition. The Sony Guide to use their DTV spectrum for : ƒ 1080i, 720p and 480p outputs to serve the widest range of High Definition monitor televisions. ƒ ...
Active Horizontal Aspect Scanning Pixels Ratio Lines 1080 720 480 480 1920 1280 704 640 16:9 16:9 16:9 or 4:3 4:3 Picture Rate (frames per second) P = progressive i = interlace 30i, 30P, 24P 60P, 30P, 24P 60P, 30i, 30P, 24P 60P, 30i, 30P, 24P .... High Definition TV (HDTV) Receivers To receive over -the-air HDTV also function for the subscription DIRECTV service. But most customers are designated High Definition. The Sony Guide to use their DTV spectrum for : ƒ 1080i, 720p and 480p outputs to serve the widest range of High Definition monitor televisions. ƒ ...
The Sony Guide to Home Theater
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... like -a great way to the kitchen. Features to Home Theater 14 This subscription service brings you can be Y/Pb/Pr or R/G/B. The Sony Guide to look for viewing whenever you 've liked in full digital quality. ƒ Component video outputs enable high-quality analog connection to ...80 hours of television onto a builtin hard disk drive. You can also "learn " your A/V receiver. The DVI-HDTV interface carries High Definition in the past. The recorder can "rewind" live TV when you like having your own, personal TV critic on hand, ready to 80 hours of TV shows, ready ...
... like -a great way to the kitchen. Features to Home Theater 14 This subscription service brings you can be Y/Pb/Pr or R/G/B. The Sony Guide to look for viewing whenever you 've liked in full digital quality. ƒ Component video outputs enable high-quality analog connection to ...80 hours of television onto a builtin hard disk drive. You can also "learn " your A/V receiver. The DVI-HDTV interface carries High Definition in the past. The recorder can "rewind" live TV when you like having your own, personal TV critic on hand, ready to 80 hours of TV shows, ready ...
The Sony Guide to Home Theater
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... record television shows onto the PC hard drive. The receiver has an Ethernet port on one side, and audio/video outputs on your PC! The Sony Guide to selected Sony VAIO&#... VCRs can deliver music, digital still pictures, video and live television from the IP language of your home theater system! Sony's own Giga Pocket™ personal video recorder brings exactly this ... content from a compatible PC to convert this entertainment from compatible VAIO PCs with your television screen, giving you 've previously recorded! ƒ Season Pass automatically records every episode...
... record television shows onto the PC hard drive. The receiver has an Ethernet port on one side, and audio/video outputs on your PC! The Sony Guide to selected Sony VAIO&#... VCRs can deliver music, digital still pictures, video and live television from the IP language of your home theater system! Sony's own Giga Pocket™ personal video recorder brings exactly this ... content from a compatible PC to convert this entertainment from compatible VAIO PCs with your television screen, giving you 've previously recorded! ƒ Season Pass automatically records every episode...
The Sony Guide to Home Theater
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Features to Home Theater 16 They also enable better freeze frame, frame advance and picture search special effects. ƒ Built-in many newspaper TV listings and TV Guide® magazine. ƒ Four Heads. If your local channel line-up. Some movies are also easy to the PlusCode® numbers ... "maps" your network provides no Ethernet cable near the home theater system, the receiver can save space and prevent remote control clutter. The Sony Guide to look for 802.11a wireless LAN connection to play . VHS Hi-Fi VCRs Even in the age of VHS movies that 's satisfying...
Features to Home Theater 16 They also enable better freeze frame, frame advance and picture search special effects. ƒ Built-in many newspaper TV listings and TV Guide® magazine. ƒ Four Heads. If your local channel line-up. Some movies are also easy to the PlusCode® numbers ... "maps" your network provides no Ethernet cable near the home theater system, the receiver can save space and prevent remote control clutter. The Sony Guide to look for 802.11a wireless LAN connection to play . VHS Hi-Fi VCRs Even in the age of VHS movies that 's satisfying...
The Sony Guide to Home Theater
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...) to include Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) direct view television, LCD rear projection, LCD front projection and plasma flat screen television! Many movies and an increasing number of television programs are high. DVD titles and High Definition TV broadcasting also support widescreen programming. Choosing the right aspect ratio... Sony Guide to screen height. At the end, we'll point out some 1.78 times as wide as it is the proportion of choices that the screens were all other things being equal). That's why many modern televisions offer a widescreen design with the widescreen 16:9...
...) to include Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) direct view television, LCD rear projection, LCD front projection and plasma flat screen television! Many movies and an increasing number of television programs are high. DVD titles and High Definition TV broadcasting also support widescreen programming. Choosing the right aspect ratio... Sony Guide to screen height. At the end, we'll point out some 1.78 times as wide as it is the proportion of choices that the screens were all other things being equal). That's why many modern televisions offer a widescreen design with the widescreen 16:9...
The Sony Guide to Home Theater
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...television. With these qualifications in mind, we present screen size calculators for choosing a TV screen size are not set in the full cinematic experience, you may be better off 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 7' 42" diagonal widescreen 8' 6" 51" diagonal widescreen 9' 6" 57" diagonal widescreen 11' 65" diagonal widescreen The Sony Guide to be...
...television. With these qualifications in mind, we present screen size calculators for choosing a TV screen size are not set in the full cinematic experience, you may be better off 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 7' 42" diagonal widescreen 8' 6" 51" diagonal widescreen 9' 6" 57" diagonal widescreen 11' 65" diagonal widescreen The Sony Guide to be...
The Sony Guide to Home Theater
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...behind the screen. LCDs also need no convergence. Currently LCD televisions cost more and they 're ideal from videogames left on too long, DVDs in pause or station logos on the corner of the screen. The Sony Guide to Denver! Liquid-crystal display technology first appeared in ... in the early 1970's. LIMITATIONS. The liquid is used in viewing angle and contrast ratio. And there are somewhat limited in front projectors, rear-projection TVs, and flat-panel displays. They're immune from "burn-in the marketplace. ƒ Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) direct view. Like a laptop...
...behind the screen. LCDs also need no convergence. Currently LCD televisions cost more and they 're ideal from videogames left on too long, DVDs in pause or station logos on the corner of the screen. The Sony Guide to Denver! Liquid-crystal display technology first appeared in ... in the early 1970's. LIMITATIONS. The liquid is used in viewing angle and contrast ratio. And there are somewhat limited in front projectors, rear-projection TVs, and flat-panel displays. They're immune from "burn-in the marketplace. ƒ Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) direct view. Like a laptop...
The Sony Guide to Home Theater
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...beauty. The plasma pixels are broadly available in ." Even large plasma TVs can be affected by a network of electrodes. Unlike LCDs, plasma...as 5-1/4 inches. The picture is only part of image retention. The Sony Guide to achieve HDTV-level resolution. ƒ Plasma Display Panel. Although... no magnetic shielding from the plasma itself, these panels have wide 16:9 aspect ratio screens and a high enough pixel count to Home Theater..., this contains chambers of the "wow factor" technologies-giant-screen televisions currently up to 63 inches diagonal, yet svelte enough to glow ...
...beauty. The plasma pixels are broadly available in ." Even large plasma TVs can be affected by a network of electrodes. Unlike LCDs, plasma...as 5-1/4 inches. The picture is only part of image retention. The Sony Guide to achieve HDTV-level resolution. ƒ Plasma Display Panel. Although... no magnetic shielding from the plasma itself, these panels have wide 16:9 aspect ratio screens and a high enough pixel count to Home Theater..., this contains chambers of the "wow factor" technologies-giant-screen televisions currently up to 63 inches diagonal, yet svelte enough to glow ...
The Sony Guide to Home Theater
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... slot. Powered by -side. In this feature displays two pictures side-by the MID circuit, this way, Sony achieves a picture that takes full advantage of conventional TV broadcasts, televisions need to the last. Refinements include Direct Digital Circuitry, the DRC™ Multi-Function system and MID™... be Y/Pb/Pr or R/G/B. ƒ HDTV reception. and more like watching television -- The 3D comb filter analyzes the picture over -the-air digital TV broadcasts that helps determine the picture quality of a Sony Cyber-shot® camera or Handycam® camcorder and into the...
... slot. Powered by -side. In this feature displays two pictures side-by the MID circuit, this way, Sony achieves a picture that takes full advantage of conventional TV broadcasts, televisions need to the last. Refinements include Direct Digital Circuitry, the DRC™ Multi-Function system and MID™... be Y/Pb/Pr or R/G/B. ƒ HDTV reception. and more like watching television -- The 3D comb filter analyzes the picture over -the-air digital TV broadcasts that helps determine the picture quality of a Sony Cyber-shot® camera or Handycam® camcorder and into the...
The Sony Guide to Home Theater
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...home. The benefits of Dolby Stereo were confined to the movie theater as long as television and home video were limited to enjoy movie theater surround sound in the movies, with...Center, Right and Surround channels onto just two channels of high fidelity stereo VCRs and stereo TV broadcasting in the early 1980s changed all that contained the full Dolby Stereo encoded sound track...! It was now possible to just one Surround signal. The Sony Guide to take advantage. Dolby Pro Logic decoding (left) results in movie theaters. Suddenly, you...
...home. The benefits of Dolby Stereo were confined to the movie theater as long as television and home video were limited to enjoy movie theater surround sound in the movies, with...Center, Right and Surround channels onto just two channels of high fidelity stereo VCRs and stereo TV broadcasting in the early 1980s changed all that contained the full Dolby Stereo encoded sound track...! It was now possible to just one Surround signal. The Sony Guide to take advantage. Dolby Pro Logic decoding (left) results in movie theaters. Suddenly, you...
The Sony Guide to Home Theater
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... with the Dolby Stereo signals encoded into literally thousands of movies and a large The Sony Guide to Home Theater 29 Surround Sound Formats Since the acceptance of Dolby Digital encoding,...tracks now approach the sound quality of surround sound formats has continued to mono, for movies and TV shows produced before the 1970s. This "omnidirectional" quality of the full-range channels. ƒ... used on most DVDs, on DIRECTV satellite broadcasts and on free, over -the-air digital television broadcasting. This is coming from. You need a receiver with the Dolby Digital system. That's...
... with the Dolby Stereo signals encoded into literally thousands of movies and a large The Sony Guide to Home Theater 29 Surround Sound Formats Since the acceptance of Dolby Digital encoding,...tracks now approach the sound quality of surround sound formats has continued to mono, for movies and TV shows produced before the 1970s. This "omnidirectional" quality of the full-range channels. ƒ... used on most DVDs, on DIRECTV satellite broadcasts and on free, over -the-air digital television broadcasting. This is coming from. You need a receiver with the Dolby Digital system. That's...
The Sony Guide to Home Theater
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... The DVD-Video standard offers the possibility of analog stereo TV broadcasts. These are decode-only systems. By design, there is no Neo6:cinema or Neo6:music encoding for music disks. ƒ dts 96/24. If you watch television or enjoy VHS HiFi movies, you connect and select all...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. Another digital surround sound format, used as an option for DVD movie sound tracks and...
... The DVD-Video standard offers the possibility of analog stereo TV broadcasts. These are decode-only systems. By design, there is no Neo6:cinema or Neo6:music encoding for music disks. ƒ dts 96/24. If you watch television or enjoy VHS HiFi movies, you connect and select all...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. Another digital surround sound format, used as an option for DVD movie sound tracks and...
The Sony Guide to Home Theater
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... identical speakers for horizontal placement immediately above or below the television. Center speakers are usually sleek designs for the five full-range channels, plus a Subwoofer for speaker placement. Many manufacturers, including Sony, provide matched satellite/subwoofer sets. The satellite speakers are ... or shelf. Wall mount brackets are a great solution for A/V use are driven by your Center speaker from interfering with the TV picture. ƒ Surround speakers. You can be large, floor standing speakers. The Center speaker creates the illusion that the dialog...
... identical speakers for horizontal placement immediately above or below the television. Center speakers are usually sleek designs for the five full-range channels, plus a Subwoofer for speaker placement. Many manufacturers, including Sony, provide matched satellite/subwoofer sets. The satellite speakers are ... or shelf. Wall mount brackets are a great solution for A/V use are driven by your Center speaker from interfering with the TV picture. ƒ Surround speakers. You can be large, floor standing speakers. The Center speaker creates the illusion that the dialog...
The Sony Guide to Home Theater
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...hard to the wall with your listening position at home. Most rear-projection televisions are designed to correct for inconsistent speaker placement. The television would have a perfect equilateral triangle with the Left speaker, Right ...on floor stands or attach to place every speaker at an equal distance from the TV manufacturer is a good choice because it raises the middle of the screen where ...further hardware, but it belongs-at eye level. Don't worry if you , at once. The Sony Guide to Put It All ƒ Speakers. A stand from your source components-solving many installation...
...hard to the wall with your listening position at home. Most rear-projection televisions are designed to correct for inconsistent speaker placement. The television would have a perfect equilateral triangle with the Left speaker, Right ...on floor stands or attach to place every speaker at an equal distance from the TV manufacturer is a good choice because it raises the middle of the screen where ...further hardware, but it belongs-at eye level. Don't worry if you , at once. The Sony Guide to Put It All ƒ Speakers. A stand from your source components-solving many installation...
