Sony Home Theater User Manual
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The Sony Guide to Home Theater
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Super Fine Pitch™ CRT. An improvement in the FD Trinitron picture tube.
Behind the screen, we've reduced the spacing or "pitch" of the Aperture Grill by 65%.
You get higher resolution, greater precision and a television that takes full advantage
of High Definition source material.
Component video inputs enable high-quality analog connection from a DVD player
or satellite receiver. The separate components of the video signal can be Y/P
b
/P
r
or
R/G/B.
HDTV reception. Some televisions offer a complete HDTV receiver built in. So
you have access to free, over-the-air digital TV broadcasts that are already available
to 97% of American homes.
MID™ circuitry. If you're a fan of picture-in-picture, wait until you've tried Sony's
Twin View™ picture-and-picture! Powered by the MID circuit, this feature displays
two pictures side-by-side. Then you can zoom each picture up or down in size,
depending on what's going on and what's important. You can even display a High
Definition source side-by-side with Standard Definition on the same screen.
WEGA Engine™ circuitry. This is the secret behind XBR® Plasma WEGA™ and
XBR LCD WEGA™ television. It performs the all-important "scaling" that helps
determine the picture quality of fixed pixel displays. Unlike conventional circuitry,
the WEGA Engine system maintains the picture in the digital domain from the first
stage to the last. In this way, Sony achieves a picture that's less like watching
television -- and more like a window on the world. Refinements include Direct
Digital Circuitry, the DRC™ Multi-Function system and MID™ X circuitry.
Memory Stick® media playback. A growing number of Sony televisions includes a
Memory Stick media slot. The latest televisions will display JPEG images (DCF
format).* Simply slide the Memory Stick media out of a Sony Cyber-shot® camera
or Handycam® camcorder and into the television's Memory Stick slot!
3D Comb filter. To maximize the picture detail of conventional TV broadcasts,
televisions need to separate the luminance (Y) from the chrominance (C). The 3D
comb filter analyzes the picture over three dimensions: vertical, horizontal and time,
to get superb detail and high color purity under the widest range of picture conditions.