Sony CMT-CQ1 - Micro Hi Fi Component System Manual 

2 Contents What is Home Theater? ................................................... Page 3 Why Sony? ...................................................................... Page 4 What You'll Need: Sources, Sight & Sound..................... Page 6 Home Theater Sources DVD Players................................................ ...

3 What is Home Theater? Think of what makes movies in a theater so compelling. Consider the giant screen, teeming with brilliantly detailed, vivid color pictures. Think of the sound, sometimes booming with explosions, sometimes delicately whispering and always immersing you in a full 360-degree experience. At the movies, the ...

4 Why Sony? No company is better prepared to provide your home theater than Sony. We co- invented many of the essentials of home theater, including Compact Disc and DVD. Our award-winning FD Trinitron® WEGA® television is the gold standard in picture quality. Our Plasma WEGA™ and Grand WEGA™ televisions have won rave re ...

5 A breakthrough in professional audio, the Sony OXF-R3 Oxford digital mixing console. In all the world, no other company has this intensity of home theater focus—or this breadth of home theater expertise. Only Sony. ...

6 What You'll Need: Sources, Sight & Sound Home theater combines three essential elements into one powerful experience. These elements are Sources, Sight and Sound. SOURCES. A good DVD player is the essential source for today's home theaters. In one easy purchase, a DVD player offers studio- quality pictures, CD-quality sound ...

7 Home Theater Sources DVD Players The essential home theater source component, a DVD player is also one of the best entertainment values today. It delivers digital picture quality that until recently you would only have seen in a TV broadcast studio. You'll hear digital-quality surround sound. You'll enjoy over ten thousand ...

8 ƒ Component video outputs. These Y/PB/PR outputs are a must for progressive scan DVD—and they're highly desirable for all other players. They do the best job of preserving the picture quality. Component video outputs (Y/PB/PR) are the best way to convey the full quality of the signal from the DVD player to the television ...

9 About Progressive Scan In video, what appears to be a continuously moving image is actually a series of discrete still pictures, called frames. Each frame lasts 1/30 second each contains 480 scanning lines that appear on the screen. Because of limitations in the early days of television, these 480 lines were divided into tw ...

10 Super Audio CD Playback A music source, Super Audio CD belongs in any discussion of Home Theater thanks to multi-channel sound capability. You haven't enjoyed the ultimate in home audio reproduction until you've heard a multi-channel Super Audio CD reproduced over a multi-channel speaker system. Thanks to Sony's Direct Str ...