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Chapter 1
Before you start
Introduction to home theater
You are probably used to using stereo equipment to listen
to music, but may not be used to home theater systems
that give you many more options (such as surround
sound) when listening to soundtracks.
Home theater refers to the use of multiple audio tracks to
create a surround sound effect, making you feel like
you’re in the middle of the action or concert. The
surround sound you get from a home theater system
depends not only on the speakers you have set up in your
room, but also on the source and the sound settings of
your system.
DVD-Video has become the basic source material for
home theater due to its size, quality and ease of use. The
true multichannel audio possible using DVD is what
creates a convincing surround sound effect and gives
you the feeling of ‘being there’.
Features
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Dolby Digital and DTS decoding
Dolby Digital and DTS decoding brings theater sound
right into your home with up to six channels of surround
sound, including a special LFE (Low Frequency Effects)
channel for deep, realistic sound effects.
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Dolby Pro Logic II decoder
The built-in Dolby Pro Logic II decoder not only provides
full surround sound decoding for Dolby Surround
sources, but will also generate convincing surround
sound for any stereo source.
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Surround and Advanced Surround modes
Used together with the Dolby Digital, DTS or Dolby Pro
Logic II modes, the Surround and Advanced Surround
modes are designed to enhance particular types of
program material by, for example, reproducing the
acoustic space of a concert hall for music-based
material.
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Front Surround sound
If it’s not possible to place the surround speakers behind
you, or you want to avoid running long speaker cables in
your listening area, you can use the Front Surround
modes to take advantage of wall and ceiling reflections
for a very realistic surround effect.
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HDD recording
You can record up to 102 hours of video (in EP mode) on
the internal 80GB (gigabyte) hard disk (HDD). And with
both recordable DVD and a high-capacity HDD in the
same system, you have the flexibility to keep recordings
on the HDD for quick access anytime, or record to DVD
for archiving or playing on other DVD players.
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Copy between HDD and DVD
You can copy recordings from the HDD to recordable
DVD, or from DVD to the HDD. Usually you can use the
high-speed copy feature, which can copy an hour of video
in under two minutes (when recorded in EP mode using
a DVD-R Ver. 2.0 / 8x disc).
You can also choose to copy material at a different
recording quality from the original. For example, you
might want to copy a FINE mode (highest quality)
recording on the HDD to SP (standard play) quality on a
DVD so that you can fit other recordings on the same
disc.
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