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SPEAKER PLACEMENT

FRONT SPEAKERS HEAD HEIGHT SEATED APPROXIMATELY 40 INCHES FROM CENTER OF MAIN SEATING AREA 45* ANGLE FOR SPEAKER SEPERATION

TYPES OF SPEAKERS BOOKSHELF TOWER ON WALL IN WALL CEILING (DISPERSED)

CENTER SPEAKER MOUNTED DIRECTLY ABOVE OR BELOW THE TV, OR BEHIND THE SCREEN

TYPES OF SPEAKERS CENTER SPEAKER SHOULD MATCH FRONT LEFT AND RIGHT SPEAKERS WHEN SPEAKER IS USED NEAR TV IT MUST BE SHIELDED CABINET, INWALL, ONWALL OR DISPERSED CEILING

REAR SPEAKERS ON SIDE WALLS DIRECTLY BEHIND THE MAIN SEATING AREA ABOUT 3 FEET HIGHER THAN FRONT SPEAKERS

TYPES OF SPEAKERS BOOKSHELF ONWALL INWALL CEILING DIPOLE ( BEST FOR REAR EFFECTS

SUBWOOFER REPRODUCE LOW BASS EFFECTS HEIGHTEN INVOLVEMENT WITH THE ACTION ON THE SCREEN CORNER PLACEMENT TO FULLY UTILIZE SUBWOOFER CAPABILITY

5.1 SURROUND SOUND DOLBY DIGITAL (AC3) DOLBY LABORATORIES DTS DIGITAL THEATER SYSTEMS

5.1 SOURCES DVD LASER DISC SATELITE CABLE (SOME AREAS) PASSING A 5.1 SIGNAL MUST BE DONE ON FIBER OPTIC OR COAX CABLE

EXTENDED SURROUND DOLBY DIGITAL REFERRED TO AS EX & 7.1 DTS REFERRED TO AS ES & 6.1

EX SPEAKER PLACEMENT 2 SPEAKERS SAME HEIGHTH AS SIDES REAR WALL SEPARATED BY 4 FEET 1 SPEAKER REAR WALL SAME HEIGHTH AS SIDES CENTER OF LISTENING AREA

EX SPEAKER PLACEMENT

VIDEO SCREENS When seated too close, the scanning lines on the tube or the pixels on the projectors will be apparent. Seating far enough back will blend these details to the human eye.

VIDEO SCREENS Movie theaters are designed so that viewing angles are reduced to provide more realistic images. Prime seating is designed to view the movie at a 30 degree angle (peripheral view of the human being). When adopting this design to the home theater; visual scanning lines and pixels are detected.

VIDEO SCREENS

SEATING RANGE DILEMMA Seating distance to overcome visual image structure is typically 4X the height of the video screen. Or this distance can be also measured as 3X the width of the screen. These two parameters are commonly recommended distances by projection screen manufacturers.

DVD Innovative creation of digital and audio and video. Can play up to 133 minutes of full motion video on a single sided disc (92% of all movies ever made).

DVD Picture quality approaches “D-1” studio production standard. Over 500 lines horizontal resolution (240 lines VCR). Up to 8 languages and 32 subtitles.

DVD Choice of PCM stereo sound or digital multi channel surround. Supports letterbox, pan and scan or 16 X 9 formats. Holds 4.7 gigabytes of data per layer (compared to 680 megabytes of data on a CD). Offers dual layer double sided disc options.

DVD FUTURE APLLICATIONS The ability to view scenes shot at multiple angles. Recordable, rewritable and high definition media.

PROGRESSIVE SCAN DVD PLAYERS WITH PROGRESSIVE SCAN WILL OFFER OUTPUTS FOR HDTV READY DISPLAY MONITORS. THE PLAYER WILL THEN BE CAPABLE OF RECONSTRUCTING 3/2 PULLDOWN EFFECT INTRODUCED WHEN THE FILM-BASED PROGRAMS ARE TRANSFERRED TO VIDEO. RESULTS IN THE BEST PICTURE QUALITY AVAILABLE!

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SATELITE CABLE ANTENNA DVD VCR COMPOSITE VIDEO CIRCA 1950 DESIGNED VIDEO CABLE POOR BANDWIDTH POOR COLOR SEPERATION

SATELITE CABLE ANTENNA DVD VCR S VIDEO CIRCA 1980 BROADER BANDWIDTH GOOD COLOR SEPERATION DESIGNED FOR COLOR TV

SATELITE CABLE ANTENNA DVD VCR COMPONENT VIDEO REQUIRED FOR HDTV

SATELITE CABLE ANTENNA DVD VCR ANALOG AUDIO STEREO

SATELITE CABLE ANTENNA DVD VCR DIGITAL AUDIO MUST USE FOR DTS AND DOLBY DIGITAL FIBER OPTIC TOSLINK CONNECTOR COAXIAL RCA CONNECTOR

SATELITE CABLE ANTENNA DVD VCR HDMI HDTV VIDEO DIGITAL AUDIO

RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN AMP POWER & SOUND PRESSURE 2 WATTS = + 3DB 4 WATTS = + 6DB 10WATTS= +10DB ( TWICE AS LOUD AS 1 WATT ) 20WATTS = +13DB 40WATTS = +16DB 100WATTS= +20DB ( FOUR TIMES AS LOUD AS 1 WATT ) 200WATTS= +23DB 400WATTS= +26DB 1000WATTS=+30DB ( EIGHT TIMES AS LOUD AS 1 WATT )