Sony DAVHDX279W 111Us, •Music mode, Dolby Surround Pro Logic, Parental Control, Super Audio CD

•Music mode

The Music mode is fl)r use with any stere(> music recordings, and provides a wide and deep sound space.

Dolby Surround Pro Logic

As one method of decoding Dolhy Surround, Dolby Surround Pro Logic produces four channels from 2 cbaunel sound. Compared with the fornler Dolby Surround system, Dolby Surround Pro Logic reproduces left-to-right panning more naturally and localizes sounds more precisely. To take full advantage of Dolby Surround Pro Logic, you should have one pair of surround speakers and a center speaker. The

surround speakers output illonaural SOul>d.

DTS

Digital audio compression technology developed by DTS, lnc. This technology conlorms to 5. l-channel surround. This lbrmat

comprises of stereo rear channel and there is discrete subwooli:r channel in this l\>rmat. DTS

provides tile same 5.1 discrete channels of high quality digital audio. Tile good channel separation is realized due to the all channel data being recorded discretely and processed in digitally.

HDMI (High-Definition Multimedia Interface)

HDMI is ml interface that supports both video and audio on a single digital connection, allowing you to enjoy high quality digital picture and sound. Tile HDMI specification

supports HDCP (High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection), a copy protection technology that incorporates coding techm)logy t_)r digital video signals.

Interlace format

(Interlaced scanning)

The Interlace format is tile NTSC stmMard method [_>rdisplaying TV images at 30 l?ames per second. Each frame is scanned twice - alternately between the eve>>numbered scanning lines and then odd numbered scanning lines, at 60 times per second.

Parental Control

A function of tile DVD to limit playhack of the disc by the age of the users according to the limitation level in each country. The limitation

varies tYoln disc to disc; when it is activated, playback is completely prohibited, violent scenes are skipped or replaced witll other scenes and so on.

Progressive format

(sequential scanning)

In contrast to the Interlace format, the progressive [k)rmat can reproduce 50 - 60 frames per second by reproducing all scanning lines (525 lines lk)r the NTSC system). The overall picture quality increases and still images, text and horizontal lines appear sharper. This lormat is compatible with the 525 or 625 progressive lk)rmat.

S-AIR

(Sony Audio Interactive Radio frequency)

Recent times have seen tile rapid spread of DVD media, Digital Broadcasting, and other high- quality media.

To ensure that the subtle nuances of these high- quality media are transmitted with no

deterioration, Sony has developed a technology called "S-AIR" for the radio transmission of

digital audio signals with no compression, and has incorporated this technology into tile EZW- RT 11)/EZW-T 100.

This technology transfi:rs digital audit> signals

with no compression using the 2.4 GHz hand range of ISM baud (Industrial, Scientific, and Medical band), such as wireless LANs and Bluetooth applications.

Super Audio CD

Super Audit> CD is a new high-quality audit> disc standard where music is recorded in the

DSD (Direct Stream Digital) l\>rmat (conventional CD is recorded in the PCM format). Tile DSD format, using a sampling tbequency 64 times higher than that of a

conventional CD, and with l-bit quantizatiou, achieves both a wide frequency range and a wide dynamic range across tile audible frequency range, and so provides music reproduction extremely faithful to tile original sound.

•Super Audio CD types

There are two types of discs, depending on the Super Audit> CD layer and CD layer combination.

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