Philips DS9/37 Product brochure - Page 25

Philips Fidelio SoundBar home theater Philips Fidelio SoundBar home theater with Ambisound is designed for modern living - a super slim single unit providing all your entertainment at the touch of a button. It features Full HD 3D Blu-ray and supports a host of integrated connectivity features. Perfect for those with a large library of movies on hard disks, PCs, tablets or smartphones, the new 2012 SoundBar model has streaming functionality for playback of any content stored on an Android tablet, Android smartphone, Apple devices or PC with Philips' SimplyShare app (within MyRemote App), plus built-in Wi-Fi functionality so it can be enjoyed on the big screen of your TV. The Fidelio SoundBar delivers uncompromised surround sound thanks to Philips' unique, proprietary Ambisound technology. Precisely angled drivers positioned within the SoundBar and the subtle tuning of the array processing create life-like rear sound effects in any room shape, even in open plan homes, and a wide sweet spot is assured irrespective of where you are sat. Ambisound differs from other SoundBars due to the six dedicated amplification channels with Class D amplifiers across the 5.1 channels. The SoundBar's super slim design makes it ideal for wall-mounting or positioning beneath a flat-screen TV. Distinctive design cues with high quality aluminum give the SoundBar a contemporary, premium finish well suited to the most style-conscious, connected home. 45 Ambisound technology Through a deep understanding of psychoacoustic phenomena - how you hear, sense and experience sound - Philips has carefully engineered the design and audio processing technology, Ambisound, to create a Philips SoundBar product, this provides an embracing cinematic experience from only one speaker product. To make the SoundBar impressive both sonically and aesthetically, Philips gave it six amplifiers and speaker drivers. Creating the effect of impressive sound was one thing; the art was in controlling it.The cumulative effects of this combination of technology is that no matter where you sit in your room - or no matter the shape of your room - sound is driven around you for a truly immersive cinematic experience. In short, you don't have to sit right in front; the sound remains wide and natural wherever you sit. With the patented arrangement of these six drivers, Philips designed the form of the bar with a long curve driven by the technology inside it - an extremely unique and beautiful design for a SoundBar. A key influence on the design was the continually diminishing size of TV's - as they become thinner and thinner, products such as this are more frequently wallmounted. It was therefore necessary to make the SoundBar thinner to match thin TV's. Philips therefore used several optical effects and 3D design elements to create a visual effect so that when you see it in reality, the 2012 Philips SoundBar looks thin but still delivers the same great sound that won the Ambisound SoundBar many awards in prestigious magazines over the years. "Ambisound technology has set the level for a very natural yet wide and immersive sound from a single product below your TV for years - and we keep on improving it with each new release." Gerrit De Poortere, Sound & Acoustics Innovation Engineer 46