Sony KP-65WV700 The Sony Guide to Home Theater - Page 47

same wire. Picture quality is lost whenever chrominance and luminance are stripped apart for display on a television. Digital Cinema Sound system. A group of Sony developments that represents a total rethinking of home theater sound. Produces the sound that movie directors intended by recreating the precise acoustics of three post-production dubbing stages in Hollywood. Digital Concert Hall. To enable multi-channel music reproduction from conventional, stereo sources, Sony engineers have captured the sound of two revered performance spaces: Amsterdam's Concertgebouw and Vienna's Musikvereinsaal. Sony's top receivers offer DSP modes that reproduce both halls. Digital Reality Creation™ circuitry. A Sony breakthrough in big-screen television. This uses digital mapping to convert a conventional TV image into its high definition equivalent. The system creates four times as much data for a more solid, more convincing picture. And some versions of the system enable you to choose between interlaced and progressive display modes. Digital Signal Processing (DSP). Circuits that shape and enhance a signal when it's still in the digital domain. Audio DSP circuits can perform surround sound decoding, create acoustic environments, adjust the bass and treble with incredible precision and even adjust the volume. Digital Television (DTV). The US system for over-the-air broadcasting gives stations 18 options in signal format, six of which are designated as true High Definition. Dolby Digital decoder. Enables multi-channel digital surround sound that is dynamic, spacious and realistic. Generates 5.1 discrete channels of sound for Left, Right, Center, Surround-Left, Surround-Right and Low Frequency Effects (LFE) for a Subwoofer. Dolby Digital passthrough. This is a digital output from a DVD player, satellite receiver or HDTV receiver to an A/V receiver with built-in Dolby Digital decoder. Dolby Digital EX 6.1-channel sound. The new encoding format includes a matrix "Surround Back" channel. Dolby Pro Logic decoder. The classic system that decodes and amplifies the surround channels already encoded in most movie videocassettes and laserdiscs, many TV dramas and sports broadcasts. Dolby Pro Logic II-movie and Pro Logic II-music. Decode-only systems that derive 5.1 channels instead of the conventional 4 channels of Dolby Pro Logic surround sound. dts (Digital Theater System) decoder. Enables multi-channel digital surround sound that is dynamic, spacious and realistic. Generates 5.1 discrete channels of sound for Left, Right, Center, Surround-Left, Surround-Right and Low Frequency Effects (LFE) for a Subwoofer. dts 96/24. Sound track encoding system that can deliver the extended frequency response of 96 kHz sampling and the heightened realism of 24-bit quantization. dts ES discrete 6.1 and dts ES matrix 6.1. Decoding systems that add a Surround Back channel. In the "discrete" case, it's a completely separate channel. In the "matrix" The Sony Guide to Home Theater 47