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Yamaha Digital Home Theater Components Fall 2002 Yamaha Digital Home Theater Components & Audio Components Dedicated to the creation of fine sound for over a century. Yamaha’s involvement with sound began with the production of our first reed organ in 1887. Shortly thereafter, we began making pianos and other instruments, and today we are the world’s largest producer of musical instruments. We also operate Digital Sound Field a worldwide music school, Processing in 1986, we design concert halls and opened a new era in home produce innovative electronic entertainment. All of our instruments. Our audio acoustic and audio expertise components have long been is now engineered into LSIs recognized as the standard that we design and bearers of fine quality, and manufacture ourselves, and with the development of these powerful chips are expanding and enhancing entertainment possibilities in the exciting new field of home theater. Recently, we’ve also introduced state-of-the- art video components, and now offer everything necessary for the finest in music and movie enjoyment at home. CONTENTS 4 Home Theater Systems 8 Projectors and Plasma Display Monitor 12 Digital Home Theater Components 16 Digital Home Theater Receivers 28 CinemaStation 32 HTiB (Home Theater in a Box) 34 DVD Players / DVD Recorder 38 CD-R/RW + HDD Digital Audio Recorder 39 Subwoofers 40 Digital Home Theater Speakers 44 Audio Components 44 Compact Systems 46 Audio Components Answering the Dreams of Movie Lovers. If you love movies, you dream of watching them at home on a wide screen, with the same beautiful color and clarity that you see with films. Well, like all good movie dreams, this one has come true. Yamaha offers two ultra high performance projectors designed specifically for movie viewing. True home theater has arrived. DPX-1000 System LPX-500 System The DPX-1000 (P.9) is a DLP projector that provides images of Taking advantage of innovative Yamaha technologies like Natural stunning clarity and rich, natural color. You’ve never seen movies Black and Linear Color Balance, as well as DCDi processing, the look this good in a home before. Matched with Yamaha’s top LPX-500 LCD projector (P.10) delivers beautiful picture quality quality home theater audio components, the RX-Z1 Receiver (P.16), with exceptionally high contrast. Team it with the RX-V1300 the DVD-CX1 DVD Changer (P.34), HX Series Speakers (P.40) and Receiver (P.23), the DVD-S1200 DVD Player (P.35), HX Series YST-SW1500 (P.39) Subwoofers, you have a system that offers a Speakers (P. 40) and the YST-SW800 Subwoofer (P.39), and start breathtaking cinematic experience. really enjoying movies at home. 4 Your Window to a New World of Home Theater. Here’s a slim, stylish alternative to boxy televisions — a plasma display monitor that gives you a huge 50 inches of high-definition image quality. Specially designed for movie reproduction, it uses Yamaha’s Natural Black Drive System to deliver an awesome 3,000:1 contrast ratio. Hang it on your wall and enjoy the view. PDM-1 System The DVX-S100 System (P.28) is a perfect match for the PDM-1 (P.11). Its slim, coolly professional center unit combines a high performance DVD player with a receiver offering the superb quality that Yamaha is famous for. The speaker system has five speakers and a subwoofer, so you can experience the full impact of 5.1-channel movie sound. 5 Think Home Theater is Difficult? Think Again. Perhaps you’re thinking, “Yes, I want a home theater system, but I prefer it to be easy and affordable.” Fortunately, Yamaha has a number of systems for you to choose from. And here’s the best news: they are beautiful combinations of high-performance audio and eye-pleasing style. DVX-S60 CinemaStation YHT-900 (HTiB) Enjoying movies at home is more fun than ever when you get With HTiB (Home Theater in a Box), Yamaha makes home theater simple, high quality surround sound, convenience and easy set-up in convenient and affordable. You get everything necessary for high-quality an all-in-one system. Consisting of an amplifier/tuner unit, a sound in one box: the HTR-5560 Receiver, the DV-C6480 DVD Changer, top-quality DVD player and six compact, very efficient the NS-AP580 6.1-Channel Speaker Package and the YST-SW205 speakers, the DVX-S60 (description on P.29) sports a sleek Subwoofer. Just connect to your TV to enjoy all of the advantages of the design that adds a sophisticated accent to any interior. latest digital movie sound formats, just like in a movie theater (P.32). 6 Compact Systems for Style-Conscious Music Fans. Yamaha “Natural Sound” audio components have been setting standards of excellence for decades. A tradition ably carried on by our latest sound systems. These systems not only deliver high quality audio from multiple sources, but their compact, stylish designs are perfectly in tune with today’s lifestyle trends. PianoCraft MCR-500 TSX-20 Tabletop System A brilliant combination of Yamaha sound quality and This CD Receiver system marries cool elegance with craftsmanship in a micro component system. Surprising impressively good sound quality. The compact yet eye- power and bass-reflex speakers with a handsome high gloss catching design can be used in a variety of finish like Yamaha uses on its renowned pianos. An ideal configurations and positioned at several angles, or even system for those who want beautiful sound and design in a hung on a wall. A great choice for living room, minimum of space. bedroom or office. 7 Ultra high performance DLP™ Digital Cinema Projector with superior DPX-1000 Digital Cinema Projector If you’ve decided the time has come to start enjoying widescreen movies at home with the highest possible film-like quality, the first component to choose is the DPX-1000. Designed exclusively for home theater use, this high performance projector combines the highest level of DLP™ quality with a superior optical system and other technologies for superb contrast and color quality. Sit back and enjoy! Ultra High Quality, High starts with a massive, large diameter Performance Optical System projection lens (f2.4) for optimum One of the main reasons for the DPX- light gathering to maximize 1000’s superior performance is its brightness and clarity. There is also exceptionally good optical system. It an aspherical condenser lens with extremely high optical efficiency. The entire 12-group, 14-lens configuration has low distortion for outstanding sharpness and clarity, and high resolution for good depth and density. The precision ground Yamaha Natural Black Concept glass lenses are made from How a video system reproduces black A B anomalous dispersion glass with and all its gradations is what determines extremely low chromatic aberration, Yamaha Natural Black makes With other projectors, contrast, and generally makes the subtle degrees of black in black contrast may be and have a non-reflective coating. difference between an image that is textures, shadows and so on soft and fuzzy rather stand out more clearly. than sharp and clear. merely good and one that is sharp and Motorized Iris Control for Higher richly detailed at every level of Black reproduction by DPX-1000 and conventional Contrast brightness. In quest of superior contrast projectors. The DPX-1000 is equipped with a performance, Yamaha developed the DPX-1000: Deep blacks Conventional projectors: motorized Optical Iris. Optimizing A are clearly defined, all B Due to “floating black” Natural Black concept, whereby various dark gradations are sharply effect, rendering of deep the shape of the iris achieves an technologies, parts and functions and cleanly rendered. blacks is very difficult. extremely high contrast ratio in the combine to achieve truer, deeper levels Cinema mode (there is also a of black than those of conventional Standard mode), as well as increasing home theater projectors. Black Level White Level Black Level White Level depth of field and enhancing black 8 DIGITAL CINEMA PROJECTOR new technologies and optics. level. The prism shape and lens key DMD™ arrangement are also optimized, and a (Digital low-reflection coating restricts the Micromirror reflection of unnecessary light that Device™) reduces contrast. With this system, component uses a contrast is so good that small details mirror angle of 12°, that would ordinarily be masked by offering 1,280 x 720 pixel DMD™ black areas are visible. outstanding device performance. Yamaha Picture Management System The DPX-1000 features full 10-bit 5x Color Wheel component signal processing from The DPX-1000 uses a 5x color wheel to input to output. Most home projectors reduce distortion and to ensure superb Control panel use 8-bit processing for 256 shades of color accuracy. The wheel has a dichroic gradation, but 10-bit processing coated monolithic filter to enhance color provides 1,024 shades. Yamaha’s performance and projector provides RS-232C serial original 1080 Progressive Processing is driven by a interface, extended IR codes, IR I/O system uses 3-2 pulldown and Motion coreless air ports and power status trigger DC12V. Adaptive i/p conversion. Yamaha’s Area bearing motor The complete set of inputs includes a Adaptive Scaling enables native 720p with low noise DVI terminal compatible with 480p and display. Faroudja’s DCDi processing and excellent 720p RGB signals. effectively reduces “jaggies” with durability. standard definition sources. Complete 3-color 6-segment color wheel Other Notable Features signal bypass for external control is also Silent Operation Ⅲ Automatic input signal detection and possible. Naturally, a home theater projector selection. should be extremely quiet, and the Ⅲ Automatic aspect ratio detection and Complete Color Balance Control DPX-1000 is unmatched here also. It’s selection.
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