Page 5 of Digital Home Theater 2006 New Products Catalog by Yamaha Audio & Video

digital home theatre technology digital home theatre technology high picture quality component video up-conversion rx-v659 and rx-v559 component video up-conversion composite to s-video and component s-video to component as well as down video conversion s-video to composite is automatically applied to incoming signals digital video processing with tbc rx-v659 and rx-v559 analog devices high performance encoder and decoder digitally processes the video signal to ensure high image quality a time base corrector tbc eliminates time base errors such as curved or bent lines that should be straight on dolby digital and dts decoding using relatively simple matrix and steering techniques to create surround sound effects yamaha s cinema dsp digital technology is much more sophisticated it naturally decodes the dolby digital and dts movie sound formats but it also draws on a huge memory of real-world data from actual venues especially for the music programmes and input from movie sound technicians this data is stored and processed on yamaha lsis way beyond ordinary surround sound our latest technology quad-field cinema dsp actually creates four independent sound fields front surround left surround right and surround back that merge to envelop you in an unmatched surround sound experience you hear movies and music with accurate sound localization smooth movement across the sound space exceptional clarity and remarkably realistic presence it will seem as if the walls of your room have disappeared and you are in the middle of your own immense theatre yamaha uses actual sound field data yamaha developed a technique called single point quad miking to precisely capture the acoustic patterns of sound spaces this complex data is stored and processed on extremely sophisticated lsis designed and manufactured by yamaha high performance cinema dsp lsi rx-v659 rx-v559 and rx-v459 these receivers use yamaha s recently developed lsi with 64-bit floating point quantization processing for high speed high new cinema density digital sound field processing dsp lsi sound field measurement in performance hall top left simulation of hall acoustics top right the bottom line bottom left and single point quad mike bottom right time base corrector off left vs time base corrector on right 3 hdtv compatible component video input terminals fixed and assignable component video inputs offer higher picture quality for use with units such as dvd players that have component video output the frequency response of the component video signal is 5hz ­ 60mhz making it compatible with hdtv 1080i/720p because we know that many people like to use several high quality video devices we have given this receiver three component video inputs instead of the usual one or two you can enjoy three different sources without having to change connections night listening enhancer and silent cinema the night listening enhancer offers two modes cinema and music with three-level selectability which will ensure that you don t miss movie dialogue or quiet passages or lose overall surround spaciousness even during low volume listening late at night the silent cinema mode allows private listening enjoyment of multi-channel music or movies with an accurate simulation of surround sound through ordinary headphones audio delay for adjusting lip-sync a yamaha lsi provides synchronization of images and sound which is called lip-sync the video signal goes through the video processor circuit before it is displayed which takes time so it lags behind the audio the lsi accurately aligns them and even allows the lip-sync parameters to be adjusted using the audio delay mode surround realism yamaha cinema dsp digital technology conventional multi-channel systems base their sound presence front line sound field dialogue effect music surround left sound field surround back sound field surround right sound field conventional 7.1-channel systems quad-field cinema dsp 5

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