Supported by Hollywood dolby movie studios, DVD is a movie lover's dream come true. Advanced digital technology enables DVD players to deliver extraordinary picture quality. DVD is the first medium that can actually perform to the maximum capabilities of today's high-performance TV sets, delivering razor-sharp images with richer colors and finer resolution (an astounding 720 pixels in the horizontal line) than laserdisc or VHS. Because it is based in professional-quality digital component video, it reproduces images with extraordinary color purity and detail -- and the highest signal-to-noise ratios available in consumer video. And DVD takes home theater audio realism to a whole new dimension -- with special effects, music and dialogue reproduced with a level of "you-are-there" power and realism that has to be heard to be believed. That's because DVD supports 5.1-channel Dolby Digital Surround Sound. The first totally discrete 6-channel Surround Sound technology, Dolby Digital Surround provides five full-bandwidth channels -- Left, Center, Right, Left Surround, Right Surround -- plus a dedicated subwoofer channel for dramatic low-bass sound effects. The result is a home entertainment experience that rivals even the best theaters. Adding to its flexibility, a player will play all current audio CDs, making it the centerpiece of a complete home entertainment system. And discs cannot wear out or deteriorate with usage. They deliver the same brilliant picture and dynamic sound after thousands and thousands of plays. "Not since the introduction of the VHS VCR has there been an advancement of this magnitude in home entertainment," noted Steve Nickerson, Toshiba VP of Videon Marketing. "Finally, home theater enthusiasts have a format that virtually recreates the visual and sonic impact of the cinema experience. Everyone who sees or hears will recognize its benefits immediately. Remember when you first heard the difference between a scratchy LP, VHS and the same music on CD? The difference with every other home video format is, in many ways, even more dramatic." |
