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What To Look For

In a Home Theater System.

Benefits

	Great Sound The ultimate listening experience.

	Simplified Setup Multiple components, one remote.

	Superior Picture Quality Make all your DVDs High Definition.

	Flexible Systems Adapt your Home Theater to your home.

Great Sound Panasonic Home Theater Systems boast Super Surround Sound, multiple sub-woofer level control settings and virtual speaker technology, bringing you lifelike sound from every angle, and an enhanced listening experience.

Simplified Setup EZ Sync lets you to turn on the power for your entire Panasonic Home Theater System with the touch of a single button. Begin playback immediately – one HDMI cable connects your Home Theater System to your Panasonic High-Definition TV.

Superior Picture Quality With 1080p up-conversion¹ and an HDMI cable connection, Panasonic Home Theater Systems up-convert resolution so you can watch all your DVDs in High Definition. Footnotes 1. Video sources up-converted to 1080p High Definition, while of high quality, will exhibit somewhat lower subjective image resolution than true, native 1080p HD sources such as Panasonic Blu-ray Disc™ players.

Flexible Systems Panasonic offers multiple Home Theater System configurations to meet the demands of a variety of living spaces. Systems include 2 to 5 speakers and feature various combinations of wireless rear speakers. Panasonic even offers a Home Theater System with a wireless subwoofer. Additionally, an optional wireless multi-room speaker lets you listen to your music anywhere in your home.

iPod Connectivity Panasonic's Universal Dock for iPod playback and recharging allows you to start listening to your music the moment you set up your Home Theater System. There is no need to purchase any additional components or cables. Footnotes 1. iPod not included.

Satellite Radio All Panasonic Home Theater systems are XM satellite radio compatible¹, giving you perfect reception for hundreds of channels offering a wide variety of listening options. Footnotes 1. Requires an XM satellite radio tuner.

EZ Sync™ HDAVI

EZ Sync™ HDAVI is an exclusive Panasonic feature, whereby multiple compatible components, linked through an HDMI cable, are turned on with the touch of a single remote control button, providing immediate playback. This eliminates the need for multiple remotes. Panasonic products equipped with EZ Sync™ HDAVI offer an easily located EZ Sync™ remote control menu button.

HDMI

HDMI (High Definition Multimedia Interface) is a new high quality standard digital connection between A/V devices, such as a cable TV set-top box, DVD player or A/V receiver, and a digital television. HDMI offers exceptional video and audio quality with a single quick-disconnect connector. It supports multi-channel digital audio transmissions and component video color spacing for true rendering of HD video. HDMI supports the HDCP (High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection) standards, allowing transmission of copy-protected digital content to your display.

HDMI cable

High Definition (HD)

High Definition (HD) is a television and movie display technology that offers a significantly higher image quality than Standard Definition and features a wide screen format and surround sound capabilities. High Definition boasts either 720 or 1,080 lines of resolution (presented in either interlaced or progressive scan format), and uses a 16:9 aspect ratio (width:height), which is wider than the 4:3 ratio of standard televisions.

1080p

1080p is a High Definition (HD) video mode with 1,080 lines of vertical resolution, normally presented in 16:9, widescreen format. The letter "p" stands for progressive scan, or non-interlaced, which is an image display method that yields faster, more detailed pictures than those on standard televisions, which are subject to occasional flickering or distortion.

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