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Sony Handycam AVCHD Technology Handbook page 9

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The AVCHD
format and Sony's HD World.
High Definition TV is now a prominent fact of life in the United States.
• HDTV programming
now includes movies, episodic dramas and sitcoms, talk shows,
sketch comedy shows, plus professional and college football, professional and college
basketball, baseball and golf.
• Over 1500 local television stations
the NAB).
• Over 10 million HDTVs
have been sold (according to the CEA).
• Cable channels.
A long and growing list of channels now originates an HD signal.
• Cable distribution.
Over 97 million TV households are now passed by at least one HDTV
cable service (according to the NCTA).
• Satellite.
Both DIRECTV and the DISH Network services offer subscription HDTV
programming.
Sony has responded not simply with High Definition televisions, but also
with a large and growing range of ways to enjoy High Definition.
• Create HD
on a Sony HDV
in vivid High Definition.
• Edit and Burn HD
on a Sony VAIO
• Play HD
on a Sony PLAYSTATION
• Enjoy HD
on a Sony Blu-ray Disc
• Hear HD.
Feel the full impact of with a Sony HD Audio surround sound system.
• Watch HD
on a Sony HDTV, including BRAVIA
Grand WEGA
microdisplay projection televisions and Sony front projectors.
are now broadcasting a digital signal (according to
or AVCHD
camcorder and preserve your precious memories
®
computer with a Blu-ray Disc drive.
®
3 system.
player, with six times the resolution of DVD!
LCD televisions, SXRD
and 3LCD

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