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Sony NS3100 - page 1
ES D VD Play er s T ec hnical Bac kg r ound Version 4.0; August 8, 2005 ...
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ES DVD Players 2005, Version 4.0 Page 2 Intr oduction Sony ES engineers are superbly educ ated, exceptionally well equipped and have ready access to world-leading in-house technologies. But these alone do not explain the soul of Sony's ES Se ries. You see, the creators of these components are motivated by their passion for music and movies. Th ...
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Sony NS3100 - page 3
ES DVD Players 2005, Version 4.0 Page 3 i.LINK ® and HDMI™ Digital Interfaces In 1985, the engineers of Sony® ES surprised the world of high fidelity. The Sony CDP-650ES was the world's first CD transport with a digital output, enabling unheard-of sound qual ity and unprecedented flexib ility in audio system configuration. Now such interfa ...
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Sony NS3100 - page 4
ES DVD Players 2005, Version 4.0 Page 4 Typical SA-CD reproduction involves numerous D/A and A/D conversions. The i.LINK digital c onnection can simplify the s ignal path. However, these analog connections can expose the Super Audio CD signal to repeated D/A and A/D conversions. The i.LINK® interface of the DVP- NS9100ES overcomes this limitation. ...
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Sony NS3100 - page 5
ES DVD Players 2005, Version 4.0 Page 5 Internal layout of the DVP-NS9100ES as seen from the b ack. You can see the edge of one of the R-Core po wer transformers (1), the analog audio circuit (2), and the analog video circu its (3). The digital audio circuit board (4), which includes and the i.LINK output is p artially hidden behind the analog vide ...
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Sony NS3100 - page 6
ES DVD Players 2005, Version 4.0 Page 6 High quality digital Audio Transmission System (HATS) The design of the i.LINK® interface is exceptional because communicating six streams of 2.8224 MHz digital samp les raises extreme challenges. Conveying 1-bit signals at such high data rates and synchronizing the signals with the other component's ma ...
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Sony NS3100 - page 7
ES DVD Players 2005, Version 4.0 Page 7 free signal at the full quartz-crystal accura cy of the receiver's master clock. You get all the benefits of digi tal transmission, without exposing the signal to the potential for jitter-induced distortion. Dual i.LINK® interfaces The DVP-NS9100ES actually has two i. LINK® interfaces in daisy chain co ...
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Sony NS3100 - page 8
ES DVD Players 2005, Version 4.0 Page 8 An HDMI™ plug and its corresponding jack. To begin with, many DVDs originate on film or progressive scanning video. These discs are encoded in 480p progressi ve scanning to deliver twice the vertical resolution as conventional 480i video. Sony's HD "upscaling" outputs this signal as 480p, 720 ...
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Sony NS3100 - page 9
ES DVD Players 2005, Version 4.0 Page 9 The options for audio are equally ri ch. The HDMI™ output of Sony® ES Series players can support a full range of digital audio, including 2-channel stereo PCM, Dolby® Digital and DTS® 5.1-channel compressed audio and even uncompressed multi-channel PCM audio! The DVP-NS9100ES incorporates the awesome cap ...
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Sony NS3100 - page 10
ES DVD Players 2005, Version 4.0 Page 10 Finally, the components agree on the hi ghest available quality options for digital audio and video—and t hen automatically transfer c ontent at that quality! We've considered just a DVD player and a television. But the dynamic changes when you insert the Sony® ST R-DA7100ES A/V receiver into the rep ...
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Sony NS3100 - page 11
ES DVD Players 2005, Version 4.0 Page 11 V ideo P erfor mance Precision Cinema Progressive™ circuitry The purpose of today's high-end home theater systems is to recreate the look and sound of the movie theater. This includes t he vivid detail and seamless coherence of the film frame. A crucial technology for achieving this goal is DVD- Video ...
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Sony NS3100 - page 12
ES DVD Players 2005, Version 4.0 Page 12 The mathematical algorithms of Sony's Pixel-by-Pixel Active I/P conversion have been commit ted to silicon in this Large Scale Integrated circuit (LSI), the Sony CXD9866R. Sony solves the problem with Pixel- by-Pixel Active I/P conversion that includes built-in motion det ection. The system automaticall ...
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Sony NS3100 - page 13
ES DVD Players 2005, Version 4.0 Page 13 • Film and video material shown simultaneously. The Sony® system performs beautifully even when film and video appear on-screen at the same time, for example, when video-originated subtitle s are superimposed over a film-originated scene. Because the Sony system analyzes each individual pixel, it can swit ...
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Sony NS3100 - page 14
ES DVD Players 2005, Version 4.0 Page 14 Pixel-by-Pixel Active I/P conversion and interlaced video origination Many of today's DVDs feature c oncert videos, documentaries, current events, sports, nature f ootage and other subjects originally captured on interlaced video. For this reason, any high-end progressive scanning system must solve the ...
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Sony NS3100 - page 15
ES DVD Players 2005, Version 4.0 Page 15 The typical interlaced video frame includ es both still and moving pixels. Sony Pixel-by-Pixel Active I/P conversion applies se parate processing for each. • Pixels for still objects are the easiest to handle. When objects are not moving, the player can simply use the corresponding pixel from the previous ...
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ES DVD Players 2005, Version 4.0 Page 16 Time sequence Scanning lines ODD current EVEN future EVEN Past 1 ODD Past 2 EVEN Past 3 MOVING PIXEL PROC ESSING Pixels for moving objects are creat ed by comp osing pixels from the scanning lines immediately a bove and below in the same field. This minimizes motion bl ur. Thanks to Sony's flexible appr ...
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Sony NS3100 - page 17
ES DVD Players 2005, Version 4.0 Page 17 occur in part of the video image part of the time. Most people would not notice the artifact without being told when and where to watch for it. But Sony's program for these ES component s required us to address even subtle distortions. The problem is jaggedness in the edges that separate areas of the sc ...
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Sony NS3100 - page 18
ES DVD Players 2005, Version 4.0 Page 18 approach the full glory of High Definiti on picture quality—fr om today's standard DVDs. 14-bit D/A Conversion (NS9100ES) The binary word length used in video digital-to-analog (D/A) conversion helps determine the gray scale performance of the picture. This can be seen, for example, in the play of lig ...
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Sony NS3100 - page 19
ES DVD Players 2005, Version 4.0 Page 19 subtle examples, noise appears as a text ure or graininess not present in the original picture. These Sony® ES Se ries DVD players achieve a remarkable combination of superb fine picture detail and excellent clarit y, thanks to 216 MHz oversampling in the D/A converter. To understand how 216 MHz oversamplin ...
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Sony NS3100 - page 20
ES DVD Players 2005, Version 4.0 Page 20 samples. 8X oversampling inserts seven additional samples. And 16X oversampling inserts fifteen additional samples. The benefit is this: in the proce ss of generating additional samples, oversampling shifts the aliasing noise up in frequency, opening up substantial room between the video signal and the noise ...
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Sony NS3100 - page 21
ES DVD Players 2005, Version 4.0 Page 21 Luminance Channel (Y) Bandwidth Luminance Channel (Y) Sampling Frequency DVD-Video Interlaced Playback 6.75 MHz 13.5 MHz DVD-Video Progressive Playback 13.5 MHz, effective 27 MHz, effective Progressive scanning effectively doubl es both the video bandwidth and the sampling frequency. W hile only the luminanc ...
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Sony NS3100 - page 22
ES DVD Players 2005, Version 4.0 Page 22 Noise Shaped Video™ circuitry While 216 MHz sampling deals with noise outside the video frequency range, another circuit reduces noise within the frequency range. That's important because the perceived transparency and depth of the video image depends on controlling noise. Sony's D/A converter us ...
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Sony NS3100 - page 23
ES DVD Players 2005, Version 4.0 Page 23 color difference (P B ) and red color difference (P R ). This results in a consistently clean, clear, vibrantly deta iled color picture. The typical filter leaves traces of the clusters of aliasing noise, w hich look like lumps in the top diag ram. Super Sub Sampling Alias Filter circuits on the Y, P B and P ...
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Sony NS3100 - page 24
ES DVD Players 2005, Version 4.0 Page 24 Graphical Gamma adjustment is like an eight-band graphic equali zer for grayscale and black level. Video Equalizer Sony's Video Equalizer enables you to fine-tune the picture quality of each disc you watch. You can adjust Picture, Brightness, Color, Hue and Chroma Delay in addition to Graphical Gamma Ad ...
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Sony NS3100 - page 25
ES DVD Players 2005, Version 4.0 Page 25 To maintain the purity of the signa l, Sony places the analo g video circuitry on a separate board, dr iven by its own power supply. Because digital noise can corrupt the DC voltage, the power supply is another potential path of interference. T hat's why early on, Sony recognized the advantage of giving ...
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Sony NS3100 - page 26
ES DVD Players 2005, Version 4.0 Page 26 High speed video buffer ampl ifiers (NS9100ES) If your television accepts an HDMI™ cable, you can enjoy a fabulous all- digital video connection. If not, you'll be happy to note that Sony® engineers are passionate about achieving excepti onal performance from analog video connections. For example, th ...
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Sony NS3100 - page 27
ES DVD Players 2005, Version 4.0 Page 27 Carefully selected parts (NS9100ES) More than a labor of technolog y, the DVP-NS9100ES represents the enthusiasm that Sony® engineers share with high-end videophiles. That's why the player incorporates a variety of carefully selected resistors, inductors, semiconductors and capacitors. Each plays a spe ...
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Sony NS3100 - page 28
ES DVD Players 2005, Version 4.0 Page 28 Audio P erf or mance In addition to DVD-Video and Compact Discs, these ES Series DVD players also reproduce sumptuous high-resolution audio: both stereo and multi- channel Super Audio CD music. You'll hear the inner detail of choral ensembles. The reverberation trailing from a gui tar chord. And the aco ...
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Sony NS3100 - page 29
ES DVD Players 2005, Version 4.0 Page 29 Speaker Time Alignment For optimum playback, the masteri ng engineers who create CDs need to anticipate the speaker confi guration over which the music will be reproduced. In stereo, that configuration is simple: tw o identical speakers ideally set an equal distance from the listener. In a multi-channel soun ...
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Sony NS3100 - page 30
ES DVD Players 2005, Version 4.0 Page 30 Incidentally, this adjustment is not duplicated on most A/V receivers. Some receivers can adjust for speaker di stance on the multi-channel signals that are decoded in the receiver itself. But most receivers offer no such adjustment for the 5.1-channel analog inputs you may be using to enjoy multi-channel Su ...
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Sony NS3100 - page 31
ES DVD Players 2005, Version 4.0 Page 31 DSD filter 8x Oversa mpling digital fi lter Mu lti lev el D/A conv erter CD 16 bit/1 fs 24 bit/ 8 fs SACD 1 bit/64 f s 1 bit/ 64 fs Noise shaper 1 bit/ 64 fs Sony's Super Audio D/A Converter (SA DAC) does a n equally superb job on Compact Disc signals (t op) and SA-CD signals (bottom). The converter con ...
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Sony NS3100 - page 32
ES DVD Players 2005, Version 4.0 Page 32 Multi leve l D/A co nvers ion Multi le vel D/A conversi on 1 + 2 … 4 8 16 32,768 MSB LSB Multi-bit D/A conversion in a typical early CD player employed 16 switches, corresponding to the 16 bits of the CD sample. Each switch produced a different level of current, according to the signifi cance of the bit. I ...
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Sony NS3100 - page 33
ES DVD Players 2005, Version 4.0 Page 33 landmark CDP-X77ES in 1990 and has sinc e been followed by Sony's Current Pulse 1-bit converter. Like other 1-bit converters, these Sony® designs overcame the problem of zero-cross di stortion, achieving superb low-level linearity for excellent sound, even during quiet passages and the reverberant tail ...
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Sony NS3100 - page 34
ES DVD Players 2005, Version 4.0 Page 34 Multi leve l D/A conver sion Multi leve l D/A co nvers ion 1 1 1 + 1 1 1 … N N= 64 ( for spec 1) The SA DAC uses multi-level D/A c onversi on, illustrated here. Like multi-bit conversion, the multi-le vel system uses many switches operating in parallel. Unlike multi-bit designs, the value of all switches i ...
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Sony NS3100 - page 35
ES DVD Players 2005, Version 4.0 Page 35 Multi-Bit D/A convers ion Multi-Bit D/A convers ion 1 4 8 + 2 1 4 8 + 2 Output =3 Output =5 A B C D A B C D Multi level D/A conversion Multi level D/A conversion 1 1 1 + 1 1 1 1 + 1 1 1 1 + 1 1 1 1 + 1 Output =2 Output =2 Outpu t =2 Output =2 Multi-bit conversion (left) versus mu lti-level conversion (right) ...
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Sony NS3100 - page 36
ES DVD Players 2005, Version 4.0 Page 36 at the output. Sony's careful design not only maintains the sonic purity of multi- channel Super Audio CD signals, but also preserves the crucial left/right and front/rear symmetry of 5.1 DVD-Video surround signals. A separate printed circuit board for anal og audio employs six separate, identical circu ...
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Sony NS3100 - page 37
ES DVD Players 2005, Version 4.0 Page 37 Audiophile-grade components (NS9100ES) Two capacitors with identical circuit values can have quite different sound quality. For this reason, Sony® engineers have taken the time to choose top- quality audiophile-grade components thr oughout the DVP-NS9100ES. The op amps, resistors, capacitors and more have b ...
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Sony NS3100 - page 38
ES DVD Players 2005, Version 4.0 Page 38 Video Off and Display Off modes One potential concern with so many ty pes of circuitry in one chassis is mutual interference. Sony minimizes t he possibility of radi ated interference with power-off configurations that shut down potential sources of noise: Video Off: Shuts down the video circui try and t ...
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Sony NS3100 - page 39
ES DVD Players 2005, Version 4.0 Page 39 Constr uction & Design Twin R Core Transf ormers (NS9100ES) The digital processing and control ci rcuits can introduce noise to the power supply voltage, which can trigger s ubtle audio distortions. To protect the audio circuitry, the DVP-NS9100ES uses two separate power transformers: one for the servo a ...
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Sony NS3100 - page 40
ES DVD Players 2005, Version 4.0 Page 40 New Base and Pillar (NBP) chassis (NS9100ES) Where some see the chassis as an empty box, ready to be filled with circuitry, Sony® ES engineers see a vita l contributor to sound quality. Our engineers understand that the chassis can become a pat hway for vibration that can subtly modulate wiring paths, resis ...
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Sony NS3100 - page 41
ES DVD Players 2005, Version 4.0 Page 41 Silver Cascade Design In addition to its remarkable tech nology, the DVP-NS9100ES continues the "cascade" faceplate design exclusive to the Sony® ES Series. The design sets all the primary controls at an angle, so that you can identify each control and use the player without uncomfo rtable bending ...
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Sony NS3100 - page 42
ES DVD Players 2005, Version 4.0 Page 42 F ea tur es DVP-NS9100ES DVP-NS3100ES System HDMI™ Output Yes Yes i.LINK® interface 1 Yes - HATS i.LINK interface control Yes - DVD-Video playback Yes Yes CD Audio playback Yes Yes Video CD playback Yes Yes DVD-R/RW (Video Format) playback Yes Yes DVD-RW (VR Format) playback Yes Yes DVD-RW (VR) CPRM playb ...
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Sony NS3100 - page 43
ES DVD Players 2005, Version 4.0 Page 43 DVP-NS9100ES DVP-NS3100ES Separate analog video circuit board with separate power supply Yes Yes High Speed video buffer amplifiers Yes - Output Capacitor-Less coupling Yes - Carefully selected parts Yes - Wide pitch component output jacks Yes Yes Video shield plate Yes - Audio Super Audio CD stereo and mult ...
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Sony NS3100 - page 44
ES DVD Players 2005, Version 4.0 Page 44 Specifica tions DVP-NS9100ES DVP-NS3100ES Audio Performance Frequency Response DVD (PCM, 96 kHz) 2 Hz to 44 kHz 2 Hz to 44 kHz Super Audio CD 2 Hz to 50 kHz (-3dB) 2 Hz to 50 kHz (-3dB) CD 2 Hz to 20 kHz 2 Hz to 20 kHz Audio Dynamic Range DVD Video 115 dB 103 dB Super Audio CD 108 dB n/s CD 100 dB 99 dB Harm ...
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Sony NS3100 - page 45
ES DVD Players 2005, Version 4.0 Page 45 DVP-NS9100ES DVP-NS3100ES Infrared Input / Control S Interface 1 1 RS-232C Control Interface 1 - General Power Requirements AC 120 V, 60 Hz AC 120 V, 60 Hz Power Consumption 38 W 27 W Dimensions (WxHxD) 17 x 5 x 15-3/8" (430 x 125 x 390 mm) 17 x 4-1/2 x 14- 3/4" (430 x 115 x 375 mm) Weight 20 lbs., ...
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