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Before

you begin

Thank you for purchasing the Bose

3• 2• 1 home entertainment system, which offers superb

sound, elegance, and simplicity in an advanced home audio setup. Using Bose proprietary

signal processing technology, the 3• 2• 1 system provides improved spaciousness

from stereo

recordings, and bold movie effects from surround-encoded

materials. Yet its few parts require

little labor to set up, so you can en,joy your new system's performance right away.

Your system includes:

• Integrated AM/FM tuner and DVD/CD player in a small console

• Small, easy-to-place

shelf speakers and an attractive floor-standing

Acoustimass ' module

• Easy-to-use infrared remote control

• Console input jacks for connecting other source components

(such as a VCR, DSS, CD

changer, or tape deck)

Picking

out discs

The DVD/CD player built into the 3• 2.1 media center can play the following types of discs

identified by their corresponding

Iogos:

Video DVDs

VIDEO

Audio CDs

[,_ _o_

DIGITAL AUDIO

CD-R and CD-R/Ws

• MP3 on CD

Check for region code compatibility

For any DVD player and DVD disc to be compatible, their region code numbers must match.

These numbers are allocated according to where the player and disc are sold.

Check the region code number on the carton for the 3• 2• 1 home entertainment system or on

the bottom of the media center that comes in the carton. Then be sure to choose only DVD

discs that show the same region number on the disc label or front cover. For example, a

Region 1 DVD player should display the following mark:

How

text is used

in this owner's

guide

These instructions refer to buttons on the remote control and on the media center front panel,

menu items that appear on your TV screen, and status indicators on the media center display.

To help you differentiate them:

Button names appear in bold type. If a button has only a symbol, that alone will be used.

On-Screen

Display messages

appear in bold type with a line above and below.

MEDIA CENTER DISPLAYitems are represented by bold capitalized type.

Glossary

of terms

[:]riD - The trademarked

logo for Dolby Digital, a perceptual coding system for audio, devel-

oped by Dolby Laboratories.

Dolby Digital is the most common means of encoding audio for

DVD-Video.

Aspect Ratio - The shape of the rectangular picture in a TV set. It is the width of the picture

relative to the height. Our standard TV picture, in terminology

used by that industry, is 4 units

wide by 3 units high, or 4:3 (read as 4 by 3) in aspect ratio. There are currently two standard

TV aspect ratios in the U.S., 4:3 and 16:9.

September 2 I, 2001

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