Bose LIFESTYLE 35 III User Manual

QA& LIFESTYLE® 38 DVD HOME ENTERTAINMENT SYSTEM

PRODUCT POSITIONING

How is the Lifestyle® 38 home entertainment system positioned relative to

the other products in the Lifestyle® system line, and what does it include?

The Lifestyle® 38 system is positioned as our most popular home entertainment system featuring the uMusic™ intelligent playback system. The Lifestyle® 38 system is intended for the customer who has a sizeable music collection and enjoys both watching video and listening to music. The Bose® Lifestyle® 38 home entertainment system includes:

•Five Direct/Reflecting® cube speaker arrays – These small, elegant speakers can be positioned to deliver Bose Direct/Reflecting® speaker performance, a natural blend of reflected and direct sound that approximates the sound you hear inside a concert hall.

•Powered Acoustimass® module – Lifelike low-note reproduction, results in a more realistic and gripping listening experience. It can be hidden out of view behind furniture.

•Elegant media center – Includes DVD/CD player, AM/FM tuner and a suite of technologies designed to make the home entertainment experience simple. It also features Bose® link multi-room/multi-source expansion capability, advanced design, and an aluminum finish.

•uMusic intelligent playback system – Allows you to store, organize and manage up to 200 hours of music on your Lifestyle® system. By “learning” your musical preferences as you listen, it automatically selects songs you most likely want to hear. Enjoy nine different uMusic system presets, each tailored to individual moods. Listen to the music you want, when you want, simply and effortlessly.

•Control integration – Radio frequency remote control enables easy-to-use,one-button operation of Lifestyle® system functions (DVD/CD,AM/FM tuner) plus components attached to your system.Works through walls, floors – anywhere around the house – to access the most frequently used commands for TV, VCR, cable box, satellite receiver, PVR and even CD jukeboxes.

•Bose® link technology – Bose® link is our proprietary technology that allows a Lifestyle® system to integrate with other Bose products to provide sound in secondary rooms. With Bose® link, the user can easily connect up to 14 additional rooms of sound, each with independent volume and mute control, to provide two different audio streams from the same Lifestyle® system.

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QA& LIFESTYLE® 38 DVD HOME ENTERTAINMENT SYSTEM

How are Bose Lifestyle® systems different from other home theater systems available today?

•ADAPTiQ® audio calibration system – This proprietary technology customizes the Lifestyle® system to your particular room. After a simple setup process, it automatically adjusts for many of the variables that can affect sound performance, including: a room’s size and shape, the placement of speakers and where someone sits to listen. It enables the system to deliver a quality Bose® performance, based on the room’s unique acoustics.

•DTS® and Dolby® Digital 5.1 decoding – DTS and Dolby Digital 5.1 decoding enables the Lifestyle® 38 system to deliver a discrete five-channel home theater experience from 5.1-encoded DVDs, satellite broadcasts and HDTV programming.

•Videostage® 5 decoding circuitry – Automatically delivers five different channels of audio to five speakers from non 5.1-encoded programs. So you can enjoy an experience rivaling that of a 5.1-encoded DVD from practically any source: surround-encoded VHS tapes, stereo CDs – even older mono TV broadcasts can now be enjoyed in full, discrete five-speaker surround sound.

•Bose patented signal processing circuitry – Automatically adjusts tonal balance at different volume levels. Music sounds lifelike with full, rich lows at almost any listening level, while speech consistently sounds natural.

•Simplified setup – Everything arrives in a single box with a quick setup guide,

a setup disc and a music sampler DVD. Simple, color-coded connections help make installation easy.

Lifestyle® systems are complete, digital home entertainment audio/video solutions that strive to deliver an unsurpassed combination of performance, elegance, simplicity and expandability. They’re an attractive alternative to the size and complexity of most conventional home theater systems. These integrated systems include speakers, amplification, patented signal processing, surround sound decoding, audio/video sources (both DVD/CD player and AM/FM tuner), additional inputs and a remote control.

Unique benefits of Lifestyle® systems:

•An elegant media center takes the place of the typical bulky rack of electronics.

•Tiny cube speakers and a hideaway Acoustimass® module replace big, bulky speakers.

•Intelligent software ensures a quality performance regardless of input signal type (from digital 5.1 to mono) or volume level.

•ADAPTiQ® audio calibration system automatically ensures a quality Bose performance regardless of the room’s acoustics.

• Bose® link enables up to 14 additional rooms of sound, all from one Lifestyle® system.

• The remote is easy to read and understand, and works through most walls and floors.

•Systems are engineered from the ground up so all elements work in concert with each other. Amplification, speakers, signal processing and decoding are matched to create the exceptional performance you would expect from advanced Lifestyle® system design.

•Systems are convenient to purchase and set up. Everything arrives in one box. And with the quick setup guide and color-coded connections, your customers can enjoy a movie or music in minutes.

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How are the four Lifestyle® DVD-based systems different from each other?

How is the Lifestyle® 38 system different from other Lifestyle® systems?

What is the uMusic intelligent playback system breakthrough?

How is the uMusic intelligent playback system different from a playlist?

What is a uMusic system “preset”?

•Systems are engineered to provide the correct output from all channels in most home environments.The customer doesn’t have to make the usual painstaking (and often incorrect) adjustments to the output level of each channel to ensure the sound from all speakers is balanced.The output from the center and surround speakers can be easily adjusted for special environments.

The Lifestyle® 48, 38, 28 and 18 systems provide four wonderful choices designed to meet different budget and performance requirements.They all share common features, such as: an elegant media center, hideaway Acoustimass® module, radio frequency remote control, Bose® link and the ADAPTiQ® audio calibration system.

The difference in system performance is defined by the availability of the uMusic intelligent playback system (with Lifestyle® 38 and 48 systems),music storage capability,and by the type of speakers included with the system.

The Lifestyle® 38 system is very similar to the Lifestyle® 28 system in acoustic performance, with one important enhancement: it features the uMusic intelligent playback system and the capacity to store 200 hours of music.

The uMusic intelligent playback system is a “smart”music storage system available only from Bose. It stores the content of hundreds of CDs on your Lifestyle® system, then “learns”your musical preferences as you listen, and automatically selects songs you most likely want to hear.

Though playlists can be created and customized by the listener, they have limitations. Building them takes considerable time and effort. And even a highly customized playlist mixing different artists and genres still consists of a fixed collection of songs whose novelty tends to wear off over time. Creating new playlists, or adding/deleting songs to existing ones, takes even more time. Consequently, playlists demand regular maintenance on the part of the listener just to keep the material somewhat fresh. Still, a certain degree of predictability simply cannot be avoided, even if the listener chooses a“random”playing mode.

The uMusic intelligent playback system transcends playlists in many ways. Initially, it draws from a much larger universe of songs -- quite possibly the listener’s entire music collection. It demands no manual organization of songs by the user other than the initial download of CD material. Its pool of material is fluid, created from a knowledge of the listeners’s overall musical tastes rather than from a fixed playlist. Its song selections are full of pleasant surprises. The result is a much deeper listening experience, based on the shifting moods and tastes of the listener -- almost like listening to a radio station programmed to suit that listener’s unique tastes.

Consider a uMusic system preset a virtual“bin”in which the Lifestyle® system stores knowledge of your musical preferences as it learns what they are. The next time you select that particular preset, the system will play music based on what it has learned from previous interactions. The more music you listen to, the more it learns what you like.

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