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Exhilarating AV creates a new entertainment centre.
Are you a real entertainment fan? Do great picture and sound quality mean a lot to you? Discover the elite VAIO A60GP for unparalleled AV excitement. From watching DVD movies with startling realism heightened by great sound quality tuned at a professional studio, to editing and burning high-quality DVDs, VAIO A60GP is the new centre of AV creativity!
New range of premium AV capabilities
VAIO A60GP is more than Sony's flagship mobile notebook PC. Now, it also supplies sophisticated components and capabilities for premium AV enjoyment and creativity — transforming VAIO A60GP into an entertainment "AV centre"! For example, VAIO A60GP comes with an Audio Port Replicator that employs Sony's expert fully digital S-master amplifier to provide start-to-finish digital sound transmission for outstanding sonic quality. As an ideal complement, Sony provides a premium pair of external two-way multimedia entertainment speakers. Each speaker unit contains a woofer for mid- to low-range sound and a tweeter for high-range sound, creating clear, pure wide-range high-fidelity audio, with independent volume control for optimum enjoyment. Additionally, SonicStage Mastering Studio Audio Filter offers a special preset to make the most of speaker sound. The new VAIO A60GP "AV centre" is a rare treat with a new range of premium AV capabilities.

AV-player-style control of your “total AV experience”
VAIO A60GP puts seamless AV access at your fingertips via a convenient remote controller that comes exclusively with VAIO A60GP! This convenient controller makes seamless AV operation of VAIO Zone on VAIO A60GP as easy as playing a CD or DVD on an AV player, without changing your comfortable position. You can view photos, slideshows and much more. In fact, you'd never expect to find this kind of smooth AV control and convenience in a notebook PC!

Home theatre in a one compact package
VAIO A60GP packs an amazing array of premium AV features into a single premier-quality notebook PC. Equipped with the powerful ATI MOBILITY™ RADEON® X600 256MB HyperMemory™* graphics chip and 17" wide Clear Bright LCD (Dual Lamp, Wide View), VAIO A60GP can serve as a high-performance platform for watching movies on DVD. The high resolution WUXGA (1920 x 1200), wide viewing angle and aspect ratio (16:10) of the Clear Bright LCD make the most of the high picture quality of DVD media. For DVD enjoyment, all you need is VAIO A60GP connected with the supplied external speakers via VAIO A60GP's Audio Port Replicator. And thanks to Dolby's 5.1 virtual surround sound, as well as the high-quality S-master digital amplifier in the Audio Port Replicator, audio quality is absolutely sensational. It all adds up to an instant "home theatre" system that fits in a convenient space - for example, on a coffee table!

*HyperMemory™ is calculated as the cumulative total of local and system memory used by the Visual Processing Unit (VPU) intended for use in the processing and creation of 3D and other images. The amount of HyperMemory™ available is determined by the amount of local graphics memory and installed system memory.


DOLBY VIRTUAL SPEAKER

Design ideal sound to your desires
In addition to the special preset for the external speakers, SonicStage Mastering Studio Audio Filter offers four exclusive sound presets that work superbly with special recommended headphones*. These presets were created by professional studio engineers, so you can enjoy real studio quality sound. In addition, you can choose presets for a wide range of sound effects from Cinema to Rock.
Sony's recommended headphones* for VAIO
VAIO provides an audio filter adjusted exclusively for the recommended headphones. Created at a professional music studio, this filter ensures superlative quality sound reproduction.
*  Availability depends on region.

VAIO Creation Suite
Among the many valuable applications that come with the Sony's creation suite software package is Click to DVD. With just one click, it's incredibly easy to create DVD discs by simply connecting a Digital Handycam* or DV and clicking on "Create DVD!". An animated menu background with 5.1 surround sound background music templates can be automatically created from your video material. Click to DVD turns imagination into reality with the new DVD Handycam DCR-DVD803*. Just select any video footage recorded on 8cm DVD in 5.1 surround sound format, with DVD Handycam DCR-DVD803* as your video source, to create a standard DVD (same audio format) in Edit Mode. Make your own DVD movie so real that you not only can feel like you're in it from the comfort of your home theatre, but also can create DVD gifts in 5.1 surround sound to share life-like memories with the important people in your life. In this way, family movies can be copied to different DVD disc formats including large-capacity DVD+R Double Layer and DVD-RAM. In addition, PictureGear Studio is great for importing and editing digital photos, and will even make photo albums that you can share online. DVgate Plus allows high-precision digital importing, editing and exporting of movie data in various formats. And, you can use Network Smart Capture to take still and moving images from your Digital Handycam*, and attach them to email.
*  Availability depends on region.
Notes:  Automatic Mode is not available on DVD Handycam. DCR-DVD803 is suitable for PAL mode only. Use DCR-DVD803E model for NTSC mode.
Actual Click to DVD user interface may differ from photos shown.
Click to DVD
Click to DVD intro 400k
Animated menu background automatically
created from your video material
  DCR-DVD803 DVD Handycam VGN-A60GP + Click to DVD 5.1 surround sound 12cm DVD
 


Burn DVD
DVD creation is an effortless One-Click operation with Click to DVD software. The high capacity of these discs makes them ideal for making backups or archiving treasured home movie footage, and the multiformat optical drive of the VAIO A60GP enables writing to DVD+R/RW, DVD-R/RW, DVD+R Double Layer, or DVD-RAM discs. For everyday use, DVD+RW and DVD-RW discs are convenient since they allow you to refresh and overwrite data as many times as you want. User-friendly software, Roxio DigitalMedia SE, makes for easy data backup to both CD and the higher capacity DVD formats: with just a few clicks, you can archive your files securely, and the write-once formats protect your data from being erased. In each format, Buffer Under-run Error protection assures consistently high-quality recording every time.
Become a DJ
Easily build your own music collection with SonicStage. This original Sony software instantly turns your VAIO A60GP into a portable jukebox, allowing you to store, manage and play hours of your favourite music. It supports ATRAC3, ATRAC3plus, WMA, MP3, and WAV formats. You can even create CDs with your own mixes.
 
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