Q A & LIFESTYLE ® 48 DVD HOME ENTERTAINMENT SYSTEM PRODUCT POSITIONING How is the Lifestyle® 48 home entertainment system positioned relative to the other products in the Lifestyle® system line, and what does it include? The Lifestyle® 48 system is our most advanced, premium home entertainment system intended for the customer who has a large music collection and enjoys both watching video and listening to music. The Bose® Lifestyle® 48 home entertainment system includes: · Five Jewel Cube® speakers ­ Our smallest, most powerful cube speaker arrays feature an award-winning design that includes a neodymium iron boron magnet and an exclusive nautilus-shaped port that provide very high performance from a remarkably small speaker. · 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, advanced design and an aluminum finish. It also features Bose® link multi-room/multi-source expansion capability and a suite of technologies designed to make the home entertainment experience simple. · uMusicTM intelligent playback system ­ Allows you to store, organize and manage up to 340 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. continued on next page 1 Q A & LIFESTYLE ® 48 DVD HOME ENTERTAINMENT SYSTEM · 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 enable the Lifestyle® 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. How are Bose Lifestyle® systems different from other home theater systems available today? 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 a 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 clearly marked and easy to 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. continued on next page 2 Q A & LIFESTYLE ® 48 DVD HOME ENTERTAINMENT SYSTEM · 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. How are the four Lifestyle® DVD-based systems different from each other? 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, including 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 uMusicTM intelligent playback system (with Lifestyle® 38 and 48 systems) and by the type of speakers included. How is the Lifestyle® 48 system different from other Lifestyle® systems? The Lifestyle® 48 system is our premier home entertainment system, targeted to the music enthusiast who also wants a high performance home theater system.The Lifestyle® 48 system is the only Bose® system to feature the award-winning Jewel Cube® speakers. In addition, the Lifestyle® 48 system is capable of storing approximately 340 hours of music in the elegant media center. The uMusicTM intelligent playback system stores, organizes and plays the music you want, when you want it, without the effort associated with making playlists. The Lifestyle® 48 system includes the versatility of a DVD/CD player. Advanced multisource/multi-room expansion capability provides the opportunity to enjoy Bose quality sound throughout your home. And the elegant styling of the brushed-aluminum media center allows the system to fit into practically any décor, further enhancing this system's appeal. In addition, the Lifestyle® 48 system features: · Jewel Cube speaker arrays: · Our smallest, most powerful cube speaker is just about the size of a computer mouse and fills a room with lifelike, spacious sound. · Direct/Reflecting® speaker technology uses a combination of reflected and direct sound to re-create a natural, room-filling experience. · An award-winning design featuring more than 40 innovations and technologies, including: · An extremely powerful neodymium iron boron magnet that delivers a high level of performance from a remarkably small speaker. · Exclusive nautilus-shaped port design that moves more air than many conventional larger speakers and produces rich, full sound. · Larger Storage Capacity ­ The Lifestyle® 48 system can store the content of approximately 350 CDs ­ 75% more storage capacity than the Lifestyle® 38 system. This allows larger music collections to be stored and enjoyed, from one elegant media center. What is the uMusic intelligent playback system breakthrough? 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. 3 Q A & LIFESTYLE ® 48 DVD HOME ENTERTAINMENT SYSTEM How is the uMusicTM intelligent playback system different from a playlist? 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. What is a uMusic system "preset"? 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. What if I have more than one person in the house? Or if I have different moods? The Lifestyle® 48 system is capable of storing nine different presets, so the system can learn a variety of distinct musical preferences based on individuals, situations or moods. For example, a family could have a preset dedicated to "Mom's music,""Dad's music,""cleaning music," "outdoor music,""workout music," etc. How does the uMusic intelligent playback system learn my preferences? The uMusic intelligent playback system learns from every song it plays, collecting information about your listening preferences. If you listen to a song all the way through, uMusic assumes you like the song. If you skip a song, uMusic assumes you're not in the mood for the song at that time. If you feel strongly about a song ­ pro or con ­ you can give the music a "+"or "­" rating using the remote. The system uses this information to play music that is similar to music you have accepted, and avoid music that is similar to what you have rejected. Can I delete tracks from the system? Yes. If you find that there are tracks you never want to listen to in any preset, you can delete tracks, albums or individual artists. Can I make a playlist if I want to? The uMusic intelligent playback system allows you to create one playlist of your own in addition to the nine uMusic system presets. You can either search the library for specific tracks and add them to the list, or press and hold the "playlist" button when you hear a song you want to add. Can I connect a computer or iPod/pocket PC to the Lifestyle® system and download MP3s? You can connect a computer or iPod/pocket PC to the Lifestyle® system and use it to play music, but you cannot download or transfer MP3s into the uMusic system. 4 Q A & LIFESTYLE ® 48 DVD HOME ENTERTAINMENT SYSTEM Can I store MP3s from a CD-R? Any CD-R burned as an audio CD can be stored into the uMusic system. In order for the uMusic system to make associations among songs, it needs to input the music from original CDs or exact duplicates. CD-Rs burned as data discs with MP3 files cannot be stored, but they can be played on the system. What is Bose® link? Bose® link is our proprietary technology that allows Bose products l ...