Bose® Lifestyle® 28 Series III Home Entertainment System
 


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This proprietary technology customizes sound to your room’s unique characteristics.
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This proprietary technology customizes sound to your room’s unique characteristics.
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Direct/Reflecting® cube speaker arrays blend beautifully with your décor.

The Lifestyle® 28 Series III DVD system adds thrilling sound to your movies and music with the combination of performance, elegance and simplicity you expect from Bose. It customizes sound to your room with the innovative ADAPTiQ® audio calibration system. Our stylish media center features a progressive scan DVD/CD player and AM/FM tuner. Direct/Reflecting® cube speaker arrays and a new horizontal center channel speaker fill your room with spacious surround sound. And all Lifestyle® DVD systems feature Bose® link home networking technology to connect compatible Bose products for a whole-home entertainment solution.

An intelligent approach to home theater

From premium performance to elegance, the Lifestyle® 28 III DVD system is made for your room—with all its unique characteristics. It includes the ADAPTiQ audio calibration system to deliver a consistent surround sound presentation in any room, while offering greater freedom of speaker placement. This proprietary technology analyzes and adjusts your Lifestyle® system's sound to your room's dimensions, speaker placement and preferred seating locations. In a matter of minutes, you'll have Bose quality sound the way you like it. Nice and easy.

Great sound never looked so good

The brushed silver media center features an integrated progressive scan DVD/CD player and AM/FM tuner. This one unit elegantly accomplishes everything that conventional home theater systems use multiple components to achieve. But it's also the hub of a whole-home entertainment system, made possible by Bose® link home networking technology. This home networking technology allows you to connect compatible Bose products to your Lifestyle® 28 III system for sound in as many as 14 additional rooms, even outdoors. Because, like you, your sound shouldn't live in one room. With Bose® link technology, you can have independent volume control in each room, as well as access to two different audio streams from the same Lifestyle® system.

Direct/Reflecting® cube speaker arrays, standing roughly 6" high, blend nicely with your décor. They combine with a sleek, horizontal center channel speaker to deliver a level of sound you'd expect from much larger speakers. And the Acoustimass® module—now 30% smaller than the previous model—reproduces deep, resonant low notes while stationed inconspicuously almost anywhere in your room. The result? Riveting surround sound that seems to come from smaller speakers, whether it's the hypnotic whisper of rustling leaves or the pure power of a ferocious storm.

Oldies are goodies

Lifestyle® systems are designed to make the most of DVDs and the rest of today's digital media. But you may still hold a spot in your heart for the film or TV classics you have on VHS. Keep them...and enjoy them. The Lifestyle® 28 III DVD system features an integrated suite of signal processing capabilities, including Videostage® 5 decoding circuitry and digital 5.1 decoding. Together, they ensure a high-quality, 5.1-channel surround experience from practically any source. Even those recorded well before surround sound was an option.

No matter what you want to hear—or where you want to hear it—the Lifestyle® 28 Series III DVD system makes it all possible with performance, elegance and simplicity.

Key Features
 
Direct/Reflecting® cube speaker arrays Experience rich sound almost anywhere in the room, not just in one small "sweet spot" with this proprietary Bose technology. The cube speaker arrays blend reflected and direct sound to re-create much of a live concert's natural spaciousness.
Horizontal center channel speaker Enables acoustic and aesthetic synchronization with your TV. Keeps dialogue focused on the screen, and complements the dimensions of flat-panel displays.
Acoustimass® module Hear the clarity of pure, low-frequency reproduction, even at the loudest levels. This Bose breakthrough works in concert with the small speakers to deliver the full range of sound. When the module is placed behind a curtain or chair, all of the sound seems to come directly from the small cube speakers.
Lifestyle® media center Enjoy today’s most popular audio and video content with this elegant control center, featuring a built-in progressive scan DVD/CD player and AM/FM tuner. You’ll have high-quality playback for the latest media formats, including: DVD, DVD-R, CD, CD-R/RW, VCD, PCM, digital 5.1, MP3 files and MPEG-2.
Videostage® 5 decoding circuitry Proprietary Bose technology allows you to hear five-channel surround sound from practically everything you play, even older TV programs and videotapes recorded in mono.
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ADAPTiQ® audio calibration system
Enjoy greater freedom of speaker placement—without the tonal adjustments. Available only from Bose, this patented, easy-to-use technology analyzes the way your room’s dimensions and other variables affect sound, then automatically adjusts the sound of your Lifestyle® DVD system to the acoustics of your room.


Bose® link
Connect compatible Bose products to your Lifestyle® system for listening in as many as 14 additional rooms—even outdoors. With Bose® link technology, you can have independent volume control in each room, as well as access to two different audio streams from the same Lifestyle® system. This technology can also be enabled without any room-to-room wiring with the purchase of the Bose link AL8 homewide wireless audio link.


Media center with integrated progressive scan DVD player
Enjoy high-quality playback of today’s most popular audio and video content, including DVD video, CD, CD-R/RW, VCD, PCM, digital 5.1, MP3 files, MPEG-2.


Direct/Reflecting® cube speaker arrays
Legendary Bose® technology that blends reflected and direct sound to recreate much of a live concert's natural spaciousness. Experience stereo sound almost anywhere in the room, not just in one small "sweet spot."


Horizontal center channel speaker
Designed to visually complement flat-panel TV screens while delivering natural-sounding dialogue and vocals.


Direct/Reflecting® speaker technology
Experience lifelike spaciousness from a natural balance of reflected and direct sound—similar to a live performance.


Acoustimass® module
This Bose® breakthrough works in concert with the small speakers to deliver the full range of sound. The module delivers the clarity of pure low-frequency reproduction down to the lowest frequencies, even at the loudest levels. When the module is placed behind a curtain or chair, all of the sound seems to come directly from the small cube speakers.


Integrated system design
This system is designed so every element—media center, speakers and Acoustimass module—works in harmony, enhancing performance and ease of operation.


Universal radio frequency remote control
Easily control your Lifestyle® system and access the most important functions of your TV, VCR, PVR, cable box or satellite receiver. Remote works through walls and floors.


Proprietary Videostage® 5 decoding circuitry
Proprietary Bose® technology allows you to hear home theater sound from practically everything you play, even older TV programs and videotapes that weren’t recorded in surround sound.


Digital 5.1 decoding
Improved realism from 5.1-encoded DVDs, DBS or HDTV.


Control integration
Use the Lifestyle® system’s radio frequency remote to operate most popular functions on other infrared-receiving equipment in your home entertainment system: TV, VCR, PVR, cable box or satellite receiver. TV sensor makes turning home entertainment system on a one-button operation.

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System Includes
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1 video input/1 video output (composite, S-video, and component - component video requires included adapters(2))


Inputs and switching for 4 audio sources (4 analog, 4 coaxial digital, 1 optical digital)


Stereo analog output


Digital outputs: 1 optical, 1 coaxial


Media center • 3 3/4"H x 15 3/4"W x 11 1/2"D • (9.4 x 39.9 x 29.2 cm) • 9 lbs (4.1 kg)


Cube array speakers • 6 1/4"H x 3"W x 4"D • (15.7 cm x 7.9 cm x 10.2 cm) • 2 2/5 lbs. (1.1 kg)


Center channel speaker • 3 1/8"H X 6 1/4"W X 4 1/8"D • (7.9 cm H x 15.9 cm W X 10.5 cm D) • 2.36 lbs (1.07 kg)


Acoustimass module • 13"H X 8"W X 21 5/8"D • (33 cm H X 20.3 cm W X 54.9 cm D) • 26.22 lbs (11.9 kg)


Total shipping weight • 77 lbs (33 kg)


What's In the Box:
Media center
Acoustimass® module
4 cube speaker arrays
1 horizontal center channel speaker
Remote control
5 speaker cables: 3 front speaker cables and 2 surround speaker cables
Audio input cable
Stereo audio cable
Video cable (6 ft)
S-video cable
2 component video adapters
Mounting strip
Rubber feet for Acoustimass module and speakers
4 AAA batteries
TV on/off detector
AM loop antenna
Discs 1 and 2
FM antenna
Optional IR emitter cable
Media center power supply
ADAPTiQ® audio calibration system headset
Acoustimass module 120 VAC power cord
Media center power supply 120 VAC power cord
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