Pioneer SC-LX81 Operating Instructions Manual page 5

09 Other connections
Connecting the multichannel analog inputs. . . . . . . . . 60
Selecting the multichannel analog inputs . . . . . . . . . 60
Speaker B setup. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Switching the speaker system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Bi-amping your speakers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Bi-wiring your speakers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Connecting additional amplifiers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
MULTI-ZONE listening . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Making MULTI-ZONE connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Using the MULTI-ZONE controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Connecting an IR receiver. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Switching components on and off
using the 12 volt trigger. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Using this receiver with a Pioneer flat screen TV . . . . . 67
Using the SR+ mode with a Pioneer flat screen TV. . . 68
Connecting a PC for Advanced MCACC output . . . . . . 69
Advanced MCACC output using your PC . . . . . . . . . . 69
10 Playback with HOME MEDIA GALLERY
inputs
Enjoying the Home Media Gallery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Features of Home Media Gallery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Steps to enjoy the Home Media Gallery. . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Playing back audio files on the network
and listening to Internet radio stations . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Playing back audio or photo files stored
on a USB memory device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Playing back audio files stored on an iPod. . . . . . . . . 71
Connecting to the network through LAN interface. . . . 71
Connecting an iPod . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Connecting a USB device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
About network playback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Windows Media Connect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Windows Media DRM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
DLNA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Content playable over a network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
About playback behavior over a network . . . . . . . . . . 73
Authorizing this receiver. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Playback with Home Media Gallery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Playing back audio files stored on components
on the network. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Playing back audio files stored on an iPod. . . . . . . . . 75
Playing back audio files stored on a USB
memory device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Finding what you want to play . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Basic playback controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Playing back photo files stored in components
on the network or USB memory device. . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Listening to Internet radio stations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Listening to Neural Music Direct. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Playing back your favorite songs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
About playable file formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Advanced operations for Internet radio . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Saving Internet radio stations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Retrieving saved Internet radio stations . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Setting up the network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Checking the network settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Software update . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Glossary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
11 HDMI Control
Making the HDMI Control connections . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Setting the HDMI options. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Setting the HDMI Control mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Before using synchronization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Synchronized amp mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
Synchronized amp mode operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
Canceling synchronized amp mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
About HDMI Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
About PQLS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
12 Other Settings
The Input Setup menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Input function default and possible settings . . . . . . . 90
Changing the OSD display language
(OSD Language) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
The Other Setup menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Multi Channel Input Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
ZONE Audio Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
SR+ Setup for Pioneer flat screen TVs. . . . . . . . . . . . 92
Flicker Reduction Setup. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
13 Using other functions
Setting the Audio options. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Setting the Video options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
Making an audio or a video recording. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
Reducing the level of an analog signal . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
Using the sleep timer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
Dimming the display. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
Switching the HDMI output . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Checking your system settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Resetting the system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Default system settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
14 Controlling the rest of your system
Setting the remote to control other components. . . . . 99
Selecting preset codes directly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
Programming signals from other
remote controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
Erasing one of the remote control
button settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
Resetting the remote control presets . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
Confirming preset codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
Renaming input source names . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
Direct function. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
Multi Operation and System Off . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
Programming a multi-operation
or a shutdown sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
Using multi operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
Using System off. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
Controls for TVs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
Controls for other components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
Operating other Pioneer components with
this unit's sensor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
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