Pioneer NS-DV990 Operating Instruction page 9

Before you start
Introduction to home theater
You are probably used to using stereo
equipment to listen to music, but may not be
used to home theater systems that give you
many more options (such as surround sound)
when listening to soundtracks.
Home theater refers to the use of multiple
audio tracks to create a surround sound
effect, making you feel like you're in the
middle of the action or concert. The surround
sound you get from a home theater system
depends not only on the speakers you have
set up in your room, but also on the source
and the sound settings of the system.
DVD-Video has become the basic source
material for home theater due to its size,
quality, and ease of use. Depending on the
DVD, you can have up to six different audio
tracks coming from one disc, all of them
being sent to different speakers in your
system. This is what creates a surround
sound effect and gives you the feeling of
'being there'.
This system will automatically decode Dolby
Digital, DTS, or Dolby Surround DVD-Video
discs, according to your speaker setup. In
most cases, you won't have to make changes
for realistic surround sound, but other
possibilities (like listening to a CD with multi-
channel surround sound) are explained in
Home theater sound on page 30.
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General disc compatibility
This system was designed and engineered to
be compatible with software bearing one or
more of the following logos:
DVD-Audio DVD-Video
Audio CD Video CD
Super Audio CD
Fujicolor CD
• KODAK Picture CD
• is a trademark of Fuji Photo Film Co.
Ltd.
Other formats, including but not limited to the
following, are not playable in this system:
DVD-RAM / DVD-ROM / CD-ROM*
* Except those that contain MP3 or JPEG.
See also Compressed audio compatibility
and JPEG file compatibility below.
DVD-R/RW and CD-R/RW discs (Audio CDs
and Video CDs) recorded using a DVD
recorder, CD recorder or personal computer
may not be playable on this system. This may
be caused by a number of possibilities,
including but not limited to: the type of disc
used; the type of recording; damage, dirt or
condensation on either the disc or the
player's pick-up lens. See below for notes
about particular software and formats.
DVD-R DVD-RW
CD-R CD-RW
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