Kenwood Sovereign VR-5900 Connection And Setup Manual page 3

Connecting and Setting Up Your New Kenwood Audio-Video Receiver
Welcome to the Connection and Setup Guide for your new
Kenwood audio-video receiver.
The VR-5900 offers 3 kinds of 5.1-channel digital surround
sound decoding:
• Dolby Digital, for the hundreds of currently available
Dolby Digital DVDs and LaserDiscs.
• DTS, a well-established multichannel format in movie
theaters, is available for home theater on LaserDisc and
DVD.
• MPEG Multichannel, a well-established multichannel
format in movie theaters, is available for home theater
on LaserDisc and DVD.
The VR-5900 also offers 2 kinds of 6.1-channel digital sur-
round sound decoding:
• THX Surround EX technology reproduces a surround
back channel from software which has been specially
encoded with Surround EX.
• DTS-ES also creates a 6.1-channel surround environment
by adding the surround back signal. The VR-5900 can
handle both DTS-ES Discrete 6.1 featuring recording of
all channels in the digital discrete format and DTS-ES
Matrix 6.1 featuring matrix encoding.
In addition, the VR-5900 offers the following surround
features.
• DTS-NEO:6: This converts 2-channel signals into 6.1-
channel signals by means of a high-accuracy digital
matrix decoder.
• Dolby Pro Logic II: This advanced version of Dolby Pro
Logic features improved audio quality and a dedicated
music mode that reproduces conventional 2-channel
music in 5.1-channel surround sound.
• THX Mode: Several technologies developed by
Lucasfilm® that compensate for playing a film
soundtrack in a small room (such as in a home), rather
than in a large theater (for which it was originally mixed).
The THX Mode compensates for overly bright-sounding
soundtracks, creates a more spacious surround sound
environment and smooths sound movement from
speaker to speaker.
32-Bit DRIVE III: Exclusive Kenwood technology that repro-
duces digital signals with ultra high resolution. Incorporat-
ing a high-performance DSP, 32-Bit DRIVE III significantly
reduces digital distortion to reproduce stereo audio with
extreme faithfulness to the original signal.
HDCD®: This is a new format of high-resolution recording.
The VR-5900 is capable of reproducing CDs recorded in the
HDCD format with high resolution and wide dynamic range.
Use the VR-5900 to connect all your current audio and video
components—the VR-5900 has a variety of connection jacks
so you can customize your entertainment setup.
It also includes Kenwood's remarkable PowerTouch III LCD
remote—a graphical user interface without having to use
your TV!
Other advanced features include 6 S-Video inputs and opti-
cal and coaxial digital outputs for digital dubbing to
MiniDisc or CD-R.
Manufactured under license from Dolby Laboratories.
"Dolby", "Pro Logic", "Surround EX " and the double-D sym-
bol are trademarks of Dolby Laboratories. Confidential un-
published works. © 1992-1997 Dolby Laboratories. All rights
reserved.
Manufactured under license from Digital Theater Systems,
Inc. US Pat. No. 5,451,942, 5,956,674, 5,974,380, 5,978,762
and other world-wide patents issued and pending. "DTS",
"DTS-ES Extended Surround" and "Neo:6" are trademarks
of Digital Theater Systems, Inc. © 1996, 2000 Digital The-
ater Systems, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Lucasfilm and THX are registered trademarks of Lucasfilm
Ltd.
©Lucasfilm Ltd. & TM. All rights reserved. Surround EX is a
jointly developed technology of THX and Dolby
Laboratories Inc. and is a trademark of Dolby. Used under
authorization.
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