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5 minute guide
Chapter 2:
5 minute guide
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 receiver.
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 seven 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 receiver 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 multichannel surround sound) are explained in Listening to your system on page 30.
Listening to Surround Sound
This receiver was designed with the easiest possible setup in mind, so with the following quick setup guide, you should
have your system hooked up for surround sound in no time at all. In most cases, you can simply leave the receiver in
the default settings.
• Be sure to complete all connections before connecting this unit to an AC power source.
1
Hook up your DVD player.
For surround sound, you'll want to hook up using a digital connection from the DVD player to the receiver. You can do
this with either a coaxial (recommended), or an optical connection (you don't need to connect both). If you hook up
using an optical cable, you should refer to The Input Assign menu on page 63 to assign the optical input to DVD.
Use a video cord to connect the video output on your DVD player to the receiver using the jacks shown below.
2
Hook up your TV.
Use a video cord to connect your receiver to the TV using the jacks as shown below.
Optical cable
DVD player
8
En
DIGITAL OUT
Coaxial
cable
VIDEO OUT
S
VIDEO IN
TV
IN
2
IN
1
OUT
R/ TAPE/MD )
( TV/SAT )
AM LOOP
DIGITAL
ANTENNA
IN
2
IN
1
OUT
(CD-R/ TAPE/MD)
(TV/SAT)
IN
OUT
OUT
CONTROL
CD
IN
MULTI-ROOM & SOURCE
R
L
OUT
PRE
PLAY
OUT
MONITOR
IN
ASSIGNABLE
CEN-
OUT
IN
3
REC
TER
CD-R/
1
4
TAPE/MD
SUBW.
( DVD/
MONITOR
OUT
OUT
FRONT
LD )
TV/
REC
R
L
SAT
VIDEO1
VIDEO1
SUR-
IN
ROUND
IN
R
L
IN
SUR-
PLAY
ROUND
4
IN
BACK
IN
IN
L
DVR /
R
(Single)
DVR /
VCR
VCR
( CD )
DVD/
CEN-
OUT
OUT
TER
LD
IN
3
REC
(DVD/
SUBW.
LD)
TV/
T V /
SAT
SAT
FRONT
IN
IN
R
L
4
IN
(CD)
DVD/
DVD/
SUR-
LD
ROUND
VCR
LD
IN
IN
R
L
R
L
MULTI CH IN
VIDEO
S-VIDEO
DIGITAL
AUDIO
OUT
VIDEO
T V /
SAT
FRONT
IN
L
DVD/
SUR-
LD
ROUND
IN
L
VIDEO
S-VIDEO
VIDEO
Video cord
Video cord
MONITOR OUT
Y
AC OUTLET
12V
P
B
TRIGGER
MULTI-ROOM & SOURCE
(DC OUT12V/
100mA MAX)
P
R
PRE
AC 120 V 60Hz
OUT
SWITCHED 100W (0 . 8A) MAX
MONITOR
Y
CEN-
OUT
MULTI-
ROOM &
TER
SOURCE
P
IN
B
SPEAKERS
I R
IN
1
FRONT
CENTER
SURROUND
SURROUND BACK /
A
MONITOR
R
L
R
L
OUT
R
P
R
OUT
FRONT
SELECTABLE
Y
P
B
SUR-
VIDEO1
2
IN
SELECTABLE
ROUND
IN
P
R
ASSIGNABLE
1
2
COMPONENT
VIDEO
B
L
(Single)
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