Onkyo HT-R518 Connecting Your Components, About AV Connections, Optical Digital Jacks

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Connecting Your Components

About AV Connections

•Before making any AV connections, read the manuals supplied with your other AV components.

•Don’t connect the power cord until you’ve completed and double-checked all AV connections.

Optical Digital Jacks

The AV receiver’s optical digital jacks have shutter-type covers that open when an optical plug is inserted and close when it’s removed. Push plugs in all the way.

Caution: To prevent shutter damage, hold the optical plug straight when inserting and removing.

AV Connection Color Coding

RCA-type AV connections are usually color coded: red, white, and yellow. Use red plugs to connect right- channel audio inputs and outputs (typically labeled “R”). Use white plugs to connect left-channel audio inputs and outputs (typically labeled “L”). And use yellow plugs to connect composite video inputs and outputs.

Left (white)	Analog audio	Left (white)
Right (red)		Right (red)
(Yellow)	Composite video	(Yellow)

• Push plugs in all the way to make	Right!
good connections (loose connec-
tions can cause noise or malfunc-
tions).
• To prevent interference, keep	Wrong!
audio and video cables away from

power cords and speaker cables.

AV Cables and Jacks

Video

	Cable		Jack	Description
			HDMI	HDMI connections can carry uncompressed stan-
HDMI				dard- or high-definition digital video and audio and
				offer the best picture and sound quality.
	Y	Y	Y	Component video separates the luminance (Y) and
Component	PB	PB	CB/PB	color difference signals (PR, PB), providing the best
video cable				picture quality. (Some TV manufacturers label their
	PR	PR
				component video jacks slightly differently.)
			CR/PR
				S-Video separates the luminance and color signals
S-Video cable			S	and provides better picture quality than composite
				video.
Composite			V	Composite video is commonly used on TVs, VCRs,
video cable				and other video equipment.

Audio

Optical digital audio cable

Coaxial digital audio cable

Analog audio cable (RCA)

Multichannel analog audio cable (RCA)

	This offers the best sound quality and allows you to
OPTICAL
	enjoy Dolby Digital and DTS. The audio quality is
	the same as for coaxial.
	This offers the best sound quality and allows you to
COAXIAL
	enjoy Dolby Digital and DTS. The audio quality is
	the same as for optical.

LThis cable carries analog audio. It’s the most

R		common connection format for analog audio and
		can be found on virtually all AV components.
		This cable carries multichannel analog audio and is
FRONT CENTER	SURR	typically used to connect DVD players with a 5.1-
		channel analog audio output. Several standard
SUBWOOFER	MULTI CH	analog audio cables can be used instead of a multi-
		channel cable.

Note: The AV receiver does not support SCART connections.

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