Onkyo HT-S990THX instruction manual Connecting Your Components, Which Connections Should I Use?

Connecting Your Components—Continued

Connecting Audio and Video Signals to the AV Receiver

By connecting both the audio and video outputs of your DVD player and other AV components to the AV receiver, you can switch the audio and video signals simultaneously simply by changing the input source on the AV receiver.

: Signal Flow

Video

Audio

Video

Audio

TV, projector, etc.

	Speakers (see page 19
DVD player, etc.
	for hookup details)

Which Connections Should I Use?

The AV receiver supports several connection formats for compatibility with a wide range of AV equipment. The format you choose will depend on the formats supported by your other components. Use the following sections as a guide. For video components, such as a DVD player, you must make an audio connection and a video connection.

Video Connection Formats

Video equipment can be connected to the AV receiver by using any one of the following video connection formats: composite video, S-Video, or component video, the latter offering the best picture quality.

A video signal connected to a V or S IN jack will be con- verted—composite video to S-Video or S-Video to com- posite video—but only for the MONITOR OUT jacks, not the VIDEO 1 OUT V and S jacks.

Note: The AV receiver can be set to upconvert composite video and S-Video input signals and output them from the COMPONENT VIDEO OUT (see page 36).

For optimum video performance, THX recommends that video signals pass through without upconversion (i.e., Composite video input to Composite video out- put; S-Video input to S-Video output; Component

Audio Connection Formats

When choosing a connection format, bear in mind that the AV receiver doesn’t convert between formats.

For example, audio signals connected to an OPTICAL or COAXIAL digital input are not output by the analog TAPE OUT, so if you want to record from, for example, your CD player, in addition to connecting it to a digital input, you must also connect it to the analog CD IN.

Audio Signal Flow Chart

CD player,

etc.

Output	Optical	Coaxial	Analog Multi-
			channel

IN

video input to Component video output).

Video Signal Flow Chart

AV Receiver

OUT

Optical Coaxial Analog Multi- channel

DVD player,

etc.

Output

Composite S-Video Component

Input

Cassette

recorder, etc.

Analog

IN Composite S-Video Component

AV Receiver

MONITOR OUT

page 36

Composite S-Video Component

Input Composite S-Video Component

TV, projec-

tor, etc.

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