Preparation, General Notes on connections

Preparation

General Notes on connections

●Depending on the equipment you wish to connect, there are various ways you could connect this unit. Possible connections are shown in the following drawings.

●Please refer to the manuals of other equipment as necessary to make the best connections.

●Do not connect this unit via your VCR.The video quality could be distorted by the copy protection system.

●Do not connect this unit’s audio out jack to the phono in jack of your audio system.

Note:

–If the audio format of the digital output does not match the capabilities of your receiver, the receiver will produce a strong, distorted sound or no sound at all. Make sure to select the appropriate audio format at menu screen included on the disc. Pressing AUDIO once or more may change not only audio languages but also audio formats, and the selected format appears for several seconds on the status window.

–MP3 Audio is not available on the Digital Output.

E n g l i s h

Digital Connections

This unit has COAXIAL and OPTICAL digital out jacks. Connect one or both of them to your AV receiver equipped with Dolby digital, DTS, or MPEG decoder using each specific cable (separate purchase).

		1
		2
COAXIAL	OPTICAL	R
PCM	DIGITAL
DTS MPEG

AUDIO OUT


AV receiver	COAXIAL	OPTICAL
AV receiver	IN	IN

Subwoofer

			Center speaker

	Left main		Right main
		speaker		speaker


Left rear				Right rear
speaker				speaker

You will need to set this unit’s digital output to ALL (see ‘User Preference Settings’).

Analog Connections

Use audio/video cable supplied with this unit to connect AUDIO OUT L (left) and R (right) jacks of this unit to corresponding input jacks of your audio equipment such as Stereo amplifier.You can connect a subwoofer to this unit’s SUBWOOFER jack.

		1	VIDEO
		2
COAXIAL	OPTICAL	R	L SUBWOOFER	S VIDEO

PCM	DIGITAL
DTS MPEG		VIDEO OUT
	AUDIO OUT	VIDEO OUT
	R	L

(supplied)

Subwoofer

R L

1 CD/DVD

Stereo

amprifier

Left Right

speaker speaker

DV-S5550 specifications

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