JVC RX-778VBK manual Surround modes, Dolby Surround Dolby Digital and Dolby Pro Logic

Surround modes

With this receiver, you can use two types of the Surround mode.

Following modes cannot be used when only the front speakers are connected to this receiver (without the rear speakers or center speaker).

Dolby Surround (Dolby Digital and Dolby Pro Logic)*

Used to reproduce the soundtracks of software encoded with Dolby

Digital (bearing the mark ) or with Dolby Surround

D I G I T A L

(bearing the mark DOLBY SURROUND ).

Dolby Digital and Dolby Pro Logic can be selected automatically according to software played back and the speaker arrangement you have done.

•To enjoy the software encoded with Dolby Digital, you must connect the source component using the digital terminal on the rear of this receiver. (See page 8.)

JVC Theater Surround

In order to reproduce a more realistic sound field in your listening room while playing soundtracks of software encoded with Dolby Digital (bearing the mark D I G I T A L ), with Dolby Surround (bearing

the mark DOLBY SURROUND ), you can use JVC Theater Surround.

•When playing a source encoded with Dolby Digital (bearing the mark D I G I T A L ), “DIG THEATER” is selected automatically.

•When playing a source encoded with Dolby Surround (bearing the

mark DOLBY SURROUND ), “THEATER” is selected automatically.

Notes:

•The DSP modes have no effect on monaural sources.

•The DSP modes cannot be used for recording an analog source.

•The PRO LOGIC indicator lights up when the Dolby Pro Logic decoder built in this receiver is activated.

•The ÙDIGITAL indicator lights up when the signals encoded with Dolby Digital come into the receiver.

•The Dolby Pro Logic decoder is used not only for the analog sources but also for the sources encoded with Dolby Digital in the following cases:

–When only front channel signals are encoded.

–When front channel and monaural rear channel signals are encoded.

IMPORTANT:

Before recording a digital source, turn off the DSP mode.

*Manufactured under license from Dolby Laboratories. “Dolby,” “Pro Logic,” and the double-D symbol are trademarks of Dolby Laboratories. Confidential Unpublished Works. ©1992–1998 Dolby Laboratories, Inc. All rights reserved.

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