Installation and Connections

Figure 1: SCART/Cinch-Adapter for playback; signal flow:

SCART Cinch

Figure 2: SCART/Cinch-Adapter for record and playback; signal flow:

SCART Cinch

Figure 3: Cinch/SCART-Adapter for playback; signal flow:

Cinch SCART

Black

Yellow

Red

Black

Red

Blue1

Yellow

Green1

White

Black

Yellow

Red

Important Note for the Use of

SCART-Cinch Adapters:

When video sources are connected to the TV directly with a SCART cable, specific control signals apart from Audio/Video signals will be fed to the TV. These specific signals are: With all video sources, the signal for automatic input selection that switches the TV automatically to the appropriate input as soon as the video source is started. And with DVD players, the signals automatically turning the TV to 4:3/16:9 format (with 16:9 TVs or with 4:3 TVs with selectable 16:9 format) and turning the RGB video decoder of the TV on or off, depending on the DVD player´s setting. With any adapter cable, these control signals will be lost and the appropriate setting of the TV must be made manually.

Note for RGB signal with SCART:

If you use a unit providing RGB signals on a

Figure 4:

SCART/S-Video Adapter

for playback;

signal flow:

SCART Cinch

Figure 5:

SCART/S-Video Adapter

for record and playback;

signal flow:

SCART Cinch

Figure 6:

SCART/S-Video Adapter

for playback;

signal flow:

Cinch SCART

Red

Black

S-Video In

Black

Red

Blue1

Yellow

S-Video In

S-Video Out

Red

Black

S-Video Out

1Also other colours possible, e.g. brown and grey.

SCART output (as e.g. most DVD players do) and you want to use that RGB signal, this SCART output must be connected directly to your TV. Although the AVR 5550 RDS can switch three- way video signals (like component signals Y/Pb/Pr), most TVs need separate sync signals for RGB (also with SCART) that cannot be switched and provided by the AVR 5550.

RGB signals can be pathed through

the AVR 5550 only when no separate sync signal is needed (see last ”Video Connection Note” on page 16).

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Harman-Kardon AVR 5550 Important Note for the Use SCART-Cinch Adapters, If you use a unit providing RGB signals on a

AVR 5550 specifications

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