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

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SURR SURR BACK typically used to connect DVD players with a 7.1-

 

 

channel analog audio output. Several standard

 

 

analog audio cables can be used instead of a multi-

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MULTI CH

channel cable.

 

 

Note: The AV receiver does not support SCART connections.

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Integra DTR-7.8 Connecting Your Components, About AV Connections, Optical Digital Jacks, AV Connection Color Coding

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