Kenwood KRF-X7775D manual Before You Begin, Video Connections

Chapter One: Connecting Your Devices

Connections

Welcome to the Kenwood KRF-X7775D Connection and Setup Guide. This chapter guides you through connecting your home entertainment devices to your new Kenwood audio-video receiver.

Once all your devices are connected, you can set up the Remote Control unit (see Chapter Two).

Refer to the following pages for details on connecting these devices:

Speakers	pageÊ 4
TV	pageÊ 10
VCR(s)	pageÊ 14
CD Player, Kenwood 200-Disc Changer	pageÊ 16
DVD Player	pageÊ 18
CD-R Recorder	pageÊ 20
MD Recorder	pageÊ 22
Tape Deck(s)	pageÊ 22
Laser Disc Player	pageÊ 26
Turntable	pageÊ 30
Camcorder/Second VCR	pageÊ 31
Antennas	pageÊ 33

All necessary cables should be provided with your home entertainment device (not with your new receiver). If you do not have the correct cables, you may purchase these cables from any home entertainment store.

To make coaxial digital connections, be sure to use a high- quality digital audio cable, not a standard audio cable.

Do not plug in the receiver or any other device to AC power until all connections have been made. Once all devices have been connected, you may plug them in and provide power.

Important:

Leave a space around the unit (from the largest outside di- mension including projection) equal or greater than, shown below.

Top panel : 50 cm Side panel : 10 cm Back panel : 10 cm

Do not install your receiver where direct sunlight or high fre- quency fluorescent lighting can shine directly into the remote sensor. This can cause your new receiver to malfunction.

Do not install your receiver where direct sunlight or high frequency fluorescent lighting can shine directly into the remote sensor. This can cause your new receiver to malfunc- tion.

Before You Begin

This manual covers the most common and standard con- nections to the receiver. Because of its versatility, you may decide to connect your devices differently.

Video Connections

The KRF-X7775Dhas three kinds of video input jacks for the Composite video, S-Video and Component video signals.

The signals input at one of these three kinds of jacks can be output at the VIDEO REC OUT and MONITOR OUT jacks of the receiver only in the same signal format as they were input. (This receiver does not incorporate the facility for conversion between video signal formats.)

•If all of your video devices and TV have S-Video jacks, we suggest that you use them exclusively, since it will provide superior video performance.

•If only some of your video devices and TV have S-Video jacks, you can still use them for those devices and the TV. Use the composite jacks for your devices that don’t have S-Video jacks. In this case you’ll also have to con- nect the receiver’s composite Video Monitor output to your TV for your non S-Video devices.

•If your video devices and TV have component video jacks, we suggest that you use them exclusively, since it will provide superior S-video performance.

•Each of the video source components connected to the Composite video, S-Video and Component video in- puts of the receiver should also be connected to the TV using the same kind of signal connection as it is con- nected to the receiver.

•It is not possible to record the video from a video source component that is connected to the receiver using only the Component video connection. The source to be re- corded should be connected using the Composite video or S-Video connection according to the signal(s) out- put to the recording component.

•It is not possible to record the video from a video source component which is connected to the receiver using only

the S-Video connection to a recording component 1 equipped only with the Composite video input. In this case, both the video source and video recording com- ponents should be connected to the receiver using the Composite video connection.

If you plan on using the KRF-X7775Din a Dual-Zone appli- cation (see Chapter Four), you must use the composite video connections in addition to any component video and S-Video connections for all source components. Only video sources connected to the receiver with composite video connections can be viewed in the second zone.

Be sure to adhere followings. Or proper ventilation will be blocked causing damage or fire hazard.

Do not place any objects impairing heat radiation onto the top of unit.

•If your TV doesn’t have S-Video devices, you can’t use S- Video connections for any of your video devices. Use the composite jacks exclusively.