Initial Settings menu—Continued

Digital Audio Out settings

Setting

Option

What it means

 

 

 

 

 

Digital audio is output from the digital outputs. Note that there

Digital Out

On

is no digital output when playing SACDs and some DVD-Audio

 

discs regardless of this setting.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Off

No digital audio output.

 

 

 

 

Dolby Digital

Dolby Digital encoded digital audio is output when playing a

 

Dolby Digital DVD disc.

Dolby Digital Out

 

 

 

Dolby Digital > PCM

Dolby Digital audio is converted to PCM audio before being

 

 

 

output.

 

 

 

 

 

DTS encoded digital audio is output when playing a DTS disc.

DTS Out

DTS

(Noise will be output if your amplifier/receiver is not compati-

 

ble with DTS audio.)

 

 

 

 

 

 

DTS > PCM

DTS audio is converted to PCM audio before being output.

 

 

 

 

 

96kHz digital audio is converted to 48kHz for digital output.

 

Down Sample On

Note that High sampling rate DVD-Audio discs (192kHz or

Linear PCM Out

176.4kHz) automatically output down-sampled audio through

 

 

 

the digital outputs.

 

 

 

 

Down Sample Off

96kHz digital audio is output as is at 96kHz.

 

 

 

 

MPEG > PCM

MPEG encoded digital audio is converted to PCM audio for

MPEG Out

digital output.

 

 

MPEG

MPEG encoded digital audio is output as is.

 

 

 

Video Output settings

Setting

Option

What it means

 

 

 

 

4:3 (Letter Box)

Set if you have a conventional 4:3 TV. Widescreen movies are

 

shown with black bars top and bottom.

TV Screen

 

 

 

(See also “Screen sizes

 

Set if you have a conventional 4:3 TV. Widescreen movies are

and disc formats” on

4:3 (Pan & Scan)

shown with the sides cropped so that the image fills the

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screen.

 

 

 

 

16:9 (Wide)

Set if you have a widescreen TV.

 

 

 

 

 

Set if your TV is compatible with progressive scan video (see

 

 

your TV’s instruction manual for details). See also “Switching

 

Progressive

the video output to interlace using the front panel controls” on

Component Out

page 21.

 

 

 

Note that progressive scan video is only output from the com-

 

 

ponent video jacks.

 

 

 

 

Interlace

Set if your TV is not compatible with progressive scan video.

 

 

 

 

Video

Ordinary (composite) video output, compatible with all TVs.

 

 

 

AV Connector Out

S Video

Almost the same quality as RGB, but can give better results if

you’re using a long SCART cable.

(European model only)

 

 

 

 

RGB

If your TV is compatible, this setting gives the best picture

 

quality.

 

 

 

 

 

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Onkyo DV-SP503E instruction manual Initial Settings menu, Digital Audio Out settings, Video Output settings

DV-SP503E specifications

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