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 jack has shutter-type cover 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-chan- nel audio inputs and outputs (typically labeled “R”). Use white plugs to connect left-channel audio inputs and out- puts (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 & Jacks

Video

Cable

Jack

Description

 

Y

Y

Component video separates the luminance (Y) and

 

 

Y

color difference signals (PR, PB), providing the best

Component

PB

PB

video cable

 

PB

picture quality. (Some TV manufacturers label their

PR

PR

 

component video jacks slightly differently.)

 

 

PR

Composite

 

 

Composite video is commonly used on TVs, VCRs,

 

VIDEO

and other video equipment. Use only dedicated

video cable

 

 

 

 

composite video cables.

 

 

 

Audio

 

 

 

 

Cable

Jack

Description

Optical digital

Offers the best sound quality and allows you to

OPTICAL

enjoy surround sound (e.g., Dolby Digital, DTS).

audio cable

The audio quality is the same as for coaxial.

 

Coaxial digital

 

Offers the best sound quality and allows you to

 

enjoy surround sound (e.g., Dolby Digital, DTS).

audio cable

 

COAXIAL

The audio quality is the same as for optical.

 

 

 

Analog audio

L

This cable carries analog audio. It’s the most com-

 

mon connection format for analog audio and can be

cable (RCA)

R

found on virtually all AV components.

 

 

 

 

This cable carries multichannel analog audio and is

Multichannel

 

typically used to connect DVD players with a 5.1-

 

channel analog audio output. Several standard ana-

analog audio

 

cable (RCA)

 

log audio cables can be used instead of a multichan-

 

 

 

 

nel cable.

Note: The AV receiver does not support SCART plugs.

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Onkyo HT-S590 Connecting Your Components, About AV Connections, Optical Digital Jacks, AV Connection Color Coding

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