Connecting Components with HDMI

VCR or DVD recorder/digital video recorder

Game console

Connections

TV, projector, etc.

Satellite/cable set-top box, etc.

*If your TV doesn’t support Audio Return Channel (ARC), you need to connect an optical digital cable together with the HDMI cable to the AV receiver.

*When listening to an HDMI component through the AV receiver, set the HDMI component so that its video can be seen on the TV screen (on the TV, select the input of the HDMI component connected to the AV receiver). If the TV power is off or the TV is set to another input source, this may result in no sound from the AV receiver or the sound may be cut off.

Connect your components to the appropriate jacks. The default input assignments are shown below.

✔: Assignment can be changed (➔ page 39).

Jack

Components

 

HDMI IN1

Blu-ray Disc/DVD player

✔

 

 

 

HDMI IN2

VCR or DVD recorder/digital video recorder

✔

 

 

 

HDMI IN3

Satellite/cable set-top box, etc.

✔

 

 

 

HDMI IN4

Game console

✔

 

 

 

HDMI OUT

TV, projector, etc.

 

 

 

 

Blu-ray Disc/DVD player

See also:

•“Connection Tips and Video Signal Path” (➔ page 59)

•“Using an RIHD-compatible TV, Player, or Recorder” (➔ page 60)

•“About HDMI” (➔ page 62)

Tip

•To listen to the audio of a component connected via HDMI through your TV’s speakers, enable “HDMI Through” (➔ page 45) and set the AV receiver to standby mode.

Note

•In the case of Blu-ray Disc/DVD players, if no sound is output despite following the above-mentioned procedure, set your Blu- ray Disc/DVD player’s HDMI audio settings to PCM.

■Audio Return Channel (ARC) function

Audio Return Channel (ARC) function enables an HDMI capable TV to send the audio stream to the HDMI OUT of the AV receiver.

•This function can be used when:

–Your TV is ARC capable, and

–The TV/CD input selector is selected, and

–“HDMI Ctrl (RIHD)” is set to “On” (➔ page 45), and

–“Audio Return Ch (ARC)” is set to “Auto” (➔ page 46).

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