Onkyo HTX-22HD Connecting Components with HDMI, About HDMI, Supported Audio Formats

Connecting AV Components—Continued

Connecting Components with HDMI

About HDMI

Designed to meet the increased demands of digital TV, HDMI (High Definition Multimedia Interface) is a new digital interface standard for connecting TVs, projectors, DVD players, set- top boxes, and other video components. Until now, several separate video and audio cables have been required to connect AV components. With HDMI, a single cable can carry control signals, digital video, and up to eight channels of digital audio (2-channel PCM, multichannel digital audio, or multichannel PCM).

The HDMI video stream (i.e., video signal) is compatible with DVI (Digital Visual Interface),*1 so TVs and displays with a DVI input can be connected by using an HDMI-to-DVI adapter cable. (This may not work with some TVs and displays, resulting in no picture.)

The HTX-22HD uses HDCP (High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection), so only HDCP-com- patible components will display a picture.

The HTX-22HD’s HDMI interface is based on the following standard:

Repeater System, Deep Color, Lip Sync, DTS-HD Master Audio, DTS-HD High Reso- lution Audio, Dolby TrueHD, Dolby Digital Plus, SA-CD and Multichannel PCM

Supported Audio Formats

•2-channel linear PCM (16/20/24 bit/32–192 kHz)

•Multichannel linear PCM (7.1 ch, 32–192 kHz)

•Bitstream (Dolby Digital, Dolby Digital Plus, DTS, DTS-HD Master Audio, DTS-HD High

Resolution Audio, Dolby TrueHD, DSD)

Your DVD player must be able to output these formats from its HDMI OUT.

About Copyright Protection

The HTX-22HD supports HDCP (High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection),*2 a copy-protec- tion system for digital video signals. Other devices connected to the HTX-22HD via HDMI must also support HDCP.

Use a commercially available HDMI cable (supplied with some components) to connect the HTX-22HD’s HDMI OUT to the HDMI input on your TV or projector.

*1 DVI (Digital Visual Interface): The digital display interface standard set by the DDWG*3 in 1999.

*2 HDCP (High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection): The video encryption technology developed by Intel for HDMI/DVI. It’s designed to protect video content and requires a HDCP-compatible device to display the encrypted video.

*3 DDWG (Digital Display Working Group): Led by Intel, Compaq, Fujitsu, Hewlett Packard, IBM, NEC, and Silicon Image, this open industry group’s objective is to address the indus- try's requirements for a digital connectivity specification for high-performance PCs and dig- ital displays.

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