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Video Out settings

Setting

Option

What it means

 

 

 

TV Screen

4:3 (Letter Box)

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

(This setting effective

shown with black bars top and bottom.

 

for analog and HDMI

 

 

4:3 (Pan & Scan)

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

video output. See also

shown with the sides cropped so that the image fills the screen.

“Screen sizes and disc

 

 

 

16:9 (Wide)

Set if you have a widescreen TV.

formats” on page 49.)

 

 

 

 

Interlace

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

 

 

 

 

 

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

 

 

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

Component Out

 

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

Progressive

page 19.

 

 

 

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

 

 

ponent video jacks and that there is no output from the com-

 

 

posite and S-video jacks when this setting is selected.

 

 

 

 

Video

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

 

 

 

AV Connector Out

 

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

 

quality.

(European model only)

RGB

Note that there is no output from the component jacks when

 

 

 

 

this setting is selected.

 

 

 

 

1920x1080i

Set if your TV supports 1920 x 1080 pixel interlace video.

 

 

 

 

1280x720p

Set if your TV supports 1280 x 720 pixel progressive-scan

HDMI Resolution

video.

 

(Default changes with

720x480p (NTSC)/

Set if your TV supports 720 x 480 pixel (NTSC)/720 x 576

TV format (PAL/NTSC).)

720x576p (PAL)

pixel (PAL) progressive-scan video.

 

 

 

 

720x480i (NTSC)/

Set if your TV supports 720 x 480 pixel (NTSC)/720 x 576

 

720x576i (PAL)

pixel (PAL) interlace video.

 

 

 

 

Full range RGB

If colors are weak, this gives brighter colors and deeper black.

HDMI Color

 

 

 

Use this setting if colors appear overly rich on the Full Range

(Default changes

RGB

RGB setting.

depending on device

 

 

 

connected.)

Component

Outputs component video format (default setting for HDMI-

 

compatible devices).

 

 

 

 

 

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Onkyo SP404 instruction manual Video Out settings