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
Optical Digital Jacks
The AV receiver’s optical digital jacks have
AV Connection Color Coding
Left (white) | Analog audio | Left (white) |
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Right (red) |
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(Yellow) | Composite video | (Yellow) |
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Caution: To prevent shutter damage, hold the optical plug straight when inserting and removing.
•Push plugs in all the way to make good connections (loose connec- tions can cause noise or malfunc- tions).
•To prevent interference, keep audio and video cables away from power cords and speaker cables.
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AV Cables and Jacks
Video
Cable | Jack | Description |
| Y | Y | Component video separates the luminance (Y) and | |
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| 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.) | |||
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| S | and provides better picture quality than composite | ||
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| video. | |
Composite |
| V | Composite video is commonly used on TVs, VCRs, | |
video cable |
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| and other video equipment. | |
Audio |
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| Cable | Jack | Description |
Optical digital | This offers the best sound quality and allows you to | |
OPTICAL | ||
enjoy Dolby Digital and DTS. The audio quality is | ||
audio cable | ||
the same as for coaxial. | ||
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| This offers the best sound quality and allows you to | |
Coaxial digital |
| COAXIAL | |
| enjoy Dolby Digital and DTS. The audio quality is | ||
audio cable |
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| the same as for optical. | ||
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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. | |||
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| This cable carries multichannel analog audio and is | |
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| typically used to connect DVD players with a 7.1- | |
Multichannel |
| channel analog audio output. Several standard ana- | |
analog audio |
| log audio cables can be used instead of a multichan- | |
cable (RCA) |
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| nel cable. | ||
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Note: The AV receiver does not support SCART connections.
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