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Chapter 2:

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Introduction to home theater

You are probably used to using stereo equipment to listen to music, but may not be used to home theater systems that give you many more options (such as surround sound) when listening to soundtracks.

Home theater refers to the use of multiple audio tracks to create a surround sound effect, making you feel like you're in the middle of the action or concert. The surround sound you get from a home theater system depends not only on the speakers you have set up in your room, but also on the source and the sound settings of the receiver.

DVD-Video has become the basic source material for home theater due to its size, quality, and ease of use. Depending on the DVD, you can have up to seven different audio tracks coming from one disc, all of them being sent to different speakers in your system. This is what creates a surround sound effect and gives you the feeling of ‘being there’.

This receiver will automatically decode Dolby Digital, DTS, or Dolby Surround DVD-Video discs, according to your speaker setup. In most cases, you won’t have to make changes for realistic surround sound, but other possibilities (like listening to a CD with multichannel surround sound) are explained in Listening to your system on page 30.

Listening to Surround Sound

This receiver was designed with the easiest possible setup in mind, so with the following quick setup guide, you should have your system hooked up for surround sound in no time at all. In most cases, you can simply leave the receiver in the default settings.

• Be sure to complete all connections before connecting this unit to an AC power source.

1 Hook up your DVD player.

For surround sound, you’ll want to hook up using a digital connection from the DVD player to the receiver. You can do this with either a coaxial (recommended), or an optical connection (you don’t need to connect both). If you hook up using an optical cable, you should refer to The Input Assign menu on page 60 to assign the optical input to DVD.

Use a video cord to connect the video output on your DVD player to the receiver using the jacks shown below.

2 Hook up your TV.

Use a video cord to connect your receiver to the TV using the jacks as shown below.

Optical cable

TV

VIDEO IN

Video cord

DI

DIGITAL OUT	Coaxial
	cable

DVD player

VIDEO OUT

S

IN 1	OUT
) (TV/SAT)
		DIGITAL	AM LOOP	FM UNBAL 75Ω
	IN 2 IN 1	OUT		ANTENNA	Y
DVR /	(CD-R/ TAPE/MD) (TV/SAT)
	CD			CONTROL
VCR	IN	PRE OUT		IN OUT	P

		OUT			PLAY
IN 3		REC	ASSIGNABLE		IN			CEN-		P
			1	4	CD-R/		SUBW.	TER
					TAPE/MD			FRONT	MONITOR
(DVD/					OUT				OUT	Y
LD)		TV/			REC		R	L
					VIDEO1			ROUND	IN	P
		SAT			IN
								SUR-	VIDEO1
		IN					R	L
	4				PLAY			ROUND
IN					IN			BACK	IN	P
					DVR /		R	L	DVR /
								(Single)
(CD)		DVD/			VCR			TER	VCR	Y
					OUT				OUT
								CEN-
		LD		IN 3	REC
				(DVD/			SUBW.
				LD)	TV/				TV/
					SAT			FRONT	SAT	P
					IN		R	L	IN
				IN 4
				(CD)	DVD/			SUR-	DVD/
					LD			ROUND	LD	P
					IN		R	L	IN
					R	L	MULTI CH IN		VIDEO	S-VIDEO
			DIGITAL
					-		AUDIO		VIDEO
								OUT		Y
					ER
								TV/
					NT			SAT		P
								IN
					R-			DVD/		P
					UND			LD
								IN
								S-VIDEO
								VIDEO

MONITOR OUT
							AC OUTLET
							AC 120 V 60Hz
		MONITOR					SWITCHED 100W(0 .8A) MAX
			OUT
	IN 1	SPEAKERS
ASSIGNABLE		A R	FRONT	L	CENTER	R SURROUND L	SURROUND BACK / B
							R	L (Single)
		VIDEO1					SELECTABLE
			IN
IN 2
ASSIGNABLE			IN				SELECTABLE
1	2		DVR /
COMPONENT VIDEO
			VCR

Video cord

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