Yamaha RX-Z9 manual Highest Picture Quality, Component Video Up Conversion, RX-V657and RX-V557

YGV-619 video processor LSI (Yamaha original)

Highest Picture Quality

As one of the first companies to popularise “home theatre” and a leader in the field, Yamaha is naturally committed to visual as well as audio excellence. We want our customers’ enjoyment of movies and other video sources to be totally satisfying. Our home theatre line includes a number of high performance products, including projectors, DVD players and a plasma monitor, but in terms of our home theatre receivers, we design them to deliver the finest possible video signal to the display component.

Component Video Up Conversion

(RX-Z9, RX-V2500, RX-V1500, RX-V757,

RX-V657 and RX-V557)

One way of ensuring the highest video quality for your home theatre system is to use the best possible video signal. The receiver automatically upgrades the input signal (composite to S-Video or component, S-Video to component) to the one that your monitor/TV can accept. This means that you simply use the best possible cable between the receiver and the monitor/TV, and then whatever the source is, you are assured of getting the highest possible quality.

Component	Component
Video	Video
S-Video	S-Video
S1/S2 compatible
Composite	Composite
Video	Video

Digital Video Up and Down Conversion (RX-Z9)

analogue filter. This improves the

accuracy of signal representation,

allowing images to be displayed at much higher

resolutions.

Progressive Scan Video Output and Other Video

Technologies (RX-Z9)

The RX-Z9 is the first receiver to provide Progressive Scan Video Output, for use with high definition monitors. With almost twice as much video data, it provides a sharper, noise-free picture with clearer details. The

progressive circuit is an 3:2 Pull-Down Detection type, and gives you the benefit of progressive scanning even if your DVD player does not have it. Other video technologies include

216MHz/12-bit Video D/A Conversion, Motion Adaptive Noise Reduction, Cross Colour uppression, Aspect Ratio Conversion, a Time Base Corrector that prevents the wavy distortion seen in video tapes and TrueLife Enhancer by Faroudja that brings out details in the picture producing a more lifelike image.

HDTV (720p/1080i) Compatible

Component Video Monitor Out

The frequency response of the component video monitor out signal is an extremely wide 5Hz–100MHz (RX-Z9; RX-V2500, RX-V1500, RX-V757, RX-V657, RX-V557, RX-V457 and RX-V357 are 5Hz–60MHz), ensuring compatibility

Digital Video Processing Board

All digital video processing circuitry is on a single board, housed in its own separate chamber to completely avoid interference from other circuitry.

Before TrueLife Enhancer (Left) vs. After TrueLife Enhancer (Right)

DCDi Processing

(RX-Z9)

The RX-Z9 is the first receiver to offer Faroudja’s DCDi Processing, which is selectable and ensures that images are smooth and natural, without staircasing or jaggies.

Faroudja DCDi processing LSI (FLI 2310)

with HDTV (720p, 1080i) monitors.

Image Adjustment (RX-Z9)

To ensure that the high quality image looks precisely the way you want it to, the RX-Z9 includes an extremely detailed Image Adjustment function. You can select three modes, Cinema, Standard or Dynamic, and within those modes, you can “fine-tune” five parameters: Enhancer, 3D NR, Contrast, Brightness and Saturation. You can then

DCDi Off (Left) vs. DCDi On (Right)

Without Film Mode (Left) vs. With Film Mode (Right)

Noise Shaped Video™ (RX-Z9)

This technology, from Analog Devices, uses oversampling and advanced techniques such as multi-bit sigma-delta processing and bit- shuffling to improve converter performance by moving converter noise to an area of the spectrum where it can be removed by an

store your final

adjustments in the user memory for recall at any time.

Time Base Corrector Off (Left) vs. Time Base Corrector On (Right)

Above images are simulated.

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