Harman Kardon AVR 1710 Owners Manual - Page 29

English AVR Operating Your AVR and Advanced Functions Playing Media from a Roku Streaming Stick When you connect a Roku Streaming Stick to the AVR's MHL/HDMI input and join it with your home Wi-Fi network, you can use the AVR's remote to search for and control streaming media. NOTE: Your home network must be Wi-Fi for you to be able to use the Roku Streaming Stick with your AVR. 1. After connecting the Roku Streaming Stick to the AVR's MHL/HDMI input, select the AVR's MHL source. The Roku Streaming Stick's video output should be displayed on your TV. 2. F ollow the Roku instructions for joining the Roku Streaming Stick with your Wi-Fi network, using the Roku remote. 3. Once the Roku Streaming Stick is joined with your Wi-Fi network, the AVR remote buttons shown below will perform the same functions as their counterparts on the Roku remote: Menu Navigation Home Menu MHL Source Menu Item Previous Button Selection Menu Advanced Functions Much of the adjusting and configuration your AVR requires is handled automatically, with little intervention required on your part. You can also customize your AVR to suit your system and your tastes. In this section we will describe some of the more advanced adjustments available to you. Audio Processing and Surround Sound Audio signals can be encoded in a variety of formats that can affect not only the quality of the sound but the number of speaker channels and the surround mode. You may also manually select a different surround mode, when available. Analog Audio Signals Analog audio signals usually consist of two channels - left and right. Your AVR is able to process two-channel audio signals to produce multichannel surround sound, even when no surround sound has been encoded in the recording. Among the available modes are the Dolby Pro Logic II/IIx/IIz, Virtual Speaker, DTS Neo:6, HARMAN NSP, 5 CH and 7 CH Stereo modes. To select one of these modes, press the Surround Modes button. Digital Audio Signals Digital audio signals offer greater flexibility and capacity than analog signals, and allow the encoding of discrete channel information directly into the signal. The result is improved sound quality and startling directionality, since each channel's information is transmitted discretely. High-resolution recordings sound extraordinarily distortion-free, especially in the high frequencies. Surround Modes Surround-mode selection depends upon the format of the incoming audio signal as well as your personal taste. Although there is never a time when all of the AVR's surround modes are available, there is usually a wide variety of modes available for a given input. Table A12 in the Appendix, on page 47, offers a brief description of each mode and indicates the types of incoming signals or digital bitstreams the mode may be used with. Additional information about the Dolby and DTS modes is available on the companies' Web sites: www.dolby.com and www.dtsonline.com. When in doubt, check the jacket of your disc for more information on which surround modes are available. Usually, nonessential sections of the disc, such as trailers, extra materials or the disc menu, are available only in Dolby Digital 2.0 (two-channel) or PCM two-channel mode. If the main title is playing and the display shows one of these surround modes, look for an audio or language setup section in the disc's menu. Also, make sure your disc player's audio output is set to the original bitstream rather than twochannel PCM. Stop play and check the player's output setting. Multichannel digital recordings are produced in five-channel, six-channel or sevenchannel formats, with or without a ".1" channel. The channels included in a typical 5.1-channel recording are front left, front right, center, surround left, surround right and LFE (low-frequency effects). The LFE channel is denoted as ".1" to represent the fact that it is limited to the low frequencies. 6.1-channel recordings add a single surround back channel, and 7.1-channel recordings add surround back left and surround back right channels to the 5.1-channel configuration. New formats are available in 7.1-channel configurations. Your AVR is able to play the new audio formats, delivering a more exciting home theater experience. AVR 1710/AVR 171 only: To use the 6.1- and 7.1-channel surround modes, the surround back channels must be enabled. See Manual Speaker Setup, on page 30 for more information. Digital formats include Dolby Digital 2.0 (two channels only), Dolby Digital 5.1, Dolby Digital EX (6.1), Dolby Digital Plus (7.1), Dolby TrueHD (7.1), DTS-HD High-Resolution Audio (7.1), DTS-HD Master Audio (7.1), DTS 5.1, DTS-ES (6.1 Matrix and Discrete), DTS 96/24 (5.1), two-channel PCM modes in 32kHz, 44.1kHz, 48kHz, 88.1kHz, 96kHz, 176.4kHz or 192kHz, and 5.1 or 7.1 multichannel PCM. When the AVR receives a digital signal, it detects the encoding method and the number of channels, which is displayed briefly as three numbers, separated by slashes (e.g., "3/2/.1"). 29