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Connections Chapter One : Connecting Your Devices Chapter One: Connecting Your Devices Welcome to the Kenwood VR-5700/ VR-5090/VR-5080 Connection and Setup Guide. This chapter guides you through connecting your home entertainment devices to your new Kenwood audio-video receiver. Once all your devices are connected, you can set up the Remote Control unit (see Chapter Two). Refer to the following pages for details on connecting these devices: Speakers TV VCR(s) CD Player, Kenwood 200-Disc Changer DVD Player CD-R Recorder MD Recorder Tape Deck(s) Laser Disc Player Turntable Camcorder/Second VCR Antennas page 4 page 10 page 14 page 16 page 18 page 20 page 22 page 22 page 26 page 30 page 31 page 33 All necessary cables should be provided with your home entertainment device (not with your new receiver). If you do not have the correct cables, you may purchase these cables from any home entertainment store. To make coaxial digital connections, be sure to use a highquality digital audio cable, not a standard audio cable. Do not plug in the receiver or any other device to AC power until all connections have been made. Once all devices have been connected, you may plug them in and provide power. Important: Your new receiver requires adequate ventilation to perform reliably. Be sure not to block the ventilation area on the top or back (or both sides) of the receiver with another device. These areas should be: At least 6 inches (15 cm) from any obstruction. Do not install your receiver where direct sunlight or high frequency fluorescent lighting can shine directly into the remote sensor. This can cause your new receiver to malfunction. Before You Begin This manual covers the most common and standard connections to the receiver. Because of its versatility, you may decide to connect your devices differently. Video Connections The VR-5700/VR-5090 incorporates Kenwood's exclusive Universal Video HD, which converts between composite, S-Video and component video formats. This simplifies operation, and maintains the highest possible video quality while requiring only a single connection between the receiver and your TV. Video format conversion is performed according to the following chart: Video input signal type Appears at these video outputs Composite Video Composite S-Video Component Video S-Video Component Video Composite S-Video Component Video Component Video • Component video connections provide the best video quality; S-Video connections provide video quality that is superior to standard composite video connections. We recommend using the highest quality connection possible between the receiver and your TV. • Since component video inputs are not downconverted to S-Video or composite video, if you want to record components connected via component video inputs you must also connect that component's S-Video or composite video outputs to the receiver. The VR-5080 has three kinds of video input jacks for the Composite video, S-Video and Component video signals. The signals input at one of these three kinds of jacks can be output at the VIDEO REC OUT and MONITOR OUT jacks of the receiver only in the same signal format as they were input. (This receiver does not incorporate the facility for conversion between video signal formats.) • If all of your video devices and TV have S-Video jacks, we suggest that you use them exclusively, since it will provide superior video performance. • If only some of your video devices and TV have S-Video jacks, you can still use them for those devices and the TV. Use the composite jacks for your devices that don't have S-Video jacks. In this case you'll also have to connect the receiver's composite Video Monitor output to your TV for your non S-Video devices. • If your TV doesn't have S-Video devices, you can't use SVideo connections for any of your video devices. Use the composite jacks exclusively. • If your video devices and TV have component video jacks, we suggest that you use them exclusively, since it will provide superior S-video performance. • Each of the video source components connected to the 1 Composite video, S-Video and Component video inputs of the receiver should also be connected to the TV using the same kind of signal connection as it is connected to the receiver. • It is not possible to record the video from a video source component that is connected to the receiver using only the Component video connection. The source to be recorded should be connected using the Composite video or S-Video connection according to the signal(s) output to the recording component. • It is not possible to record the video from a video source component which is connected to the receiver using only the S-Video connection to a recording component equipped only with the Composite video input. In this case, both the video source and video recording components should be connected to the receiver using the Composite video connection. If you plan on using the VR-5700/VR-5090/VR-5080 in a DualZone application (see Chapter Four), you must use the composite video connections in addition to any component video and S-Video connections for all source components. Only video sources connected to the receiver with composite video connections can be viewed in the second zone.