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Connecting and Setting Up Your New Kenwood Audio-Video Receiver
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Connecting and Setting Up Your New Kenwood Audio-Video Receiver Welcome to the Connection and Setup Guide for your new Kenwood audio-video receiver. The VR-5900 offers 3 kinds of 5.1-channel digital surround sound decoding: • Dolby Digital, for the hundreds of currently available Dolby Digital DVDs and LaserDiscs. • DTS, a well-established multichannel format in movie theaters, is available for home theater on LaserDisc and DVD. • MPEG Multichannel, a well-established multichannel format in movie theaters, is available for home theater on LaserDisc and DVD. The VR-5900 also offers 2 kinds of 6.1-channel digital surround sound decoding: • THX Surround EX technology reproduces a surround back channel from software which has been specially encoded with Surround EX. • DTS-ES also creates a 6.1-channel surround environment by adding the surround back signal. The VR-5900 can handle both DTS-ES Discrete 6.1 featuring recording of all channels in the digital discrete format and DTS-ES Matrix 6.1 featuring matrix encoding. In addition, the VR-5900 offers the following surround features. • DTS-NEO:6: This converts 2-channel signals into 6.1channel signals by means of a high-accuracy digital matrix decoder. • Dolby Pro Logic II: This advanced version of Dolby Pro Logic features improved audio quality and a dedicated music mode that reproduces conventional 2-channel music in 5.1-channel surround sound. • THX Mode: Several technologies developed by Lucasfilm® that compensate for playing a film soundtrack in a small room (such as in a home), rather than in a large theater (for which it was originally mixed). The THX Mode compensates for overly bright-sounding soundtracks, creates a more spacious surround sound environment and smooths sound movement from speaker to speaker. 32-Bit DRIVE III: Exclusive Kenwood technology that reproduces digital signals with ultra high resolution. Incorporating a high-performance DSP, 32-Bit DRIVE III significantly reduces digital distortion to reproduce stereo audio with extreme faithfulness to the original signal. HDCD®: This is a new format of high-resolution recording. The VR-5900 is capable of reproducing CDs recorded in the HDCD format with high resolution and wide dynamic range. Use the VR-5900 to connect all your current audio and video components-the VR-5900 has a variety of connection jacks so you can customize your entertainment setup. It also includes Kenwood's remarkable PowerTouch III LCD remote-a graphical user interface without having to use your TV! Other advanced features include 6 S-Video inputs and optical and coaxial digital outputs for digital dubbing to MiniDisc or CD-R. Manufactured under license from Dolby Laboratories. "Dolby", "Pro Logic", "Surround EX " and the double-D symbol are trademarks of Dolby Laboratories. Confidential unpublished works. © 1992-1997 Dolby Laboratories. All rights reserved. Manufactured under license from Digital Theater Systems, iii Inc. US Pat. No. 5,451,942, 5,956,674, 5,974,380, 5,978,762 and other world-wide patents issued and pending. "DTS", "DTS-ES Extended Surround" and "Neo:6" are trademarks of Digital Theater Systems, Inc. © 1996, 2000 Digital Theater Systems, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Lucasfilm and THX are registered trademarks of Lucasfilm Ltd. ©Lucasfilm Ltd. & TM. All rights reserved. Surround EX is a jointly developed technology of THX and Dolby Laboratories Inc. and is a trademark of Dolby. Used under authorization.