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02 5 minute guide Chapter 2: 5 minute guide 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 63 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 8 En DIGITAL OUT Coaxial cable DVD player VIDEO OUT S IN 2 IN 1 OUT R/ TAPE/MD) (TV/SAT) OUT IN 3 (DVD/ LD) REC TV/ SAT IN IN 4 (CD) DVD/ LD DIGITAL AM LOOP MONITOR OUT IN 2 IN 1 (CD-R/ TAPE/MD) (TV/SAT) CD IN ASSIGNABLE 14 PLAY IN CD-R/ TAPE/MD OUT REC OUT R OUT SUBW. R ANTENNA IN OUT CONTROL L PRE OUT CEN- TER FRONT L MULTI-ROOM & SOURCE MONITOR OUT MONITOR OUT VIDEO1 IN PLAY IN DVR / VCR SURROUND VIDEO1 IN R L SUR- ROUND BACK IN L R (Single) DVR / VCR IN 3 (DVD/ LD) IN 4 OUT REC TV/ SAT IN SUBW. R CENTER FRONT L OUT TV/ SAT IN (CD) DIGITAL DVD/ LD IN R R L AUDIO MULTI CH IN SURROUND L DVD/ VCR LD IN VIDEO S - VIDEO OUTVIDEO Y 12V PB TRIGGER (DC OUT12V/ MULTI-ROOM & SOURCE 100mA MAX) PR PRE OUT Y CEN- MULTITERROOM & SOURCE MONITOR OUT PB IN 1 IN IR OUT SPEAKERS A R MFORONNTITOL R CENTER PR FRONT OUT Y PB IN 2 SUR- PR ROUND ASSIGNABLE COMPONENT VIDEO 12 VIDEO1 IN R SURROUND L AC OUTLET AC 120 V 60Hz SWITCHED 100W (0 . 8A) MAX SURROUND BACK / B R SELECTABLE L (Single) SELECTABLE FRONT L TV/ SAT IN SURROUND L DVD/ LD IN VIDEO S - VIDEO VIDEO Video cord