Kenwood Sovereign VR-5080 Connection And Setup Manual

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1Chapter One : Connecting Your DevicesConnectionsChapter One: Connecting Your DevicesWelcome to the Kenwood VR-5700/ VR-5090/VR-5080 Con-nection and Setup Guide. This chapter guides you throughconnecting your home entertainment devices to your newKenwood audio-video receiver.Once all your devices are connected, you can set up theRemote Control unit (see Chapter Two).Refer to the following pages for details on connecting thesedevices:Speakers page 4TV page 10VCR(s) page 14CD Player, Kenwood 200-Disc Changer page 16DVD Player page 18CD-R Recorder page 20MD Recorder page 22Tape Deck(s) page 22Laser Disc Player page 26Turntable page 30Camcorder/Second VCR page 31Antennas page 33All necessary cables should be provided with your homeentertainment device (not with your new receiver). If youdo not have the correct cables, you may purchase thesecables from any home entertainment store.To make coaxial digital connections, be sure to use a high-quality digital audio cable, not a standard audio cable.Do not plug in the receiver or any other device to AC poweruntil all connections have been made. Once all devices havebeen connected, you may plug them in and provide power.Important:Your new receiver requires adequate ventilation to performreliably. Be sure not to block the ventilation area on the topor 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 highfrequency fluorescent lighting can shine directly into theremote sensor. This can cause your new receiver to malfunc-tion.Before You BeginThis manual covers the most common and standard con-nections to the receiver. Because of its versatility, you maydecide to connect your devices differently.Video ConnectionsThe VR-5700/VR-5090 incorporates Kenwood's exclusiveUniversal Video HD, which converts between composite,S-Video and component video formats. This simplifies op-eration, and maintains the highest possible video qualitywhile requiring only a single connection between the re-ceiver and your TV. Video format conversion is performedaccording to the following chart:• Component video connections provide the best videoquality; S-Video connections provide video quality thatis superior to standard composite video connections.We recommend using the highest quality connectionpossible between the receiver and your TV.• Since component video inputs are not downconvertedto S-Video or composite video, if you want to recordcomponents connected via component video inputs youmust also connect that component's S-Video or com-posite video outputs to the receiver.The VR-5080 has three kinds of video input jacks for the Com-posite video, S-Video and Component video signals.The signals input at one of these three kinds of jacks can beoutput at the VIDEO REC OUT and MONITOR OUT jacksof the receiver only in the same signal format as they wereinput. (This receiver does not incorporate the facility forconversion 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 willprovide superior video performance.• If only some of your video devices and TV have S-Videojacks, you can still use them for those devices and theTV. Use the composite jacks for your devices that don’thave S-Video jacks. In this case you’ll also have to con-nect the receiver’s composite Video Monitor output toyour TV for your non S-Video devices.• If your TV doesn’t have S-Video devices, you can’t use S-Video connections for any of your video devices. Usethe composite jacks exclusively.• If your video devices and TV have component videojacks, we suggest that you use them exclusively, since itwill provide superior S-video performance.• Each of the video source components connected to theComposite video, S-Video and Component video inputsof the receiver should also be connected to the TV usingthe same kind of signal connection as it is connected tothe receiver.• It is not possible to record the video from a video sourcecomponent that is connected to the receiver using onlythe Component video connection. The source to be re-corded should be connected using the Composite videoor S-Video connection according to the signal(s) outputto the recording component.• It is not possible to record the video from a video sourcecomponent which is connected to the receiver using onlythe S-Video connection to a recording componentequipped only with the Composite video input. In thiscase, both the video source and video recording com-ponents should be connected to the receiver using theComposite video connection.Video input signal type Appears at these video outputsComposite Video CompositeS-VideoComponent VideoS-Video CompositeS-VideoComponent VideoComponent Video Component VideoIf you plan on using the VR-5700/VR-5090/VR-5080 in a Dual-Zone application (see Chapter Four), you must use the com-posite video connections in addition to any component videoand S-Video connections for all source components. Only videosources connected to the receiver with composite video con-nections can be viewed in the second zone.