Getting started
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Connection to a TV equipped with component jacks
You can enjoy high picture quality by connecting the unit's COMPONENT VIDEO OUT jacks to the COMPONENT VIDEO
IN jacks of your TV with the video cables.
• Connect "Y" to "Y", "P
B
" to "P
B
"(C
B
), "P
R
" to "P
R
"(C
R
) correctly.
The unit supports the Progressive scan system(480p) as well as the conventional Interlace scan system(480i).
If your television or monitor equipped with component jacks supports the progressive video input, you can enjoy a high
quality picture by making the Progressive scan mode active.
•
If your television equipped with component jacks does not support the progressive scan mode
Set the Scan mode selector to "480i".
•
If your television equipped with component jacks supports the progressive scan mode
Set the Scan mode selector to "480p".
•
If you want to select the scan mode between the interlace and progressive modes
(depending on the source condition, or when connecting more than one television etc.)
You can select the mode from the remote control unit. To do this, set the scan mode selector to "REMOTE".
(See "To make the Progressive scan mode selection active from the remote control unit" on page 8 for details about
how to select the scan mode from the remote control unit when the scan mode selector is set to "REMOTE".)
NOTES
• When the scan mode is set to the progressive mode, the PROGRESSIVE indicator on the front panel is lit. The color of the
indicator differs depending on the "PROGRESSIVE MODE" setting on the "PICTURE" preference display and the status of the unit
(see pages 8 and 49.)
• When connecting to a TV using the VIDEO or S-VIDEO jack, make sure that the PROGRESSIVE indicator on the front panel is not
lit. If it is lit, the VIDEO and S-VIDEO outputs do not feed the correct signals. To turn off the PROGRESSIVE indicator, set the scan
mode selector on the rear panel to "480i". Or, while setting the scan mode selector to "REMOTE", make the Progressive scan
mode inactive by following the procedure described on page 8.
• When the component video input jacks of the TV is of the BNC type, use an adapter to convert a pin jack to a BNC jack
(optional).
• Make "ANALOG DOWN MIX" in the "AUDIO" preferences to "STEREO" (see page 51).
• If your TV has a monaural audio input instead of stereo, you need to use an optional audio cable which converts stereo audio
output to monaural.
• To improve audio sound quality, connect the AUDIO OUT jacks to your separate audio equipment. (See the following pages.)
• If your TV has an AV COMPU LINK terminal, you can use the AV COMPU LINK function. See "AV COMPU LINK remote control
system" on page 58 for details.
About SCAN MODE
To display video on the television (monitor) screen, the conventional scanning method is called "Interlaced scan".
With this method, only half of the horizontal lines are displayed at a time. So two fields complete a single picture
(frame); i.e., the first field, containing all the odd-numbered lines, is displayed followed by the second field, containing
all the even-numbered lines.
On the other hand, the Progressive scan system scans all horizontal lines at a time, so you can double the number of
pictures compared with the interlaced scan, resulting flicker-free, high-density picture.
Depending on the material source format, DVD VIDEO discs can be classified into two types; film source and video
source (note that some DVD VIDEO discs contain both film source and video source). Film sources are recorded as 24-
frame-per-second information, while (NTSC) video sources are recorded as 30-frame-per-second (60-field-per-second
interlaced) information.
When the unit plays back a film source material, uninterlaced progressive output signals are created using the original
information. When a video source material is played back, the unit interleaves lines between the interlaced lines on
each to create the interpolated picture and outputs as the progressive signal.
AV COMPU LINK
Y
P
B
P
R
COMPONENT IN
VIDEO
AUDIO
RIGHT
LEFT
S-VIDEO
IN
VIDEO OUT
AUDIO OUT
DIGITAL OUT
VIDEO
RIGHT
S-VIDEO
COMPONENT
Y
P
B
P
R
PCM / STREAM
COAXIAL
OPTICAL
LEFT
480i
480p
REMOTE
The unit
Green
Red
White
Red
White
Red
TV
Green
Blue
Red
Component video cable (supplied)
Audio cable (not supplied)
Scan mode selector
Blue
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