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Advanced Functions
Before you can access files located on other devices via the network, each device
must first give permission to share files with the
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The computer’s
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Check the instructions for the computer
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as the source,
the Network source.)
The screen will list by name all devices on the network that allow sharing. Use the Up/
Down and OK buttons to browse the content stored in the device’s media player librar
Scroll to the desired item and press the OK button to select it.
menu level (or to clear the menu from view from the top level),
button.
NOTE:
playback from the network connection,
information from the video file.
Advanced Functions
Much of the adjusting and configuration your A
little intervention required on your part.
system and your tastes.
adjustments available to you.
Audio Processing and Surround Sound
Audio signals can be encoded in a variety of formats that can affect not only the quality
of the sound but the number of speaker channels and the surround mode.
manually select a different surround mode,
Analog Audio Signals
Analog audio signals usually consist of two channels – left and right.
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process two-channel audio signals to produce multichannel surround sound,
when no surround sound has been encoded in the recording.
modes are the Dolby Pro Logic II,
modes.
Digital Audio Signals
Digital audio signals offer greater flexibility and capacity than analog signals, and
allow the encoding of discrete channel information directly into the signal.
improved sound quality and startling directionality,
transmitted discretely.
especially in the high frequencies.
Surround Modes
Surround-mode selection depends upon the format of the incoming audio signal as well
as your personal taste.
modes are available, there is usually a wide variety of modes available for a given
input.
indicates the types of incoming signals or digital bitstreams the mode may be used with.
Additional information about the Dolby and DTS modes is available on the companies’
Web sites:
When in doubt,
modes are available. Usually,
materials or the disc menu, are available only in Dolby Digital 2.0 (two-channel) or
PCM two-channel mode.
surround modes,
make sure your disc player’s audio output is set to the original bitstream rather than two-
channel PCM.
The channels included in a typical 5.1-channel recording are front left,
surround left,
as
Digital formats include Dolby Digital 2.0 (two channels only),
Digital Plus (7.1),
Master
48kHz,
discrete surround back-channel information in 6.1-channel and 7.1-channel recordings
into your system’s surround left and surround right channels.)
When the
of channels,
“3/2/.1”).
The first number indicates the number of front channels in the signal:
a monophonic recording (usually an older program that has been digitally remastered
or
effect).
“3”
The second number indicates whether any surround channels are present:
that no surround information is present.
present.
surround back left and right channel signals will be indicated by a “4,
AVR downmixes the surround back-channel information into the surround left and right
channels.)
The third number is used for the LFE channel:
that an LFE channel is present.
Dolby Digital 2.0 signals may include a Dolby Surround flag indicating DS-ON or DS-OFF
depending on whether the two-channel bitstream contains only stereo information or a
downmix of a multichannel program that can be decoded by the A
decoder
When a PCM signal is received,
48kHz,
When only two channels – left and right – are present,
used to decode the signal into multiple channels.
format than the native signal’s digital encoding, press the Surround Modes button to
display the Surround Modes menu (see Selecting a Surround Mode ,
The
Dolby Digital,
AVR defaults to the Logic 7 Movie mode.
the surround-mode category:
OK button to change the mode.
