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Monday, 7 November 2011

Everything About Home Theater Receivers

By Jen Wilson


A receiver is that big, heavy thing that you plug your speakers and other components into (like a DVD player, TV, CD player, Xbox, PlayStation, iPod, and etc.). Its the "brain" of the show, really. The idea of connecting all your components to home theater receivers is the concept of audio/video switching, allowing you to switch to different video sources (like TV, DVD, camcorder) on your TV and thus changing the audio source accordingly - all without touching anything but the receiver.

Clearly, the main purpose behind audio/video switching getting a receiver is always to drive audio to exterior sound system, like multichannel surround sound or stereo system system sound system.

Most products have a range of inputs around 8 sound system together with a subwoofer (more generally, 5.1, or five sound system together with a subwoofer), several video inputs, in addition to High-definition multimedia interface inputs. You are able to plug your Xbox 360 360, Plasma, and DVD player to the receiver and rehearse one remote to alter between all the various video sources (games, TV, DVD video) and possess your sound system generate surround-appear.

Let us begin with inputs and results. If you do not understand something, read car How-To as the majority of it will likely be described at length.

Keep in mind that a receiver is the hub of your entire home theater, so this How-To will actually guide you through the basics of connecting your complete home theater.

What exactly it's this 'stuff' around the rear of the receiver?

I am going to talk about nearly anything that you'd find on the rear of your receiver. The main one I am basing this informative guide from is really a Harman Kardon AVR-247 I am likely to begin with the very best left from the unit and work my way right, then I'll start in the left from the next row and so forth.

The initial three inputs are for antennas. An FM antenna cable would slide onto the initial jack while two speaker wires would connect towards the remaining slots for AM. Clearly, you don't need to plug your antennas in, however when you would really like AM/FM reception making use of your sound system, you will need to proceed and do that. They're standard connections, should you lose your antennas, go buy another for just about any handful of dollars.

You've most likely heard about composite video. Its a really fundamental video connection utilized by nearly all component (TV, DVD, VCR especially). Its common and it is cheap. As a result, its really low quality.

Composite uses an RCA cable for video (yellow) and two more RCA cables for audio (red and white, stereo). The problem is that a composite video cable combines luminance and chrominance in the same cable, reducing the quality of the picture. You lose a lot of sharpness, and the color begins to degrade from the original source. Its useful when you need the extra input or the device you're connecting only has composite video. Otherwise, use something else, like component video. Sounds similar; very different.




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