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AVR 1650/AVR 165

Making Connections, continued

HDMI devices

If any of your source devices have HDMI connectors, using those connectors will provide
the best possible video and audio performance quality. Since the HDMI cable carries
both digital video and digital audio signals, you do not have to make any additional audio
connections for devices you connect via HDMI cables, although you can assign one of
the digital audio connectors to one of the HDMI inputs.

If you have a TV or other source device equipped with the HDMI Audio Return Channel
function, you can feed its sound to the AVR via the HDMI Monitor Out connector’s Audio
Return Channel, and it will not require additional audio connections to the AVR.

AVR

HDMI Connectors

HDMI-Equipped

Source Device

HDMI Cable
(not supplied)

To HDMI
Output

Component video devices

If your Blu-ray Disc or DVD player does not have an HDMI connector but does have a
component video connector, using the component video connector will provide superior
video performance. You will also need to make an audio connection from the player to
the AVR.

AVR DVD Component

Video Connectors

Component Video
Cable (not supplied)

To Component Video
Outputs

Component Video-Equipped

Blu-ray Disc or DVD Player

Composite video devices

You will need to make composite video connections from your source devices that do
not have HDMI or component video connectors. You will also need to connect the source
device’s analog audio outputs to the AVR’s corresponding analog audio connectors.

IMPORTANT: If you connected your Blu-ray Disc or DVD player to the AVR’s DVD
Component Video Input connectors, do not connect a source device to the AVR’s DVD
Composite Video Input connector.

AVR Component

Video Connectors

Composite Video
Cable (not supplied)

To Composite
Video Output

Composite Video-Equipped

Source Device

Optical digital audio devices

If your source devices have optical digital outputs, connect them to the AVR’s Optical
Digital Audio connectors. NOTE: Make only one type of digital connection (HDMI, optical
or coaxial) from each device.

Optical Digital Audio

Cable (not supplied)

To Optical Digital
Audio Output

Optical Digital-Equipped

Source Device

AVR Digital Audio

Connectors

Coaxial digital audio devices

If your source devices have coaxial digital outputs, connect them to the AVR’s Coaxial
Digital Audio connectors. NOTE: Make only one type of digital connection (HDMI, optical
or coaxial) from each device.

Coaxial Digital Audio

Cable (not supplied)

To Coaxial
Di Output

Coaxial Digital-Equipped

Source Device

AVR Digital Audio

Connectors

Analog audio devices

Make analog audio connections from your source devices that do not have HDMI or
digital audio connectors. If you’re connecting video sources to the DVD, Video 1 or Video
2 audio inputs, you must also connect the source device’s composite video output to the
corresponding composite video connector.

Stereo Audio Cable

(not supplied)

To Stereo Analog
Audio Output

Analog Source Device

AVR Analog Audio

Connectors

AVR 1650