5
AVR
Connections
If your TV does not have an HDMI connector:
Use a composite video cable (not
included) to connect the AVR’s Composite Monitor Out connector to your TV’s composite
video connector.
TV
Composite Video Cable
(not supplied)
AVR Composite
Monitor Out Connector
Note: The HDMI connection to your TV is preferred. If you use the composite video
connection to your TV, you will not be able to view the AVR’s on-screen menus and will
need to use the AVR’s front-panel display to set up the AVR.
Connect Your Audio and Video Source Devices
Source devices are components where a playback signal originates, e.g. a Blu-ray
Disc™ or DVD player; a cable, satellite or HDTV tuner; etc. Your AVR has several different
types of input connectors for your audio and video source devices: HDMI, composite
video, optical digital audio, coaxial digital audio and analog audio. The connectors are
not labeled for specific types of source devices; they are labeled numerically, so you can
connect your devices according to your individual system’s make-up.
Your AVR’s various source buttons have default assignments to different input connectors
(listed in the “Default Connector(s)” column of the table below). For ease of setup, you
should connect each source device to the connector where the corresponding default
source button is assigned (e.g., connect your Blu-ray Disc player to HDMI 2).
However, you can connect your source devices as you wish and re-assign any of the
input connections to any of the Source Buttons listed in the table according to where you
actually connect each of your source devices.
As you connect your various source devices, fill out the “Connected Device” column
in the table – it will make it easier for you to assign the various source buttons after
you have completed making all of the connections. (You will make any changes to the
source-button assignments and fill in the “Assigned Connector(s)” column later in the
setup process.)
Note: You cannot assign connectors to the Network, Radio , TV and USB source buttons.
Source Button
Default Connector(s)
Assigned Connector(s)
Connected Device
MHL
(AVR 1710/AVR 171/AVR 1610/AVR 161);
Server (AVR 1510/AVR 151)
HDMI 1
Disc
HDMI 2
Cable/Sat
HDMI 3
STB
HDMI 4
Game
HDMI 5
(AVR 1710/AVR 171/AVR 1610/AVR 161);
Composite 2/Analog 2 (AVR 1510/AVR 151)
Aux
Composite 1/Analog 1
Audio
None/Analog 2
Monitor Output Connector
Connected Device
HDMI Out 1
HDMI Out 2
(AVR 1710/AVR 171 only)
Composite Video Monitor Out
Source Buttons and Assigned Connectors