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Laser Disc or Combination Laser Disc/DVD Player
The Cinema Rhapsody is preprogrammed to permit you to easily
connect a combination laser disc & DVD player. You will need to
make two audio connections in for this unit to play the following:
Dolby Digital Laser Discs, Pro Logic Laser Discs, DTS Laser Discs,
Dolby Digital DVDs, 2 Channel Dolby Digital DVDs, Stereo CDs,
and DTS CDs.
All connections should use a 75 Ohm coaxial cable. If none are
available, standard RCA video interconnects will work.
Connection 1 - Laser Disc Player’s PCM/AC-3 Digital Output - You
will need to connect the combi-players digital output that is marked
by both PCM and AC-3 to the Cinema Rhapsody’s #1 Digital Audio
Input (Orange RCA Connector). This input will pass audio for all
AC-3 playback from a laser disc.
Connection 2 - Laser Disc Player’s Video Output - You will need to
connect the laser disc player’s video output (Composite Video) to
the Cinema Rhapsody’s #1 Video Input.
Connection 3 (Optional) - Laser Disc Player’s S-Video Output - You
may also choose to connect the S-Video (Super Video) output of
the laser disc player to the Cinema Rhapsody S-Video #1 input.
This will require a special super video cable. Please note, if your
projector or TV does not have a super video input, you will not need
to make this connection as the Cinema Rhapsody does not cross
convert S-Video to Composite Video.
The diagram to the right details all of these connections. If your
combi-player does not have an RCA style digital audio output for
PCM/AC-3, it may have an optical digital audio output for PCM/AC-
3 playback. In this case you will need to alter the
LASER/DVD 1
input. The steps to change the input from a digital to an optical input
is discussed at the bottom of the following page.
If your laser disc player does not have a built-in AC-3 RF demodula-
tor, then you will need to add one to the system in order to playback
laser discs in AC-3. ADA provides the RFD-1 AC-3 RF Demodulator
for this purpose. Please contact your Authorized ADA Dealer for
more information regarding the RFD-1.
Please note, that if you are using an external RF demodulator for
playpack of AC-3 laserdiscs, the Cinema Rhapsody’s Auto Mode
function will not automatically select the input connected to the RF
Demodulator. You will need to create an input for the RF
demodulator’s output and manually select this input when viewing
AC-3 encoded laser discs.
The “Out Of The Box” setup
presumes that your
combination laser disc/DVD
player has the following
outputs:
Digital Audio PCM/AC-3 For
Both DVD and Laser Disc
Playback
Coax (RCA) Type Output
Video Output
(Composite RCA Type)
Your combi-player may also
include a super video output.
Please note, the Cinema
Rhapsody does not cross mix
video signals. As such, if you
wish to use a component’s S-
Video output, you will need to
connect an S-Video cable
from the Cinema Rhapsody to
the TV or Projector.
Use the diagram on the
following page to make your
combi-player connections.
ADA suggests using a quality
75
Ω
Coaxial cable. In the
event that none are available,
you can use standard RCA
interconnects.
If your combi-player does not
have an RCA Type Digital
Audio PCM/AC-3 Coax output
but rather has only an Optical
Digital PCM/AC-3 output, you
will need to change the
programming for this input.
These steps are discussed at
the bottom of the following
page.