Kenwood VR-5080 - Manual (Page 3)

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Welcome to the Connection and Setup Guide for your new
Kenwood audio-video receiver. This manual covers three
models.
The VR-5700/VR-5090/VR-5080 offers 3 kinds of 5.1-chan-
nel digital surround sound decoding:
• Dolby Digital, for the hundreds of currently available
Dolby Digital DVDs and LaserDiscs.
• DTS, a well-established multichannel format in movie
theaters, is available for home theater on LaserDisc and
DVD.
• MPEG Multichannel, a well-established multichannel
format in movie theaters, is available for home theater
on LaserDisc and DVD.
The VR-5700/VR-5090/VR-5080 also offers 2 kinds of 6.1-
channel digital surround sound decoding:
• THX Surround EX technology reproduces a surround
back channel from software which has been specially
encoded with Surround EX.
• DTS-ES also creates a 6.1-channel surround environment
by adding the surround back signal. The VR-5700/VR-
5090/VR-5080 can handle both DTS-ES Discrete 6.1 fea-
turing recording of all channels in the digital discrete
format and DTS-ES Matrix 6.1 featuring matrix encod-
ing.
In addition, the VR-5700/VR-5090/VR-5080 offers the fol-
lowing surround features.
• DTS-NEO:6: This converts 2-channel signals into 6.1-
channel signals by means of a high-accuracy digital
matrix decoder.
• Dolby Pro Logic II: This advanced version of Dolby Pro
Logic features improved audio quality and a dedicated
music mode that reproduces conventional 2-channel
music in 5.1-channel surround sound.
Connecting and Setting Up Your New Kenwood Audio-Video Receiver
• THX Mode: Several technologies developed by
Lucasfilm® that compensate for playing a film
soundtrack in a small room (such as in a home), rather
than in a large theater (for which it was originally mixed).
The THX Mode compensates for overly bright-sounding
soundtracks, creates a more spacious surround sound
environment and smooths sound movement from
speaker to speaker.
The VR-5700 is a receiver based on the THX Ultra stan-
dard and the VR-5090 and VR-5080 are receivers based
on the THX Select standard. All of these models are cer-
tified by Lucasfilm.
32-Bit DRIVE III: Exclusive Kenwood technology that repro-
duces digital signals with ultra high resolution. Incorporat-
ing a high-performance DSP, 32-Bit DRIVE III significantly
reduces digital distortion to reproduce stereo audio with
extreme faithfulness to the original signal.
HDCD®: This is a new format of high-resolution recording.
The VR-5700/VR-5090/VR-5080 is capable of reproducing
CDs recorded in the HDCD format with high resolution
and wide dynamic range.
Use it to connect all your current audio and video com-
ponents—the VR-5700/VR-5090/VR-5080 has a variety of
connection jacks so you can customize your entertainment
setup.
It also includes Kenwood’s remarkable LCD Remote Con-
trol unit.
Manufactured under license from Digital Theater Systems,
Inc. US Pat. No. 5,451,942, 5,956,674, 5,974,380, 5,978,762
and other world-wide patents issued and pending. “DTS”,
“DTS-ES Extended Surround” and “Neo:6” are trademarks
of Digital Theater Systems, Inc. © 1996, 2000 Digital The-
ater Systems, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Manufactured under license from Dolby Laboratories.
"Dolby", "Pro Logic", "Surround EX " and the double-D sym-
bol are trademarks of Dolby Laboratories. Confidential un-
published works. © 1992-1997 Dolby Laboratories. All rights
reserved.
Lucasfilm and THX are registered trademarks of Lucasfilm
Ltd.
©Lucasfilm Ltd. & TM. All rights reserved. Surround EX is a
jointly developed technology of THX and Dolby Laborato-
ries Inc. and is a trademark of Dolby. Used under authori-
zation.