David X
Stunt Coordinator
- Joined
- Dec 2, 2001
- Messages
- 102
Greg:
I looked at the online manual for the RX-V1000 just to be sure its the same as my RX-V995 and it is. These won't switch between s-video and composite video, so if you have composite in/out to the vcr, you will only be able to see any source from the receiver that uses a composite video input. Same going to the tv. If the source signal is s-video, the output will be s-video. If the source is composite, the output will be the composite video. Your receiver also has automatic priority signal selection, so if you run both s-video and composite video to the same input, it will automatically select the best signal (component, s-video, composite video, in that order.)
So, either replace the vcr with one that has s-video in/out or get a couple of those composite to s-video adaptors (with a small quality loss due to the adaptor, I'd imagine.)
My VCR does better video switching than my receiver does. Supposedly, it will even switch s-video with the thing off if you enable it in one of the menus. Overkill? Probably, but it could come in useful at some point if they ever start beaming hdtv via sat to Hawaii. For now, my big mitsu widescreen has plenty of inputs. I don't use my receiver for video switching. The vcr is also a mitsu, which makes controlling it from the tv (with a serial cable) much easier.
My wiring currently looks like this.
dvd component video out -> tv dvd component in
dvd audio digital coax out -> receiver dvd digital in
cd changer optical out -> receiver cd optical in
cd changer l+r audio -> receiver cd audio l+r in
cable coax -> cable box -> vcr ant in/out -> tv antenna A
vcr s-video + audio l+r out 1 -> tv s-video + audio l+r input 1
vcr audio l+r out 2 (driven in parallel) -> receiver vcr audio l+r in
tv control out (mini-din serial cable) -> vcr control in
If you have satelite, you probably want a vcr with more than one s-video + audio inputs, with switching, if you do it this way. Of course at that point, if everything is s-video, you can go back to switching via the receiver.
(I can't remember if I wired the analog dvd audio out to the receiver or not. I don't think I need them for the cd changer or the dvd player, since the receiver decodes the pcm stream directly.)
-David
PS: I also have a video cable run from the receiver monitor out to a spare input (input 2?) on the tv, in case I ever need the on-screen display from the receiver, but I never use it.
Also, there's lots of ways to skin this cat. I do it this way because it works best for my family and I have a tv with reasonable speakers for listening to crappy cable tv and normal vcr audio. (They have a one button solution for tv and vcr without needing something like a pronto.) Also, for regular tv, my personal preference is to listen to it via the tv speakers.
It took a long time to teach my wife how to watch and listen to a dvd, and she still doesn't understand that she needs to check the audio options on the dvd menus to make sure she's selecting the best possible audio track.
Even still, I sometimes come back from business trips to find that somebody changed the aspect ratio control on the dvd player. All they have to do is press the format button on the tv remote. My dvd players aspect control (buried in the dvd players setup menu) is just used to tell the dvd player that I have a widescreen tv. You set it once and forget it.
I looked at the online manual for the RX-V1000 just to be sure its the same as my RX-V995 and it is. These won't switch between s-video and composite video, so if you have composite in/out to the vcr, you will only be able to see any source from the receiver that uses a composite video input. Same going to the tv. If the source signal is s-video, the output will be s-video. If the source is composite, the output will be the composite video. Your receiver also has automatic priority signal selection, so if you run both s-video and composite video to the same input, it will automatically select the best signal (component, s-video, composite video, in that order.)
So, either replace the vcr with one that has s-video in/out or get a couple of those composite to s-video adaptors (with a small quality loss due to the adaptor, I'd imagine.)
My VCR does better video switching than my receiver does. Supposedly, it will even switch s-video with the thing off if you enable it in one of the menus. Overkill? Probably, but it could come in useful at some point if they ever start beaming hdtv via sat to Hawaii. For now, my big mitsu widescreen has plenty of inputs. I don't use my receiver for video switching. The vcr is also a mitsu, which makes controlling it from the tv (with a serial cable) much easier.
My wiring currently looks like this.
dvd component video out -> tv dvd component in
dvd audio digital coax out -> receiver dvd digital in
cd changer optical out -> receiver cd optical in
cd changer l+r audio -> receiver cd audio l+r in
cable coax -> cable box -> vcr ant in/out -> tv antenna A
vcr s-video + audio l+r out 1 -> tv s-video + audio l+r input 1
vcr audio l+r out 2 (driven in parallel) -> receiver vcr audio l+r in
tv control out (mini-din serial cable) -> vcr control in
If you have satelite, you probably want a vcr with more than one s-video + audio inputs, with switching, if you do it this way. Of course at that point, if everything is s-video, you can go back to switching via the receiver.
(I can't remember if I wired the analog dvd audio out to the receiver or not. I don't think I need them for the cd changer or the dvd player, since the receiver decodes the pcm stream directly.)
-David
PS: I also have a video cable run from the receiver monitor out to a spare input (input 2?) on the tv, in case I ever need the on-screen display from the receiver, but I never use it.
Also, there's lots of ways to skin this cat. I do it this way because it works best for my family and I have a tv with reasonable speakers for listening to crappy cable tv and normal vcr audio. (They have a one button solution for tv and vcr without needing something like a pronto.) Also, for regular tv, my personal preference is to listen to it via the tv speakers.
It took a long time to teach my wife how to watch and listen to a dvd, and she still doesn't understand that she needs to check the audio options on the dvd menus to make sure she's selecting the best possible audio track.
Even still, I sometimes come back from business trips to find that somebody changed the aspect ratio control on the dvd player. All they have to do is press the format button on the tv remote. My dvd players aspect control (buried in the dvd players setup menu) is just used to tell the dvd player that I have a widescreen tv. You set it once and forget it.
