Pioneer VSX-917V-S User manual

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Music Direct , created by Neur al Audio Corporation, all ows high definition surr ound music to be broadcast ov er the
Int ernet via home systems with Neural-TH X Surround. When Neural-T HX Surr ound mode is sel ected, music can be
played back in multi-channel surr ound sound. Copyr ight pro tected WM A files can be pl ayed back on a PC operating
sys tem installed with either: Microsoft Windows XP Ser vice Pack 2 with Windows Media Connect; or Microsoft Win-
dows Vista or Microsof t Window s XP Service Pack with Windows Me dia®Player 11. Music recognition technol ogy and
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CS-3070CS-5070
CP-F150 miniCP-F150S-H610VS-H710V
CS-7070
S-H240V-QL/ WS-H320V-QL / WS-H520V-QL / W
seeing andhearing like never before
Stereo Speakers
3-way Stereo Speaker set with
woofers, midranges and tweeters.
3-way Stereo Speaker set with
woofers, midranges and tweeters.
3-way Stereo Speaker set with
woofers, midranges and tweeters.
2-way Stereo Speaker set.
Available in light or dark wood finish.
2-way Stereo Speaker set.
Available in light or dark wood finish.
3.5-way Stereo Speaker set
with woofers, tweeters and
super tweeters. Grilles
included: black, burgundy
and white.
2-way Stereo Speaker set Aluminium design Speaker
stand
Aluminium design Speaker
stand
3-way Stereo Speaker set.
Available in light or dark wood finish.
Blu-ray Disc Player
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HDD/DVD Recorders
Page 26
DVD Player
Page 34
K URO fl a t sc re en T Vs
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Let your eyes explore new worlds and your ears delve into completely new soundscapes.
Discover a universe where the senses melt into one – a place where you can see with
your ears and hear with your entire body. Where colours can be felt and sounds t asted.
Where everything comes together to create a sensor y sensation, different from any thing
you have experienced before.
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AV Receivers
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Audio Components
Page 50
Speakers
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Home Cinema Systems
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One glance is all it takes.
LX Line.
The LX line is the pinnacle of everything we do. It represents nothing but our best.
Our best thinking. Our best technology. Our best design. LX is about giving you one, high-grade entertainment
solution for your home. Whether it’s a KURO flat screen TV, Blu-ray disc player, DVD player or recorder, receiver,
speaker, or home cinema system, you know that it is made with an almost fanatical at tention to detail, an
uncompr omising commitment to excellence and only the ver y highest quality components and material s. Every LX
product is built to function perfectly together – both aesthetically and technologically: truly creating something
even greater than the sum of its parts. The LX line is the truest expression of what we mean when we say seeing
and hearing like ne ver before.
KURO flat screen TV with LX01 HDD/DVD Recorder Home Cinema System
Blu-ray Disc Player
Receivers
DVD Player
HDD/DVD
Recorders
KURO flat screen
TV Speakers

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A picture says a thousand
words. But just one word
describes the best picture.
When it comes to television black is the can vas. Black is the f oundation. Black is the backdrop t hat make s
ever y t hing else possible. The deepest black levels produce the purest colours and the sharpest details. Achieving the
blackest blacks imaginable and building a screen that delivered the absolute best picture quality in the world was
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the inspiration and driving force behind our newest flat scr een T V. We’ve called it KURO, which means black in
Japanese. KURO gives you the ability to see literally every shade between bl ack and white, the most vivid and
flawl ess colours. Al l owing you to see and hear like never befor e.
KURO flat screen TVs.
colour,
Beyond high definition.
The highest resolution currently
avail able is 1080p. The LX models
and the PDP-5000EX can display
TrueHD video with a progressive
resolution of 1,920 x 1,080. This
makes them the ideal par tner
for high - r esolution HD sources
like Blu-ray.
Access all areas. All the time.
Every KURO comes equipped with a
digital (DVB-T) tuner, giving you
the fastest, simplest access
to a world of digit al T V channels,
digital radio stations and, via the
Conditional Access Module, also
a variet y of pay-per-view offerings.
Just plug in and play.
The Home Gallery function lets you
load up to 8-megapixel JPEG images
from most memor y stick s to the
flat screen TV for instant viewing.
You can al so use the USB 2.0
interface to connect a digital camera
directly to your KURO.
Movies are coming home. With all the
magic of the original.
HD media such as Blu-ray let you watch
movies in original cinema quality – with
24 frames a second. KURO flat screen TVs
guarantee precise playback as the
director intended.
H O M E
G A L L E R Y
U S B 2 . 0
Brilliant pictures deserve stunning sound.
Complementing the KURO flat screen TVs is a range of high-end speakers finished in the exquisite
LX design. You can choose from two side speaker s which can be adapted in height , a centre
speaker and a subwoofer. The side and centre speakers can either be mounted on the wall or
positione d on the floor using dedicated speaker stands . Just combine t he individual
components in any configuration to create a speaker set-up that suits your particular requirements.
See everything. Hear everythi
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True beauty is flawless:
every detail, every shade, every
every nuance.

KURO
For deep es t bl ack
KURO
For perf ect image detail
KURO
For absolute
colour accur acy
KURO
For ma ximum contrast
At the heart o f the KUR O flat screen T Vs is our evol utionary Ultr a Black Panel wit h its Improved Cr ystal Emissi ve
La yer. As w el l as gu arant ee ing t he mo st i ntens e dis pl ay of b la ck t one s, i t off er s dy na mic co lo ur r epr od uct ion .
Even t he darke st ar eas of t he pic tur e rem ain vibrant , aut hen tic an d pre cisel y cont our ed. Smoot h gradation ste ps
are a ccom panie d by col our s tha t rem ain lu sh and c risp ly del inea ted e ven in d ark sc ene s.
The n ew high -per for mance panel m akes i t poss ible t o displ ay the deepe st bl ack to nes. I t als o deli ver s a previously
unhe ard -of c ontr ast ra tio of 2 0,000:1. Th e pane l’s spe cial De ep Waf fle Ri b stru ctur e ensure s tha t each
individua l pla sma ce ll is supre mely e ncap sul ate d on all s ides so that emit ted l ight c anno t lea k into neighb ouri ng
cel ls an d dispe rse t heir b righ tness. T his creates an ima ge that re mains c lear and ric h in con tra st at all tim es.
The n ew Direct C olour Filter 3+ m akes sure t hat e ven in brigh tly l it rooms or ar eas w her e ligh t fal ls dir ectly on to
the s cre en, t he pict ure a nd per cei ved bl ack l evels r emain unaf fected by ambient lig ht re flections. Eve n the d ark est
imag e are as are a lways disp lay ed in finely st ruc tur ed de tail w ith no s mear ing or di sto rti on. Thank s to the filt er,
col our s ar e re pro duced with sig nifi can tly g rea te r dep th ov er all , wh ile t he re produc tio n of re ds in p ar ticu lar is
signi fican tly en hanc ed.
A comple te New Vide o Proc essi ng sy ste m has been de vel oped to meet the superb cap abili ties o f the n ew panel,
ena bling i t to r epro duce e xce ptio nally cle ar and sharp , nois e-fr ee im ages e ver y time .
Sea mle ss int egr atio n of Int elligent P ictu re An alys is te chnologies, even the smal le st de tail s and fin est n uanc es
are h ighli ghted in th e best p ossible r esol ut ion.
I M P R O V E D
C R Y S T A L
EM I S S I V E L AYER
IN TEL LIGE NT
PI C T U R E
AN A LY S I S
NEW V IDE O
PRO CESS ING
D I R E C T
C O L O U R
F I LT E R 3+
KURO
For deep es t bl ack
KURO
For per f ect image de tail
KURO
For a bsolute
col our a ccur a cy
KURO
For m a ximum contr a st
At the heart o f the KUR O flat screen T Vs is our evol utionary Ultr a Black Panel wit h its Improved C rystal Emissiv e
La yer. As w el l as gu arant ee ing t he mo st i ntens e dis pl ay of b la ck t one s, i t off er s dy na mic co lo ur r epr od uct ion .
Even t he darke st ar eas of t he pic tur e rem ain vibrant , aut hen tic an d pre cisel y cont our ed. Smoot h gradation ste ps
are a ccom panie d by col our s tha t rem ain lu sh and c risp ly del inea ted e ven in d ark sc ene s.
The n ew high -per for mance panel m akes i t poss ible t o displ ay the deepe st bl ack to nes. I t als o deli ver s a previously
unhe ard -of c ontr ast ra tio of 2 0,000:1. Th e pane l’s spe cial De ep Waf fle Ri b stru ctur e ensure s tha t each
individua l pla sma ce ll is supre mely e ncap sul ate d on all s ides so that emit ted l ight c anno t lea k into neighb ouri ng
cel ls an d dispe rse t heir b righ tness. T his creates an ima ge that re mains c lear and ric h in con tra st at all tim es.
The n ew Direct C olour Filter 3+ m akes sure t hat e ven in brigh tly l it rooms or ar eas w her e ligh t fal ls dir ectly on to
the s cre en, t he pict ure a nd per cei ved bl ack l evels r emain unaf fected by ambient lig ht re flections. Eve n the d ark est
imag e are as are a lways disp lay ed in finely st ruc tur ed de tail w ith no smear ing or di sto rti on. Thank s to the filt er,
col our s ar e re pro duced with sig nifi can tly g rea te r dep th ov er all , wh ile t he re produc tio n of re ds in p ar ticu lar is
signi fican tly en hanc ed.
A comple te New Vide o Proc essi ng sy ste m has been de vel oped to meet the superb cap abili ties o f the n ew panel,
ena bling i t to r epro duce e xce ptio nally cle ar and sharp , nois e-fr ee im ages e ver y time .
Sea mle ss int egr atio n of Int elligent P ictu re An alys is te chnologies, even the smal le st de tail s and fin est n uanc es
are h ighli ghted in th e best p ossible r esol ut ion.
I M P R O V E D
C R Y S T A L
EM I S S I V E L AYER
IN TEL LIGE NT
PI C T U R E
AN A LY S I S
NEW V IDE O
PRO CESS ING
D I R E C T
C O L O U R
F I LT E R 3+