HS-2000 Operating Instructions NHS-2000 Home Entertainment Solution
Welcome Welcome Congratulations on your purchase of the Sony NHS-2000 Home Entertainment Solution. It will extend superb audio and video entertainment throughout your home. • You can throw a party and have the same music playing in as many as seven rooms. • You can enjoy up to six audio/video sources at one time. - Your family members can enjoy two different DVDs simultaneously, thanks to the inclusion of both a 400-disc DVD/CD changer and a 5-disc DVD/CD changer.
The Main System The NHS-2000 is a six-zone system that can be configured for as few as three and as many as seven rooms (one Main Room and up to six Remote Rooms). Entertainment comes from a central rack of equipment near the Main Room.
Parts and Controls Main Room Radio Frequency (RF) Remote Commander® Unit Muting. Press once to mute the audio temporarily, as during a telephone conversation. Press again to restore the audio. MUTING SYSTEM OFF System Off. Press to shut down the system. Cursor/Enter. Push the control in the desired direction to navigate onscreen menus. Press down on the control to ENTER selections. VOLUME Volume +/-. Press to adjust the volume. RS-232C Connector. For installer use only; uses dedicated RS-232C cable.
Parts and Controls Remote Room Wall Panel Infared Sensor. Receives infrared signals from the supplied infrared (IR) Remote Commander® units. Select buttons. These eight buttons select menu items presented on the LCD display. For example, you can select sources from a menu of sources, CDs from a menu of CD titles, and DVDs from a menu of DVD titles, etc. Each select button has a Light Emitting Diode (LED) that indicates the following for source selection: • Green: Source selected for this Room.
The Parts Main and System Controls Remote Room Infrared (IR) Remote Commander® Unit * These buttons only control a Sony television. Buttons marked in gray control the source components. Sleep button. Activates the keypad's Sleep function, which automatically turns off the keypad after a specified duration. Each time you press the button, the time changes as shown: 2:00 _ 1:30 _ 1:00 _ 0:30 _ OFF. Numeral buttons. Press to select a number, such as a track, disc or chapter number. Select button.
Using the RF Remote Commander Unit In addition to fixed, single-purpose buttons, your Radio Frequency (RF) Remote Commander unit incorporates fully programmed and customized menus that appear on the Liquid Crystal Display (LCD). This makes operation easier, by presenting you with "virtual" buttons that are larger, more widely spaced and properly labeled for the functions you're controlling at any given time.
Using the RF Remote Commander Unit Choosing a source. Touch one of the virtual buttons for Source on the left-hand side of the screen. 1. DVD MEGA is short for the DVD MegaStorage® 400-disc changer integrated into your system. It can play any mix of 400 DVDs, CDs and Super Audio CDs. 2. CD MEGA refers to the CD MegaStorage 400-disc changer integrated into your system. 3. TUNER is your choice for AM or FM stations. 4. VCR is for using the VHS videocassette recorder. 5.
Using the RF Remote Commander Unit Turning the system off. 1. Press the SYSTEM OFF "hard" button RF Remote Commander unit. The SYSTEM OFF menu will appear in the LCD screen. 2. To turn the system off just in your room only, touch the virtual button for THIS ZONE OFF. 3. To turn the entire system off, touch the virtual button for ALL ZONE OFF. 4. To turn the main room television on or off, touch the virtual button for TV POWER. 5.
Using the RF Remote Commander Unit DVD Mega Page 1 ...continued 5. GUIDE button. Activates the DVD changer television screen menu. NOTE: Even though they may appear on the television screen, you cannot control such DVD changer commands as PROGRAM, SHUFFLE, REPEAT and A-B REPEAT. 6. PAUSE button. Temporarily halts DVD playback. Press again to resume playback. 7. MENU button. Activates the DVD title's top menu. 8. PREVIOUS button. Goes to the previous DVD chapter or CD track. 9. REVERSE SCAN button.
Using the RF Remote Commander Unit DVD Mega Page 3 1. WIDE MODE button. Cycles the main room television among three different widescreen modes: Full, Zoom, Wide Zoom and then back to Full. 2. PAGE BACK button. Takes you to control page 2 of 3. 3. PAGE FORWARD button. Takes you to control page 1 of 3. 4. DISPLAY button. Activates the DVD player on-screen displays for information such as chapter number, elapsed time and more. 5. EXIT button. Exits on-screen Guide, Menu and Display modes. 6. FOLDER button.
Using the RF Remote Commander Unit ® CD Mega Page 2 1. TV POWER button. Cycles the Main Room television on and off. 2. PAGE BACK button. Takes you to control page 1 of 2. 3. PAGE FORWARD button. Takes you to control page 1 of 2. 4. CURRENT DISC TITLE display. Shows you the CD changer slot number and the title of the current disc. NOTE: Before a Sony MegaStorage® changer can access a disc by name, the changer must first read the disc's Table of Contents.
Using the RF Remote Commander Unit Controlling the VCR 1. WIDE MODE button. Cycles the main room television among three different widescreen modes: Full, Zoom, Wide Zoom and then back to Full. 2. SP/EP button. Selects Standard Play (SP) or Extended Play (EP) recording speeds. 3. PAUSE button. Temporarily halts VHS playback. Press again to resume playback. 4. MENU button. Activates the VCR's television screen menu. 5. REWIND button. Moves quickly back through the tape. 6. PLAY button.
Using the RF Remote Commander Unit ® 5-disc DVD Page 2 1. WIDE MODE button. Cycles the main room television among three different widescreen modes: Full, Zoom, Wide Zoom and then back to Full. 2. PAGE BACK button. Takes you to control page 1 of 2. 3. PAGE FORWARD button. Takes you to control page 1 of 2. 4. TIME/TEXT button. Selects the on-screen display of elapsed time and text. 5. DISC + button. Selects the next disc for playback. 6. NUMERAL buttons. Select discs directly by number.
Using the RF Remote Commander Unit Cable/Sat Page 2 1. WIDE MODE button. Cycles the main room television among three different widescreen modes: Full, Zoom, Wide Zoom and then back to Full. 2. PAGE BACK button. Takes you to control page 1 of 2. 3. PAGE FORWARD button. Takes you to control page 1 of 2. 4. CABLE/SAT POWER button. Turns on and off your set-top box. 5. NUMERAL buttons. Select channels directly by number. A. For one- or two-digit channels, touch the numeral buttons and touch the ENTER button.
Using the In-Wall Keypad Using the In-Wall Keypad Your system is configured by your installer for two to six Remote Rooms. Each Remote Room constitutes a separate "zone" with its own selection of entertainment. Each Remote Room is supplied with an In-Wall Keypad and a handheld infrared Remote Commander® unit. IR sensor Receives IR signals from the IR Remote Control for Keypad (supplied).
Using the In-Wall Keypad IMPORTANT NOTICE: If your system distributes the video output from a single, centralized Cable TV, Satellite TV or High Definition TV set-top box, your remote room keypad is LIMITED to a SINGLE Cable, Satellite or High Definition TV channel selected in the main room set-top box. To get independent channel selection in every room, your installer must distribute the incoming Cable, Satellite or High Definition TV signal to set-top boxes in every room.
Using the In-Wall Keypad If you want to... Use the In-Wall Keypad and... Adjust the volume. 1. Adjust the volume with the VOLUME +/- buttons. 2. As you adjust the volume, a bar graph of your volume setting will appear in the Display Window. A number to the right of the bar graph shows the relative volume setting. The higher the number, the louder the setting. 3. To block the audio portion of the program temporarily in the room, press the MUTING button.
Using the In-Wall Keypad If you want to... Use the In-Wall Keypad and... Control playback. 1. PAUSE button. Temporarily halts playback on the selected component. Press again to resume playback. After you change the playback mode, the Display Window screen changes for a few seconds to confirm your choice as well as the DVD Mega or CD Mega disc number and disc title. 2. NEXT button. Advances to the next track, chapter, title or preset station. 3. PREVIOUS button.
Using the In-Wall Keypad If you want to... Use the In-Wall Keypad and... Turn the Remote Room off. 1. Press the POWER button. 2. If you've been watching a video source, turn off the room television. Lock a source. In your Sony system, controls for the central entertainment sources are located throughout your home. This creates the possibility that users in the home theater room, for example, could accidentally interrupt the viewing of a DVD in a bedroom.
Using the IR Remote Commander ® Unit Using the IR Remote Commander® unit Your system is configured by your installer for two to six Remote Rooms. Each Remote Room constitutes a separate "zone" in the system and is supplied with a handheld infrared Remote Commander® unit, which can operate the in-wall keypad from across the room.
Using the IR Remote Commander ® Unit If you want to... Pick up the IR Remote Commander ® unit and. . . Select a source. 1. When you turn the system on, a list of five or six available entertainment sources will appear in the In-Wall Keypad Liquid Crystal Display. A. DVD MEGA refers to DVD MegaStorage® 400-disc DVD/CD/Super Audio CD changer integrated into your system. B. CD MEGA is short for the CD MegaStorage 400-disc changer integrated into your system. C. TUNER is your choice for AM or FM stations.
Using the IR Remote Commander ® Unit If you want to... Pick up the IR Remote Commander ® unit and. . . Control playback. 1. PLAY button. Activates playback on the selected source. 2. PAUSE button. Temporarily halts playback on the selected component. Press again to resume playback. 3. STOP button. Stops playback on the selected source. 4. PREVIOUS button. Returns to the previous track, chapter, title or preset radio station. 5. NEXT button.
Using the IR Remote Commander ® Unit If you want to... Pick up the IR Remote Commander ® unit and. . . Navigate source component menus on your television screen. 1. Press the TOP MENU/GUIDE button to use your television screen to display the top menu of a source component, such as a DVD player. 2. Press the MENU button to use your television screen to display the menu of a source component, such as a DVD player. 3.
Using the IR Remote Commander ® Unit If you want to... Pick up the IR Remote Commander ® unit and. . . Operate a remote room television. 1. To turn a Sony television in the room on and off, press the TV POWER button. 2. To change channels on a Sony television in the room, press the TV CHANNEL +/- buttons. 3. Press the NUMERAL buttons to select a TV channel number. 4. Press the ENTER button to enter the numbers you've pressed on the numeric keypad. 5.
Using the IR Remote Commander ® Unit If you want to... Pick up the IR Remote Commander ® unit and. . . Lock a source In your Sony system, controls for the central entertainment sources are located throughout your home. This creates the possibility that users in the home theater room, for example, could accidentally interrupt the viewing of a DVD in a bedroom. You can prevent this by "locking" the source you're enjoying. 1.
Troubleshooting Tips Troubleshooting If you want to... Possible Remedies No sound in Main Room • Make sure the muting is not engaged. • If playing a CD, make sure that a disc is loaded. • Try pressing the Source Select button for the desired source again, to reset the correct inputs and power up the correct components. No sound in additional rooms • Make sure the muting is not engaged. No picture and no sound • Try another TV station. It may be a station issue.
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