User's Manual
I
n addition to providing delaying adjustments for each
i
ndividual speaker position, the AVR 645 allows you to
adjust the delay for the combined output of all speak-
ers as a group. This feature is called A/V Sync Delay;
it allows you to compensate for delays to the video
i
mage that may be caused by the processing in prod-
ucts such as digital video displays, video scalers, digital
cable or satellite systems, or personal video recorders.
With proper adjustment of the setting for A/V Sync
D
elay, you can eliminate the loss of lip sync that may
b
e caused by digital video applications.
To view or change the current delay settings, make
sure the
EZSET/EQ MAIN menu (Figure 12)
is on the screen. Press the
⁄
/
¤
Navigation
Buttons
D
©
to move the cursor to DELAY
ADJUST
and then press the OK/Enter Button
E on the TC 30 or the Set Button
œ
on the
ZR 10. The
DELAY ADJUST menu (Figure
29) will appear on the screen.
Figure 29
Once the DELAY ADJUST menu is on your
screen, note that the default for distance settings is in
feet. If your measurements are in feet, proceed to the
next step; if your measurements are made in meters,
press the
¤
Navigation Buttons D
©
until the
on-screen cursor is at the
UNIT line on the menu.
Then, press the
‹
/
›
Navigation Buttons D
©
so that METER is highlighted. When the change
in measurement units is made, press the
⁄
/
¤
Navigation Buttons D
©
to return the cursor
to the
FL position.
If you wish to reset all delay settings to the factory
defaults, as shown in Figure 29, press the
⁄
/
¤
Na
viga
tion
Button
s
D
©
until the cursor is point
-
ing to the
DELAY RESET line. Next, press the
‹
/
›
Navigation Buttons D
©
so that ON is
highlighted in reverse video. The settings will reset, and
you may now continue to make any needed changes
following the instructions below. Once you make the
first change to the default settings
,
the
DELAY
RESET
line will return to OFF, indicating that
the factory defaults are no longer in effect.
To change a setting, first make certain that the on-
screen cursor is pointing to
FL,
and press the
‹
/
›
Navigation Buttons D
©
until the distance from
the center speaker to the preferred listening position is
entered.
Next,
press the
‹
/
›
Na
viga
tion Button
s
D
©
to move the cursor to the next line and use
t
he
‹
/
›
N
avigation Buttons
D
©
a
gain to
enter the distance from the main listening position to
the center speaker. Repeat the procedure for all active
speaker positions, first using the
⁄
/
¤
Navigation
B
uttons
D
©
t
o change to the next position;
t
hen use the
‹
/
›
N
avigation Buttons
D
©
t
o
change the setting. Note that only the speaker posi-
tions that have been set to
LARGE or SMALL
in the SPEAKER SIZE menu, as shown on
p
age 34, may be adjusted. The appearance of three
dashes next to a speaker position in place of a dis-
tance setting indicates that you have not configured
an active speaker for that location.
If you have already run EzSet/EQ, return to the settings
established by the automated system by pressing the
⁄
/
¤
Navigation Buttons D
©
until the cursor
is pointing to the
EZSET SETTINGS line.
Next, press the
‹
/
›
Navigation Buttons D
©
so that ON is highlighted in reverse video. The set-
tings will be resent to the values calculated
by EzSet/EQ, and the menu will be locked so that
the settings may not be changed. To go back into
the menu and make any
manual changes to one or
more channels, you must first return the cursor to the
EZSET SETTINGS
line and press the
‹
/
›
Navigation Buttons D
©
so that OFF is high-
lighted in reverse video. This will unlock the menu to
allow changes.
When the delay time for all speaker positions has
been set, you may return to the manual setup by
pressing the
⁄
/
¤
Navigation Buttons D
©
until the cursor points to BACK TO MANUAL
SETUP
and then pressing the OK/Enter Button
E on the TC 30 or the Set Button
œ
. However,
if you have a digital video source or a digital video dis-
play that causes lack of lip sync, you may use the A/V
sync adjust feature to delay the audio signal as it is
sent to
all channels (as opposed to the individual set-
tings) so that the picture and sound are brought back
together
. We recommend that this adjustment be
made using the direct-access controls on the remote,
as shown below. That enables you to see the image
while making the adjustment; however, you may also
adjust it here using the menu system.
T
o adjust the
A/V sync delay,
press the
⁄
/
¤
Na
viga
tion
Buttons
D
©
so that the cursor is pointing to the
A/V SYNC DELAY line in the menu and then
press the
‹
/
›
Navigation Buttons D
©
to
delay the sound until it matches the on-screen video
.
The delay settings may also be adjusted directly and
without going into the OSD menu system at any time
using the TC 30 remote control and while viewing an
on-screen image
. This is particularly helpful in the case
of the A/V sync delay, since it is important to be able
to view the impact of the A/V sync delay adjustment
with on-screen images.
T
o adjust the delay settings, first try to have a program
on the video display that has close-ups and dialogue.
If you feel that the audio is ahead of the picture, look
closely at the actors’ lips when they stop speaking,
a
nd notice whether their lips move for a short duration
after the dialogue has stopped. When using the delay
a
djustments, change the setting so that the movement
of the actors’ lips is in sync with the sound, so that the
sound stops when their lips stop. This is a good way
to get the image and sound locked together.
The controls for A/V sync delay are activated by first
pressing the
Devices Button 4 on the TC 30, and
then pressing the
Screen Button 6 at the top of
the left vertical row, to the right of the
AVR image in
the remote’s screen. When the images in the LCD
change, press the
Screen Button 6 to the left of
the box with the word
DELAY.
Within five seconds, when the
A/V SYNC
DELAY message appears in the Lower Display
Line
D, press the OK/Enter Button E and then
use the
‹/› Navigation Buttons D
©
to bring
the image and sound into sync. When you have com-
pleted the adjustments, press the
OK/Enter Button
E
again to enter the setting into the system memory.
When a 480i image is being viewed, you will see the
A/V sync time message appear as a semi-OSD on-
screen message, as well as in the front-panel display.
Semi-OSD messages are not available when 480p or
higher resolution video is in use.
To change the delay setting for an individual speaker
setting directly, rather than the A/V sync “group delay,”
follow these same instructions, but when the
A/V
SYNC DELAY message appears, press the
‹/› Navigation Buttons D
©
until the desired
speaker position name appears, and then press the
OK/Enter Button E to start the selection, the
‹/› Na
vigation Buttons
D to change the delay
settings, and finally the
OK/Enter Button E to
store the setting.
Note that the
A/V sync delay setting is unique to
each video input source, so you may enter a different
setting to compensate for the differences with any
product attached to the different inputs
.
When all changes to the
Delay settings
have been
made
, press the
⁄
/
¤
Na
vigation Buttons
D
©
until the cursor is on the BACK TO MANUAL
SETUP
menu and then press the OK/Enter
Button
E on the TC 30 or the Set Button
œ
so that you may make any other adjustments to the
system parameters. If the changes just made complete
the manual adjustments needed, press the
Menu A
or OSD Button
∫
to exit the menu system and
resume nor
mal system
operation
.
* DELAY ADJUST *
FL :12.0ft SBR :10.0ft
CEN :12.0ft SBL :10.0ft
FR :12.0ft SL :10.0ft
SR :10.0ft SUB :12.0ft
DELAY RESET:OFF ON
UNIT: FEET METER
A/V SYNC DELAY : 0mS
EZSET SETTINGS: OFF ON
BACK TO MANUAL SETUP
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