Sony NHS-502 manual

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    NH S - 5 0 2 Operating Instructions NHS-502 Home Ent ertainment Solution[...]

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    W elcome W elcome Congratulations on your purchase of the Sony NHS-502 Home Entertainment Solution. It’ s designed to open up a world of audio and video enjoyment throughout your home. • Y ou can throw a party and have the same music playing in five rooms. • Y ou can enjoy two differ ent entertainment sources at a time. • Y ou can have remo[...]

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    The NHS-502 is a five-room/two zone system that r eceives entertainment from a central rack of equipment in the main room. The main r oom system incorporates the following components: • Sony A/V receiver • Sony 5-disc DVD changer with progressive scan • Sony 5-disc CD changer • Sony VHS videocassette recorder • Sony television • Stereo [...]

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    P arts and Contr ols 4 Main Room Wireless Remote Control Up/Down/Left/Right/OK cursor buttons. Navigate component menus. The central “-|-” or “OK” button accepts the current menu selection. Source Select buttons. Automatically turns on the correct components and selects the corr ect inputs for enjoying each entertainment source. Changes the[...]

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    P arts and Contr ols 5 Remote Room W all Panel V olume Control. T ur n clockwise to raise the volume. T ur n counterclockwise to lower the volume. Power button. Press to turn the Room system power off. Pr ess and hold to turn the Zone system power off. Status LED. Indicates system status. Lights up GREEN when the room speakers ar e on, RED when the[...]

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    The Main Syst em 6 Basic Operations : M ain Room In the Main Room, if you want to... Pick up the wireless remote control and... ...watch t elevision when no cable, satellit e or High Definition TV box is in use. 1. Press the TV Sour ce Select button. 2. Select the TV channel with the Numeric Keypad and Enter button or select the channel with the Ch[...]

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    7 In the Main Room, if you want to... Pick up the wireless remote control and... ...watch a VHS ca ssette. 1. Press the Sour ce Select button for VCR. 2. Press the Play button to play the tape. 3. Adjust the A/V receiver volume with the V olume +/- buttons. 4. T o temporarily halt playback, pr ess the Pause button. 5. T o r esume playback, press th[...]

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    Basic Operations: Remo te Room 8 In a Remote Room, if you want t o... Go to the in-wall k eypad and... ...watch t elevision from a centralized set -top-box* (Remote Rooms 1 , 2 and 3 only). The following directions apply when you want to watch channels fr om a single, centralized cable TV , satellite TV or High Definition TV set-top box* located in[...]

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    Basic Operations: Remo te Room 9 In the Main Room, if you want to... Pick up the wireless remote control and... ...watch a VHS ca ssette (Remote Rooms 1 , 2 and 3 only). 1. Press the Sour ce Select button for VCR. 2. T urn on your local television with the TV remote control. 3. Press the Play button (on keypad) to play the tape. 4. Adjust the volum[...]

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    A dv anced Operations: M ain Room 10 Each time you press a Sour ce Select button on the wireless remote contr ol, the functions of the remote unit change to operate the specific source you’ve selected. The following section describes the action that each button performs in each operating mode. Note: Not all buttons are active in all modes. Wat ch[...]

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    A dv anced Operations: M ain Room 11 Wat ching an Optional, Compatible Cable, Satellit e or High Definition TV Set - T op Box* (CONTINUED) 4. Enter button. Enters the numbers you’ve pressed on the numeric keypad. 5. Jump button. Returns to the previous cable channel. 6. TV/Video button. For cable set-top boxes only . Cycles through input modes, a[...]

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    A dv anced Operations: M ain Room 12 Wat ching DVDs (CONTINUED) 11. Display button. Activates the DVD on-screen time display . 12. Menu button. Activates the DVD on-screen menu. 13. Rewind button. Activates DVD reverse scan. Pr ess again for higher -speed reverse scan. 14. Play button. Activates DVD Play . 15. Fast Forward button. Activates DVD for[...]

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    A dv anced Operations: M ain Room 13 Listening t o CDs 1. System Off button. Shuts off power to entir e system, regar dless of which components happen to be on at the time. 2. Numeric Keypad. Use these keys to enter CD track numbers. 3. Mute button. Press once to block the audio portion of the pr ogram temporarily , as during a telephone conversati[...]

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    A dv anced Operations: Remot e Room 14 Each time you press a Sour ce Select button on the remote r oom keypad, the functions of the keypad change to operate the specific source you’ve selected. The following section describes the action each button performs in each operating mode. Note: Not all buttons are active in all modes. Wat ching T elevisi[...]

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    A dv anced Operations: Remot e Room 15 Wat ching DVDs (Remote Rooms 1 , 2 and 3 Only) 1. V olume Control. T ur n clockwise to raise the volume. T ur n counterclockwise to lower the volume. 2. DVD Source Select button. Automatically turns on the DVD changer , A/V receiver and the zone amplifier . Sets the correct A/V r eceiver input. Activates “Pl[...]

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    A dv anced Operations: Remot e Room 16 Listening t o a CD (All Rooms) 1. V olume Control. T ur n clockwise to raise the volume. T ur n counterclockwise to lower the volume. 2. CD Source Select button. Automatically turns on the CD changer , A/V receiver and the zone amplifier . Sets the correct A/V r eceiver input. Activates “Play” on the CD ch[...]

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    A dv anced Operations: Remot e Room 17 Listening t o AM/FM St ations (All Rooms) 1. V olume Control. T ur n clockwise to raise the volume. T ur n counterclockwise to lower the volume. 2. T uner Source Select button. T ur ns on the A/V receiver and selects the tuner input. Changes the keypad mode to operate the tuner functions. 3. Power button. Pres[...]

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    Contr ol Conflcts 18 The NHS-502 is one system with five remote contr ols — the Main Room wireless r emote plus the four remote r oom wall panels. For maximum versatility , no individual remote contr ol has “priority .” No remote control can “lock out” any other . While extremely convenient, this design does cr eate opportunity for users [...]

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    T r oubleshooting 19 Problem 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. • T ry pressing the Sour ce Select button for the desired sour ce again, to reset the corr ect inputs and power up the correct components. No sound in additional rooms • Make sure th[...]

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    20 Sony Electronics Inc. 1 Sony Drive, Park Ridge, NJ 07656 www .sonyavdesigner .com V ersion 4.0; June 7, 2004 © 2004 Sony Electronics Inc. All rights r eserved. Reproduction in whole or in part without written permission is prohibited. Featur es and specifications are subject to change without notice. Sony is a trademark of Sony . All other trad[...]