Mitsubishi Electronics XD490U Viewing video images, Connecting the projector to video equipment

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Viewing video images

A. Connecting the projector to video equipment

Preparation:

• Make sure that the power of the projector and that of the video equipment are turned off.

Connecting to a video player, etc.

Video player, or the like

1.Connect one end (yellow) of the supplied audio/video cable to the VIDEO terminal of the projector.

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To audio

3

output

terminal

To video

4

output

 

terminal

1 To VIDEO

 

terminal

 

 

Audio/video

 

cable

To audio input

 

2terminal

2.Connect one end (white and red) of the supplied audio/ video cable to the audio input terminals (L/MONO, R) of the projector.

3.Connect the other end (yellow) of the audio/video cable to the video output terminal of the video equipment.

4.Connect the other end (white and red) of the audio/video cable to the audio output terminals (L, R) of the video equipment.

S-video cable

To S-video output terminal

2

1To S-VIDEO terminal

Video player, or the like

To audio output terminal

4

Audio cable

3(Option)

When the video equipment is equipped with the S-video output terminal, make the connection as follows.

1.

Connect one end of a commercially available S-video cable

 

to the S-VIDEO terminal of the projector.

2.

Connect the other end of the S-video cable to the S-video

 

output terminal of the video equipment.

3.

Connect one end (white and red) of an audio cable to the

 

audio input terminals (L/MONO, R) of the projector.

4.

Connect the other end (white and red) of the audio cable to

To audio input terminal

to audio

input

AUDIO OUT

Audio cable (option)

the audio output terminals (L, R) of the video equipment.

For audio connection:

1.Connect one end of an audio cable to the audio output terminal of the projector.

2.Connect the other end (white and red) of the audio cable to the audio output terminals (L, R) of the audio equipment.

When the audio cable is connected to the AUDIO OUT terminal, the speaker output is muted.

Also read the instruction manual of the equipment to be connected.

Contact your dealer for details of connection.

When connecting a monophonic video device, use the white (L) terminal to connect the audio cable. (The same audio signal is output from the channels L and R of the AUDIO OUT terminal.)

When a TV tuner or VCR is connected:

When you use this projector with a TV tuner or VCR connected, no image may appear or a message of NO SIGNAL may appear on the screen when you change the channel via any channel that is not being received. In such a case, set the channels of the TV tuner or VCR again. To avoid such symptom, use the TV tuner or VCR with its channel skip function (that is a function not to display channels that are not being received) enabled.

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XD490U specifications

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