Pioneer VSX-39TX Quick Start Guide, Hooking Up Your DVD Player & TV, Coaxial Digital Connection

Quick Start Guide

This is a quick guide to setting up your new receiver so you can get home theater surround sound. For more details on any of the information presented here check the main section of the manual.

Before making or changing the connections, switch off the power and disconnect the power cord from the AC outlet.

1Hooking Up Your DVD Player & TV

In order to use Dolby Digital/DTS soundtracks which are at the heart of home theater you need to hook up your DVD player with digital audio connections. You can do this by either a coaxial or an optical connection, you don’t need to do both. The quality of these two types of connections is the same but since some digital components only have one type of digital terminal you need to figure out which yours has and hook it up to the appropriate terminal on the receiver. In order to do this you will need the proper cable. For coaxial connections you can use a regular RCA stereo cord or the specially-made coaxial cords, they have the same type of plugs. For optical connections you will need a special optical cord which you can buy at your local stereo store. Also hook up the video connection of your DVD player, the analog audio (for recording the audio on DVDs, use regular RCA stereo cords), and your TV (it's easiest to use a regular composite RCA video cords) as shown below. It is important that you hook up your TV (or monitor) in order to see a video image as well as the on screen displays (OSDs) shown by this receiver (for more on p. 16-17). We also recommend hooking up your all your digital components to analog audio jacks. For this you can use regular RCA stereo cords.

Coaxial Digital Connection

If your DVD player has a coaxial terminal (not a PCM-only output) for the audio out hook it up using this terminal. Follow the diagram below. This is the best scenario, as you will be able to follow the default settings of this receiver and won't need to assign the digital inputs.

						PCM/
						2/
2RF IN	IN 1	IN 2	IN 3	IN 4	IN 5	DTS
(AC-3)						DIGITAL

AUDIO	VIDEO	VIDEO
		S2 VIDEO		VIDEO
	DVD /
		IN		OUT
	LD
	IN
R	L	RCA video cord
				STEREO
		RCA stereo cord	R	R

L L

DIGITAL

DVD player

coaxial cord

OUTPUT

(not a PCM-only output)

MONITOR

OUT

VIDEO INPUT

RCA video cord

Optical Digital Connection

If your DVD player has an optical terminal (not a PCM-only output) for the audio out you can hook it up using this following the below diagram. You will need to assign the digital input (tell the receiver which input you put your DVD digital audio into). See page VI for this.

2RF IN	IN 1	IN	2
(AC-3)

						PCM/
						2/
IN	3	IN	4	IN	5	DTS
						DIGITAL

AUDIO	VIDEO	VIDEO
		S2 VIDEO		VIDEO
	DVD /
		IN		OUT
	LD
	IN
R	L	RCA video cord
				STEREO
		RCA stereo cord	R	R

L L

DIGITAL

OUTPUT

optical cord

DVD player

(not a PCM-only output)

MONITOR
OUT	VIDEO INPUT

IV

RCA video cord