System Audio/Video Connections

System Integration

The HP Digital Entertainment Center incorporates many functions into one unit:

■An Internet connection through a wireless or wired network, using an Internet service provider, allows the HP Digital Entertainment Center to access the Television Program Guide and Internet content sources.

■A cable connection from a set-top-box or antenna hookup allows the TV tuner inside the HP Digital Entertainment Center to select the TV channels.

■An Infrared Transmitter (IR blaster) connection to a set-top-box from the HP Digital Entertainment Center allows the HP Digital Entertainment Center to select the set-top-box channels from the HP Digital Entertainment Center remote control.

■Audio Outputs from the HP Digital Entertainment Center to your TV speakers or AV receiver allow up to 7.1 surround sound.

■Video Outputs from the HP Digital Entertainment Center to your TV or AV receiver allow you to watch TV and to view the HP Digital Entertainment Center display.

■An FM radio antenna connection allows the FM tuner inside the HP Digital Entertainment Center to select the FM radio channels.

■The wireless keyboard with trackball or remote control allow you to operate the HP Digital Entertainment Center from the comfort of your couch.

How you connect the HP Digital Entertainment Center into your system depends on how you want to use it. The HP Digital Entertainment Center functions as a peripheral media source, with DVD and personal video player/ recorders built in. Your AV receiver or TV functions as your audio/video output switch.

To watch and record TV, video, and audio, you must first connect the HP Digital Entertainment Center inputs to your video, audio, and network sources.

■To play back audio/video, you must connect the HP Digital Entertainment Center outputs to your sound system and TV/display.

■To record audio/video, you must connect the

HP Digital Entertainment Center inputs to your video source, such as a cable set-top-box, satellite receiver, or antenna.

■To update the Television Program Guide and use the Internet, you must also connect to a home network or DSL/cable modem.

If your HP Digital Entertainment Center has the dual-tuner option, each tuner must be connected to the same TV source. You can connect two cable set-top-boxes, or two, satellite receivers, or an antenna with cable splitter. The Television Program Guide only supports one TV service provider channel line-up.

Audio and video output cables from the HP Digital Entertainment Center can be:

■Routed through an AV receiver to provide an audio and video signal to your TV.

Or

■Routed directly to your TV.

Imagine the flow of your television signal into and out of the HP Digital Entertainment Center. To watch and record TV, your TV signal (for example, from a satellite) must flow into the HP Digital Entertainment Center. Then, for you to watch live or recorded TV, the HP Digital Entertainment Center must send the recorded TV shows out to your TV.

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