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Remember, always connect cables
® from the OUT connector of one device to the IN connector of the next. Never connect an IN to an IN or an OUT to an OUT.
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Using This Guide
Step 1: Understanding the basics
TVs used to be so simple: no color, no digital video, no stereo sound, no choices. All you needed was an antenna and a TV. The antenna captured audio and video signals. A wire, connected from the antenna to the TV, brought these signals to your TV as sounds and pictures.
As TVs have acquired more features, and new devices have been created to work with your TV, it may seem that everything has become more complex. You may have a VCR, an A/V receiver, and a game system connected to your TV, in addition to your Pioneer DVD Recorder with TiVo® (referred to in this guide as the Recorder). However, one thing has remained the same: you still need to get the sounds and pictures from their source (your antenna, or your cable or satellite service) to your TV.
You get the sounds and pictures to your TV by using cables. These make a path over which the pictures and sounds travel to your TV. The choice of cables may seem overwhelming, but they all perform the same function: they transfer sounds and pictures to your TV at varying levels of quality.
All of your equipment has connectors, or places where cables can be connected. Some connectors are labeled “In” and some are labeled “Out.” The pictures and sounds enter a piece of equipment through an IN connector and leave through an OUT connector.
When you connect your Recorder to your TV and other audio/video (A/V) equipment, you are simply creating a path that starts at the wall, or your cable or satellite box, and goes in (through IN connectors) and out (through OUT connectors) of your equipment until it reaches your TV.
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