02Connecting your equipment

Connecting your TV

This page shows you how to connect your TV to the amplifier. To be able to play the sound from the TV’s built- in tuner, connect the analog audio outputs from your TV to this amplifier.

1Connect the MONITOR OUT 1 video jack on this amplifier to a video input on your TV.

You can use a standard RCA/phono jack video cable to connect to the composite video jack, or for higher quality video, you can use an S-video cable to connect to the S-video jack (S2 VIDEO).

See Using the component video jacks on page 20 if you want to use the component video outputs to connect this amplifier to your TV.

2Connect the analog audio outputs from your TV to the TV/DVD AUDIO inputs on this amplifier.

Use a stereo RCA/phono jack cable for the connection.

Note

If you use different cord types for the TV and the source component, overlay information doesn’t appear.

 

 

 

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Pioneer VSA-AX10Ai manual Connecting your equipment Connecting your TV

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