Pioneer VSX-43TX operating instructions Hooking Up Your DVD Player & TV, Digital Connections

Easy Setup Guide Part1

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 DVD players 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 video cord or the specially-made coaxial cords, they have the same type of plugs. For optical connections you will need a special optical cable which you can buy at your local stereo store. For more information on cords and cables see page 21. You should also hook up your DVD player with analog audio connections. Use regular RCA stereo cords for these connections. Also hook up the video connection on your DVD player, and your TV to this receiver. For your TV it's easiest to use a regular composite (RCA) video cord, as shown below. S Video and Component video cords are of higher quality than RCA video cords and may also be used with this unit.

Digital Connections

Some DVD players have both coaxial and optical terminals, but there is no need to connect both. 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 (you should use DIGITAL IN 3).

If your DVD player only has an optical terminal for the audio output you can hook it up using one of the DIGITAL IN terminals between 1-2 (for example, DIGITAL IN 2). In this case, you will need to assign the digital input (which means tell the receiver which input you used for your DVD digital audio). See page 12 for this.

RCA video cord RCA stereo cord

IN 1

(TV/

SAT)

IN 2

(CD-R/

TAPE1)

IN 3

(DVD/

LD)

IN 4

(CD)

DIGITAL

ANALOG

AUDIO

R

R

L

L

R

L

VIDEO

VIDEO

OUT

MONITOR OUT

DVD/

LD

IN

R

L

VIDEO

S VIDEO

DVD player

ASSIGNABLE

PRE OUT

ASSIGNABLE

DIGITAL

PCM/

FM UNBAL 75Ω

AM LOOP

MONITOR OUT

2DIGITAL /

ANTENNA

Y

AC OUTLET

OUTPUT

DTS

SUB

OUT1

IN

CENTER

WOOFER

RCA video cord

CONTROL

PB

OUT

OUT2

FRONT

R

L

MONITOR OUT

R

L

PR

(not a PCM-only

IN 1

PLAY

SUR-

(TV/

(DVD/LD) IN 1

SAT)

IN

IN

ROUND

Y

IN 2

CD-R/

VCR1/

R

L

output)

(CD-R/

TAPE1

DVR

SUR-

(Single)

TAPE1)

OUT

OUT

ROUND

PB

REC

BACKR

L

SPEAKERS

IN 3

PLAY

FRONT

SURROUND BACK /

ı

(DVD/

IN

IN

PR

Å

FRONT

CENTER

SURROUND

R

R

L

SURROUNDRF ONT L

CENTERSURROUNDR

L L

LD)

MD/

VCR2

L L

R BACKR L

You only need to make

IN 4

TAPE2

SUR-

(TV/SAT) IN 2

ª

ª

OUT

OUT

ROUND

Y

ª

(CD)

REC

R

L

CD

TV/

SUB

CEN-

one DIGITAL connection.

IN

SAT

WOOF-

TER

PB

IN

ER

DIGITAL

LINE

SUR-

DVD/

ROUND

·

·

IN

LD

BACK

PR

·

IN

L

R

L

R

L

R

VIDEO S VIDEO

coaxial cord

AUDIO

AUDIO

VIDEO

MULTI CH IN

COMPONENT VIDEO

optical cord

VIDEO INPUT

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