Pioneer VSX-43TX Connecting Video Components, Connecting a DVD player, Connecting Your Equipment

Connecting Your Equipment

Connecting Video Components

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

Connect your video components as shown on this and the following page. For video components (for example, a DVD player) there are two types of connections to make, video and audio.

Hook up your video signal with either component video, S video or composite video cords (the quality descends in this order) but you must use the same type of cord as you used to hook up your TV.

For the audio signal, in order to use digital soundtracks like Dolby Digital or DTS you must hook up a digital input, with either a coaxial or optical cord (see page 21). It is also a good idea to hook up your components with analog audio connections as well.

If you want to record from your DVD player composite (or S video) cord connections and analog audio connections are necessary.

Connecting a DVD player

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

Hook up your audio signal with either a coaxial or optical digital cords (you don't need to do both). If you hook up your DVD/LD player using component video cable connections you might need to setup your DVD player for component video output as well. See your DVD manual for details. If you have a DVD- Audio or Super Audio CD (SACD) compatible player, see "Connecting to the Multi Channel Analog Inputs" on page 20.

You need to hook up your audio with analog connections as well.

*The arrows indicate the direction of the signal.

ASSIGNABLE							PRE OUT	ASSIGNABLE
PCM/	FM UNBAL 75Ω		AM LOOP					MONITOR OUT
2DIGITAL /				ANTENNA				Y
DTS
							SUB
OUT1	IN					CENTER	WOOFER
		CONTROL
								PB
	OUT
OUT2						FRONT
	R	L	MONITOR OUT					PR
						R	L
IN 1
	PLAY
						SUR-
(TV/								(DVD/LD) IN 1
SAT)	IN			IN		ROUND
								Y
						R	L
IN 2	CD-R/			VCR1/
							(Single)
(CD-R/	TAPE1			DVR		SUR-
TAPE1)	OUT			OUT		ROUND		PB
						BACK
	REC					R	L
IN 3	PLAY					FRONT
(DVD/	IN			IN		R	L	PR
LD)	MD/			VCR2
IN 4	TAPE2					SUR-		(TV/SAT) IN 2
(CD)	OUT			OUT		ROUND		Y
						R	L
	REC
	CD			TV/		SUB	CEN-
	IN			SAT		WOOF-	TER	PB
						ER
				IN
DIGITAL	LINE					SUR-
				DVD/
						ROUND
	IN			LD		BACK		PR
				IN		R	L
	R	L	R	L
					VIDEO	S VIDEO
		AUDIO	AUDIO		VIDEO		MULTI CH IN	COMPONENT VIDEO

	DIGITAL OUT
1	(not a PCM-only output)
2	3
	VIDEO
COMPO-	VIDEO
NENT	OUT

Y DVD player

S-VIDEO

PB

PR

ANALOG

AUDIO

L

R

memo • Be sure to make either a digital coaxial or digital optical connection (pictured as DIGITAL jack 3 or DIGITAL jack 2 in this diagram) but you DON'T need to make both.

•If your digital connections are different than the default settings you will need to assign the digital jacks to the proper component(s) with the "Assigning the Digital Inputs" procedure. See page 76 to do this.

•If your component video connections are different from the default settings, you will need to assign them with "Assigning the Component Video Inputs". See page 77 for how to do this.

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