Pioneer VSX-45TX Hooking Up Your DVD Player & TV, Digital Connections, Easy Setup Guide Part1

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 23. 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. It is important that you hook up your TV (or monitor) in order to see a video image as well as the on screen displays (OSDs) shown by this receiver (for more on this see page16).

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

R

ANALOG

AUDIO

R

L L

IN 1

(TV/

SAT)

IN 2

(CD-R/

TAPE1)

IN 3

(DVD/

LD)

IN 4

(CD)

MONITOR

R

L

OUT

VIDEO

VIDEO

OUT

DVD/

LD

IN

R

L

VIDEO

S VIDEO

DVD player

ASSIGNABLE

PRE OUT

ASSIGNABLE

DIGITAL

PCM/

FM UNBAL 75Ω

AM LOOP

MULTI-ROOM

MONITOR OUT

OUTPUT

2DIGITAL /

ANTENNA

& SOURCE

Y

DTS/MPEG

MONITOR OUT

SUB

AC OUTLET

OUT1

CONTROL

& SOURCE

RCA video cord

IN

MULTI-ROOM

CENTER

WOOFER

OUT

R OUT

L

MONITOR

PB

12V

OUT

OUT2

FRONT

TRIGGER

(DC OUT12V/

R

L

R

PR

100mA MAX)

(not a PCM-only

IN 1

IN

L

IN

Y (DVD/LD) IN 1

PLAY

SUR-

(TV/

SAT)

ROUND

IN 2

CD-R/

VCR1/

R

L

output)

(CD-R/

TAPE1

DVR

SUR-

(Single)

& SOURCE

R

L

TAPE1)

OUT

OUT

ROUND

PB

BACK

MULTI-ROOM

REC

IN 3

PLAY

FRONT

REMOTE IN

SURROUNDF ONT

CENTERSURROUND

(DVD/

IN

IN

PR

R

L

LD)

MD/

VCR2

R

L

IN 4

TAPE2

SUR-

ª

ª

You only need to make

CD

TV/

ROUND

CEN-

(CD)

SUB

OUT

OUT

R

Y

REC

L

IN

SAT

WOOF-

TER

one DIGITAL connection.

IN

ER

PB

USB

IN

LD

BACK

PR

RS-232C

·

·

PHONO/

DVD/

SUR-

LINE

ROUND

AUDIO

IN

R

L

R

L

R

L

VIDEO S VIDEO

(TV/SAT) IN 2

coaxial cord

DIGITAL

AUDIO

AUDIO

VIDEO

MULTI CH IN

COMPONENT VIDEO

optical cord VIDEO INPUT

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