Pioneer VSX-47TX Hooking Up Your DVD Player & TV, Digital Connections, Quick Start Guide Part1

Quick Start 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 p.16).

Digital Connections

Some DVD players have both coaxial and optical terminals, but there is 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 1).

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 3-5 (for example, DIGITAL IN 3). 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

STEREO

R

L L

3

(SAT)

R	L	VIDEO
		VIDEO
		OUT
MONITOR	DVD	IN
	/LD
OUT	IN

IN

IN 2	(CD)
IN 1	(DVD
	/LD)
2RF	(DVD
IN	/LD)
	(For LD)

ASSIGNABLE

DIGITAL

PCM/2DIGITAL/DTS

2

OUT

R AUDIO L

1PHONO

	OUT	IN
		CD			AUDIO
	DIGITAL				POWER AMP
		IN			IN
PCM/2DIGITAL/DTS				R	L
5	(CD-R/				FRONT
	TAPE1
IN	/MD)	R	L	R	L
4	(VCR1	OUT			CENTER
		REC
IN	/DVR)	CD-R/
3		TAPE1			SUB W.
		/MD
	(SAT)	IN			PRE OUT
IN		PLAY		1	2
		OUT		(Single)	SUR-
IN 2	(CD)				ROUND
		REC
		TAPE2		R	L
		MONITOR			SUR-
IN 1	(DVD	IN			ROUND
	/LD)			R	BACK
		PLAY			L (Single)
		FRONT		SUB W.	CENTER
		R	L
		SUR-			SUR-
	(DVD	ROUND			ROUND
2RF	/LD)	R	L	R	BACK
IN	(For LD)				L (Single)
	ASSIGNABLE		MULTI CH INPUT

											DVD player
	CONTROL	MONITOR				·	ÅÅ ª				DIGITAL
IN	OUT	OUT				L		ACACOUTLETOUTLET
	ROOM &	OUT		REMOTE IN							OUTPUT
				ROOM &		L
	MULTI-			MULTI-
	DVD			SOURCE	RCA video cord
	SOURCE				AM LOOP	FRONT
						FRONT
			DVD		ANTENNA
					AM LOOP	R
	/LD	IN	/LD	Y	ANTENNA
			IN		ANTENNA
	IN		1 Y	MONITOR	FM ANTENNA	R
	TV			OUT	75Ω UNBAL
		IN			FM
	IN		PB	PB	75Ω UNBAL						(not a PCM-only
						CENTER
	SAT		(TV)PR	P(SAT)R		CENTER
	IN	IN
	OUT	OUT	IN	IN		L				AC IN	output)
	IN	IN				ROUND
	VCR1		2 Y	Y 3		L			AC IN
	/DVR					SURSUR- -
						ROUND
			PB	PB		RR	SPEAKERS
	OUT	OUT					ª	ıı	·SELECTABLE
	VCR2		PR	PR
		IN		COMPONENT VIDEO ASSIGNABLE		L	(Single)			L	You only need to make
	IN								L
						L	(Single)
						BACK
	R AUDIO L					SUR-
		VIDEO	S VIDEO			SURROUND-
						ROUNDBACK
						RR			RR		one DIGITAL connection.
					coaxial cord
					optical cord						VIDEO INPUT

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