Pioneer VSX-917V-S/-K manual 03Connecting up Connecting a DVD player and TV

03Connecting up

Connecting a DVD player and TV

This page shows you how to connect your DVD player and TV to the receiver.

1Connect a coaxial digital audio output on your DVD player to the DIGITAL COAX 1 (DVD/LD) input on this receiver.

Use a coaxial digital audio cable for the connection.1

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DIGITAL

AUDIO OUT	ANALOG AUDIO OUT
OPTICAL			VIDEO IN
	R	L

2 Connect the composite video output and

the stereo analog audio outputs2 on your DVD player to the DVD/LD inputs on this receiver.

Use a standard RCA video cable3 and a stereo RCA phono cable for the connection.

•If your DVD player has multichannel analog outputs, see Connecting the multichannel analog outputs below for how to connect it.

3 Connect the analog audio outputs from

your TV to the TV/SAT inputs on this receiver.

This will allow you to play the sound from the

DIGITAL OUT	IN		AUX
OPT
	IN		CD
OPT
2
(TV/ SAT)	IN		DVR /
OPT			VCR
1
(CD)
ASSIGNABLE
DIGITAL IN			TV /
	IN
			SAT
			DVD
ASSIGNABLE			/LD
	IN		FRONT
DIGITAL IN
COAX
2			PLAY
(DVR/VCR)	IN		CD-R
COAX			/ TAPE
			/ MD
1
(DVD/LD)	OUT		REC
	R	AUDIO	L

FM UNBAL

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		OUT
		CONTROL
	AM
	LOOP	IN
	ANTENNA
	VIDEO
IN
IN		MONITOR
		OUT
D V D
5.1CH		SUB
INPUT
IN		WOOFER
		PREOUT

4

MONITOR OUT

OUT

DVR /

VCR

IN

TV /

SAT

IN

DVD /LD

IN

S-VIDEO

TV’s built-in tuner. Use a stereo RCA phono

cable to do this.

• If your TV has a built-in digital decoder, you

can also connect an optical digital audio

output from your TV to the DIGITAL OPT 2

(TV/SAT) input on this receiver. Use an

optical cable for the connection.

4 Connect the MONITOR OUT video jack on

this receiver to a video input on your TV.

Use a standard RCA video cable to connect to

the composite video jack.4

This receiver

1		2
COAXIAL	R AUDIO L	VIDEO OUT
DIGITAL OUT	ANALOG OUT

DVD player

Note

1If your DVD player only has an optical digital output, you can connect it to the optical input on this receiver using an optical cable. When you set up the receiver you’ll need to tell the receiver which input you connected the player to (see The Input Assign menu on page 62).

2This connection will allow you to make analog recordings from your DVD player.

3For better quality, you can also connect with S-video using the S-VIDEO DVD/LD jack. If your player also has a component video output, you can connect this too. See Using the component video jacks on page 18 for more on this.

4For better quality, you can also connect with S-video using the S-VIDEO MONITOR OUT jack. See Using the component video jacks on page 18 if you want to use the component video outputs to connect this receiver to your TV.

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