Connecting Your Equipment

Connecting your TV

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

Connect your TV to the jacks as shown below. Hook up with either component video, S video, or compos- ite video cords (the quality descends in this order) but you must use the same type of video cords to hook up your DVD player (and all other video components) as you use to hook up your TV. If you plan to hook up your DVD player with component video cords hook up your TV with them as well but in this case you must also hook up your TV with composite video or S video cords because you won't be able to see the receiver's on-screen displays with a component video hook up. Composite video cords, which look just like regular RCA audio cords (see page 20) but have only one cable are the most common.

In order to set up the receiver use

MONITOR OUT

1 so that you can see the on- screen displays.

*The arrows indicate the direction of the signal.

PCM/

FM UNBAL 75

 

 

 

 

PRE OUT

 

MONITOR OUT

 

 

 

AM LOOP

 

 

 

 

 

 

2DIGITAL /

ANTENNA

 

 

 

 

 

Y

 

 

DTS/MPEG

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SUB

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

OUT1

IN

 

MONITOR OUT 2

 

CENTER

WOOFER

PB

TV/monitor

CONTROL

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

OUT

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

OUT2

 

 

 

 

 

FRONT

 

 

 

 

 

R

L

MONITOR OUT 1

 

R

L

PR

 

 

IN 1

 

 

 

 

 

 

PLAY

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SUR-

 

 

 

 

(TV/

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SAT)

IN

 

 

 

IN

ROUND

 

Y

(DVD/LD) IN 1

 

 

 

 

 

R

L

 

IN 2

CD-R/

 

 

 

VCR1/

 

ASSIGNABLE

 

 

 

 

 

(Single)

 

 

(CD-R/

TAPE1

 

 

 

DVR

SUR-

 

 

 

TAPE1)

OUT

 

 

 

OUT

ROUND

 

PB

 

 

 

 

 

 

BACK

 

 

 

 

REC

 

 

 

 

R

L

 

VIDEO IN

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

IN 3

PLAY

 

 

 

 

FRONT

 

 

COMPO-

VIDEO

(DVD/

IN

 

 

 

IN

R

 

PR

NENT

 

LD)

MD/

 

 

 

VCR2

L

 

 

 

IN 4

TAPE2

 

 

 

 

SUR-

 

 

Y

 

OUT

 

 

 

OUT

ROUND

 

 

 

 

(CD)

 

 

 

 

Y

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

REC

 

 

 

 

R

L

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

CD

 

 

 

TV/

SUB

CEN-

 

PB

S-VIDEO

 

IN

 

 

 

SAT

WOOF-

TER

PB

 

 

ASSIGNABLE

 

 

 

ER

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

IN

 

 

 

 

 

 

PHONO/

 

 

 

DVD/

SUR-

 

 

PR

 

USB

LINE

 

 

 

ROUND

 

PR

 

IN

 

 

 

LD

BACK

 

 

 

AUDIO

 

 

 

 

IN

R

L

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(TV/SAT) IN 2

 

 

R

L

R

L

 

 

 

VIDEO

S VIDEO

 

ASSIGNABLE

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

DIGITAL

AUDIO

 

AUDIO

 

VIDEO

MULTI CH IN

COMPONENT VIDEO

 

S Video

Component video

S VIDEO

S video cables produce clearer picture reproduction by sending separate signals for the luminance and the color.

Green

Blue

Red

Y PB PR

The video signal is divided into the luminance (Y) signal and the color (PB and PR) signals. In this way, interference between the signals is avoided.

Composite Video

Composite video cords are the most common or standard video cord but also the lowest quality. The color on the connector is yellow to distinguish it from regular RCA audio cords which have white and red connectors (see page 20). It is important to use a true composite video cord and not an audio cord (though they look exactly the same) because the impedance is different and this will affect the picture quality.

Component Video Input Default Settings

If you use component video cords to hook up your video equipment it is easiest to do so following the default settings, which are listed below. Remember you must use component video cords from your video source (for example, a DVD player) to the receiver and from the receiver to your TV (or monitor). If you don't follow the default settings below you must assign the inputs you used with the "Assigning the Component Video Inputs" procedure. See page 92 to do this.

The default settings are:

COMPONENT VIDEO IN 1: DVD/LD

16 COMPONENT VIDEO IN 2: TV/SAT

En

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Pioneer VSX-D2011-G, VSX-D2011-S Connecting Your Equipment, Connecting your TV, Video Component video, Composite Video

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