Connections & Setup

Choose Your Connection

How you connect your DIRECTV® HD Receiver to your TV or monitor depends on the jacks available on your TV or monitor. Please use the following chart to determine which kind of connection you should use based on the kind of input jacks your TV or monitor offers. Proceed to the appropriate page and connect your HD Receiver. For more information about the relationship between jacks, cables and the quality of the signal you see on your monitor or TV, see the section on jacks and cables, starting on the next page.

If your monitor/TV has:

Use this connection:

Cables needed:

 

 

 

DVI-HDTV input

CONNECTION 1

• Audio (one pair, RCA)

AND

• RGB input

(see pages 12 and 13)

DVI-HDTV or RGB

 

 

 

 

 

 

CONNECTION 2

• Audio (one pair, RCA)

• Component video inputs

AND

(see pages 14 and 15)

 

• Component Video

 

 

 

 

 

Analog inputs only –

CONNECTION 3

• Audio (one pair, RCA)

S-Video input

AND

(see pages 16 and 17)

• Composite video input

S-Video or Composite Video

 

 

 

 

Pages 18 and 19 have instructions for optional connections between the HD Receiver and a VCR or digital audio receiver. Page 20 has instructions for setting up the RF remote and RF remote antenna that came with your HD Receiver. Pages 20 and 21 have instructions for setting up the HD Receiver to control your VCR (if you've connected one to your HD Receiver). Pages 10 and 11 offer a general overview of the jacks on the HD Receiver’s back panel.

Insert the Access Card

In order to view DIRECTV® programming, you need to insert the access card into your receiver. For some receivers, the card may already be inserted when you unpack the box.

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1.The ACCESS CARD slot is behind a flip-down door on the right side of the front panel of the HD receiver. To open this door, push firmly on the top right part of the door to unlatch it. Then, gently pull the door out and down. The front panel door will flip down.

Push here to unlatch the door

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2.Locate the ACCESS CARD slot.

3.Insert the access card. Make sure the side with the bar code is facing down, and the arrow is pointing away from you.

4.Close the flip-down door.

The access card should only be removed when replacing the card with a new one provided by DIRECTV or your program provider.

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