C o n n e c t i o n s

Connecting Cable TV and VCR

You can connect different cable systems to your TV, including cable without a cable box, and cable with a cable box that descrambles some or all channels.

Cable without a Cable Box

If you want to connect cable, and you do not need to use a cable box:

Plug the incoming cable

1 into the ANT-A terminal on the back of the TV.

Cable with a Cable Box that Descrambles All Channels

Find the cable that is

1 connected to the ANTENNA OUT terminal on your cable box. This terminal might be labeled “ANT OUT”, “VHF OUT” or simply, “OUT”.

Connect the other end of

2 this cable to the ANT-A terminal on the back of the TV.

Connecting a Cable Converter Box

This connection allows you to watch cable and premium channels. You should keep your TV selected to ANT-A so that you can use the TV features. When viewing premium channels, select ANT-B and tune the TV to channel 3 or 4 (whichever channel is vacant in your area), then use the converter box to change channels. You will need two coaxial cables.

Note: When you use a converter box with

From Cable

your TV, there may be features that you can

 

 

not program using the remote control, such

 

as programming your favorite channels and

 

blocking channels.

Connecting a Cable Converter Box and a VCR

This connection allows you to watch and record basic and premium cable channels, as well as watch videotapes. You should keep your TV selected to ANT-A so that you can use the TV’s features. When viewing premium channels or recording with the VCR, select ANT-B (whichever channel is vacant in your area), then use the converter box to change channels.

TV Rear Panel

Caution: If you want to record one channel

From

while watching another channel, a splitter

(not included) must be added between the

Cable

 

cable and ANT-A. One output of the splitter

 

goes to ANT-A and the second output is

 

connected to IN on the cable converter

 

box.

 

If you have a mono VCR, connect L/Mono

 

to VCR Audio OUT using only one audio

 

cable.

 

If you have a S-VHS VCR, use the S-video

 

connections and remove the video cable.

 

Do not connect the video cable and the

 

S-video cable to video1 simultaneously.

 

When you use a converter box with your

 

TV there may be features that you can not

 

program using the remote control, such as

Stereo VCR

programming your favorite channels and

 

blocking channels.

 

 

 

 

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