Connecting the TV
Use this hookup if:
❑Your cable TV company scrambles some channels, but not all of them (pay channels vs. regular cable channels) and you need to use a cable box.
With this connection you can:
❑ Use the TV’s remote control to change channels on your cable box
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Disconnect all power sources before making any connections.
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2 Use a coaxial cable to connect one of the output jack of the splitter to the TV’s CABLE jack.
3 Use a coaxial cable to connect the splitter’s other output jack to the cable box’s input jack.
4 Use a coaxial cable to connect the cable box’s output jack to the VCR’s RF input jack.
5 Use an A/V cable to connect the cable box’s A/V output jacks to the TV’s A/V input jacks.
6 Use an A/V and S VIDEO cables to connect the VCR’s AUDIO and S VIDEO OUT jacks to the TV’s AUDIO and S VIDEO IN jacks.
✍If your VCR is not equipped with S VIDEO, use a VIDEO cable (yellow) instead of the S VIDEO cable.
7 Run Initial Setup, as described in “Setting Up the Channel List” on page 34.
✍To view scrambled channels, tune the TV to the channel the cable box is set to (usually channel 3 or 4) and then use the cable box to switch channels.
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