Toshiba 27A40 Connecting Your TV

Connecting Your TV

If you haven’t connected electronic equipment before, or you have been frustrated in the past, you may wish to read this section. (Cables are not supplied.)

Set up

●A coaxial cable is the standard cable that comes in from your antenna or cable converter box. Coaxial cables use “F” connectors.

●Audio and video cables are usually color coded according to use: yellow for video and red and white for audio. The red audio cable is for the stereo right channel, and the white audio cable is for the stereo (or mono) left channel. If you look at the rear panel of the TV, you will see that the terminals are color coded in the same manner as the cables.

●S-video cables provide better picture performance. S-video cables can only be used with S-video compatible components.

●ColorStream™ cables come in sets of three and provide the best picture performance. ColorStream cables can only be used with ColorStream compatible components.

Connecting a VCR

This connection allows you to watch local channels and video pro- grams, play or record on the VCR while watching TV, and to record from one channel while watching another channel.

Cable lead-in or antenna

Stereo VCR

S-VIDEO VIDEO	L OUT R
	IN	IN from ANT OUT to TV
		CH3
	OUT	CH4

TV			OUT
IN
		COLOR	ANT
VIDEO	VIDEO STREAM		VIDEO
		INPUT
L/	Y		L/
	L
MONO			MONO
OR
AUDIO	AUDIO CB		AUDIO
R	R	CR	R
VIDEO-1	VIDEO-2

Antenna Coaxial Cable

AUDIO/VIDEO Cables

S-Video Cable

ColorStream Cable

Caution:

Do not plug the TV in until you have finished connecting all of your equipment.

Caution:

If using 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 VIDEO 1 simultaneously.

Note:

The VIDEO 2 jacks can also be used for connecting a second piece of video equipment, such as a video disc player or camcorder etc. with audio/video outputs.

Preparation

Reference Section Advanced Operation Basic Operation

Connecting a cable converter box

This connection allows you to watch cable and premium channels. Tune the TV to channel 3 or 4 (whichever channel is vacant in your broadcast area), then use the converter box to change channels.

From cable

		TV			OUT
IN	OUT	IN
				COLOR	ANT
		VIDEO	VIDEO STREAM		VIDEO
				INPUT
		L/	Y		L/
			L
Cable converter		MONO			MONO
		S-VIDEO
box
		AUDIO	AUDIO CB		AUDIO
		R	R	CR	R
		VIDEO-1	VIDEO-2

Note:

When you use a converter box with your TV, there may be features that you cannnot program using the Remote Control, such as blocking channels, and programming your favorite channels.

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