Connecting A Satellite/Cable Receiver Or Other Set-Top Box - Pioneer VSX-AX5Ai-G Operating Instructions Manual

Connecting your equipment

Connecting a satellite/cable receiver or other set-top box

Satellite and cable receivers, and terrestrial digital TV
tuners are all examples of so-called 'set-top boxes'.
1 Connect a set of audio/video outputs on the set-
top box component to the TV/SAT AUDIO and VIDEO
inputs on this receiver.
• Use a stereo RCA phono cable for the audio
connection and a standard RCA video or S-video
cable for the video connection.
• See About the video converter on page 16 if you plan
to use a different type of video cable than you used to
connect your TV.
2 Connect an optical digital audio output from
your set-top box component to the DIGITAL 1 (TV/
SAT) input on this receiver.
• Use an optical cable for the connection.
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• If your set-top box only has a coaxial digital output,
you can connect it to one of the coaxial inputs on this
receiver using a coaxial digital audio cable. When
you set up the receiver you'll need to tell the receiver
which input you connected the set-top box to (see
Assigning the digital inputs on page 81).
Note
• If your satellite/cable receiver doesn't have a digital
audio output, omit step 2 above.
• If you've already connected your TV to the TV/SAT
inputs above, simply choose another input. However,
you'll need to tell the receiver which input you
connected the set-top box to (see Assigning the
digital inputs on page 81).
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