Getting Started - Toshiba RS-TX20 Viewer's Manual

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Remember, always connect cables
from the OUT jack of one device to
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the IN jack of the next. Never connect an
IN to an IN or an OUT to an OUT.
OUT
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Getting Started

Television used to be so simple: all you needed was an antenna and a TV. The antenna
captured audio and video signals and sent them to your TV over a wire.
As TVs have acquired more features, and new devices have been created to work with
your TV, it may seem that everything has become more complex. You may have a VCR, a
DVD player, and a game system connected to your TV, in addition to your Toshiba
Digital Media Server with TiVo
same: you still need to get audio and video (sound and pictures) from their source (an
antenna, or a cable or satellite box) to your TV.
Sounds and pictures travel through cables. The choice of cables may seem overwhelming,
but they all perform the same function: they transfer sounds and pictures to your TV at
varying levels of quality.
Each piece of your audio/video (A/V) equipment has connectors—or jacks, to which
cables can be connected. Some jacks are labeled "In" and some are labeled "Out." Pictures
IN
and sounds enter A/V equipment through IN jacks and leave through OUT jacks.
When you connect your DMS to your TV and other A/V equipment, you are simply
creating a path that starts at the wall, or your cable or satellite box, and goes in (through IN
jacks) and out (through OUT jacks) of your A/V equipment until it reaches your TV.
C o n n e c t i n g Y o u r D M S
® service (DMS). However, one thing has remained the