Connect Your Tv - DirecTV GAEB0A Owner's Manual

Connect your TV

Depending on your TV, you can connect it to the receiver in one of three ways:
In addition to your video connection, use a set of audio cables (L/R) to provide
stereo sound. If your TV does not have audio jacks, you will hear monophonic
audio. This is acceptable for the procedures described in the next section.
To connect your TV to the DIRECTV
15. Select the appropriate connection:
16. Connect one end of the telephone line cord provided into the DIRECTV
17. Connect the other end into a modular telephone outlet.
18. Plug the TV into an electrical outlet.
19. Plug the DIRECTV Receiver power cord into an electrical outlet. If the
Onscreen Menu Icons
These icons appear in onscreen menus and are used throughout this manual:
• S-Video cable (best picture quality) or
• Video cable (very good picture quality) or
• Coaxial cable (good picture quality)
If your TV has an S-Video jack –
• Use an S-Video cable (not supplied) to connect the DIRECTV
Receiver's
S-VIDEO
• Use audio cables to connect the DIRECTV Receiver's
the TV's AUDIO IN
If your TV has RCA-type A/V connectors –
• Connect the DIRECTV Receiver's
TV's jacks.
A/V IN
• If your TV has only one
jack to the TV
L
If your TV only has an RF (coaxial) connector –
• Connect the DIRECTV Receiver's
or
VHF/UHF IN RF IN
Receiver's
PHONE JACK
front panel Power indicator does not illuminate, press the
®
Receiver:
jack to the TV's
S-VIDEO
jacks.
AUDIO
jack, connect the receiver's
AUDIO IN
jack.
AUDIO IN
OUT TO TV
jack.
.
jack.
AUDIO jacks to
and jacks to the
VIDEO
AUDIO
connector to the TV's
POWER button.
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