Connecting A Dvd Player And Tv - Pioneer 915 Operating Instructions Manual

Connecting up

Connecting a DVD player and TV

This page shows you how to connect your DVD
player and TV to the receiver.
1 Connect a coaxial digital audio output on
your DVD player to the DIGITAL COAX 1
(DVD/LD) input on this receiver.
Use a coaxial digital audio cable for the
1
connection.
2 Connect the composite video output and
the stereo analog audio outputs
DVD player to the DVD/LD inputs on this
receiver.
Use a standard RCA video cable
RCA phono cable for the connection.
• If your DVD player has multichannel
analog outputs, see Connecting the
multichannel analog outputs below for how
to connect it.
3 Connect the analog audio outputs from
your TV to the TV/SAT inputs on this receiver.
This will allow you to play the sound from the
TV's built-in tuner. Use a stereo RCA phono
cable to do this.
• If your TV has a built-in digital decoder, you
can also connect an optical digital audio
output from your TV to the DIGITAL OPT 1
(TV/SAT) input on this receiver. Use an
optical cable for the connection.
4 Connect the MONITOR OUT video jack on
this receiver to a video input on your TV.
Use a standard RCA video cable to connect to
the composite video jack.
Note
1 If your DVD player only has an optical digital output, you can connect it to the optical input on this receiver using an optical
cable. When you set up the receiver you'll need to tell the receiver which input you connected the player to (see The Input Assign
menu on page 66).
2 This connection will allow you to make analog recordings from your DVD player.
3 For better quality, you can also connect with S-video using the S-VIDEO DVD/LD jack. If your player also has a component
video output, you can connect this too. See Using the component video jacks on page 21 for more on this.
4 For better quality, you can also connect with S-video using the S-VIDEO MONITOR OUT jack. See Using the component video
jacks on page 21 if you want to use the component video outputs to connect this receiver to your TV.
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DIGITAL
AUDIO OUT
OPTICAL
IN
IN
OPT
OUT
2
(DVR/VCR)
IN
OPT
1
IN
(TV/SAT)
IN
ASSIGNABLE
COAX
DIGITAL IN
2
(CD)
OUT
COAX
1
(DVD
IN
/LD)
AUDIO
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This receiver*
1
COAXIAL
DIGITAL OUT
DVD player
* The illustration shows the VSX-915, but
connections for the VSX-815 are the same.
TV
ANALOG AUDIO OUT
VIDEO IN
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3
AUX
FM UNBAL
AM
75 LOOP
ANTENNA
CD
OUT
CONTROL
DVR/
VCR
IN
OUT
VIDEO
DVR/
IN
VCR
TV /
OUT
SAT
IN
IN
DVD
T V /
MONITOR
/LD
SAT
OUT IN
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SUB DVD
REC INPUT
/LD
WOOFER
IN
IN
CD-R
PREOUT
/ TAPE
S-VIDEO
/ MD
PLAY
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R AUDIO L
VIDEO OUT
ANALOG OUT
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