Making connections
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Connecting a DVD or Blu-ray player
Using HDMI (best)
To connect a DVD or Blu-ray player using HDMI:
1 Make sure that your TV’s power cord is unplugged and the DVD or
Blu-ray player is turned off.
2 Connect an HDMI cable (not included) to an HDMI jack on the
back of your TV and to the HDMI OUT jack on the DVD or Blu-ray
player.
3 Turn on your TV, then turn on the DVD or Blu-ray player.
4 Press INPUT to open the Input Source list.
5 Press
or to highlight HDMI 1 or HDMI 2, then press ENTER.
Using DVI (same as HDMI but requires a sound
connection)
To connect a DVD or Blu-ray player using DVI:
1 Make sure that your TV’s power cord is unplugged and the DVD or
Blu-ray player is turned off.
2 Connect an HDMI-DVI adapter (not included) to one end of an
HDMI cable (not included).
3 Connect the HDMI-DVI adapter to the DVI OUT jack on the DVD or
Blu-ray player and the other end of the cable to the HDMI 1 jack
on the TV.
4 Connect an audio cable with a 3.5 mm stereo mini-jack
(included) to the PC/DVI AUDIO IN jack on the back of your TV
and to the AUDIO OUT jack on the DVD or Blu-ray player.
5 Turn on your TV.
6 Turn on the DVI device, then set it to the output mode. See the
documentation that came with the device for more information.
7 Press INPUT to open the Input Source list.
8 Press
or to select HDMI 1, then press ENTER.
Note
You can also press HDMI repeatedly to select the
DVD or Blu-ray player.
Back of TV
DVD or Blu-ray player
Note
A DVI device must be connected the HDMI 1 jack. If
you connect a DVI device to another HDMI jack, you
will not hear audio.
Note
When you connect the audio using the PC/DVI
AUDIO IN jacks, the audio output is analog.
If your TV has a digital audio jack (optical or coaxial),
you can connect the video to the component video
jacks and connect the audio to the digital audio jack
to get digital audio output.
Note
You can also press HDMI repeatedly to select the
HDMI 1.
DVD or Blu-ray player
HDMI cable with
HDMI-DVI adapter
3.5 mm audio cable
Back of TV
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