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Chapter 1
Connecting Your DVR
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 HUMAX DVD
Recorder with TiVo
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service. However, one thing has remained the 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.
All of your equipment has connectors, or jacks, where cables can be connected. Some
jacks are labeled “In” and some are labeled “Out.” Pictures and sounds enter audio/video
(A/V) equipment through IN jacks and leave through OUT jacks.
When you connect your Recorder 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 equipment until it reaches your TV.
Remember, always connect cables
from the OUT jack of one device to
the IN jack of the next. Never connect an
IN to an IN or an OUT to an OUT.
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