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Installing the TV
15
Connecting a VCR and Cable Box
Use this hookup if:
❑ Your cable TV company scrambles some channels, but not all of
them (pay channels vs. regular cable channels) and you therefore
need to use a cable box, and
❑ You want to use the PIP feature.
With this setup you can:
❑ Use the TV remote control to change cable box channels when the
signal is scrambled.
❑ Use the TV remote control to change TV channels when the
signal is not scrambled. (Your TV’s tuner provides a better signal
than the cable box.)
❑ Use the PIP feature.
❑ Record both regular CATV and scrambled channels.
To connect a cable box and a VCR, you will need:
❑ A small, inexpensive device known as a splitter.
❑ Three coaxial cables.
❑ Either a combination audio/video cable, or an S VIDEO cable
and audio cables.
1 Connect the CATV cable to the single (input) jack of the splitter.
2 Use a coaxial cable to connect one of the two output jacks of the
splitter to the TV’s VHF/UHF jack.
3 Use a coaxial cable to connect the other output jack of the splitter
to the input jack of the cable box.
4 Use a coaxial cable to connect the output jack of the cable box to
the input jack of the VCR.
5 Use the video line (yellow) of a combination audio/video (A/V)
cable to connect the video output jack of the VCR to the video
input jack of the TV.
Connect the left (white) and right (red) audio output channels of
the VCR to the respective input channels on the TV.
✍ If the VCR has an S VIDEO jack, you can use an S VIDEO cable to improve
picture quality; replace the yellow video cable of the combination A/V
cable with the S VIDEO cable. You will still need audio cables for sound.
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