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Chapter 1
Getting Started
Using This Guide
Step 1: Understanding the basics
TVs used to be so simple: no color, no digital video, no stereo sound, no choices. All you
needed was an antenna and a TV. The antenna captured audio and video signals. A wire,
connected from the antenna to the TV, brought these signals to your TV as sounds and
pictures.
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,
an A/V receiver, and a game system connected to your TV, in addition to your Pioneer
DVD Recorder with TiVo
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(referred to in this guide as the Recorder). However, one thing
has remained the same: you still need to get the sounds and pictures from their source
(your antenna, or your cable or satellite service) to your TV.
You get the sounds and pictures to your TV by using cables. These make a path over
which the pictures and sounds travel to your TV. 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 places where cables can be connected. Some
connectors are labeled “In” and some are labeled “Out.” The pictures and sounds enter a
piece of equipment through an IN connector and leave through an OUT connector.
When you connect your Recorder to your TV and other audio/video (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 connectors) and out (through OUT connectors) of your equipment until it
reaches your TV.
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