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Choose Your Setup
Choose Your Setup
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Choose Your Setup
There are several ways to connect your receiver to match your particular equipment setup and to gain
optimum signal quality. The basic steps are as follows:
• Connect the satellite dish cable to your receiver.
• Connect the receiver audio and video to your TV or VCR.
• If you connected the receiver to a VCR, connect the VCR to your TV.
• Connect the receiver to a telephone line.
• Plug in all power cords.
The following pages give detailed instructions on the types of connections you can make, depending
on the equipment you have, in order to get the best picture and sound quality. Note that the back
panels of your TV and other equipment may not exactly match those illustrated.
Connecting Your DIRECTV Receiver to the Satellite Dish
Connect the RG-6 RF coaxial cable (not included) from your satellite dish to the jack labeled
SATELLITE IN on the DIRECTV Receiver.
Connecting Your DIRECTV Receiver to your TV or VCR
Depending on the connections on the back of your TV or VCR, you have the following options:
• S-Video & A/V Audio Connection (Best Quality)
• A/V Connection (Better Quality)
• RF Coaxial Connection (Good Quality)
These connections are described on the following pages.
NOTE: To obtain optimum picture quality, make sure the receiver is connected directly to the TV. Connecting the
receiver to the TV through a VCR or DVD recorder is known to yield less than optimum picture quality, particularly
when viewing copy-protected programming.
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