Toshiba TX20 User Manual - Page 10

Chapter 1 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. OUT IN Connecting Your DMS 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 Toshiba Digital Media Server with TiVo® service (DMS). 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. Each piece of your audio/video (A/V) equipment has connectors-or jacks, to which cables can be connected. Some jacks are labeled "In" and some are labeled "Out." Pictures and sounds enter A/V equipment through IN jacks and leave through OUT jacks. When you connect your DMS 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 A/V equipment until it reaches your TV. 2