User's Manual

Troubleshooting
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How Signal Flow works
How the Digital Satellite Signals get to Your TV
In the example above:
1. Program providers send signals to your antenna dish.
2. The antenna dish sends the signal to the receiver’s SATELLITE IN jack.
3. The signal continues through the coaxial cable to the VCR and then to the TV. (The VCR may seem like an
unnecessary link in the chain, but this setup lets you record DSS
®
programming and off-air antenna/cable
programming.)
If you use audio/video cables, the satellite signal also flows through the audio/video cables to the TV’s line inputs (left,
right, and video or S-video).
How Off-Air Antenna/Cable Signals get to Your TV
In the example above:
1. Off-air/cable broadcasters send signals to your off-air antenna or through cable to your home.
2. The signal passes through the receiver along the coaxial cable to your VCR. The signal can also pass through
the VCR to the TV. (The VCR may seem like an unnecessary link in the chain, but this setup lets you record DSS
®
programming and off-air antenna/cable programming.)
DSS
®
Signal
From dish antenna
TV Signal
From antenna or cable
If you use audio/video cables,
view the DSS
®
signal by tuning
the TV to its Line Input Channel.
If you use coaxial cables
(and no audio/video
cables), view the satellitte
or off-air antenna signal
by tuning the:
TV to channel 3
VCR to channel 3
Coaxial cables
Audio/video cables
Digital Satellite Receiver
VCR
TV
Video Out
Audio Out
S-Video
Video
Left
Right
ANT IN
OUT TO TV
CH 3
CH 4
ANT IN
SATELLITE IN
IN
FROM
ANT
OUT
TO
TV
Video In
S-Video
Video
Audio In
Left
Right