Connect your DVD recorder to your TV and set-top box
A DVD recorder allows you to record your favorite video content, including TV shows, to DVD. Here's how to connect a DVD recorder to your TV and to your set-top cable or satellite box.
First, connect the set-top box to the DVD recorder. If your set-top box has only an RF output, you'll have to use that connection exclusively. But regardless of what other connections you use, you should connect the RF jacks.
Simply connect an RF cable from the set-top box's RF output to the RF input of the DVD recorder. Yellow composite video connections provide better video quality than RF, and S-Video jacks are an even better quality. So if your set-top box has one of these types of connections, you should use it. Once you've connected the video cable, plug the red and white stereo audio cables into the matching audio jacks on the DVD recorder.
Now it's time to connect the DVD recorder to the television. As with the set-top box, the first connection to make here is RF. Connect a second RF cable from the RF output of the DVD recorder to the RF input of the TV.
Regardless of what connections you made from your set-top box, you usually need to use a composite, S-Video, component-video, or HDMI connection to watch DVDs played on your DVD recorder. We recommend that, here, you choose the best-quality video connection that's available on your TV and not taken up by another cable.
Your HDMI cable may already be taken up by an HDTV receiver. So use the component-video connection by connecting a component-video cable from the component-video output of the DVD recorder to the component-video input of the TV.
Finally, connect the red and white audio cables from the audio outputs of the DVD recorder to the matching audio inputs on the TV. Now you're ready to record television onto DVD with your DVD recorder and watch it on your TV.
A DVD recorder allows you to record your favorite video content, including TV shows, to DVD. Here's how to connect a DVD recorder to your TV and to your set-top cable or satellite box.
First, connect the set-top box to the DVD recorder. If your set-top box has only an RF output, you'll have to use that connection exclusively. But regardless of what other connections you use, you should connect the RF jacks.
Simply connect an RF cable from the set-top box's RF output to the RF input of the DVD recorder. Yellow composite video connections provide better video quality than RF, and S-Video jacks are an even better quality. So if your set-top box has one of these types of connections, you should use it. Once you've connected the video cable, plug the red and white stereo audio cables into the matching audio jacks on the DVD recorder.
Now it's time to connect the DVD recorder to the television. As with the set-top box, the first connection to make here is RF. Connect a second RF cable from the RF output of the DVD recorder to the RF input of the TV.
Regardless of what connections you made from your set-top box, you usually need to use a composite, S-Video, component-video, or HDMI connection to watch DVDs played on your DVD recorder. We recommend that, here, you choose the best-quality video connection that's available on your TV and not taken up by another cable.
Your HDMI cable may already be taken up by an HDTV receiver. So use the component-video connection by connecting a component-video cable from the component-video output of the DVD recorder to the component-video input of the TV.
Finally, connect the red and white audio cables from the audio outputs of the DVD recorder to the matching audio inputs on the TV. Now you're ready to record television onto DVD with your DVD recorder and watch it on your TV.