To determine the hookup
you need:
1. If you don't have a ('able
system, (_se the Basic
Connections.
2. IfyotJ have a cable system
but no converter box, use
the Basic Cable Connections.
3_
If you have a cable system
with a converter box (some
or all channels are scrambled
or premimn), tJse Cable
Converter Box HooktJp (or
Alternative Ca ble Converter
Box Hookup).
Your exact hookup will depend on whether or not you
subscribe to ('able, and whether you have a cable
converter box or other equipment. However, the basic
idea is the same.
The signal (whether antenna, cable, or satellite)
coming into yo_r ho_Jse needs two things for the
program to appear on your TV: cables and tuners.
FL'ts_, the signal travels through a cable.
Secr)nd, the signal goes to a device with a tuner such
as your TV or VCR. The t_mer selects the one channel
that yo_J are watching fiom the many channels that
yo_ have available.
ARer yo_ have chosen the desired channel with this
tuner, the device may convert the signal into the
audio and video that yo_ see on yo_Jr television
screen, or it may rebroadcast the signal, on a 1)re-set
channel, to another device.
For ex_m/;]e, a cable may go into a device with a tuner
(a cable box or VCR) and have a cable going fiom this
device into another tuner s_ch as your TV. This
means that the channel selected on the first tuner
(Cable box or VCR) is the one that the second tuner
(TV) will pick up. This is why yotJ select your TV
channels _Jsing yo_Jr VCR remote control. The signal is
coming to the VCR which tunes in the channel yo_J
select and sends that channel to the TV. This is also
why, if you have a ('able converter box, you select TV
channels using the cable converter box.
When one t_mer sends a signal f_}r a channel to the
next t_mer, the first tuner always _Jses a particular
channel of its own to broadcast on. For example, yo_Jr
VCR uses either channel 3 or 4. If your VCR is set to
broadcast on channel 3, you must set your TV to
channel 3 to receive this signal.
So, to watch TV channel 12, yo_J wo_Jld tune in channel
12 on your VCR and channel 3 or yo_Jr TV. Your con-
verter box, if you have one, works the same way.
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