Hitachi VTFX610A - Manual (Page 9)

Getting Started - 9 -
feature, if your TV has it.
Then connect the AUDIO OUT jacks (red and white) on the VCR to the AUDIO IN jacks on the TV (left to left,
right to right).
This audio hookup will give you better sound than the RF signal hookup, because the electronic signal won't
have to go through a conversion process.
Plus your VCR has a stereo decoder, which your TV might not. For big speaker sound, you can also use these
jacks to connect the VCR to your stereo system (page 47).
Capabilities: The audio and video signal connections are all you need to play back a prerecorded tape. If you
do not intend to record on your VCR from your antenna/cable, then you're all hooked up now. Otherwise,
continue with Step 4, which will let you record off TV channels.
4 Hook Up the RF Signal
Look at the back of your TV for a connector that looks like one of these, and follow the
corresponding hookup option. If you have any sort of cable box, see the hookup options in Advanced
Operations (page 43).
Simple Antenna/Cable 75 Ohm Hookup
This is an easy hookup that you can use if your cable or antenna has a 75 ohm round wire connector. You will
need the 75 ohm cable supplied with your VCR. It looks like this:
If you have been watching the TV in your home before getting the VCR, you will already have a round wire
attached to your TV. Otherwise, look for a cable connection coming in through the wall from outside. (If you
find this connection, remember to call your local cable company to start the service.)
1. If still hooked up to your TV, unscrew the round wire from the 75 ohm connector on your television.
Otherwise, take the wire that comes in from the wall.
2. Screw this round wire into the IN FROM ANT jack on the back of your VCR.
3. Using the 75 ohm cable supplied with your VCR, slide on either end to the OUT TO TV jack on the back of
the VCR.
4. Connect the other end of the same cable onto the 75 ohm antenna input on your TV (where you first
disconnected the TV in step 1.)