How to Use a Digital Dish for TV

It is possible to warch programming via digital satellite receiver.

When obtaining programming on your television system there are three basic methods of doing so. The first is through a cable hook up, the second through a digital antenna, and the third is through a digital satellite dish. If you have a satellite dish service you are able to hook up the equipment directly to your television, with the aid of a satellite receiver. The receiver is used to decode the programming obtained by the satellite as it comes scrambled.

Things You'll Need

• Component video cables
• RCA audio cables

Instructions

1. Connect the coaxial cable running from the digital satellite dish into the "In" port on the digital satellite receiver.

2. Insert the component video cables into the "Component Out" ports on the digital satellite receiver. Plug the other ends of the component video cables into the "Component In" ports on the television.

3. Plug the RCA audio cables into the "Audio Out" ports on the digital satellite receiver. Connect the opposite end of the cables into the "Audio In" ports on the television system.

4. Power on the television and the digital satellite receiver. Select the "Input" option on the TV, then choose "Component Video" and the digital satellite reception appears on the video screen.

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