Hi, I’m Les from Stress Less Audio Video and today, we’re talking about high definition DVR’s which stand for digital video recorders. What we’re going to do right now is we’re going to actually hook up this high definition DVR box to our plasma that we have behind. There’s a couple of different ways to do this.
Alright, we’re going to start this off. We’ve got our box here and as you can see, we’re looking at my signal cable already connected in to the input of this box. In this case, it comes straight from the wall which comes from your box in the basement or outside. However your satellite or cable we’ve decided to install it for you. So we’ve got this already hooked up. We’ve already got power here. The monitor already has power to it. All we need to do now is just hook up our interconnections and we’re ready to go. So let’s get to that.
If you look on the back on the back of the box and the back of the monitor, you’ll see a whole bunch of various connectors. For once, we’re going to be most interested right now is the high definition ones. The other one’s capable of accepting or sending a high definition signal. If you look right here, there’s a green, there’s a blue and there’s a red connector right here. Those three connectors are for component video.
Component video is actually three signals going down three different lines. When they meet at the other end, the monitor puts them back together to make one picture. This is an analog source. It takes the image, sense it through here as analog because obviously, these are analog wires. When they get back in the processor inside the monitor, we’ll put them back together, converted back to digital and put it out on a digital display.
If you’re using an analog monitor, it forgoes the actual processing of switching it back to digital. So what you’re going to do here is you’re basically going to hook these three right here like this which are the red, blue and the green. The other thing we’re going to need is a set of audio cables so we can actually get sound and we’re going to hook these guys up right here on the either one of the audio outputs. And then we’re going to do the same thing on the other side like this. That’s pretty much it and now one’s we turned it on and we go to the proper input on the monitor, we should get a picture.
The second way of hooking it up this box is going to be through the use of HDMI. Right beside these opponent video cables, you’ll notice there’s a funky little, not quite square weird looking thing and it connects to this cable here. This is an HDMI cable.
The difference between this and the component video cable is that HDMI is digital. So let's going to come straight off to digital processor in here, straight into the monitor and it stays digital the whole time so if you have a digital monitor which your LCD’s or plasmas. Most things this day in HR, you’re actually better off using an HDMI because it skips the processing step because remember, when the analog gets inside of the monitor, it has to be converted back to digital before it can be displayed on the screen.
One of the great things about HDMI, which is the reason it's so great is because you’re cutting out that processing step or two, if you’re really counting because this converts it analog then the analog is reconverted to digital. So, you’re talking about two more processes that are cut out. You get a much better picture. The picture stays more true to its original signal.
So, to connect this all you do is you just slide it in here like that and then on the back of the monitor, you do the same thing.
So the other cool thing about this if you noticed, I didn’t hook up any audio. This high definition monitor and this high definition box will talk to each other, send audio and stay sync, which it will keep the pictures from moving around. All of that is done within this one cable. So that’s pretty much it, and once you look hook up to HDMI cable, you get audio, you get sync, you get video, all that’s done internally and your picture stays better because it’s less pieces
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