Pioneer VSX-521: Connecting your component with no HDMI terminal Connecting a satellite receiver or other digital set-top box
Connecting your component with no HDMI terminal Connecting a satellite receiver or other digital set-top box: Pioneer VSX-521
Table of contents
- IMPORTANT VENTILATION CAUTION
- Information for users on collection and disposal of old equipment and used batteries
- Contents
- Before you start Checking what’s in the box Loading the batteries Flow of settings on the receiver
- Remote control
- Connecting your equipment Hints on the speaker placement Placing the speakers
- Connecting the speakers
- Making cable connections
- Analog audio cables Digital audio cables Video cables About video outputs connection
- Connecting a TV and playback components Connecting using HDMI
- Connecting your component with no HDMI terminal Connecting a satellite receiver or other digital set-top box
- Connecting an HDD/DVD recorder, Blu-ray Disc recorder and other video sources Using the component video jacks
- Connecting other audio components Using external antennas Connecting antennas To improve FM reception To improve AM reception
- Plugging in the receiver
- Basic Setup Canceling the demo display Automatically setting up for surround sound (MCACC)
- Other problems when using the Auto MCACC setup
- Basic playback Playing a source Listening in surround sound
- Listening to the radio

Connecting your equipment
Connecting your component with no HDMI terminal
This diagram shows connections of a TV and DVD player (or other playback component) with
no HDMI terminal to the receiver.
• If both TV and player has a component video jacks, you can connect these too. See Using
the component video jacks on page 13 for more on this.
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Note
Connecting a satellite receiver or other digital set-top box
Satellite and cable receivers, and terrestrial digital TV tuners are all examples of so-called ‘set-
top boxes’.
• If the set-top box or video component also has an HDMI or a component video output, you
can connect this too. See Connecting using HDMI on page 11 or Using the component
video jacks on page 13 for more on this.
• In order to listen to the audio from the DVD player that is connected to this receiver using
an optical cable or a coaxial cable, first, switch to the DVD input, then press SIGNAL SEL
to choose the audio signal O2 (OPTICAL2) or C1 (COAXIAL1).
Note
HDMI
DVR/BDR IN
DVD IN
BD IN VIDEO IN
OUT
COAXIAL
OPTICAL
IN
1
IN
IN
1
2
ASSIGNABLE
ASSIGNABLE
(
CD
)
(
TV/SAT
)
(
CD-R/TAPE
)
VIDEO
AUDIO
SURR BACK/
DVR/BDR
CD-R/TAPE
FRONT HEIGHT
L
ADAPTER PORT
MONITOR
TV/SAT
BD
(
Single
)
OUT
(
OUTPUT 5
V
IN
IN
OUT
PRE OUT
0.1 A MAX
)
R
ANTENNA
FM
DVR /
CD
UNBAL
BDR
75
L
AM LOOP
OUT
IN
DVD IN
IN IN
FRONT
RL
IN
1
R
CEN
(
DVD
)
ASSIGNABLE
IN
2
L
(
DVR /
BDR
)
IN
IN
R
MONITOR
SUBWOOFER
OUT
YP
B
P
R
TV/SAT
BD
DVD
COMPONENT
VIDEO
PRE OUT
SPEAKERS
A
• In order to listen to the audio from the source component that is connected to this receiver
using a coaxial cable, first, switch to the TV/SAT, then press SIGNAL SEL to choose the
audio signal C1 (COAXIAL1).
T
OPTICAL
RL
DIGITAL AUDIO OUT ANALOG AUDIO OUT
VIDEO IN
VIDEO OUT
RL
OPTICAL COAXIAL
DIGITAL AUDIO OUTANALOG AUDIO OUT
Select one
Select one
This connection is
required in order to
listen to the sound of
the TV over the
receiver.
TV
DVD player
HDMI
DVR/BDR IN
DVD IN
BD IN VIDEO IN
OUT
COAXIAL
IN
IN
IN
OPTICAL
1
1
2
ASSIGNABLE
ASSIGNABLE
(
CD
)
(
TV/SAT
)
(
CD-R/TAPE
)
VIDEO
AUDIO
SURR BACK/
DVR/BDR
CD-R/TAPE
FRONT HEIGHT
L
ADAPTER PORT
MONITOR
TV/SAT
BD
(
Single
)
OUT
(
OUTPUT 5
V
IN
IN
OUT
PRE OUT
0.1 A MAX
)
R
ANTENNA
FM
DVR/
CD
UNBAL
BDR
75
L
AM LOOP
OUT
IN
DVD IN
IN IN
FRONT
RL
IN
1
R
CEN
(
DVD
)
ASSIGNABLE
IN
2
L
(
DVR /
BDR
)
IN
IN
R
MONITOR
SUBWOOFER
OUT
YP
B PR
TV/SAT
BD
DVD
COMPONENT
VIDEO
PRE OUT
SPEAKERS
A
T
RL
OPTICALCOAXIAL
DIGITAL AUDIO OUTANALOG AUDIO OUT
VIDEO OUT
Select one
Set-top box, etc.
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