How to Connect Digital Cable Television
Digital cable television allows you to get digital programming as well as receive a high-definition signal. Digital cable television gives you so many benefits and added features such as on-demand programming, and a DVR. You can easily connect your digital cable television within a few minutes.
Materials Needed:
- Coaxial cable
- HDMI cable
- Composite cable
- Component cable
- Plug the coaxial cable into the wall jack cable and secure the connection. Screw the connector on one end of the coaxial cable onto the jack to secure it. Connect the other end of the coaxial cable into the coaxial input located on the back of the digital cable box.
- Plug the HDMI cable into the HDMI output on the back of the digital cable box. This is optional and is only needed if you have a high definition TV. Plug HDMI cable's other end into the HDMI input that is on the back of your TV. Only one HDMI cable is needed because it carries both the audio and video signal.
- Plug the red, green and blue component cable into the back of the cable corresponding color output jacks. Plug the other end of the component cables into the correspondent colors on the TV's input jacks. Plug the red and white composite cables into the back of the cable box red and white audio output jacks. Plug the other end into the input jacks of the red and white audio cable that are located on the same channel that the component cables are inserted in.
- Turn on the TV and the digital cable box. Set the TV input to the same video signal that the cable box is inserted to. The input can be set on the TV by pressing the "Input" or "TV/VCR" on the TV's remote.