Sony SVR-3000 User Manual
Activate and install
your Sony
®
SVR-3000
Complete Guided Setup
®
Use the TiVo
it's easy!
®
service—
STEP 1
Activate and install
Let’s get started!
This guide describes the basics for setting up your new Sony SVR Recorder. Activating and installing a
basic system takes about 25 minutes. Completing onscreen Guided Setup takes less than an hour.
See the Installation Guide for additional installation examples, further details, more diagrams, and
troubleshooting. (E.g., it includes an example setup with a DVD player and A/V receiver, and one with a TV
with only one input.)
Be fore yo u b egin–get to know your cables!
(Don’t worry if you don’t use all of them.)
Audio/Video
Cables
Control Cables
(cable box
or satellite
receiver only)
Composite cables with L/R audio
(red and white), and video (yellow)
S-video cable
IR control cable
Serial (data) control cable
Phone cord
Phone splitter
First, activate the TiVo® service
Activate the TiVo service before setting up your recorder. The TiVo service provides your SVR recorder with the
features of a TiVo DVR (Digital Video Recorder). The TiVo service brings you exclusive TiVo features such as
Season Pass
way to activate is to visit www.tivo.com/activate. If you don’t have Internet access, call TiVo Customer Service
at 1-877-367-8486. Be sure to have the 15-digit TiVo service number of your recorder handy. (You can find it
on the label on the back of your SVR Recorder.)
TM
recordings, WishListTM searches, Showcases, TiVo Suggestions, and much more. The easiest
Write your service number here for reference (it begins with "110"):
110-
You can change your account information (for example, change your credit card information) online at
Manage My Account, at www.tivo.com/manage.
After you have activated, you are ready to install your SVR Recorder. The inside of this guide provides four
common installation examples.
To Installation Examples
INSTALLATION EXAMPLES
SATELLITE or CABLE BOX
Connect Satellite or Cable Box to SVR
Recorder. Use either a composite cable alone
(shown), or connect an S-video cable and the L/R
audio (red and white) ends of a composite cable.
Satellite Receiver
or cable box
Serial
Control
Audio
R
OUT
Video
L
S-Video
Satellite
In
Ch
3/4
RF
Out
Connect the SVR Recorder to the TV . Use
either a composite cable alone (shown), or
connect an S-video cable and the L/R audio (red
and white) ends of a composite cable.
SVR
Recorder
OR
Television
The cables shown in these
*
connections are only examples.
Use cables that will provide the
highest quality connections
available for your equipment.
*
OUT
*
Control Cable Connection.
To record shows or display live TV, the SVR 3000
must change the channel on your cable box or
satellite receiver. To do so, it must send a signal
through either an IR (infrared) or serial control
cable. To connect a control cable, complete
either step or step , below.
If you have a DIRECTV
a serial input. Connect the serial control cable
from “Control Out-Serial” on the SVR Recorder to
your satellite box. Skip to step .
®
satellite receiver with
If your cable or satellite box is not a DIRECTV
satellite reciever with a serial input: Plug the
metal end of the IR control cable into “Control
Antenna
In
Video
Audio
A
R
L
B
S-Video
Out-IR” on the SVR Recorder (see the picture
below and to the left). Locate the IR sensor on
the front of the cable or satellite box. It’s usually
a tiny round bulb; if you shine a flashlight into
the plastic window on the front of the box, you
can see it. Mount the other two ends of the IR
cable (the IR emitters) in front of the IR sensor.
You can place the emitters above and below the
box. The emitters should stick out about 1.5”
from the front of the box. Use the provided
adhesive strips to secure the emitters.
extends 1½ "
IR sensor
(Example only. Follow
instructions to the right to locate
your cable/satellite box's IR sensor)
Connect Phone and Power. See “Connect a
telephone line” and “Power on and tune your TV,”
in the far right panel.
Satellite Receiver
or cable box
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