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If your TV has a component connection (three video wires -green/red/blue) you can use just about any receiver on the market as they will pretty much all have this. Some do not have S video anymore because it has pretty much been abolished for component. Composite is a single yellow video wire which has been around forever, you can pretty much guarantee your TV has this as well as just about any receiver.

For the DVD player, you could use any of the above three as well. Again if the TV has component (which is very possible as Toshiba was the first to use it, called ColorStream, I had a Toshiba DVD player with it back in about 2002) you would prefer to use that. If not you'll have to use S video or composite, but S video again is hard to find in a receiver.

Another option is to run video directly from the DVD player to the TV and bypass the receiver altogether. It's nice if you have three or four components to run them through the receiver because then you can only run one set of wires from the receiver to the TV and let the receiver do the switching from the various inputs.

For audio, you will want to run a digital cable (what is known as coaxial or optical) from the DVD player directly into the receiver. You don't need to run the audio to the TV unless you plan on using only the TV speakers from time to time. You can use the white/red stereo audio if you wish, but if you're buying a new receiver and a new DVD player, you may as well take advantage of digital audio and send much better quality sound to your Axioms. From the TV itself the white/red is probably your only option if you are watching cable through the TV and you don't have a seperate cable box.