DVD-Audio Disks, PIP Picture In Picture

Using DVDs and Video CDs

DVD-Audio Disks

DVD-Audio is a new disk format based on the success of the DVD video and also improves the quality and functionality in the audio ﬁ eld. Multichannel audio provides a new music listening experience. The stereo quality surpasses that of Audio-CDs (192kHz in comparison with 44.1 kHz for CDs; 24 Bit Sampling Rate instead of 16 Bit for CDs).

A typical DVD-Audio Disk contains up to seven times the capacity of an Audio-CD. The additional space is used either for multichannel recordings or for longer music recording times. Many DVD-Audio Disks also contain screen texts such as background information about the artist, song lyrics, biogra- phies etc.. Some also contain photo galleries or video clips.

Since the contents of the DVD-Audio Disks differ, various menus and functions described below may not be available.

Switch title

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Some DVD-Audio Disks divide the contents into different titles. Centros allows you to switch back and forth comfortably between the individual titles with the menu.

1.Press twice during playback.

2.Select with	/	the menu item “Title”.
3.Then press	/	or button 0 – 9 to select a
speciﬁ c title.

Note: On some DVD-Audio Disks, the manufac- turer has protected certain contents by a password. Enter the password when the icon appears on the screen (you may ﬁ nd it on the disk sleeve or in the Internet). This password protection is not determined by the DVD recorder but is a function of the disk.

Switch chapter

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Proceed as follows to select one of the contents on a DVD-Audio Disk.

1.Press twice during playback.

2.Select with	/	the menu item “Chapter”.
3.Then press	/	to select a certain chapter.

Storing the last disc settings

DVD-V Video VR

The recorder saves the user settings for the last disc that you have watched. The settings are saved until you remove the disc from the recorder or switch it off.

If you insert a disc that has already been played back, playback will continue from the last stopping point.

PIP (Picture In Picture)

DVD-V Video VR VCD

This function enables you, during playback, to watch television programmes or images from other connected AV sources in a small picture.

PIP on / off

Press PIP to switch the small picture on. Press this button again to switch it back off.

Selecting the small picture

Press EPG to select the signal source for the

small picture. Each time that the button is pressed, the different signal sources for the small picture are displayed as below.

Tuner, AV1, AV2, AV3, AV4, Tuner

Selecting a TV programme for the small picture

Use / to change the programme when the small picture input is set to Tuner. The number of the programme selected appears on the screen. You can replace the large picture with the TV programme showing in the small picture by using to end the DVD playback (the small picture is then suppressed).

Changing the position of the small picture

Press / repeatedly until you reach the posi- tion you want. The small picture can be moved clockwise and counter-clockwise.

Zooming the small picture

Press RADIO repeatedly to increase the size of the small picture. 3 different sizes are available.

Playing disks with mixed contents

If data disks contain ﬁ les of different playable formats such as MP3, JPG and DivX, you can switch between the three playback modes “Film”, “Music” and “Photo” with the yellow TITLE button:

•See the chapter “DivX mode” on page 35 to ﬁ nd out how to use the “Film” mode.

•See the chapter “Audio-CD and MP3/WMA mode” on page 36 for operation of the “Music” mode.

•See the chapter “Photo Disk mode” on page 39 to ﬁ nd out how to use the “Photo” mode.

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