Pioneer DV-868AVi, DV-668AV operating instructions Contents

Contents

01 Before you start

Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 What’s in the box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Putting the batteries in the remote

control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Using the remote control . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Disc / content format playback

compatibility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 General disc compatibility . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 CD-R/RW compatibility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 DVD-R/RW compatibility . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Compressed audio compatibility . . . . . . . 9 PC created disc compatibility . . . . . . . . 10

Titles, chapters, groups and tracks. . . . . . 10 DVD-Video regions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

02 Connecting up

Rear panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Easy connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Using other types of video output . . . . . . . 15 Connecting using an S-Video output . . . 15

Connecting using the AV connector

output . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Connecting using the component video output . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Connecting for multichannel surround sound. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Connecting using the multichannel

analog outputs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Connecting using a digital audio

output . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Connecting using i.LINK . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 About i.LINK. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Creating an i.LINK network . . . . . . . . . . 20 Connecting using HDMI. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 About HDMI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Controlling this player from another

Pioneer component . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

03 Controls and displays

Front panel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 About progressive scan video. . . . . . . . . . 26

Compatibility of this unit with progressive-scan TVs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

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Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Remote control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

04 Getting Started

Setting the TV system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Watching NTSC on a PAL TV . . . . . . . . . . 30 Switching on . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Let’s Get Started . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 Using the on-screendisplays. . . . . . . . . . . 32 Setting up with the Setup Navigator . . . . .33 Playing discs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Basic playback controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 DVD disc menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 Video CD/Super VCD PBC menus . . . . . . 38

05 Playing discs

Introduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 Using the Disc Navigator to browse the contents of a disc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 Scanning discs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 Using the MULTI dial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Playing in slow motion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Frame advance/frame reverse . . . . . . . . . . 44 Looping a section of a disc . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 Using repeat play. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 Using random play . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 Creating a program list . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Editing a program list . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Other functions available from the program menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

Searching a disc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 Switching subtitles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 Switching the DVD audio language . . . . . . 50 Switching DVD-RW audio channels . . . . .51 Switching DVD-Audio audio channels . . . .51 Switching CD/MP3/Video CD/Super VCD audio channels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 Switching camera angles . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 Displaying disc information . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

06 Audio Settings menu

Note about features in the Audio

Settings menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 Audio DRC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

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