Pioneer DV-989AVi-G 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 . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Compressed Audio Compatibility. . . . . . 10 PC Created Disc Compatibility . . . . . . . . 10

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

02 Connecting up

Rear panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Easy connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Using other types of video output . . . . . . . 14 Connecting using an S-Video output . . . 14

Connecting using the component

video output. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Connecting using the D1/D2 video output . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Connecting for multichannel surround sound. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Connecting using the multichannel

analog outputs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Connecting using a digital audio

output . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Connecting using i.LINK . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 About i.LINK. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Creating an i.LINK network . . . . . . . . . . 19 Connecting using HDMI. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 About HDMI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Controlling this player from another

Pioneer component . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

03 Controls and displays

Front panel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 About progressive scan video. . . . . . . . . . 24 Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Remote control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

04 Getting Started

Setting the TV System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Watching NTSC on a PAL TV. . . . . . . . . .28 Switching on . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Let’s Get Started . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Using the on-screendisplays. . . . . . . . . . .30 Setting up with the Setup Navigator . . . . .31 Playing discs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Basic playback controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 DVD disc menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Video CD/Super VCD PBC menus . . . . . .36

05 Playing discs

Introduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Using the Disc Navigator to browse the contents of a disc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Scanning discs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 Using the Multi Dial. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 Playing in slow motion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 Frame advance/frame reverse . . . . . . . . . .42 Looping a section of a disc . . . . . . . . . . . .42 Using repeat play. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Using random play . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Creating a program list . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Editing a program list . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 Other functions available from the program menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

Searching a disc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 Switching subtitles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Switching the DVD audio language . . . . . .48 Switching DVD-RWaudio channels . . . . .49 Switching DVD-Audio audio channels . . . .49 Switching CD/MP3/Video CD/

Super VCD audio channels . . . . . . . . . . . .49 Switching camera angles . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 Displaying disc information . . . . . . . . . . . .49