Pioneer DV-79AVi-s operating instructions Contents

Contents

01 Before you start

Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 What’s in the box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Putting the batteries in the remote

control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Using the remote control . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Disc / content format playback

compatibility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 General disc compatibility . . . . . . . . . . . 11 CD-R/RW compatibility . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 DVD-R/RW Compatibility . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Compressed Audio Compatibility. . . . . . 12 PC Created Disc Compatibility . . . . . . . . 12

Titles, chapters, groups and tracks. . . . . . 13 DVD-Video regions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

02 Connecting up

Rear panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Easy connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Using other types of video output . . . . . . . 17 Connecting using an S-Video output . . . 17

Connecting using the component

video output. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Connecting for multichannel surround sound. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Connecting using the multichannel

analog outputs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Connecting using a digital audio

output . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Connecting using i.LINK . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 About i.LINK. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Creating an i.LINK network . . . . . . . . . . 21 Connecting using HDMI. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 About HDMI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Controlling this player from another

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

03 Controls and displays

Front panel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 About progressive scan video. . . . . . . . . . 26 Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Remote control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Setting up the remote to control

your TV. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

04 Getting Started

Switching on . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 Let’s Get Started . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Using the on-screen displays. . . . . . . . . . . 32 Setting up with the Setup Navigator . . . . . 33 Playing discs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Basic playback controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 DVD disc menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Video CD PBC menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

05 Playing discs

Introduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 Using the Disc Navigator to browse the contents of a disc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 Scanning discs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Using the Multi Dial. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 Playing in slow motion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 Frame advance/frame reverse . . . . . . . . . . 45 Looping a section of a disc . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 Using repeat play. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 Using random play . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 Creating a program list . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

Editing a program list . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 Other functions available from the program menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Searching a disc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 Switching subtitles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 Switching the DVD audio language . . . . . . 51 Switching DVD-RWaudio channels . . . . . 52 Switching DVD-Audio audio channels . . . .52 Switching CD/MP3/Video CD audio channels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 Switching camera angles . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 Displaying disc information . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

06 Audio Settings menu

Note about features in the Audio

Settings menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 Audio DRC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 Legato PRO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 Hi-Bit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 Virtual Surround . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 Channel Level . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 Speaker Distance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57