Initial Settings menu—Continued
Video Output settings
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| 4:3 (Letter Box) | Set if you have a conventional 4:3 TV. Widescreen movies are | |
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TV Screen*1 |
| Set if you have a conventional 4:3 TV. Widescreen movies are | |
4:3 (Pan&Scan) | shown with the sides cropped so that the image fills the | ||
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16:9 (Wide) | Set if you have a widescreen TV. | ||
video output. See also | |||
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“Screen sizes and disc |
| Can be selected when you are connected via HDMI, and have | |
formats” on page 52.) |
| the “HDMI Resolution” set to “1920 x 1080p”, “1920 x 1080i” | |
| 16:9 (Compressed) | or “1280 x 720p”. Video in 4:3 can be properly displayed on a | |
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| Set if your TV is compatible with progressive scan video (see | |
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Component Out | Progressive | tor lights in the front panel display. See also “Switching the | |
| video output to interlace using the front panel controls” on | ||
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| Interlace | Set if your TV is not compatible with progressive scan video. | |
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| Video | Ordinary (composite) video output, compatible with all TVs. | |
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AV Connector Out |
| If your TV is compatible, this setting gives the best picture | |
| quality. | ||
(European model only) | RGB | ||
Note that there is no output from the component jacks when | |||
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| 1920x1080p | Set if your TV supports 1920 x 1080 pixel | |
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HDMI Resolution | 1920x1080i | Set if your TV supports 1920 x 1080 pixel interlace video. | |
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(If the monitor doesn’t | 1280x720p | Set if your TV supports 1280 x 720 pixel | |
support the selected | video. | ||
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720x480p (NTSC)/ | Set if your TV supports 720 x 480 pixel(NTSC) /720 x 576 | ||
will not appear.) | |||
720x576p (PAL) | pixel (PAL) | ||
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| 720x480i (NTSC)/ | Set if your TV supports 720 x 480 pixel(NTSC) /720 x 576 | |
| 720x576i (PAL) | pixel (PAL) interlace video. | |
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| Full range RGB | If colors are weak, this gives brighter colors and deeper black. | |
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| RGB | Use this setting if colors appear overly rich on the “Full range | |
HDMI Color | RGB” setting. | ||
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| Component | Outputs component video format (default setting for HDMI- | |
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*1 When connected to a 16:9 television: when either “16:9 (Wide)” or “16:9 (Compressed)” is selected and the television screen is expanded horizontally, the television screen settings must be changed.
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