Arcam DV29 manual Basic use of your DVD player, Introduction, Front-panel controls, Playing a disc

Basic use of your DVD player

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Introduction

‘Basic operation’ explains how to play a DVD, CD or other type of disc. Note that it may be necessary to configure your player correctly for your system before optimum – or any – playback can be achieved. Player configuration is described beginning on page 12.

More sophisticated features – such as special playback modes and programming jumps and playback sequences – are described in the ‘Advanced features’ section, later in this handbook.

Front-panel controls

Switching on

Switch the unit on by pressing the POWER button. The status LED glows green when the unit is powered up and red when in stand-by mode (stand-by is operated from the remote control).

Note that the remote control sensor is located on the right-hand side of the display window. Do not obstruct this or the remote will not work.

Playing a disc

Loading a disc

Press LOAD on the front panel (or OPEN on the handset) and place the disc on the tray, with the play- back side facing down (some discs are double sided, in which case the side labelled ‘side A’ should face up to play side A).

Press LOAD on the front panel to close the tray. The disc loads after a pause of a few seconds.

Playing a disc

Many DVDs begin playing automatically, but some titles begin by displaying a menu. Select the menu item ‘Play movie’ (or similar) using the cursor pad, then press OK to start playback.

For discs that do not play automatically (including CDs and VCDs), press PLAY.

Note that when playing DVDs, the drive mechanism operates at much higher speeds compared with CDs and so may produce more noise when loading and playing initial chapters; this is normal.

Fast play

Press 8 or 7 on the front-panel or remote control to play fast forward or backwards. For DVDs, VCDs and CDs the following speeds for fast playback are available: x2, x4, x8, x20, x60 and x100. Press the button repeatedly to cycle through the different speeds. To resume normal playback speed, press PLAY.

Fast playback is not available for MP3/WMA discs.

Skipping chapters/tracks

To skip chapters (or tracks on a CD), press or .

When skipping back, the first button press takes you to the beginning of the current chapter. Pressing the button again takes you to the start of the previous chapter.

Pausing playback

Press PAUSE on the front panel or ; on the remote control to pause playback. To resume playback, press PLAY on the front panel or 4 on the handset.

Stopping playback

Press the STOP button on the front panel or < on the remote control to stop playback.

When playing a DVD, pressing STOP once performs a ‘resume stop’. If you now press PLAY, playback resumes from the point it was stopped.

If you press STOP twice, this is a ‘complete stop’, and playback resumes from the beginning of the disc.

Front panel menu navigation

If desired, it is possible to navigate disc and player menus using the front panel buttons; to this end, the NAV button is provided.

Pressing the NAV button causes the player to enter ‘navigator’ mode, indicated by the ‘NAV MODE’ LED being illuminated. In this mode, the front panel buttons take on the functions illustrated above each button, for example the STOP and PAUSE buttons become and .

To exit navigtor mode, press the NAV button for a second time.

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