Basic use of your DVD player

DV89 DVD PLAYER

LOAD

PLAY

STOP

PAUSE

TRACK

POWER

Introduction

‘Basic operation’ explains how to play a DVD, CD or other type of disc, including the use of the CR-314 remote control.

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

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 standby mode (standby 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.

HDCD indicator

This LED is located on the left of the display and lights green to indicate when HDCD (High Definition Compatible Digital) material is playing from suitably recorded audio CDs.

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 playback side facing down. Some discs are double sided, in which case the side labelled ‘side A’ should face up, to access 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

Most 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.

Layer change

Many DVD discs have two layers to increase the available play- back time (these DVDs are identified as type DVD-9 or DVD-18). Often, there will be a short pause in the video and audio of about a second whenever the laser of the player refocuses from one layer to the next.

Fast play

Press or 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 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.

Note that it is common for Video CDs to have only one track.

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 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

Should you need to navigate a disc or title menu from the front panel, use PAUSE for ‘up’, STOP for ‘down’ , for ‘right’, for ‘left’ and PLAY for ‘OK’.

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