Chapter, Features | Pioneer BDP-95FD specification

Chapter 1

Before you start

Features

BD-ROM playback

Blu-ray Disc is a next-generation video disc format featuring far higher disc capacity than conventional DVD. The higher capacity makes a whole range of new and enhanced features possible, such as support for high-definition video up to 1920 x 1080 pixels, high quality, surround sound audio, greater interactivity and richer content.

BD-ROM discs are commercially produced discs (Video Distribution format) that can contain movie and other video content, interactive content, enhanced menu features such as pop-up menus (press POPUP MENU/MENU during playback for these), full-color, high-definition animated buttons and animated menu transition effects, button sounds (sounds are played when menu buttons are selected or activated), high-definition bitmap subtitles supporting full-color images with frame-accurate animation effects up to full video frame rate, and so on.

While BD capacity is enough for most applications, the BD-ROM standard allows for content to be spread across several discs, removing the limit of one physical disc. Follow the on-screen instructions during playback when using these special kinds of discs.

BD-J application

The BD-ROM specification supports Java for interactive content. The Java specification for BD-ROM is known as BD-J. This allows content providers to put games and other interactive material linked to specific titles on to BD-ROM discs. (This player does not support downloadable BD-J content, direct connection to the Internet or the retrieval of content through the Internet.)

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Esmertec and Jbed are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of Esmertec AG.

Connect to a local area network

Connect this player to one or more computers in your house via Ethernet and use them as media servers, streaming audio, video and still image files for playback on your TV and/or audio system.

HDMI digital interface

The HDMI (High-Definition Multimedia Interface) interconnect provides high quality digital audio and video, all from a single user-friendly connector. HDMI is the first consumer electronics interface to support uncompressed standard, enhanced, or high-definition video plus standard to multi-channel surround sound audio, all using one interface. You can easily connect to an HDMI-equipped AV receiver or audio-visual device for high quality audio and video.

•HDMI, the HDMI logo and High-Definition Multimedia Interface are trademarks or registered trademarks of HDMI Licensing LLC.

HDMI Control

By connecting this unit to a Pioneer plasma display or AV system (amplifier or AV receiver etc.) with an HDMI cable, you can control this unit from the connected plasma display, as well as have the connected plasma display or AV system automatically change inputs in response to this unit starting playback or having the GUI screen (ex. Disc Navigator) displayed (known as the Auto-select function). The connected plasma display can thereby have its power turned from off to on by this function.

You can also have this unit turn on automatically when you control this unit from a connected plasma display that is turned on (Simultaneous power function).

Additionally, when the language information from a connected plasma display is received, you can have this unit’s on-screen display language change automatically to that of the plasma display (only when playback is stopped and GUI screen is not displayed).

Refer to your plasma display’s operating manual for more information regarding how your plasma display transmits language information.

For more information about which operations can be carried out by connecting via HDMI cable, refer to the operating manual for your plasma display or AV system.

PureCinema

When you playback film material (24 frames/second) on a BD-ROM or DVD-Video disc, the progressive scan line automatically converts the film material to optimum quality (see PureCinema on page 39).

1080/60p and 1080/24p output video

This player supports a variety of output video resolutions, up to 1080 lines/60 frames per second, progressive (HDMI only), making it ideal for playing high-definition Blu-ray Discs.