Sharp BD-HP25U operation manual Discs that Cannot Be Used with This Player, About Media Types

About Media Types

Discs that Cannot Be Used with This Player

The following discs cannot be played back or will not play back properly on this Player. If such a disc is mistakenly played back, speaker damage may occur. Never attempt to play back these discs.

CDG, Video CD, Photo CD, CD-ROM, CD-TEXT, SVCD, SACD, PD, CDV, CVD, DVD-RAM, DVD- Audio, BD-RE with the cartridge, CD-WMA

Discs with unusual shapes cannot be played.

•Discs with unusual shapes (heart-shaped or hexagonal discs, etc.) cannot be used. The use of such discs will cause malfunction.

The following BD video discs cannot be played.

•Discs not displaying “A” or “ALL” for the region code (discs sold outside the authorized marketing area).*

•Discs produced illegally.

•Discs recorded for commercial use.

*The region code for this product is A.

The following DVD video discs cannot be played.

•Discs not displaying “1” or “ALL” for the region code (discs sold outside the authorized marketing area).*

•Discs produced illegally.

•Discs recorded for commercial use.

*The region code for this product is 1.

The following BD-RE/R, DVD-RW/R and DVD+RW/R discs cannot be played.

•Discs on which data has not been recorded cannot be played back.

The following Audio CD*1 discs cannot be played.

•Discs containing a signal for the purpose of protecting copyrights (copy control signal) may not be played back with this Player.

•This Player has been designed on the premise of playing back Audio CDs that comply with CD (Compact Disc) standards.

The following CD-RW/R discs cannot be played.

•Discs on which data has not been recorded cannot be played back.

•Discs recorded in a format other than an Audio CD and JPEG/MP3 file format cannot be played back.

•Discs may not be played back depending on their recording status or the status of the disc itself.

•Discs may not be played back depending on their compatibility with this Player.

*2 About the JPEG file format

JPEG is a type of file format for storing still-image files (photos, illustrations, etc.). The Player lets you play JPEG format still-image files.

File formats that are not compatible.

•Still images in formats other than JPEG (such as TIFF) cannot be played.

•There may be some files that cannot be played even if they are in JPEG format.

•Progressive JPEG files cannot be played.

•Moving image files as well as Motion JPEG format files cannot be played, even though they are JPEG files.

Other files that cannot be played back.

•You may not be able to play some still images which you have created, touched up, copied or otherwise edited on your computer.

•You may not be able to play some still images you have processed (rotated or saved by overwriting other images you have imported from the Internet or e-mail).

You may experience one or more of the following symptoms when playing files.

•It may take some time to play files depending on the number of folders, number of files and volume of data involved.

•EXIF information will not be displayed. EXIF stands for Exchangeable Image File Format, and is a standard for storing interchange information in image files, especially those using JPEG compression. (Refer to http://exif.org for more information.)

*3 About the MP3 file format

MP3 files are audio data compressed in the MPEG1/2 Audio layer-3 file format. “MP3 files” have “.mp3” as extensions. (Some files that have “.mp3” extensions or files that have not been recorded in MP3 format will produce noise or cannot be played.)

Playing the MP3 file format

•The MP3 files are not played in the order they were recorded.

•It is recommended to record data at a lower speed as data recorded at a fast speed can produce noise and may not be able to be played.

•The more folders there are, the longer the reading time.

•Depending on the folder tree, reading MP3 files can take time.

•The playing time may not be correctly displayed during MP3 file playback.

The following files cannot be played on this player.

•When both Audio CD [CD-DA] format and JPEG/ MP3 file formats are recorded on a disc. (The disc is recognized to be an Audio CD [CD-DA] only tracks in Audio CD [CD-DA] format are played back.)

•Multi-session discs cannot be played.

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