Basic Operation, Introduction | Arcam BDP300 manual

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Introduction

‘Basic operation’ explains how to play a Blu-ray Disc (BD), 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 E-19.

More sophisticated features – such as special playback modes, programming jumps and playback sequences – are described in ‘advanced operation’ on page E-16.

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. The remote control is used to enter and exit standby mode. If the POWER button is pressed (or power is removed) whilst in standby, the unit will enter standby mode when power is re-applied.

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

Loading a disc

Press </1on the front panel (or 1 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 play side A).

Press </1on the front panel to close the tray. The disc loads after a pause of a few seconds.

Playing a disc

A disc may take some time to load once the tray is closed. When the ‘Optical Disc Autoplay’ setting is set to On (the default setting), playback starts automatically. (For details, refer to ‘Optical Disc AutoPlay’ on page E-21).

If Autoplay is set to Off, the player’s Main Menu will appear on your TV. Use the cursor keys to select the disc in MY MEDIA, then press Oto start playback.

Some titles begin by displaying a menu. Select the menu item ‘Play movie’ (or similar) using the cursor pad, then press Oto start playback.

For discs that do not play automatically, press 4/ ; on the front panel or press 4 on the remote control.

Fast play

Press 8 or 7 on the front-panel or remote control to play fast forwards or backwards. The following speeds for fast playback are available: x2, x4, x8, x16 and x32 (depending on disc type). Press the button repeatedly to cycle through the different speeds. To resume normal playback speed, press PLAY.

Skipping chapters/tracks

To skip chapters (or tracks on a CD), press / or 0.

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 4/ ;on the front panel or ; on the remote control to pause playback. To resume playback, press 4/

;on the front panel or 4 on the handset.

Stopping playback

Press the </1button on the front panel or < on the remote control to stop playback.

When playing a BD/DVD, pressing < once performs a ‘resume stop’. If you now press 4, playback resumes from the point it was stopped.

If you press </1on the front panel or < on the remote control twice, this is a ‘complete stop’, and playback resumes from the beginning of the disc.

NOTE

When you press a button, if the unit does not accept its operation,  appears on the TV screen.

Invalid operation may also occur if :

<<The region codes of the unit differs from that of the disc, so playback is not allowed.

<<The parental control is set to prevent operation: see ‘Security/Parental Control’ on page E-22.

<<Some operations may be prohibited due to disc manufacturer’s settings.

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