Special VCD & Svcd Features, General Features

Operation

Special VCD & SVCD Features

Playback Control (PBC)

Playback control is a feature on some Videos CDs / Super Video CDs that enables interactive use.

Video CD discs with Playback Control features enables user to access a selected track directly from the disc menu.

1Load a Video CD with PBC and press PLAY.

2Go through the menu with the keys indicated on the TV screen until your chosen passage starts to playback. If a PBC menu consists of a list of tracks, you can select a track directly.

3Enter your choice with the numerical keys (0-9).

4Press RETURN to go back to the previous menu, if applicable on the menu.

5You may also select PBC OFF under Personal Preferences.

➜ When set to OFF, PBC menus are not activated for further playback.

Special CD, SACD & MP3

Features

CD text, SACD text and MP3 text

1Some CD, SACD or MP3-CD discs may contain text information (eg. track name, album name, artist name etc.) which will appear on the DVD/ SACD player and TV screen during playback.

2By default, CD text display is set to ON.

3To switch off the CD text display, press DISPLAY on the remote control during playback.

4Press DISPLAY on the remote control again to switch on the text display mode.

General Features

Note:

–Unless stated, all operations described are based on remote control use. Some operations can be carried out using the menu bar on the TV screen.

Moving to another title/chapter

DVD VCD

When a disc has more than one title/track or chapter, you can move to another title/chapter as follows:

1Press SYSTEM MENU, then select W or X in the menu bar.

2Press 34 or numerical keys to select a title/ chapter.

CD SACD

1Press T or S briefly during playback to go to the next track or to return to the beginning of the currect track respectively.

2Press S twice briefly to step back to the previous track.

3To go directly to any track, enter the track number using the numerical keys (0-9).

Search

DVD VCD SACD

1Select(FAST MOTION) in the menu bar and press 4.

2Use the 1 2 keys to select the required speed: - 32, -8 or -4 (backward), or +4, +8, +32 (forward).

3Select 1 to play the disc at normal speed again.

4To exit FAST MOTION mode, press PLAYor 3.

●To search forward or backward through different speeds, you can also hold down T or S for more than two seconds.

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