Pioneer S-DV440, XV-DV440, S-DV740, XV-DV740 operating instructions Contents

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Contents

01 Before you start

Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Disc / content format playback compatibility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

CD-R/RW compatibility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 DVD-R/RW compatibility . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 PC-created disc compatibility . . . . . . . . . 8 Compressed audio compatibility . . . . . . . 8 About WMA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 JPEG file compatibility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

02 Controls and displays

Front panel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Remote control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Auto listening mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .24 Listening in surround sound . . . . . . . . . . .25 Dolby Pro Logic II Music settings . . . . . .25 Using the Advanced Surround effects . . . .26 Using Front Surround . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .26

Adjusting the Advanced and

Front Surround effect level . . . . . . . . . . .27 Listening in stereo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .27 Listening with headphones . . . . . . . . . . . .27 Enhancing dialogue. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .28 Listening with a virtual surround back speaker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .28 Using Quiet and Midnight listening

modes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .28 Adjusting the bass and treble . . . . . . . . . .29 Boosting the bass level . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .29

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03 Getting started

Switching on and setting up. . . . . . . . . . . 14 Setting the clock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Home theater sound setup. . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Using the Room Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Setting up the remote to control your

TV. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Using the on-screen displays . . . . . . . . . . 17 Playing discs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Basic playback controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Resume and Last Memory . . . . . . . . . . . 19 DVD-Video disc menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Video CD/Super VCD PBC menus . . . . . 21 Listening to the radio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Improving poor FM reception. . . . . . . . . 22 Memorizing stations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Listening to station presets . . . . . . . . . . 23 Listening to other sources . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

04 Listening to your system

About the listening modes . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

05 Playing discs

Scanning discs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .30 Playing in slow motion. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .30 Frame advance/frame reverse . . . . . . . . . .30 Using the Disc Navigator to browse the contents of a disc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .31 Looping a section of a disc . . . . . . . . . . . .32 Using repeat play. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .32 Using random play . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .33 Creating a program list . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .34

Using the OSD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .34 Other functions available from the program menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .34 Using the front panel display. . . . . . . . . .35 Clearing the program list. . . . . . . . . . . . .35

Searching a disc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .35 Switching subtitles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .36 Switching the DVD audio language . . . . . .36 Switching the Video CD/Super VCD

audio channel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .37 Zooming the screen. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .37

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