Basic playback controls, Resume and Last Memory

02Getting started

2Press  OPEN/CLOSE to load a disc. Load a disc with the label side facing up, using the disc tray guide to align the disc (if you’re loading a double-sided DVD disc, load it with the side you want to play face down).

3 Press  (play) to start playback.

If you’re playing a DVD or Video CD/Super VCD, a menu may appear. See DVD-Video disc menus and Video CD/Super VCD PBC menus on page 13 to navigate these.

If you loaded a disc containing JPEGs, a slideshow will start. See Playing a JPEG slideshow on page 18 for more on this.

•If a disc contains a mixture of DivX video/ WMV and other media file types (MP3, for example), first select whether to play the DivX video/WMV files (DivX/WMV) or the other media file types (MP3/WMA/JPEG/ MPEG-4 AAC) from the on-screen display.

4 Adjust the volume.

Use the VOLUME +/– control.

Basic playback controls

The following table shows the basic controls on

the remote for playing discs.1 You can find other playback features in chapter 4.

Button What it does

Starts/resumes normal playback.

• If the display shows RESUME or LAST MEM playback starts from the resume or last memory point (see Resume and Last Memory below).

Button What it does

Stops playback or cancels the resume function (if the display shows RESUME).

Press to start fast reverse scanning.

Press to start fast forward scanning.

Skips to the start of the current track or chapter, then previous tracks/chapters.

Skips to the next track or chapter.

Numbers Use to enter a title/chapter/track number. Press ENTER to select.

•If the disc is stopped, playback starts from the selected title (for DVD) or track (for CD/Video CD/Super VCD).

•If the disc is playing, playback jumps to the start of the selected title (VR mode DVD-R/-RW), chapter (DVD- Video) or track (CD/Video CD/Super VCD).

Resume and Last Memory

When you stop playback of a disc, RESUME shows in the display indicating that you can resume playback from that point.

With DVDs and Video CD/Super VCDs, even if

ejected, the play position is stored in memory.2 The next time you load the disc, the display shows LAST MEM and you can resume playback.

If you want to clear the resume point, press

(stop) while RESUME is displayed.

Pauses/unpauses a disc.

Note

1You may find with some DVD discs that some playback controls don’t work in certain parts of the disc.

2• The Resume and the Last Memory functions may not work with some discs.

• For DVD-Video discs (except VR mode DVD-R/-RW), the player stores the play position of the last five discs.

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