disc & file

formats

Playable discs

The player supports the following disc types:

Blu-ray Disc

DVD-Video

DVD-R

DVD-RW

CD-Audio

CD-R

CD-RW

NOTE

<Only BD-RE/-R, DVD-R/-RW and CD-R/-RW discs recorded with UDF or ISO9660 format can be played back.

<This unit supports Ver 2.0 BD-ROM, Ver 3.0 BD-RE and Ver 2.0 BD-R.

<Unfinalized BD-RE/-R, DVD-R/-RW and CD-R/-RW discs cannot be played back.

<Some 8 cm BD-REs/8 cm BD-Rs cannot be played on this unit.

<When a BD-Java title is played, loading may take longer than a normal title, and some functions may perform slowly.

<When an Audio CD recorded in DTS-ES or Dolby Digital EX is played, noise may be heard.

Unplayable discs

Any disc type not listed is not supported by the BDP100. Do not attempt to play an unsupported disc.

Some BD-RE/BD-R, DVD-RWs/DVD-Rs or CD-Rs/CDRWs cannot be played due to incomplete disc finalization, poor recording quality or physical condition of the disc, incompatible characteristics of the recording device or authoring software, etc. Try recording the disc at a lower speed, or try a different brand of media.

See the operating instructions supplied with your recording device or software for more information.

NOTE

<Characters except “A~Z”, “a~z”, “0~9”, “ - “ may be not be displayed.

<This unit supports multi-session discs. Some multisession discs may take a long time to load and some may not be loaded at all.

<For some files, it may not be possible to use certain functions during playback.

<It may not be possible to play some files, even if they have the extension of a file playable on this player.

<Files protected by DRM (Digital Rights Management) cannot be played.

Playable files

The player supports the following file types:

<MP3 (“.mp3”)

Sample rate: 44.1kHz, 48kHz

Bit rate: Up to 320kbps. ID3 tags are not supported.

MP3i and MP3 Pro are not supported.

<WMA (“.wma”)

Sample rate: 44.1kHz, 48kHz

Bit rate: Up to 192kbps. WMA tags are not supported.

<JPEG (“.jpg, .jpeg”)

Maximum resolution : 4,272x2,848 pixels.

JPEG format images stored in progressive format cannot be played back.

<AVI (“.avi”)

Playable codec : Xvid

Maximum size of image : 1920 x 1080@30 fps

<WMV (“.wmv”)

Playable codec : WMV9

Maximum size of image : 1920 x 1080@30 fps

Region coding

Blu-ray Disc players and Blu-ray or DVD Video discs are assigned region codes according to the region in which they are sold. If the region codes do not match, the disc will not play.

Blu-ray Disc Area region code

ANorth America, Central America, South America, Korea, Japan, Taiwan, Hong Kong and South East Asia

BEurope, Greenland, French territories, Middle East, Africa, Australia and New Zealand

CIndia, China, Russia, Central and South Asia

A + B + C

All areas

DVD region

Area

code

 

1North America

2Europe, Japan, Middle East, Egypt, South Africa, Greenland

3Taiwan, Korea, the Philippines, Indonesia, Hong Kong

4Mexico, South America, Central America, Australia, New Zealand, Pacific Islands, Caribbean

5Russia, Eastern Europe, India,

most of Africa, North Korea, Mongolia

6China

All

All areas

Symbols indicating disc will play in North America:

Blu-ray Discs:

DVDs:

Symbols indicating disc will play in Europe:

Blu-ray Discs:

DVDs:

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Arcam BDP100 manual Disc & file Formats, Playable discs, Playable files, Region coding