IntroductionWelcome

Thank you for purchasing a LIFESTYLE® DVD-based home entertainment system. Through proprietary Bose technologies and innovative LIFESTYLE® systems design, it delivers superior performance for both music and video programming from an elegant and easy-to-use system.

Note: Because DVD is a relatively new technology, please take the time to read through this manual and familiarize yourself with the features of your new system.

Types of discs you can play

The DVD player in your system can play the following types of discs having the corresponding logos:

•Video DVDs

•Video CDs (VCDs)

• Audio CDs

•CD-Rs or CD-R/Ws

•MP3 CDs

Check for region number compatibility

For any DVD player and DVD disc to be compatible, their region numbers must match. These numbers are allocated according to where the player and disc are sold.

Check the region number on the bottom of the media center included with your system. Then be sure to choose only DVD discs that show the same region number on the disc label or packaging.

For example, a Region 1 DVD player should display the following mark:

Glossary

Aspect ratio – The shape of the rectangular picture in a TV set expressed as the width of the picture relative to the height. For example, if a TV picture has an aspect ratio of 4:3 (read as 4 by 3), the shape of that picture is 4 units wide by 3 units high. The two standard TV aspect ratios are 4:3 and 16:9.

Chapter – In DVD-Video, a division of a title. Technically called a part of title (PTT).

Component video – A video system containing three separate color component signals, either red/green/blue (RGB) or chroma/color difference (YPbPr), in analog or digital form. The MPEG-2 encoding system used by DVD is based on color-difference component digital video.

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