System Setup

MENU OPERATION:

1.

In DVD mode, press [SETUP] on the remote control to display the setup menu.

2.

Press [

]/[

] to select an item. The submenu of the selected item will be displayed

below instantly.

 

3.

Press [

]/[

] to select an item you desire to set in the submenu, then press [ENTER]

/[

]to enter. Use [ ]/[

] to select an option, then press [ENTER] to confirm it, or press

[

] to cancel.

 

 

4.

Then you can press [

]/[ ] to continue to set other items in the submenu.

5.

Press [

] to go back to the superior menu of the current one.

6.Press [SETUP] again to exit the setup menu. Alternately, move the highlight to , then press [ENTER] to exit the setup menu.

1 GENERAL SETUP PAGE

1.1 TV DISPLAY

If the unit is connected to a conventional TV set, you are supposed to select 4:3 PAN SCAN or 4:3 LETTER BOX.

4:3 PAN SCAN: The wide-screen image will be displayed on the screen in its native aspect ratio with some part on the left and right cut off.

4:3 LETTERBOX: The wide-screen image will be displayed in its native aspect ratio with black borders on the top and the bottom side.

16:9: If the unit is connected to a wide-screen TV set, you are supposed to select this option.

The wide-screen image will be displayed in full screen in its native aspect ratio while the 4:3 image will be stretched out horizontally to fit in the screen.

1.2 ANGLE MARK

Set this item to ON. When a disc with multiple camera angles is playing, an angle mark will display on the screen. Then you can view the video of different camera angles by pressing [ANGLE] on the remote control.

Set this item to OFF to hide the angle mark.

1.3 OSD (On-Screen Display) LANGUAGE

Set the on-screen display language in this item.

1.4 CLOSED CAPTIONS

Set this item to ON to show the closed captions. Set it to OFF to hide it. NOTE: This function only work with those discs encoded with closed captions.

1.5 SCREEN SAVER

ON: If the image remains motionless on the screen, for example the disc is paused, stopped etc, for several minutes, a screen saver will appear on the screen. You can press any key or button except [STANDBY] to wake it up.

The unit will go into the standby mode after about 20 minutes being in the screen saver mode. You can press [STANDBY] to switch it on.

OFF: Disable the screen saver function.

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COBY electronic DVD-958 manual System Setup, Menu Operation, General Setup

DVD-958 specifications

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