Introduction—Continued
Disc Notes
DVD Region Numbers
Supported Discs
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*1. The North American model will only play Region 1, NTSC
*2. Some audio CDs feature copy protection that doesn’t conform to the official CD standard. Since these are nonstandard discs, they may not play properly in the
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•Don’t use discs with an unusual shape, such as those shown below, because you may damage the
•Don’t use discs that have residue from adhesive tape, rental discs with peeling labels, or discs with
If you attempt to play a disc intended for another region, the message “Cannot play discs with this region code” appears onscreen.
Function Support
The following icons are used throughout this manual to indicate which functions can be used with the various disc formats and file types.
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Unsupported DVD Features
The DVD standard offers many special features,
including multiple soundtracks, subtitles, camera angles, and so on. However, not all discs employ all of
these features. When you attempt to use a feature that is not used by the current disc, for example, you press the remote control- ler’s [AUDIO] button while playing a disc with only one soundtrack, this icon will appear onscreen, indicating that the feature is not supported by the current disc.
Similarly, if a disc uses features that are not supported by the
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Video CDs contain tracks.
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About playing copy-controlled CDs
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