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Digital Audio Out settings
Setting Option What it means
Digital Out On
Digital audio is output from the digital outputs. Note that there
is no digital output when playing SACDs and some DVD-Audio
discs regardless of this setting.
Off No digital audio output.
Dolby Digital Out
Dolby Digital
Dolby Digital encoded digital audio is output when playing a
Dolby Digital DVD disc.
Dolby Digital > PCM Dolby Digital audio is converted to PCM audio before being
output.
DTS Out DTS
DTS encoded digital audio is output when playing a DTS disc.
(Noise will be output if your amplifier/receiver is not compati-
ble with DTS audio.)
DTS > PCM DTS audio is converted to PCM audio before being output.
Linear PCM Out Down Sample On
96kHz digital audio is converted to 48kHz for digital output.
Note that High sampling rate DVD-Audio discs (192kHz or
176.4kHz) automatically output down-sampled audio through
the digital outputs.
Down Sample Off 96kHz digital audio is output as is at 96kHz.
MPEG Out MPEG > PCM
MPEG encoded digital audio is converted to PCM audio for
digital output.
MPEG MPEG encoded digital audio is output as is.
Video Output settings
Setting Option What it means
TV Screen
(See also “Screen sizes
and disc formats” on
page 51.)
4:3 (Letter Box)
Set if you have a conventional 4:3 TV. Widescreen movies are
shown with black bars top and bottom.
4:3 (Pan & Scan)
Set if you have a conventional 4:3 TV. Widescreen movies are
shown with the sides cropped so that the image fills the
screen.
16:9 (Wide) Set if you have a widescreen TV.
Component Out
Progressive
Set if your TV is compatible with progressive scan video (see
your TV’s instruction manual for details). See also “Switching
the video output to interlace using the front panel controls” on
page 19.
Note that progressive scan video is only output from the com-
ponent video jacks.
Interlace
Set if your TV is not compatible with progressive scan video.
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