JVC TH-M42 manual Playback

Playback

NOTE

•You can also start playback by pressing 3(play button) or DVD.

•Regardless of the operation for starting playback, the system plays back all available discs sequentially until you stop playback. However, the system stops playback after playback of the disc in the fifth tray.

•When Video CDs/SVCDs with PBC function (A pg. 4) or DVD that automatically go to the menu screen and wait for the next instruction,

the system does not move to the next disc. In such a case, select the item to be played back from the menu. (A pg. 33)

•You can check playback information on the display window and the TV screen. (A pg. 31)

•Some tracks on an MP3 disc may be skipped or may not be played back normally.

•When you play back a JPEG disc, press buttons after the whole picture appears on the TV screen. The system cannot accept operations even though you press buttons while showing a picture.

•Some files on a JPEG disc may be played back distortedly.

•If a black screen continuously appears in the slide-show playback, the file currently being played may be a non-baseline JPEG file. In this case, select a playable file (a baseline JPEG file). For example, press 7or MENU to open the JPEG control display, etc. Note that it may take a long time to select another file.

7Resume Playback (DVD/Video CD/SVCD only)

When Resume Playback is set to “ON” (A pg. 49) and you stop playback by the following operations, the position where playback has been stopped is stored. (The RESUME indicator lights.)

•Turning off the power (A pg. 17)

•Pressing 7

•Changing the source (A pg. 18)

To start playback from the stored position

(The RESUME indicator goes off.)

•Press the selected DISC button or 3(play button) on the remote control or the center unit.

•Select DVD as the source again if you changed the source.

To clear the stored position

Press 7again or open the disc tray with the playback disc.

•When the stored position has been cleared, playback starts from the beginning of the disc.

7To prevent screen burn-out with the screen saver

A TV screen may burn out if a static picture is displayed for a long time. To prevent this, the system automatically dims the screen if a static picture is displayed for over 5 minutes (the screen saver function).

•Pressing any button will cancel the screen saver function.

•If you do not want to use the screen saver function, see page 47.

7On-screen guide icons

During DVD playback, the following guide icons may appear for a while on the TV screen;

•: appears at the beginning of a scene containing multi- subtitle languages.

•: appears at the beginning of a scene containing multi-audio languages.

•: appears at the beginning of a scene containing multi-angle views.

• (Play), (Pause), / (Fast forward/

fast-reverse), / (Slow-motion forward/ reverse): appears when you perform each operation.

•If “B” appears on the TV screen when pressing a button, the disc cannot accept an operation you have tried to do or information required for that operation is not recorded to the disc.

NOTE

•In some cases, without showing “B”, operations will not be accepted.

•If you do not want the on-screen guide icons to appear, see page 49.

7Playback information on the display window

DVD

Example:When a DVD encoded with Dolby Digital 5.1ch is played

Disc indicators		Elapsed playing time
	Chapter number	(hour:minute:second)

Signal and speaker indicators

Surround mode and digital signal format

Each time FL DISPLAY is pressed, the indications alternate between those shown above and below.

Title number Chapter number

Video CD/SVCD/Audio CD

Example:When a Video CD is played back

Disc indicators		Signal and speaker
	Track number	indicators

Elapsed playing time (minute:second)

NOTE

•When a Video CD or SVCD with PBC function is played, the elapsed playing time does not appear, but “PBC” appears.

MP3 disc

Disc indicators		Signal and speaker
	Track number	indicators

MP3 indicator	Elapsed playing time (minute:second)
	(during playback only)

Each time FL DISPLAY is pressed, the indications alternate between those shown above and below.

Group number Track number

JPEG disc

Disc indicators File number

Group number

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