Magnadyne XV-DV323, S-DV424, S-DV323, XV-DV424 operating instructions Contents

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Contents

01 Before you start

Features. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6 Disc / content format playback compatibility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6

CD-R/RW compatibility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7 DVD-R/RW compatibility . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7 PC-created disc compatibility . . . . . . . . . .7 Compressed audio compatibility . . . . . . . .7 About WMA. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7 JPEG file compatibility. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7

02 Controls and displays

Front panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8 Display. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9 Remote control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10

03 Getting started

Switching on and setting up . . . . . . . . . . .13 Setting the clock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14 Home theater sound setup . . . . . . . . . . . .15 Using the Room Setup. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .15 Setting up the remote to control your TV . .16 Using the on-screen displays . . . . . . . . . . .16 Playing discs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .17 Basic playback controls. . . . . . . . . . . . . .17 Resume and Last Memory. . . . . . . . . . . .18 DVD-Video disc menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . .19 Video CD/Super VCD PBC menus . . . . . .20 Listening to the radio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .20 Improving poor FM reception . . . . . . . . .21 Memorizing stations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .21 Listening to station presets . . . . . . . . . . .22 Listening to other sources . . . . . . . . . . . . .22

04 Listening to your system

About the listening modes . . . . . . . . . . . . .23 Auto listening mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .23

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Listening in surround sound . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Dolby Pro Logic II Music settings . . . . . . 24 Using the Advanced Surround effects . . . . 25 Using Front Surround . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Adjusting the Advanced and Front Surround effect level . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Listening in stereo. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Listening with headphones . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Enhancing dialogue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Listening with a virtual surround back speaker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Using Quiet and Midnight listening

modes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Adjusting the bass and treble . . . . . . . . . . 28 Boosting the bass level . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

05 Playing discs

Scanning discs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Playing in slow motion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Frame advance/frame reverse . . . . . . . . . . 29 Using the Disc Navigator to browse the contents of a disc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Looping a section of a disc . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 Using repeat play . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 Using random play . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Creating a program list . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Using the OSD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Other functions available from the program menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Using the front panel display . . . . . . . . . 34 Clearing the program list . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Searching a disc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Switching subtitles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Switching the DVD audio language. . . . . . 35 Switching VR format DVD-RW audio channel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Switching the Video CD/Super VCD

audio channel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

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