Marantz DV9500 manual Before You Start, Features

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Before You Start

Features

An HDCP-compatible HDMI*1 terminal is provided to ensure the very highest picture and digital sound quality by fully digital transmission.

This unit is equipped with an HDCP-compat- ible digital image output terminal (HDMI) to provide copyright protection.

Direct digital transmission without analog conversion of DVD image data makes it possible to enjoy real-life images without any image deterioration resulting from AD/ DA conversion. The unit has also been designed to make it possible to handle the transmission of both digital video and digital audio with a single connector.

High quality 14-bit/216MHz Video D/A converter*2

The unit uses a Video D/A converter that performs D/A conversion of all video signals in 14-bits and can perform 8X over-sampling to let you enjoy beautiful video possible with DVD. Furthermore, NSV technology sup- presses noise during DA conversion.

dts 96kHz/24 bit compatibility

It is equipped with a dts 96/24 decoder that lets you enjoy dts audio with sound quality as high as 96kHz/24bit. This product does not support dts 88.2kHz/24bit.

Dolby Headphone compatibility

It is the world’s first single DVD Player equipped with a Dolby Head Phone.

The Head Phone can reproduce the world of Dolby Surround with realistic ambience like that you would experience using a 5.1 ch system (Excluding Super Audio CD) (see

page 13).

Lip Sync capability

When it is connected to a plasma display or projector, it corrects the time lag between the video and audio created by the video circuit processing time in units of 10msec up to a maximum of 200msec. It precisely synchronizes the actors’ voices and the movements of their mouths (see page 31).

Equipped with a Super Audio CD Distance compensation function

It can perform Distance adjustment of Super Audio CD that was formerly impossible by converting it to PCM (see page 44).

Superlative audio performance with Super Audio CD, DVD-Audio, Dolby*3 Digital and DTS*4 software

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The DV9500 delivers breathtaking sound quality with Super Audio CD, DVD-Audio, Dolby Digital and DTS discs.

Capture

You can store a photograph of your children as background (see page 29).

SRS TruSurround*5

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When used with stereo sources, SRS TruSurround creates a realistic surround- sound effect using just two speakers (see

page 44).

MP3 compatibility

This player is compatible with CD-R, CD-RW and CD-ROM discs that contain MP3 audio tracks (see pages 9, 28).

JPEG compatibility

This player is compatible with CD-R, CD-RW and CD-ROM discs that contain JPEG data (see pages 9, 29).

*1 HDMI, the HDMI logo and High-Definition Multimedia Interface are trademarks or regis- tered trademarks of HDMI Licensing LLC.

*2 “NSV” is a registered trademark of Analog Device Co. Ltd.

*3 Manufactured under license from Dolby Laboratories. “Dolby” and the double-D symbol are trademarks of Dolby Laboratories. Confi- dential unpublished works. © 1992-1997 Dolby Laboratories. All rights reserved.

*4 “DTS” and “DTS Digital Surround” are regis- tered trademarks of Digital Theater Systems, Inc.