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Digital Audio Out settings
Setting Option What it means
Digital Out On
Digital audio is output from the digital outputs.
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.)
Off No digital audio is output when playing a DTS disc.
96 kHz PCM Out 96kHz > 48kHz
96kHz digital audio is converted to 48kHz for digital output.
96kHz 96kHz digital audio is output as is at 96kHz.
MPEG Out
MPEG MPEG encoded digital audio is output as is.
MPEG > PCM
MPEG encoded digital audio is converted to PCM audio for
digital output.
Video Output settings
Setting Option What it means
TV Screen
(See also “Screen sizes
and disc formats” on
page 45.)
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 from progressive” on page 18.
Note that progressive scan video is only output from the com-
ponent video jacks and that there is no output from the com-
posite and S-video jacks when this setting is selected.
If you select progressive scanning while using a TV that
does not support it.
Switch the player to standby then, using the front panel con-
trols, press STANDBY/ON while pressing to switch the
player back to Interlace.
Interlace
Set if your TV is not compatible with progressive scan video.
AV Connector Out
(European model only)
Video
Ordinary (composite) video output, compatible with all TVs.
S-Video Almost the same quality as RGB, but can give better results if
you’re using a long SCART cable.
RGB If your TV is compatible, this setting gives the best picture
quality.
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