Initial Settings menu—Continued

Video Output settings

Setting

Option

What it means

 

 

 

 

4:3 (Letter Box)

Set if you have a conventional 4:3 TV. Widescreen movies are

TV Screen

shown with black bars top and bottom.

 

(See also “Screen sizes

 

 

 

Set if you have a conventional 4:3 TV. Widescreen movies are

and disc formats” on

4:3 (Pan&Scan)

shown with the sides cropped so that the image fills the screen.

page 47.)

 

 

 

 

16:9 (Wide)

Set if you have a widescreen TV.

 

 

 

 

 

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

Component Out

Progressive

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 jacks when this setting is selected.

 

 

 

 

Interlace

Set if your TV is not compatible with progressive scan video.

 

 

 

 

Video

Ordinary (composite) video output, compatible with all TVs.

 

 

 

AV Connector Out

 

If your TV is compatible, this setting gives the best picture

RGB

quality.

 

Note that there is no output from the component jacks when

 

 

 

 

this setting is selected.

 

 

 

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Onkyo DV-SP305 instruction manual Video Output settings

DV-SP305 specifications

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