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Chapter 4

Playback

Playing discs or files

This section describes the player’s main operations.

For the types of discs and files that can be played, see page 7. Video, image and audio files recorded on discs are played with the Home Media Gallery (page 34).

1Press STANDBY/ON to turn on the power.

Turn the TV’s power on and switch its input beforehand.

2Press OPEN/CLOSE to open the disc tray and load the disc.

Note

• Load the disc with the printed side facing up.

• Several dozen seconds are required to read the disc. Once reading is completed, the type of disc is displayed on the player’s front panel display.

•When a BD with usage restrictions set by a BD recorder is loaded, the PIN code input screen appears. In this case, input your PIN code.

3Press PLAY to play the disc.

•To pause, press  PAUSE during playback.

•To stop, press  STOP during playback.

Note

•Some discs start playing automatically when the disc tray is closed.

•DVD-Video discs have parental lock features. Input the password registered in the player’s settings to unlock the parental lock. For details, see page 46.

If the disc menu is displayed

For some discs, the disc menu is displayed automatically when playback starts. The contents of the disc menu and the way to operate depend on the disc.

Resuming playback from where it was stopped (resume playback function)

•When  STOP is pressed during playback, the point at which the disc stopped is stored in the memory. When  PLAY is pressed after that, playback resumes from that point.

•To cancel the resume playback function, press  STOP while playback is stopped.

Note

•The resume playback function is canceled automatically in the following cases:

–When the disc tray is opened.

–When the file list window is switched.

–When the power is turned off. (For BDs and DVDs this does not cancel the resume playback function.)

•When you want to continue playback from a position you specify to be played next time, see Continuing playback from a specified position (Continued Viewing Playback) on page 33.

•The resume playback function cannot be used for some discs.

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