FEATURES

Watch movies in the highest picture quality available for your HDTV. The BDP5012 Blu-ray Disc player offers full high-definition video playback up to 1080p resolution for an amazing viewing experience. A highly detailed picture and increased sharpness delivers a more true-to-life picture.

Features

Blu-ray Disc

You can enjoy Blu-ray Disc which is capable of storing five times more data than a conventional DVD.

BD Java

With some BDs which support Java applications, you can enjoy the interactive functions such as games or interactive menus.

Upscale DVD for enhanced picture quality

Your current DVD will look even better than before thanks to video upscaling. Upscaling will increase the resolution of standard definition DVD to high definition up to 1080p over an HDMI connection. The picture will be less jagged and more realistic for a near high definition experience.

Enjoy your content on different kinds of media

Full backwards compatibility with DVD, CD and SD Card ensures that you can continue to enjoy your current audio- video collection. Additionally, you can view JPEG digital pictures or listen to Windows Media™ Audio music files.

Listen to the rich multi-channel surround sound Multi-channel surround sound, which realizes real-to-life sound and makes you feel that you are really there.

Intuitive user interface and remote control

The Philips logical user interface allows you to easily navigate through your content and settings, so you can quickly find what you are looking for.

Easy and simple connection to your HDTV via HDMI

Connect your BDP5012 to your HDTV with one single HDMI (High Definition Multimedia Interface) cable. Philips recommends HDMI1.3 (category 2) cable (also known as High Speed HDMI cable) for better compatibility. The high definition video output signal will be transferred to your HDTV without conversion to analog signals, so you will get an excellent picture and sound quality, completely free from noise.

Thanks to other multiple outputs, you can also easily connect to your home theater system or amplifier.

About EasyLink (HDMI CEC) (Consumer Electronics Control)

EasyLink (HDMI CEC) allows you to operate the linked functions of this player with Philips brand TV with EasyLink feature.

Philips does not guarantee 100 % interoperability with other brands of HDMI CEC compliant devices.

PiP (BONUSVIEW)

Some BD-videos have the PiP function which enables you to display the secondary video in the primary video. You can call up the secondary video by pressing [BONUSVIEW (PiP)] whenever the scene contains the secondary video.

Pop-up menu

Some BD-videos have a pop-up menu which is a navigation menu that can be called up and be operated on the screen without interrupting the playback. You can call up the pop-up menu by pressing [DISC MENU / POP-UP MENU]. Contents in the pop-up menu vary depending on the disc.

HDMI Deep Color

Deep Color reduces the posterization effect of the playback image. Refer to “HDMI Deep Color” in the “LIST OF SETTINGS” on page 33.

HDMI 1080p/24 output (BD only)

This unit is equipped with the feature which can provide the smooth movement in the playback of film originated material with the frame rate of 24 frames per second with progressive. (Available only when the display device is connected by an HDMI cable.) Refer to “HDMI 1080p/24” in the “LIST OF SETTINGS” on

page 33.

Playing back the contents in SD Memory Card

You can play back WMA/JPEGs stored in an SD Memory Card. You can store picture-in-picture commentary, subtitles or other extras for BD-ROM Ver. 2 (Profile 2.0/ Profile 1.1) files in an SD Memory Card and play back with the BD-video.

Product Info

“Product Info” screen provides you with the information on this unit’s hardware and software version information. You can also download the latest firm ware from the web site which is displayed in the “Product Info” screen, and update the firm ware by yourself.

To access “Product Info”, select “Product Info” in the home menu.

Symbols Used in this User Manual

To specify for which media type each function is, we put the following symbols at the beginning of each item to operate.

Symbol Description

Description refers to BD-video

Description refers to DVD-video

Description refers to audio CD/DTS-CD

Description refers to DivX® file

Description refers to DVD-RW/-R, CD-RW/-R and SD Card with Windows Media™ Audio files

BD-Live

BD-Live(BD-ROM version 2 Profile 2.0) that allows interactive functions to be used when this unit is connected to the Internet in addition to the BONUSVIEW function. The various functions differ depending on the disc.

Description refers to DVD-RW/-R, CD-RW/-R and SD Card with JPEG files

If you do not find any of the symbols listed above under the function heading, the operation is applicable to all media.