Special VCD & SVCD Features

Playback Control (PBC)

Load a Video CD with PBC and press B.

Go through the menu with the keys indicated on the TV screen until your chosen passage starts to playback. If a PBC menu consists of a list of titles, you can select a title directly.

Enter your choice with the numerical keys (0-9).

Press RETURN to go back to the previous menu.

You may also select PBC OFF under Personal Preferences.

Playing an Audio CD

After loading the disc, playback starts automatically.

If the TV is on, the Audio CD screen appears.

The number of tracks and the total playing time of the disc will be shown on the TV screen.

During playback, the current track number and its elapsed playing time will be shown on the TV screen and on the player display.

Playback will stop at the end of the disc.

To stop playback at any other time, press 9.

Pause

Press ; during playback.

To return to playback, press B.

Search

To search forward or backward through the disc at four times the normal speed,

hold down S or T for about one second during playback.

➜Search begins, and sound is partially muted.

To step up to eight times the normal speed, press S or T again.

➜Search goes to eight times the speed, and the sound is muted.

To return to four times the normal speed, press S or T again.

If the TV is on, search speed and direction are indicated on the screen each time S or T is pressed.

To end the search, press B to resume playback or press 9 to stop playback.

Moving to another track

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Press S or T briefly during playback to go to the

glis

En

next track or to return to the beginning of the current

track.

 

Press S twice briefly to step back to the previous track.

 

To go directly to any track, enter the track number using

 

the numerical keys (0-9).

 

Shuffle

Press SHUFFLE during playback.

➜The playing order of the tracks is changed.

To return to normal playback, press SHUFFLE again.

Repeat track/disc

To repeat the current track, press REPEAT.

➜REPEAT TRK appears on the display.

To repeat the entire disc, press REPEAT a second time.

➜REPEAT appears on the display.

To exit Repeat mode, press REPEAT a third time.

Repeat A-B

To repeat a specific portion of a track:

Press REPEAT A-B at your chosen starting point.

➜A- appears on the player display.

Press REPEAT A-B again at your chosen end point.

➜A-Bappears on the display, and the sequence begins to play repeatedly.

To cancel the sequence and continue playback, press REPEAT A-B.

Scan

Scanning plays the first 10 seconds of each track on the disc.

Press SCAN.

To continue playback at your chosen track, press SCAN again or press B.

FTS Programme

FTS Programme allows you to store your favourite tracks for a particular disc in the player memory.

Each FTS Programme can contain 20 tracks.

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DVD870P/021 specifications

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