Operation

Basic Playback

1Press STANDBY ON on the front panel.

2Press OPEN/CLOSE / on the front panel to open disc loading tray.

3Place the chosen disc in the tray, with the label facing up.

4Press OPEN/CLOSE / again to close the tray. READING appears in the status window and on the player display, and playback starts automatically.

Notes:

DVDs may have a region code.Your player will not play discs that have a region code different from the region code of your player.

If ‘Child Lock’ is set to ON and the disc inserted is not authorized, the 4-digit code must be entered and/or the disc must be authorized (see ‘Access Control’).

Playing a DVD-Video

DVD video discs may have one or more TITLES, and each TITLE may have one or more

CHAPTERS.

Playback stops at the end of each TITLE.

 

DVD-VIDEO DISC

 

TITLE 1

 

TITLE 2

 

CHAPTER 1

CHAPTER 2

CHAPTER 1

CHAPTER 2

CHAPTER 3

Playing a title

1Insert a disc and close the tray, playback starts automatically.

The TV screen and DVD player’s display show the type of disc loaded, disc’s information and playing time.

2When the Disc Menu appears on the TV screen, use 431 2 keys or numerical keys on the remote control to select an option and continue playback.

3If the titles are numbered , press the numerical keys or use the 4 3 keys to select desired title in the menubar.

4To stop playback, press STOP.

Smart Resume

The playback of a disc can be interrupted at any point and then resumed from the point where the playback was last stopped.

The RESUME feature applies not only to the disc in the player, but also the last 20 discs you have played.

To interrupt playback,

Press STOP to interrupt playback.

The help line text appears “Press Stop again to start from beginning” for 5 seconds.

Playback when a disc has not been ejected,

Pressing PLAY will automatically resume playback from the point where playback was interrupted.

OR

Press STOP again and then press PLAY,

Playback will starts from the beginning of the discs.

If you press PLAY when resume icon appears on the screen, resume playback starts from the point where playback was interrupted.

Playback when a disc has been ejected,

Reload the disc.

Playback starts from the beginning of the disc.

If you press PLAY when resume icon appears on the screen, resume playback starts from the point where playback was interrupted.

Note:

Resume feature is also applicable to VCDs and SVCDs.

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DVD963SA98 specifications

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