Philips DVD972C owner manual Special VCD Features, Playing an Audio CD

SUBTITLE ANGLE ZOOM AUIDO

REPEAT A-B RANDOM DISC SKIP

CLEAR MARKER FTS

PAUSE

TITLE

Special VCD Features

Playback Control (PBC)

¶Load a Video CD with PBC and press PLAY.

¶Go through the menu with the keys indicated on the TV screen until your chosen passage starts to play. If a PBC menu includes 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 also may set PBC to Off under Personal Preferences. See page 15.

Playing an Audio CD

¶ After inserting the Audio CD and closing the tray, the number of total tracks and the total playing time of the disc will appear on the display. Press PLAY to start playback.

¶During playback, the current track number and its elapsed playing time will appear on the display.

¶Playback will stop at the end of the disc.

¶To stop playback at any other time, press STOP.

	Pause		PLAY
		STOP		PAUSE
¶	Press PAUSE during playback.	CLEAR	MARKER FTS	TITLE
¶	To return to playback, press PLAY or press	SUBTITLE ANGLE ZOOM AUIDO
	PAUSE again.	REPEAT A-B RANDOM DISC SKIP

Search		OK
¶ To search forward or backward through the	STOP	PLAY	PAUSE
disc at two times the normal speed, hold
	CLEAR	MARKER FTS	TITLE
down T or S for about two seconds	SUBTITLE ANGLE ZOOM AUIDO
during playback.

➜Search begins, and sound is partially muted.

¶To step up to four times the normal speed, hold down T or S again.

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

¶To step up to eight times the normal speed, hold down T or S again.

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

¶To return to two times the normal speed, hold down T or S again.

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

¶To end the search, press PLAY to resume playback or STOP to stop playback.The search will stop if the beginning or end of the disc is reached. If the beginning of the disc is reached, playback may begin again.

Moving to another track	1	2	3
¶ Press T or S briefly during playback	4	5	6
	7	8	9
to go to the next track or to return to the	RETURN		DISPLAY
		0
beginning of the current track.	DISC		SYSTEM
	MENU		MENU
¶ Press S twice briefly to step back to the		OK
previous track.

¶To go directly to any track, enter the track

number using the numerical keys (0-9) during playback.

Random
¶ Press RANDOM during playback or when	STOP	PLAY PAUSE
	CLEAR	MARKER FTS TITLE
playback is stopped.	SUBTITLE ANGLE ZOOM AUIDO
➜ The unit automatically begins Random	REPEAT A-B RANDOM DISC SKIP
Playback and RANDOM (1-3) appears on
the TV or monitor.

-RANDOM1: Plays all the tracks on a single disc in random order and then stops.

-RANDOM2: Plays all the tracks on all discs in random order then stops.

-RANDOM3: Plays two tracks randomly from a disc, then plays two tracks randomly from a different disc until all tracks on all discs have been played.

¶To return to normal playback, press RANDOM repeatedly until NORMAL appears on the display.

Repeat Track/Disc/All/Off

¶ To repeat the track currently playing, press

STOP PLAY

REPEAT.

➜ The Repeat Track icon appears on the TV screen.

¶To repeat the disc currently playing, press REPEAT a second time.

➜The Repeat Disc icon appears on the TV screen.

¶To repeat all discs (CD & Video CD without PBC) in the unit, press REPEAT a third time.

➜The Repeat All icon appears on the TV screen.

¶To exit Repeat mode, press REPEAT a fourth time.

➜The Repeat Off icon appears on the TV screen.

Note:

–On a Video CD with PBC, you must set PBC to Off under Personal Preference to use the Repeat function. See page 15.

Repeat A-B

To repeat a sequence:
¶ During disc playback, press A-B at your	STOP	PLAY	PAUSE
chosen starting point.	CLEAR	MARKER FTS	TITLE
➜ A ∫ appears on the player display.	SUBTITLE ANGLE ZOOM AUIDO
¶ Press A-B again at your chosen end point.	REPEAT A-B RANDOM DISC SKIP

➜ A ∫ B appears on the display, and the sequence begins to play repeatedly.

¶To exit the sequence and return to normal play, press A-B again.

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