Getting started

02

Basic playback controls

The following table shows the basic controls on

the remote for playing discs1. You can find other playback features in the chapter 4.

Button What it does

Starts/resumes normal playback.

If the display shows RESUME or LAST MEM playback starts from the resume or last memory point (see Resume and Last Memory below).

Pauses/unpauses a disc.

Stops playback or cancels the resume function (if the display shows RESUME).

Press to start fast reverse scanning.

Press to start fast forward scanning.

Skips to the start of the current track or chapter, then previous tracks/chapters.

Skips to the next track or chapter.

Numbers Use to enter a title/chapter/track number. Press ENTER to select.

If the disc is stopped, playback starts from the selected title (for DVD) or track (for CD/Video CD/Super VCD).

If the disc is playing, playback jumps to the start of the selected title (VR mode DVD-RW), chapter (DVD-Video) or track (CD/Video CD/Super VCD).

Resume and Last Memory

When you stop playback of a disc, RESUME shows in the display indicating that you can resume playback from that point.

With DVDs and Video CD/Super VCDs, even if

ejected, the play position is stored in memory.2 The next time you load the disc, the display shows LAST MEM and you can resume play- back.

If you want to clear the resume point, press (stop) while RESUME is displayed.

DVD-Video disc menus

Many DVD-Video discs contain menus from which you can select what you want to watch.

Sometimes DVD-Video menus are displayed automatically when you start playback; others only appear when you press MENU or TOP

MENU.

Button

What it does

TOP MENU Displays the ‘top menu’ of a DVD disc—this varies with the disc.

MENU Displays a DVD disc menu—this varies with the disc and may be the same as the ‘top menu’.

Moves the cursor around the screen.

ENTER Selects the current menu option.

RETURN Returns to the previously displayed menu screen.

Numbers Highlights a numbered menu option (some discs only). Press ENTER to select.

Video CD/Super VCD PBC menus

Some Video CD/Super VCDs have menus from which you can choose what you want to watch. These are PBC (Playback control) menus.

You can play a PBC Video CD/Super VCD without having to navigate the PBC menu by starting playback using a number button to select a track, rather than the (play) button.

Button

What it does

RETURN

Displays the PBC menu.

 

 

Numbers

Selects numbered menu options.

 

Press ENTER to select.

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Note

1You may find with some DVD discs that some playback controls don’t work in certain parts of the disc.

2• The Last Memory function may not work with some discs.

• For DVD-Video discs (except VR mode DVD-R/RW), the player stores the play position of the last five discs.

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Pioneer DCS-353 Basic playback controls, Resume and Last Memory, DVD-Video disc menus, Video CD/Super VCD PBC menus