Pioneer DCS-353 Initial Settings menu Chapter, Using the Initial Settings menu

08Initial Settings menu

Chapter 8

Initial Settings menu

Using the Initial Settings menu

The Initial Settings menu provides audio and video output settings, parental lock settings, and display settings, among others.

If an option is grayed out it means that it cannot be changed at the current time. This is usually because a disc is playing. Stop the disc, then change the setting.

1Press DVD/CD.

2With playback stopped, press HOME MENU and select ‘Initial Settings’.

	Initial Settings
3 Use	and ENTER to select the

setting and option you want to set.

All the settings and options are explained on the following pages.1

Video Output settings

Setting	Option	What it means
TV Screen	4:3 (Letter Box)	Set if you have a conventional 4:3 TV. Widescreen movies are
(See also Screen sizes		shown with black bars top and bottom.
and disc formats on
	4:3 (Pan & Scan)	Set if you have a conventional 4:3 TV. Widescreen movies are
page 38.)
		shown with the sides cropped so that the image fills the screen.
	16:9 (Wide)	Set if you have a widescreen TV.
AV Connector Out	Video	Standard video, compatible with all TVs.
U.K. model only
	S-Video	Higher quality, but check your TV for compatibility.
(See Connecting auxil-
iary audio components	RGB	Best quality, but check your TV for compatibility.
on page 31.)

HDMI Resolution* U.K. model only (See Connecting using HDMI on page 33.)

*Default changes with TV format (PAL/NTSC).

1920x1080i	Set if your TV supports 1920 x 1080 pixel interlace video.
1280x720p	Set if your TV supports 1280 x 720 pixel progressive-scan video.
720x480p (NTSC) /	Set if your TV supports 720 x 480 (NTSC) / 720 x 576 (PAL) pixel
720x576p (PAL)	progressive-scan video.
720x480i (NTSC) / 720x576i	Set if your TV supports 720 x 480 (NTSC) / 720 x 576 (PAL) pixel
(PAL)	interlace video.

Note

1• In the table, the default setting is shown in bold: other settings are shown in italics.

•Some settings, such as TV Screen, Audio Language and Subtitle Language may be overridden by the DVD disc. Often these settings can also be made from the DVD disc menu.

•U.K. model only – The AV Connector Out setting only needs to be set if you have connected this player to your TV using a SCART cable.

•U.K. model only – The HDMI Resolution and HDMI Color settings only need to be set if you connected this player to an HDMI-compatible component using the HDMI connector.

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