Contents

01 Controls and displays

Front panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Remote control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

02 Getting started

Home theater sound setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Setting the channel levels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Using the on-screen displays . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Playing discs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Basic playback controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Resume and Last Memory . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 DVD-Video disc menus. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Video CD/Super VCD PBC menus . . . . . . . 11 Listening to the radio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Improving poor FM reception . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Memorizing stations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Listening to station presets . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Listening to other sources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Setting the sleep timer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Dimming the display. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

03 Listening to your system

Auto listening mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Listening in surround sound . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Using Front Surround . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Listening in stereo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Listening with headphones . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Using the SFC modes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Adjusting the bass and treble . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Boosting the bass level . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

04 Disc playback features

Scanning discs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Playing in slow motion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Frame advance/frame reverse. . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Playing a JPEG slideshow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Browsing DVD or Video CD/Super VCD discs with the Disc Navigator. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Browsing WMA, MP3, MPEG-4 AAC, DivX video and JPEG files with the Disc Navigator . . . . . 18 Looping a section of a disc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Using repeat play . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Using random play . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Creating a program list . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Other functions available from the program menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Searching a disc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Switching subtitles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Switching language / audio channels . . . . . . 20 Zooming the screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Switching camera angles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Displaying disc information . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

05 USB playback

Using the USB interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Basic playback controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Scanning files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Playing a JPEG slideshow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Browsing files with the Navigator . . . . . . . . . 23

06 More tuner features: RDS

An introduction to RDS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Displaying RDS information . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Searching for RDS programs . . . . . . . . . . . 24

07 Audio Settings and Video Adjust menus

Audio Settings menu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Audio DRC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Video Adjust menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

08 Initial Settings menu

Using the Initial Settings menu . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Video Output settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Language settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Display settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Options settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Speakers settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Parental Lock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 About DivX® VOD content . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Speaker Distance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

09 Other connections

Connecting external antennas. . . . . . . . . . . . 31 Connecting auxiliary audio components . . . . 31 Connecting the S-video output . . . . . . . . . . . 31 Connecting using the component video output . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

About progressive scan video . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Using the SCART AV output . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Recording mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Connecting using HDMI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Switching the HDMI audio setting . . . . . . . 34 Resetting the HDMI connection . . . . . . . . . 34 About HDMI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

10 Additional information

Disc / content format playback

compatibility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Disc compatibility table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 About DVD+R/DVD+RW compatibility . . . 36 About DivX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 About MPEG-4 AAC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 About WMA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Using and taking care of discs . . . . . . . . . . . 37 DVD Video regions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Pioneer DCS-353 operating instructions Contents

Models: DCS-353