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Set to 4:3 (Pan&Scan), widescreen discs are shown with the left and right sides cropped. Although the picture looks larger, you don’t actually see the whole picture.
Please note that many widescreen discs over- ride the player’s settings so that the disc is shown in letter box format regardless of the setting.
•Using the 16:9 (Wide) setting with a stan- dard 4:3 TV, or either of the 4:3 settings with a widescreen TV, will result in a distorted picture.
The player’s display shows “Welcome Pioneer”, then indicates the new setting.
•You have to switch the player into standby (press STANDBY/ON) before each
change.
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Type | Format | NTSC | PAL | AUTO |
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DVD | NTSC | NTSC | MOD.PAL | NTSC |
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Video CD | NTSC | NTSC | MOD.PAL | NTSC |
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CD/no disc | — | NTSC | PAL | NTSC or |
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Setting the TV system
The default setting of this player is AUTO, and unless you notice that the picture is distorted when playing some discs, you should leave it set to AUTO. If you experience picture distor- tion with some discs, set the TV system to match your country or region’s system. Doing this, however, may restrict the kinds of disc you can watch. The table below shows what kinds of disc are compatible with each setting (AUTO, PAL and NTSC).
1 | If the player is on, press | STANDBY/ | |
ON to switch it to standby. |
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2 | Using the front panel controls, hold | ||
down | then press | STANDBY/ON | |
to switch the TV system. |
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The TV system changes as follows: | |||
| • AUTO | NTSC |
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| • NTSC | PAL |
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| • PAL | AUTO |
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Watching NTSC on a PAL TV (MOD. PAL)
Most models of the newly developed count- down PAL TV system detect 50 Hz (PAL)/60 Hz (NTSC) and automatically switch vertical amplitude, resulting in a display without vertical shrinkage. However, in some cases, the image may appear without color.
If your PAL TV does not have a
On some TVs, the picture may shrink verti- cally, leaving black bands at the top and bottom of the screen. This is not a malfunc- tion; it is caused by the NTSC to PAL conver- sion.
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