Initial Settings menu

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Setting

Option

What it means

DTS Out

DTS

DTS encoded digital audio is output when playing a DTS disc.

 

 

(Noise will be output if your amplifier/receiver is not compatible

 

 

with DTS audio.)

 

 

 

 

Off

No digital audio is output when playing a DTS disc.

 

 

 

96 kHz PCM Out

96kHz > 48kHz

96 kHz digital audio is converted to 48 kHz for digital output.

 

 

 

 

96kHz

96 kHz digital audio is output as is at 96 kHz.

 

 

 

MPEG Out

MPEG > PCM

MPEG encoded digital audio is converted to PCM audio for

 

 

digital output.

 

 

 

 

MPEG

MPEG encoded digital audio is output as is.

 

 

 

HDMI Out*

LPCM (2CH)

Set if your monitor or device only accepts stereo input. On this

* DV-490V only.

 

setting multichannel audio is downmixed to 2 channels for

 

 

stereo linear PCM output. (In case of DTS source, the HDMI

 

 

audio output is turned off.)

 

 

 

 

Auto

Dolby Digital, DTS and MPEG sources are processed

 

 

according to how they were encoded, but if your amplifire/

 

 

monitor is not compatible with DTS audio, DTS audio output

 

 

from HDMI is turned off. Linear PCM sources are heard as is.

 

 

 

 

Off

No digital audio output.

 

 

 

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

(This setting effective for

 

shown with black bars top and bottom.

analog and HDMI video

 

 

4:3 (Pan & Scan)

Set if you have a conventional 4:3 TV. Widescreen movies are

output. See also Screen

sizes and disc formats

 

shown with the sides cropped so that the image fills the screen.

on page 45.)

 

 

16:9 (Wide)

Set if you have a widescreen TV.

 

 

 

 

Component Out

Interlace

Set if your TV is not compatible with progressive scan video.

 

 

 

 

Progressive

Set if your TV is compatible with progressive scan video (see

 

 

your TV’s instruction manual for details). See also Switching

 

 

the video output to interlace using the front panel controls on

 

 

page 12.

 

 

Note that progressive scan video is only output from the

 

 

component video jacks and that there is no output from the

 

 

composite and S-video jacks when this setting is selected.

 

 

 

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Pioneer DV-490V-S, DV-595K-S operating instructions Initial Settings menu, Video Output settings

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