Pioneer DV-59AVI, DV-S969AVi operating instructions Contents

Contents

01 Before you start

Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 What’s in the box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Putting the batteries in the remote control 10 Using the remote control . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Disc / content format playback

compatibility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 General disc compatibility . . . . . . . . . . . 11 CD-R/RW compatibility . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 DVD-R/RW Compatibility . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Compressed Audio Compatibility. . . . . . 11 PC Created Disc Compatibility . . . . . . . . 12

Titles, chapters, groups and tracks. . . . . . 12 DVD-Video regions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

02 Connecting up

Rear panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Easy connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Using other types of video output . . . . . . . 17 Connecting using an S-Video output . . . 17

Connecting using the component video output . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Connecting using the D1/D2 video

output . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Connecting for multichannel surround sound. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Connecting using the multichannel

analog outputs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Connecting using a digital audio

output . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Connecting using i.LINK . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 About i.LINK. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Creating an i.LINK network . . . . . . . . . . 22 Connecting using HDMI. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 About HDMI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Controlling this player from another

Pioneer component . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

03 Controls and displays

Front panel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 About progressive scan video. . . . . . . . . . 28

Compatibility of this unit with progressive-scan TVs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Remote control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Setting up the remote to control

your TV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

04 Getting Started

Switching on . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Let’s Get Started . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Using the on-screendisplays. . . . . . . . . . . 34 Setting up with the Setup Navigator . . . . . 35 Playing discs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Basic playback controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 DVD disc menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 Video CD/Super VCD PBC menus . . . . . . 41

05 Playing discs

Introduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 Using the Disc Navigator to browse the contents of a disc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 Scanning discs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 Using the Multi Dial. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 Playing in slow motion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 Frame advance/frame reverse . . . . . . . . . . 47 Looping a section of a disc . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 Using repeat play. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Using random play . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Creating a program list . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

Editing a program list . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 Other functions available from the program menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

Searching a disc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 Switching subtitles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 Switching the DVD audio language . . . . . . 53 Switching DVD-RW audio channels . . . . . 54 Switching DVD-Audio audio channels . . . .54 Switching CD/MP3/Video CD/Super VCD audio channels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 Switching camera angles . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 Displaying disc information . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

06 Audio Settings menu

Note about features in the Audio Settings menu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 Audio DRC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 Legato PRO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56