Pioneer Complete Guide to Optimizing Your DVD Player Experience

Standard TV users

If you have a standard TV, the TV Screen setting (page 33) of this player should be set to 4:3 (Letter Box) or 4:3 (Pan & Scan), depending on which you prefer.

Set to 4:3 (Letter Box), widescreen discs are shown with black bars top and bottom.

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 override the player’s settings so that the disc is shown in letter box format regardless of the setting.

Note

•Using the 16:9 (Wide) or 16:9 (Compressed) setting with a standard 4:3 TV, or either of the 4:3 settings with a widescreen TV, will result in a distorted picture.

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 distortion 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, NTSC and PAL).

1If the player is on, press  STANDBY/ON to switch it to standby.

2Using the front panel controls, hold down   then press  STANDBY/ON to switch the TV system.

The TV system changes as follows:

•AUTO  NTSC

•NTSC  PAL

•PAL  AUTO

Note

•You have to switch the player into standby (press  STANDBY/ ON) before each change.

Disc Type			Player setting
	Format	NTSC		PAL	AUTO
DVD/Super VCD/	NTSC	NTSC		PAL	NTSC
Video CD/DivX video/
	PAL	NTSC		PAL	PAL
WMV
CD/MP3/WMA/	—	NTSC		PAL	NTSC or
MPEG-4 AAC/JPEG
					PAL
no disc

Resetting the player 08

Use this procedure to reset all the player’s settings to the factory default.

1	Switch the player into standby.
2	Using the front panel buttons, hold down the  (stop)	English
button and press  STANDBY/ON to switch the player back on.

All the player’s settings are now reset.

DVD-Video regions

All DVD-Video discs carry a region mark on the case somewhere that indicates which region(s) of the world the disc is compatible with. Your DVD player also has a region mark, which you can find on the rear panel. Discs from incompatible regions will not play in this player. In this case the attention sentence “Incompatible disc region number Can’t play disc” is displayed on screen. Discs marked ALL will play in any player. The diagram below shows the various DVD regions of the world.

1

	5
	2	1
	6
		2
4	5	3

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Selecting languages using the language code list

Some of the language options (such as DVD Menu Lang. in the Initial Settings) allow you to set your preferred language from any of the 136 languages listed in the language code list on Language code list on page 46.

1Select ‘Other Language’.

2Use the / (cursor left/right) buttons to select either a code letter or a code number.

3Use the / (cursor up/down) buttons to select a code letter or a code number.

See Language code list on page 46 for a complete list of languages and codes.

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