Initial Settings menu

Chapter 8

Initial Settings menu

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Using the Initial Settings menu

The Initial Settings menu provides audio and video output settings, parental lock settings, and display settings, among others.

If an option is grayed out it means that it cannot be changed at the current time. This is usually because a disc is playing. Stop the disc, then change the setting.

1Press DVD/CD.

2With playback stopped, press HOME MENU and select ‘Initial Settings’.

Initial Settings

3Use /// and ENTER to select the setting and option you want to set.

All the settings and options are explained on the following pages.1

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Video Output settings

Setting

Option

What it means

 

 

 

Italiano

TV Screen

(See also Screen sizes and disc formats on page 42.)

4:3 (Letter Box)

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

 

shown with black bars top and bottom.

 

 

4:3 (Pan & Scan)

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

 

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

 

 

16:9 (Wide)

Set if you have a widescreen TV.

 

 

16:9 (Compressed)

Set if you have a widescreen TV. 4:3 material is shown with

 

black bars on either side of the screen.2

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Component Out

Interlace

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

(See also Connecting

 

 

Progressive

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

using the component

 

your TV’s instruction manual for details). Press ENTER once

video output on

 

page 34.)

 

more to confirm (or RETURN to cancel).

 

 

Note that progressive scan video is only output from the

 

 

component video jacks.

 

 

 

HDMI Resolution*

1920x1080p

Set if your TV supports 1920 x 1080 pixel progressive-scan video.

(See Connecting using

 

 

1920x1080i

Set if your TV supports 1920 x 1080 pixel interlace video.

HDMI on page 34.)

 

 

* Default changes with

1280x720p

Set if your TV supports 1280 x 720 pixel progressive-scan video.

TV format (PAL/NTSC).

 

 

720x480p (NTSC)/

Set if your TV supports 720 x 480 (NTSC)/720 x 576 (PAL) pixel

 

 

720x576p (PAL)

progressive-scan video.

 

 

 

 

720x480i (NTSC)/

Set if your TV supports 720 x 480 (NTSC)/720 x 576 (PAL) pixel

 

720x576i (PAL)

interlace video.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Note

1• In the table, the default setting is shown in bold: other settings are shown in italics.

Some settings, such as TV Screen, Audio Language and Subtitle Language may be overridden by the DVD disc. Often these settings can also be made from the DVD disc menu.

The HDMI Resolution and HDMI Color settings only need to be set if you connected this player to an HDMI-compatible component using the HDMI connector.

2 This setting can only be used when you are connected via HDMI and have the HDMI resolution set to 1920x1080p, 1920x1080i or 1280x720p. When using this setting, only the HDMI connection is available.

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