04Getting started

Chapter 4

Getting started

Using the on-screen displays

For ease of use, this system makes extensive use of graphical on-screen displays (OSDs).

All the screens are navigated in basically the same way, using the cursor buttons (, , , ) to change the highlighted item and pressing ENTER to select it.1

Important

Throughout this manual, ‘Select’ means use /// to highlight an item on- screen, then press ENTER.

Button What it does

HOME Displays/exits the on-screen display

MENU

 Changes the highlighted menu item

ENTER Selects the highlighted menu item

RETURN Returns to the main menu without saving changes

Tip

You can change the On-Screen Display Language to Traditional Chinese (see OSD Language on page 43)

The button guide at the bottom of every OSD screen shows you which buttons you’ll need to use for that screen.

Playing discs

1If the player isn’t already on, switch it on. If you’re playing a disc with video, also turn on your TV and make sure that it is set to the correct video input.

2Press OPEN/CLOSE on the front panel to load a disc.

Load a disc with the label side facing up, using the disc tray guide to align the disc (if you’re loading a double-sided DVD disc, load it with the side you want to play face down).

3 Press (play) to start playback.

If you’re playing a DVD or Video CD/Super VCD, a menu may appear. See DVD-Video disc menus and Video CD/Super VCD PBC menus on page 21 to navigate these.

If you loaded a disc containing JPEGs, a slideshow will start. See Playing a JPEG slideshow on page 28 for more on this.

If a disc contains a mixture of DivX video and other media file types (MP3, for example), first select whether to play the DivX video files (DivX) or the other media file types (MP3/WMA/MPEG-4 AAC/JPEG) from the on-screen display.

4Adjust the volume. Use the VOLUME control.

The basic playback controls for DVD, CD, Video CD/Super VCD, DivX video and WMA/MP3/ MPEG-4 AAC discs are covered here. Further functions are detailed in chapter 7.

Note

1 The screen saver will appear after five minutes of inactivity.

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