Initial Settings menu

Chapter 10

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

TV Screen

(See also Screen sizes and disc formats on page 51.)

Option

What it means

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

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

auxiliary audio

 

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

components on

 

 

more to confirm (or RETURN to cancel).

page 40.)

 

 

Note that progressive scan video is only output from the

 

 

 

 

component video jacks.

 

 

 

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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