Getting started

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Button What it does

Numbers Use to enter a title/chapter/track number. Press ENTER to select.

If the disc is stopped, playback starts from the selected title (for DVD) or track (for CD/Video CD/Super VCD).

If the disc is playing, playback jumps to the start of the selected title (VR mode DVD-RW), chapter (DVD-Video) or track (CD/Video CD/Super VCD).

Resume and Last Memory

When you stop playback of a disc, Resume shows in the display indicating that you can resume playback from that point.

With DVDs and Video CD/Super VCDs, even if

Button

What it does

RETURN Returns to the previously displayed menu screen.

Numbers Highlights a numbered menu option (some discs only). Press ENTER to select.

Video CD/Super VCD PBC menus

Some Video CD/Super VCDs have menus from which you can choose what you want to watch. These are PBC (Playback control) menus.

You can play a PBC Video CD/Super VCD without having to navigate the PBC menu by starting playback using a number button to select a track, rather than the (play) button.

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ejected, the play position is stored in memory.1 The next time you load the disc, the display shows Last Mem and you can resume play- back.

If you want to clear the resume point, press (stop) while Resume is displayed.

DVD-Video disc menus

Many DVD-Video discs contain menus from which you can select what you want to watch.

Sometimes DVD-Video menus are displayed automatically when you start playback; others only appear when you press DVD MENU or

TOP MENU.

Button

What it does

TOP MENU Displays the ‘top menu’ of a DVD disc—this varies with the disc.

DVD

Displays a DVD disc menu—this

MENU

varies with the disc and may be

 

the same as the ‘top menu’.

 

 

 

Moves the cursor around the

 

screen.

 

 

ENTER

Selects the current menu option.

 

 

Button

What it does

RETURN Displays the PBC menu.

Numbers Selects numbered menu options. Press ENTER to select.

Displays the previous menu page (if there is one).

Displays the next menu page (if there is one).

Listening to the radio

The tuner can receive both FM and AM broadcasts, and lets you memorize your favorite stations so you don’t have to manually tune in every time you want to listen.

1Press TUNER to switch to the tuner, then press repeatedly to select the AM or FM band. The display shows the band and frequency.

2Tune to a frequency.

There are three tuning modes—manual, auto, and high-speed:

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Note

1• The Last Memory function may not work with some discs.

• For DVD-Video discs (except VR mode DVD-RW), the player stores the play position of the last five discs.

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Pioneer S-DV434 manual Listening to the radio, Resume and Last Memory, Video CD/Super VCD PBC menus, DVD-Video disc menus

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