Pioneer S-DV900ST, XV-DV900 Contents, Before you start, Controls and displays, Getting started

Thank you for buying this Pioneer product.

Please read through these operating instructions so that you will know how to operate your model properly. After you have finished reading the instructions, put them in a safe place for future reference.

Contents

01 Before you start

Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Introduction to home theater . . . . . . . . . . . 9 General disc compatibility . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 CD-R/RW compatibility . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 DVD-R/RW compatibility . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 PC-created disc compatibility . . . . . . . . 10 Compressed audio compatibility . . . . . . 10 JPEG file compatibility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

02 Controls and displays

Front panel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Display unit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Remote control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

03 Getting started

Switching on and setting up. . . . . . . . . . . 18 Setting the clock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Setting up the remote to control your

TV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Using the Room Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Using the on-screen displays . . . . . . . . . . 21 Playing discs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Basic playback controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Resume and Last Memory . . . . . . . . . . . 24 DVD disc menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Video CD/Super VCD PBC menus . . . . . 26 Listening to the radio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Improving poor FM reception. . . . . . . . . 28 Memorizing stations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Listening to station presets . . . . . . . . . . 29 Listening to other sources . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

04 Home theater sound

Auto listening mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Listening in surround sound . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Dolby Pro Logic II Music settings . . . . . . 31 Listening in stereo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 Listening with headphones . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Using the Advanced Surround effects . . . . 32 Adjusting the Advanced Surround effect

level . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Enhancing dialogue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Listening with a virtual surround back

speaker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Using Quiet and Midnight listening

modes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Adjusting the bass and treble . . . . . . . . . . 35 Boosting the bass level . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Muting the sound . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

05 Playing discs

Introduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 Using the Disc Navigator to browse the contents of a disc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 Scanning discs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Playing in slow motion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Frame advance/frame reverse . . . . . . . . . . 39 Looping a section of a disc . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 Using repeat play. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Using the OSD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 Using the display unit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 Using random play . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 Using the OSD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 Creating a program list . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Using the OSD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Using the unit display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 Clearing the program list . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 Searching a disc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 Playing DVD-Audio ‘Bonus Groups’ . . . . . . 47 Switching subtitles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 Switching DVD-Video audio language . . . . 47

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