Rotel RDV-1040 owner manual Others Menu, To Set Parental Lock for the First Time

RDV-1040DVD Player

•When playing a DVD VIDEO or Audio CD disc with DTS, use a DTS decoder to get cor- rect signals from your speakers.

ANALOG DOWN MIX

To correctly play the audio on a DVD VIDEO disc recorded with surround multichannel audio, you must set this item properly according to your audio system configuration. (This func- tion does not work when the VSS function is activated.)

Setting options: DOLBY SURROUND, STE-

REO

DOLBY SURROUND: select when listening to multichannel surround audio with the ana- log AUDIO OUT terminals of the RDV-1040 connected to a surround decoder.

STEREO: select when listening to conventional two-channel stereo audio with the AUDIO OUT terminals of the RDV-1040 connected to a stereo amplifier/receiver or television set, or in case you want to record the audio from a DVD VIDEO disc to MiniDisc, cassette, etc.

D. RANGE CONTROL

This setting provides optimal audio quality from the analog AUDIO OUT terminals for listen- ing to DVD VIDEO discs recorded in Dolby Digital format, at low or middle volume.

Setting options: WIDE RANGE, NORMAL, TV MODE

WIDE RANGE: when selected, audio is played back with the widest dynamic range so that you can enjoy powerful playback sound.

NORMAL: normally, select this option.

TV MODE: select if DVD Video disc sound level is lower than TV program sound level. This lets you clearly hear sound at lower vol- ume levels.

OUTPUT LEVEL

This setting allows you to attenuate the level of the signal output from the analog AUDIO OUT terminals of the RDV-1040.

Setting options: STANDARD, LOW

If the sound output from the speaker is distorted, select LOW.

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OTHERS Menu

RESUME

You can select the resume playback mode. See the Resuming Playback section for more infor- mation.

Setting options: ON, OFF, DISC RESUME

ON: when selected, the RDV-1040 can resume playback of the disc from the position where playback was last interrupted, if the disc is still in the disc tray.

OFF: when selected, the resume function is deactivated.

DISC RESUME: when selected, the RDV-1040 can resume playback of the last 30 discs played. The RDV-1040 retains a memory of the inter- rupted positions of the last 30 discs played, even though they have been removed from the disc tray.

ON SCREEN GUIDE

The RDV-1040 can display “on-screen guide” icons or characters on the picture, which show what is happening to the disc or the RDV-1040.

Example of “on-screen guide” icons:

Setting options: ON, OFF

ON: when selected, the on-screen guide is activated.

AUTO STANDBY

When the RDV-1040 is stopped for more than 30 minutes or 60 minutes, it enters standby mode automatically.

Setting options: 60, 30, OFF

PARENTAL LOCK

When this option is selected, pressing ENTER on the remote control unit brings up the PA- RENTAL LOCK display shown below. This al- lows you to restrict children from playing DVD Video discs.

See the following section for more information about the Parental Lock function.

Limiting Playback by Children

This function restricts playback of DVD VIDEO discs which contain violent (and other) scenes according to the level set by the user. For ex- ample, if a movie which includes violent scenes supports the parental lock feature, such scenes which you do not want to let children view can be cut or replaced with other scenes.

To Set Parental Lock for the First Time

1	Bring up the OTHERS menu.
2	Press ￿/￿ to move	to select PAREN-

TAL LOCK then press ENTER 34 . The Pa- rental Lock on-screen display appears on the TV screen.

3While is pointing to COUNTRY CODE, press ENTER 34 to bring up the pull-down menu.

4Press ￿/￿ to select the country code. Se- lect the code of the country whose standards were used to rate the DVD Video disc con- tent. See “Appendix A: Country/Area code list for Parental Lock”.

5 Press ENTER 34 . moves to SET LEVEL.

6Press ENTER to bring up the pull-down menu. In the pull-down menu, NONE and levels 8 to 1 are available. NONE does not re- strict playback. Level 1 is the strictest level. Discs rated higher than the selected level are restricted.

7Press ￿/￿to select a desired parental lock

level, then press ENTER. moves to PASS- WORD.

8 Press the numeric buttons 4 (0 to 9) to enter a 4-digit password.

9 Press ENTER 34 .The parental lock feature

is set. moves to EXIT. Pressing ENTER again returns to the OTHERS menu of the preference display.