Rotel RDV-1050 Basic Disc Play

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Recalling the DVD PLAYER SET

UP menu

Press CHOICE

for a few seconds until the

DVD PLAYER SET UP display appears.

Changing the Display

Window Brightness

Press DIMMER

on the remote control unit.

You can select the display window brightness

from three levels, or off. If the brightness is

set to off, nothing will be shown on the dis-

play.

Basic Disc Play

1Press the OPN/CLS button on the front

panel or the OPEN/CLOSE button

the remote control to open the disc tray.

2Place a disc in the disc tray.

Place 8-cm discs

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3Press

. The RDV-1050 starts play-

back from the beginning of the disc.

To stop disc play press ■ (STOP)

To pause disc play press II (PAUSE)

To resume playback, press (PLAY)

NOTES: Do not insert an unplayable disc.

(See Playable Discs section.)

When placing a disc on the disc tray, be

sure to set it in the recess. Otherwise, the

disc may be damaged when the disc tray is

closed, or you may not be able to remove

the disc from the RDV-1050.

When a DVD Audio disc is played the

DVD AUDIO indicator lights.

With double-sided DVD discs the side of

the disc facing down is the side that is

played.

On-Screen Menu

After loading a DVD VIDEO, SVCD or Video

CD disc, a menu may appear on the TV screen.

From the menu, you can select an item to be

played.

For DVD VIDEO

1Press 

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to select an

item.

2Press ENTER

. The RDV-1050 starts play-

back of the selected item.

For SVCD/Video CD

Press the numeric buttons to select an item.

The RDV-1050 starts playback of the selected

item.

On Screen Icons

During disc playback, you may see icons dis-

played over the picture. These have the fol-

lowing meanings.

– Appears at the beginning of playback

mode.

– Appears at the beginning of pause mode.

– Appears at the beginning of fast for-

ward/backward playback with the current

speed.

– Appears at the beginning of slow-

motion playback with the current speed.

– Is displayed at the beginning of a scene

recorded from multiple angles. See the Select-

ing a Scene Angle section.

– Is displayed at the beginning of a scene

recorded with multiple audio languages. See

the Changing the Audio Language or Sound

section.

– Is displayed at the beginning of a scene

recorded with multiple subtitle languages. See

the Selecting the Subtitle Language section.

You can choose to not have these icons dis-

played. See the Selecting Preference section.

About PBC (Playback Control)

Some SVCD/Video CD discs support the PBC

function. The PBC function allows you to en-

joy menu-driven operation and high-resolu-

tion still images which have a resolution four

times greater than moving pictures.

•To play a PBC-compatible SVCD/Video CD

disc without activating the PBC function,

press the Numeric buttons

instead of

(PLAY)

to start playback.

•To activate the PBC function again:

Press TOP MENU

or MENU

, or

Press ■ (STOP)

to stop playback, then

press (PLAY).

To Check Playback Status

Press ON SCREEN

to see the current se-

lection number (the title/chapter number for

DVD VIDEO or track number for SVCD/Video

CD/ Audio CD), time information (the track

or chapter time while stopped, or elapsed track

or chapter time during playback) and the trans-

port status (stop, playback, pause, etc.) on the

TV screen.

Example: for DVD VIDEO

Pressing ON SCREEN again brings up the menu

bar under the status bar, from which you can

access various functions. See the Menu Bar

section of this manual for more information.

To turn off the status bar press ON SCREEN

repeatedly until the status bar goes off.

RDV-1050 DVD Player

NOTES: While an MP3/WMA or JPEG

disc is inserted, you cannot bring up the

preference displays.

When a preference display is shown on a

wide TV screen, the upper and lower parts

of the preference display sometimes may

be cut off. If this happens, adjust the picture

size control of the TV.

The SPK.SETTING display can be dis-

played only when ANALOG OUT in the

AUDIO preference display is set to MULTI

CHANNEL.

LANGUAGE Menu

MENU LANGUAGE

You can select the default menu language to

be displayed if it is contained on a DVD

AUDIO/DVD VIDEO disc.

Setting options: ENGLISH, SPANISH,

FRENCH, CHINESE, GERMAN, ITALIAN,

JAPANESE, language code from AA to ZU.

If the disc does not have a menu in the selected

language, the disc’s default language will be

used.

For details about language codes, see “Ap-

pendix B: Table of languages and their ab-

breviations”.

You cannot change the setting during play-

back.

AUDIO LANGUAGE

You can select the default audio language to

be played if it is contained on a DVD AUDIO/

DVD VIDEO disc.

Setting options: ENGLISH, SPANISH,

FRENCH, CHINESE, GERMAN, ITALIAN,

JAPANESE, language code from AA to ZU.

If the disc does not have the selected language,

the disc’s default language will be used.

For details about language codes, see “Ap-

pendix B: Table of languages and their ab-

breviations”.

You cannot change the setting during play-

back.

SUBTITLE

You can select the default subtitle language

to be displayed if it is contained on a DVD

AUDIO/DVD VIDEO disc.

Setting options: OFF, ENGLISH, SPANISH,

FRENCH, CHINESE, GERMAN, ITALIAN,

JAPANESE, language code from AA to ZU

If the disc does not have a subtitle in the se-

lected language, the disc’s default language

will be used.

For details about language codes, see “Ap-

pendix B: Table of languages and their ab-

breviations”.

You cannot change the setting during play-

back.

ON SCREEN LANGUAGE

You can select the on-screen display language

of the RDV-1050.

Setting options: ENGLISH, FRENCH, GERMAN

Some on-screen messages are shown in En-

glish regardless of the setting.

You cannot change the on-screen language

shown on the MP3/WMA display.

PICTURE Menu

MONITOR TYPE

You can select the monitor type to match your

TV when you play back DVD VIDEO discs re-

corded for wide-screen televisions.

Setting options: 16:9 NORMAL, 16:9

AUTO, 4:3 LB, 4:3 PS

16:9 NORMAL (Wide television

screen): select when you connect the RDV-

1050 to a wide-screen (16:9) TV whose as-

pect ratio is fixed to 16:9 (the RDV-1050 au-

tomatically adjusts the screen width of the

output signal correctly when playing back a

4:3 source).

If you play a 4:3 DVD VIDEO source using

the 16:9 NORMAL mode, the picture char-

acter changes slightly due to the process for

converting the picture width.

16:9 AUTO (Wide television screen):

select when you connect the RDV-1050 to a

wide-screen (16:9) TV.

4:3 LB (Letter Box conversion):

select when you connect the RDV-1050 to a

normal (4:3) TV. When playing back a DVD

VIDEO disc recorded in wide picture format,

the picture is shown with black bars at the top

and bottom.

4:3 PS (Pan Scan conversion): select

when you connect the RDV-1050 to a normal

(4:3) TV. When playing back a DVD VIDEO

disc recorded in wide picture format, the picture

is zoomed to fill the screen vertically, and the

left and right sides of the image are cut off.

Note, however, that the picture will be shown

in the 4:3 LB mode even if you select the 4:3

PS mode depending on the disc.

Picture Source

This mode selects whether the content on the

disc is processed by field (video source) or by

frame (film source). You can obtain optimal

picture quality according to the source type

to be played back by selecting an appropri-

ate option. This setting is available for both

interlaced mode and progressive scanning

mode.

Setting options: VIDEO (NORMAL), VIDEO

(ACTIVE), FILM, AUTO