NOTE: The stored location is erased when the disc drawer is opened.

Pausing Play/Still Frame PAUSE/STROBE Buttons

Press the PAUSE button to temporarily suspend play. To resume playing the disc from the current location, press the PLAY button.

Still-Frame:When playing a video disc, a still-frame picture remains on the TV screen with no sound when the PAUSE button is pressed. Press the button again to advance to the next still-frame picture. Each button press advances one more frame.

Strobe Play: With playback paused, press and hold the PAUSE button for more than one second. The unit displays the next nine still-frame images on the TV screen.

NOTE: Activating the Strobe feature during playback will also display nine images; how- ever, these images will update in real-time.

Finding a selection

Fast forward/reverse

TRACK Buttons

The TRACK buttons serve two func- tions: to skip forward/back to the beginning of the next selection or to play forward/back at high speed.

Skip forward/back: During playback,

pressing the right TRACK button advances to the beginning of the next Title, Chap- ter, or Track. Pressing the left button returns to the beginning of the current scene or song. Pressing twice quickly in succession returns to the beginning of the previous track.

Press the button as many times as necessary to find the desired scene or selection.

With a DVD Audio or Audio CD, this feature also works to find a selection when playback is stopped. This feature may not work with Video CD/SVCD discs with the PBC function enabled.

NOTE: There are other methods of locating specific selections on a disc, including direct access with the NUMERIC buttons and using the On-Screen Display features. See Playing Specific Selections for details.

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High Speed Play: During playback, press

and hold one of the TRACK buttons for high speed play, either forward or back- ward. You will continue to see and hear high speed audio/video. Release the button to resume normal playback.

NOTE: Variable high speed play is also avail- able, using the SHUTTLE knob.

Variable Speed Play

SHUTTLE Knob

The large knob at the bottom of the remote provides two functions: variable high-speed play and variable slow-motion.

For high-speed play: During playback, rotate the SHUTTLE knob for video and audio playback at high speed. Rotate clockwise for forward and counterclockwise for reverse. The more you rotate the knob, the faster the speed. Release the knob to return to normal play.

For slow-motion:Press the PAUSE button to pause playback of a video disc, then rotate the SHUTTLE knob for slow-motion play- back. Rotate clockwise for forward and counterclockwise for reverse. Rotating the knob more increases the slow-motion speed. Release the knob to return to the still-frame image. Press PLAY to resume normal playback.

NOTE: The sound is muted during slow-motion play. Slow-motion is not available on Audio CDs. Reverse slow-motion is not available Video CD/SVCD discs.

Advanced Features

The RDV-1080 provides several advanced features for controlling the audio/video content displayed during playback. These include progressive scanning, zooming, changing the scene angle on DVD Video discs, selecting alternate languages for the audio portion of DVD programs, and selecting subtitle languages on DVD programs, picture adjustments, and VSS for simulated surround sound from a 2-channel stereo system or TV. This section of the manual describes these features.

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Setting Scan Mode (NTSC only) PROG SCAN Button

PROGRESSIVE LED

Images appear on a TV screen by rapidly displaying a series of horizontal scan lines. The conventional method for displaying these lines is interlaced scanning. Half of the horizontal lines are displayed at a time followed by the other half, the two groups visually merging to form a single video image. Interlaced scanning is always used in the PAL video standard and, until recently, has been used for all NTSC video as well.

A more advanced scanning system has been developed for some NTSC TV monitors. This system scans all horizontal lines at a time, doubling the number of lines that appear at one time, resulting flicker-free, high-density pic- ture. The RDV-1080 provides this Progressive Scan option. To enjoy progressive scanned video, your TV monitor must have Progressive Video inputs.

NOTE: The Progressive Scan feature only works with NTSC TV monitors. The feature is only available when the NTSC/PAL switch on the rear-panel is set to the NTSC position. A disc encoded with PAL standard video will always be played with standard interlaced video, regardless of the Progressive Scan feature.

DVD video discs can be classified into two types; film source and video source (Some DVD Video discs contain both film source and video source material). Film sources are recorded as 24-frame-per-second information, while (NTSC) video sources are recorded as 30- frame-per-second (60-field-per-second inter- laced) information.

When playing film source material, uninter- laced progressive output signals are created using the original information. When playing video source material, the unit interpolates extra lines to create an uninterlaced picture and outputs this as the progressive scan signal.

To activate progressive scan, press the PROG SCAN button on remote while playback is stopped. An indicator appears in the front- panel display. To return to normal scanning, press the button again.

The Digital Direct Progressive LED lights when the unit is configured for progressive non- interlaced scanning and the DVD Video programming has film source progressive content.