Playing DVDs

RSDX-02DVD Receiver

The RSDX-02 can play discs encoded in ei- ther the NTSC or PAL video formats, output- ting the correct video signal as set by the back- panel NTSC/PAL switch.

Disc Structure

Each type of disc has its own organization, allowing you to locate various portions of the program recorded on the disc. Depending on the type of disc, these may be called Titles, Groups, Chapters, or Tracks:

DVD-Video:

Title 1		Title 2

Chapter 1	Chapter 2	Chapter 1	Chapter 2

A DVD-Video disc is comprised of Titles and each title may be divided into Chapters. For example, a DVD-Video disc may contain sev- eral movies, each with its own Title number, and each movie may be divided into several Chapters. In a DVD-Video karaoke disc, each song usually has its own title number and does not have Chapters.

DVD-Audio:

Group 1

Group 2

Track 1

Track 2

Track 3

Track 1

Track 2

A DVD-Audio disc contains Groups, with each group divided into Tracks. Some DVD-Audio discs also contain a Bonus Group that can only be played back by entering a Key Number password.

Most DVD-Audio discs include other informa- tion in addition to audio, such as still pictures, movies and text.

Audio CD:

Track 1			Track 2			Track 3

An Audio CD, Video CD or SVCD simply contains Tracks.

Digital Audio Formats

DVD and CD discs can be encoded with sev- eral different digital audio formats. Generally, the type of digital audio encoding is indicated on the disc packaging.

•Dolby Digital. A digital surround format that may contain as many as five discrete audio channels plus an LFE (low frequency effects) channel (referred to as 5.1 chan- nel surround). Particularly for older soundtracks, Dolby Digital may be used for a 2.0 channel stereo soundtrack with Dolby Surround matrix encoding.

•DTS (Digital Theater Systems). An- other 5.1 channel digital surround format similar to Dolby Digital, but somewhat different encoding characteristics. Also plays the DTS 96/24 used on DTS music discs.

•MPEG. Another compressed digital for- mat.

•DVD-Audio and MLP (Meridian Loss- less Packing). A high quality digital format for DVD-Audio with the compres- sion ratio of about 2:1 supporting up to 192kHz sampling rate and 24-bit resolu- tion, allowing the PCM signal to be recre- ated without loss. Some content may only be available at the analog outputs.

•LPCM (Linear PCM). Uncompressed digi- tal audio, the format used on CDs and most studio masters.

•MP3 (MPEG 1, Layer 3). Compressed 2-channel digital audio, a format often used for music on recordable CD-R and CD-RW discs.

Inserting a Disc P3-G

A disc drawer slides out to accept a disc and retracts for playback. Place the disc in the drawer label-side up. Make sure the disc is properly centered in the tray. The OPN/CLOSE button on the front panel or the EJECT button on Page 3 of the remote opens or closes the drawer.

Playing a Disc

Press the PLAY button on the front panel or Page 3 of the remote to start playing the disc from the beginning. If the disc drawer is open, it will close automatically.

NOTE: Many DVDs either begin playing auto- matically or display a start-up menu as soon as the disc is inserted.

The PLAY button usually starts play from the beginning of the disc, except after the PAUSE button has been pressed. In this case, the disc will resume playing from the current lo- cation. The RSDX-02 also has a RESUME fea- ture that restarts play at the current location after pressing the STOP button one time during playback.

NOTE: Pressing the PLAY button during DVD- Video playback skips back about 10 seconds and resumes playback.

Stopping Disc Playback

Press the STOP button to stop a disc that is playing.

The first press of the STOP button memo- rizes the point at which the disc stopped playing as indicated by RESUME appearing in the front panel display. Resume play at that point by pressing the PLAY button. This stored posi- tion remains in memory until the unit is turned off, the disc drawer is opened, or the top menu is selected.

The second press of the STOP button clears the RESUME position.

Pause/Still Frame

Press the PAUSE button to temporarily sus- pend 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 frame.

Skip forward/back

The TRACK buttons skip forward/ back to the beginning of the next selection. During playback, pressing the right TRACK button once advances to the begin- ning of the next Title, Chapter, or Track. Pressing the left button returns to the beginning of the current scene or song. Pressing twice in suc- cession returns to the beginning of the previ- ous track.