BASIC FUNCTIONS

Playing a Disc

Before Play

-Turn on your TV and set it to the correct Video Input by pressing TV/VIDEO button on the TV remote control.

-If you connected an external Audio System, turn on your Audio System and set it to the correct Audio Input.

After plugging in the player, the first time you press the DVD POWER button, this screen comes up: If you want to select a language, press a NUMBER button. (This screen will only appear when you plug in the player for the first time.)

If the language for the startup screen is not set, the settings may change whenever you turn the power on or off. Therefore, make sure that you select the language you want to use.

Once you select a menu language, you can change it by

pressing the button on the front panel of the unit for more than 5 seconds with no disc in the unit. Then the SELECT MENU LANGUAGE window appears again where you can reset your preferred language.

4.Stopping Play

Press the STOP ( ) button during play.

5.Removing Disc

Press the OPEN/CLOSE ( ) button.

6.Pausing Play

Press the PLAY/PAUSE ( ) or STEP button on the remote control during play.

-Screen stops, no sound.

To resume, press the PLAY/PAUSE ( ) button once again.

7.Step Motion Play (Except CD)

Press the STEP button on the remote control during play.

-Each time the button is pressed, a new frame will appear.

-No sound is heard during STEP mode.

-Press the PLAY/PAUSE ( ) button to resume normal play.

-You can only perform step motion play in the forward direction.

8.Slow Motion Play

Press SEARCH ( ) button to choose

the play speed between 1/2, 1/4, 1/8 and 1/16 of normal during PAUSE or STEP mode.

-No sound is heard during slow mode.

-Press the PLAY/PAUSE ( ) button to resume normal play.

-Reverse slow motion play will not work.

Playback

1.Press the OPEN/CLOSE ( ) button. The STANDBY indicator light goes out and the tray opens.

2.Place a disc gently into the tray with the disc’s label facing up.

-You must only insert one DVD disc at a time. Inserting two or more discs will not allow to play them back and it may cause damage to the DVD player.

3.Press the PLAY/PAUSE ( ) button or OPEN/ CLOSE ( ) button to close the disc tray.

- When you stop disc play, the player remembers where you stopped, so when you press PLAY/PAUSE ( ) button again, it will pick up where you left off. (unless the disc is removed or the player is unplugged, or if you press the STOP ( ) button twice.)

Note

-If the player is left in the stop mode for more than one minute without any user interaction, a screen saver will be activated. Press the PLAY/PAUSE ( ) button to resume normal play.

-If the player is left in the stop mode for more than about 30 minutes, the power will automatically shut off. (Automatic Power-Off Function)

-If the player is left for about 5 minutes in pause mode, it will stop.

-This ( ) icon indicates an invalid button press.

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Samsung DVD-P181/MEA, DVD-P181/EDC, DVD-P181/XEC, DVD-P181/AFR manual Basic Functions, Playing a Disc, Playback, Before Play