
Getting Started
Disc Types and Characteristics
Region Code
The product and the discs are coded by region. These regional codes must match in order for the disc to play. If the codes do not match, the disc will not play.
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| 1 | The U.S., U.S. territories and | |||
| Canada |
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| 2 | Europe, Japan, the Middle East, | |||
| Egypt, South Africa, Greenland | ||||
| 3 | Taiwan, Korea, the Philippines, | |||
| Indonesia, Hong Kong | ||||
4 | Mexico, South America, Central | ||||
| America, Australia, New Zealand, | ||||
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| Pacific Islands, Caribbean | |||
| 5 | Russia, Eastern Europe, India, | |||
| most of Africa, North Korea, | ||||
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| Mongolia |
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| 6 | China |
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Disc Types & | Recorded | Disc | Max. Playing Time | ||
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| Approx. 240 min. | |
| VIDEO |
| 12 cm | ||
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| Approx. 480 min. | |||
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| AUDIO | 12 cm | 74 min. | ||
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| 12 cm | - | |
DivX | VIDEO |
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Do not use the following types of disc!
•LD,
•DVD discs purchased abroad may not play on this product.
If such discs are played, a <Wrong Region. Please check Disc.> message appears on the TV screen.
Disc Types And Disc Format
This product does not support Secure (DRM) Media files.
CD-R Discs
•Some
•Use a 650MB/74 minute CD-R disc.
Do not use
•Some
•Only
CD-R MP3 Discs
•Only CD-R discs with MP3 files in ISO 9660 or Joliet format can be played.
•MP3 file names should contain no blank spaces or special characters (. / = +).
•Use discs recorded with a compression/ decompression data rate greater than 128Kbps.
•Only files with the ".mp3" and ".MP3" extensions can be played.
•Only a consecutively written multisession disc can be played. If there is a blank segment in the Multisession disc, the disc can be played only up to the blank segment.
•If the disc is not closed, it will take longer to begin playback and not all of the recorded files may be played.
•For files encoded in Variable Bit Rate (VBR) format, i.e. files encoded in both low bit rate and high bit rate (e.g., 32Kbps ~ 320Kbps), the sound may skip during playback.