Appendix

Additional Information

Notes

TV Aspect Ratio

•Depending on the disc type, some aspect ratios may not be available.

•If you select an aspect ratio and option that is different than the aspect ratio of your TV screen, the picture might appear to be distorted.

•If you select the 16:9 Original, your TV may display 4:3 Pillarbox (black bars on the sides of the picture).

Digital Output

 

• Be sure to select the correct Digital Output or you will hear no sound or just

 

loud noise.

 

• If the HDMI device (AV receiver, TV) is not compatible with compressed formats

 

(Dolby Digital, DTS), the audio signal outputs as PCM.

 

• Regular DVDs do not have BONUSVIEW audio and Navigation Sound Effects.

 

• Some Ultra HD Blu-ray Discs and standard Blu-ray Discs do not have

 

BONUSVIEW audio and Navigation Sound Effects.

 

• The Digital Output setup does not affect the HDMI audio output to your TV.

 

It affects the optical and HDMI audio output when your product is connected to

 

an AV receiver.

Settings

• If you play MPEG audio soundtracks, the audio signal outputs as PCM

regardless of your Digital Output selections (PCM or Bitstream).

 

PCM Downsampling

 

• Even when PCM Downsampling is set to Off, some discs will only output

 

downsampled audio through the optical digital output.

 

• HDMI

 

-- If your TV is not compatible with compressed multi-channel formats (Dolby

 

Digital, DTS), the product may output PCM 2ch downmixed audio even

 

though you selected Bitstream (either Reencoded or Unprocessed) in the

 

setup menu.

 

-- If your TV is not compatible with PCM sampling rates over 48kHz, the product

 

will output at 48kHz.

 

BD-Live Internet Connection

 

• What is a valid certificate?

 

When the product uses BD-LIVE to send the disc data and a request to the

 

server to certify the disc, the server uses the transmitted data to check if the

 

disc is valid and sends the certificate back to the product.

 

• The Internet connection may be restricted while you are using BD-LIVE

 

contents.

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UBD-M8500/XE, UBD-M8500/ZF, UBD-M8500/EN, UBD-M8500/ZG specifications

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