◆BACKGROUND

Selects the background color or picture on the TV screen in stop mode or while playing a Super Audio CD, CD, or DATA CD (MP3 audio).

JACKET

The jacket picture (still picture)

PICTURE

appears, but only when the

 

jacket picture is already

 

recorded on the disc (CD-

 

EXTRA, etc.). If the disc does

 

not contain a jacket picture, the

 

“GRAPHICS” picture appears.

 

 

GRAPHICS

A preset picture stored in the

 

player appears.

 

 

BLUE

The background color is blue.

 

 

BLACK

The background color is black.

 

 

◆COMPONENT OUT

This will change the type of signal output from the COMPONENT VIDEO OUT jacks on the player. See page 88 for more information about the different types.

INTERLACE Select this when you are connected to a standard (interlace format) TV.

PROGRESSIVE Select this when you have a TV that can accept progressive signals.

zHint

When the player outputs progressive signals, the PROGRESSIVE indicator lights up.

Note

If you select “PROGRESSIVE” when you connect the player to a TV that cannot accept the signal in progressive format 480p (525p), the image quality will deteriorate. In this case, set the COMPONENT VIDEO OUT/SCAN SELECT switch on the back panel of the player to INTERLACE. Then set “COMPONENT OUT” to “INTERLACE” when you can see the TV screen correctly, and reset the

COMPONENT VIDEO OUT/SCAN SELECT switch to SELECTABLE.

When “PROGRESSIVE” is selected in “COMPONENT OUT”

You can fine-tune the Progressive 480p (525p)* video signal output when you select “PROGRESSIVE” in “COMPONENT OUT” of the “SCREEN SETUP” display and connect the player to the TV that is able to accept the video signal in progressive format.

*The active number of progressive scan lines is 480, and the measured number of lines is 525.

◆MODE (Conversion Modes)

DVD software can be divided into two types: film based software and video based software. Video based software is derived from TV, such as dramas and sit-coms, and displays images at 30 frames/60 fields per second. Film based software is derived from film and displays images at 24 frames per second. Some DVD software contains both Video and Film.

In order for these images to appear natural on your screen when output in PROGRESSIVE mode (60 frames per second), the progressive video signal needs to be converted to match the type of DVD software that you are watching.

AUTO

This will automatically detect

 

if you are playing Film based

 

or Video based software and

 

convert the signal to the

 

appropriate conversion mode.

 

Normally select this position.

 

 

VIDEO

This will set the conversion

 

mode for Video based

 

software, regardless of the type

 

of software that you are

 

playing.

 

 

Note

When you play video based software with progressive signals, sections of some types of images may appear unnatural due to the conversion process when output through the COMPONENT VIDEO OUT jacks. Images from the S VIDEO OUT 1/2 and LINE OUT (VIDEO) 1/2 jacks are unaffected as they are output in the interlace format.

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