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Using the DVD function

 

 

 

User

 

 

To achieve optimum performance when playing DVD-ROMdiscs, you should follow these

 

 

 

 

 

Notebook

 

 

recommendations.

 

 

 

❑ Close all open applications before playing a DVD-ROM movie.

 

 

 

 

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You can play DVDs using the DVD-ROM drive and the WinDVD software. See the help file on the WinDVD

 

 

 

 

software for details.

 

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❑ When playing DVD movies on battery power, set the power management profile to DVD. With other

 

 

 

profiles, the movies can be choppy.

 

 

 

 

❑ Do not switch power saving modes while playing a DVD video.

 

 

 

 

❑ Do not use resident disc utilities or resident utilities to speed up the access of discs, because they may

 

 

 

 

cause the system to become unstable.

 

 

 

 

❑ Make sure that the screensaver is deactivated.

 

 

 

 

❑ Region codes indicators are labeled on the DVD discs to indicate in which region and on what type of

 

 

 

 

player you can play the disc. Unless a 2 (Europe belongs to region '2') or All (this means that you can play

 

 

 

 

this DVD everywhere in the world) is labeled on your DVD disc or on the packaging, you cannot play the

 

 

 

 

disc on this player.

 

 

 

 

❑ Do not try to change the region code settings of the DVD-ROM drive. Any difficulties caused by changing

 

 

 

 

the region code settings of DVD-ROM drive are out of warranty.

 

 

 

 

❑ When a DVD video disc is inserted in the DVD-ROM drive, you cannot toggle between LCD and TV by

 

 

 

 

pressing <Fn>+<F8>.

 

 

 

 

❑ When a TV is connected, a part of the video screen will not appear with the factory settings. Adjust the

 

 

 

 

display resolution to 800x600.