Playback - types of discs

Several playback modes are available.

This page shows the simple playback mode. For the other playback modes, see next page.

Simple playback

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The DVD player remains in playback when you switch to TV mode by pressing the tv/dvd key.

For example, this enables you to surf onTV channels without having to interrupt the playing of the disc.

Play

Disc name: Blues Brothers

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Play mode

 

Lock

 

Display

 

Sound

 

Languages

 

Glossary

 

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Open the drawer using the open/close key next to the drawer.

Place the disc with its printed side upward (if one-sided).

After a few seconds, the disc title (or, by default, the type of disc) appears with the image and audio format information and its total duration (if this information is available).

Press on the ok or PLAY key to start the playback.

Some discs automatically propose a menu.You can choose an item with the

keys and press ok to confirm your selection.

If the player is locked and the disc has been assigned a rating limit, you must enter the password to play the disc (see page 17).

The discs capabilities (menus, access functions, dialogue and sub-title languages, camera angles, interactivity) may vary from one disc to the next. Please check the instructions given on the disc. Some discs may have been pre-programmed so

4To stop the playback, press the STOP key.

This disc location is stored by the player: it is the “pickup memory”. If you press once more on the PLAY key, playback will pick up where you left off.

If you press twice on the STOP key or if you unload the disc, this “pickup memory” will be lost: the next playback will start at the beginning of the disc.

Discs you can read

Digital video discs

12 cm and 8 cm, single or double sided, single or dual layer. DVDs are high density optical discs on which high quality picture and audio are recorded by means of digital signals.

Audio CDs

12 cm and 8 cm.

Video CDs

12 cm and 8 cm (with or without playback control).

+ NTSC playback

as to render impossible some functions, such as skipping chapters, still-frame and repeat play.

O The MAGNIFY function

On some DVDs and Video CDs, this function allows you to enlarge the image during a playback at normal speed or during a pause.The zoom-in will be 1.5 or 2 or 4 times the normal size for DVDs and twice the normal size for Video CDs.

When you press on this remote control key, the image centre is enlarged.When the image is sufficiently enlarged. you can navigate

from one zone to the next with the

keys (on some

discs).

 

If you call a Info Display while the magnify function is activated, the

keys will only act for the Info Display.

This mode will be cancelled if you request one of the following functions:

- modification of title, or chapter

- disc menu

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DVD

NTSC

In addition to the PAL DVDs and video CDs, you may enjoy your favourite NTSC movies as well.

Discs you cannot read

Currently, these are the discs that you cannot play with this unit : CD-I, CD-ROM, DVD-ROM, DVD-RAM, CDV, CD-G. DVD with regional code other than that of your player.

Do not try to play Photo CD or CD-R.

Regional code number: your DVD player is designed and manufactured to respond to the region management information that is recorded on a DVD disc.

If the DVD disc does not carry the region code corresponding to your player, it cannot be played.The region code for your player is region No. #2. (Europe, the Middle East, Republic of South Africa, Japan).

- stopping (STOP key)

- access to a marker.