About Parental Controls
Commercially-recorded DVD discs have
parental level assignments. The range of
parental controls is from 1 to 8.
In general, this range corresponds to
established movie rating systems. Movie
rating systems may vary depending on
the country in which you live. At the
bottom of this page is a chart showing the
rating system and corresponding
Parental Control ratings for the USA.
The player can be set in a similar way. If
the player’s parental level is set to 8 it will
play all discs. If the player ’s parental
level is set below 8, only discs with a
lower or equal parental level will play.
For example, if the player is set to 5, only
discs with parental control ratings of 1-5
will play. To play a disc with a higher
number rating, you must change the
player ’s rating to a higher number.
Consider a disc that is suitable for most
audiences, and is rated as level 2 for the
most part. However in the middle there
are also scenes rated at 5 and 7 (not
suitable for children). Alternative scenes
with lower rating are included. The player
plays the highest rated scene that the
parental setting allows.
A section of the disc can have several
different sequences that vary in parental
control level. In the above example of a
disc with parental control, the player will
show a different section depending on
the parental control level set in the
player ’s menu.
In this way parents can control the
content of films and there is no indication
that any censorship has occurred.
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KID SAFE
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Playing MP3 discs
What is MP3?
Corresponding file systems
Playing a JPEG disc
MP3 (MPEG-1 Audio Layer 3) is a
compression standard prescribed by the
ISO, the International Standardization
Organization and MPEG, which is a joint
activity institution of the IEC.
MP3 files contain compressed audio
data. MP3 encoding is capable of
compressing audio data at extremely
high ratios, reducing the size of music
files to as much as one-tenth their
original size. This is achieved while still
maintaining near-CD quality. The MP3
format realizes such high compression
ratios by eliminating the sounds that are
either inaudible to the human ear or
masked by other sounds.
This device supports discs formatted with
ISO9660 level 1 or level 2. Under the
ISO9660 standard, there are some
restrictions to remember.
The maximum nested folder depth is 8
(including the root directory). The
number of characters for a folder/file
names are letters A-Z (all caps), numbers
0-9, and ‘_’ (underscore).
This device also can play back discs in
Joliet, Romeo, etc., and other standards
that conform to ISO9660. However,
sometimes the file names, folder names,
etc., are not displayed correctly.
When preparing a disc of jpeg images to
be shown using the DVD player, please
note that following guidelines:
• The recommended image size is 640 x
480 pixels. If a file is recorded at a higher
resolution, the player must resample it,
which will cause delays in displaying the
image.
• Only “baseline” type JPEG images can
be displayed on this player. This is the
typical format used in digital cameras
and web cameras.
