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L55

DVD / Video CD / CD Player

Owner’s Manual

GB

Manuel d’Installation

F

Bedienungsanleitung

D

Manual del Usuario

E

Manuale delle Istruzioni

I

Manual do Proprietário

P

Bruksanvisning

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Summary of Contents for L55

Page 1: ...L55 DVD Video CD CD Player Owner s Manual GB Manuel d Installation F Bedienungsanleitung D Manual del Usuario E Manuale delle Istruzioni I Manual do Proprietário P Bruksanvisning S ...

Page 2: ...s for a Class B digital device pursuant to part 15 of the FCC Rules These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference in a residential installation This equipment generates uses and can radiate radio frequency energy and if not installed and used in accordance with the instructions may cause harmful interference to radio communications However there is no guar...

Page 3: ...ION USING DISPLAY MENU ICONS General Information about Display Menu Icons 21 Detailed description of each Display Menu Icon 22 ADVANCED OPERATION Using a title menu 23 Using a DVD menu 23 Changing subtitle language 24 Changing audio soundtrack language 24 Viewing from another angle 25 Producing a 3D Surround effect 25 Repeat Play 26 Zoom Feature 27 Memorizing Settings for Viewed DVDs 28 Program Pl...

Page 4: ...g the plug If the plug should still fail to fit contact your electrician to replace your obsolete outlet Do not defeat the safety purpose of the polarized plug 4 Heat The product should be situated away from heat sources such as radiators heat registers stoves or other products including amplifiers that produce heat 5 Water and Moisture Do not use this product near water for example near a bath tu...

Page 5: ...nuously with high volume sound it may cause hearing damage 19 Laser Beam Do not look into the opening of the disc tray or ventilation opening of the product to see the source of the laser beam It may cause sight damage 20 Disc Do not use a cracked deformed or repaired disc These discs are easily broken and may cause serious personal injury and product malfunction 21 Damage Requiring Service Unplug...

Page 6: ...EAR PICTURE The DVD player is a high technology precision device If the optical pick up lens and disc drive parts are dirty or worn down the picture quality becomes poor To obtain a clear picture we recommend regular inspection and maintenance cleaning or parts replacement every 1 000 hours of use depending on the operating environment For details contact your nearest dealer NOTES ON MOISTURE COND...

Page 7: ...c ON STORING DISCS Do not store discs in a place subject to direct sunlight or near heat sources Do not store discs in places subject to moisture and dust such as a bathroom or near a humidifier Store discs vertically in a case Stacking or placing objects on discs outside of their case may cause warping ABOUT THIS OWNER S MANUAL This owner s manual explains the basic instructions of this DVD playe...

Page 8: ...PAUSE STEP button STOP button SKIP SCAN buttons OPEN CLOSE button DISPLAY WINDOW REMOTE SENSOR POWER button OPERATING STATUS indicator VCD indicator CD indicator DVD indicator PROGRAM indicator Repeat playback mode indicators TOTAL PLAYING TIME ELAPSED TIME indicator CHP TRK NUMBER indicator TITLE NUMBER indicator ANGLE ICON indicator ...

Page 9: ...OUT jack AUDIO MIXED OUT jacks S VIDEO OUT jack OPTICAL DIGITAL AUDIO OUT jack DIGITAL AUDIO OUT jacks COAXIAL POWER CORD Connect to an AC 110V 60Hz outlet only USA CANADA VERSION OPTICAL DIGITAL AUDIO OUT JACK Remove the dust protection cap from the connector and connect the optical digital cable not supplied firmly so that the configurations of both the cable and the connector match Keep the dus...

Page 10: ...ting a selection on a DISPLAY menu screen TITLE and MENU screen MENU BUTTON Use the MENU button to display the menu screen included on DVD video discs To operate a menu screen follow the instructions in Using a DVD Menu page 23 REMOTE SELECT Using the power numbers set up display arrow buttons for DVD player change the switch to DVD position Power button Number buttons SET UP button TITLE button A...

Page 11: ...from battery corrosion If the remote control does not function correctly or if the operating range becomes reduced replace all batteries with new ones If battery leakage occurs wipe the battery liquid from the battery compartment then insert new batteries The batteries should last about one year with normal use OPERATING WITH THE REMOTE CONTROL This section shows you how to use the remote control ...

Page 12: ...uts To video input SCART VIDEO cable not supplied S video cable not supplied NOTES Refer to the owner s manual of your TV as well When you connect the DVD player to your TV be sure to turn off the power and unplug both units from the wall outlet before making any connections Connect the DVD player to your TV directly If you connect the DVD player to a VCR the playback picture will be distorted bec...

Page 13: ...ound Turn off the receiver before you connect or disconnect the DVD player s power cord If you leave the receiver power on the speakers may be damaged WARNING Do not set the Digital Audio Output of this DVD player to Dolby Digital unless you are connecting the DIGITAL AUDIO jack of this DVD player to an AV decoder that has the Dolby Digital decoding function High volume sound may damage your heari...

Page 14: ...OUT S Video cable or Video cable To DIGITAL OUT COAXIAL or OPTICAL Receiver equipped with a Dolby Digital decoder To S video input or Video Input To digital audio input Connection example L75AV Receiver Front speaker left Front speaker right Centre speaker Rear speaker left surround Rear speaker right surround Refer to the owner s manual of your audio equipment as well When you connect the DVD pla...

Page 15: ...enjoy Dolby Pro Logic Surround sound WARNING Do not set the Digital Audio Output of this DVD player to Dolby Digital unless you are connecting the DIGITAL AUDIO jack of this DVD player to an AV decoder that has the Dolby Digital decoding function High volume sound may damage your hearing as well as the speakers Refer to Selecting Digital Audio Output on page 37 L75 Rear To Video Out To MIXED Audio...

Page 16: ...ht and left front speakers Connection example Receiver equipped with a digital audio input 75 ohm coaxial cable or optical cable To digital out COAXIAL or OPTICAL S video cable or Video cable To S Video Input or Video Input To digital Audio Input Front speaker left Front speaker Right TV ENJOYING DTS SOUND Introducing DTS Digital Surround the finest technology ever invented to transform existing h...

Page 17: ... the disc tray by pressing this button even if the DVD player is in standby mode 3 Place a disc on the disc tray with the playback side down There are two different disc sizes Place the disc in the correct guide on the disc tray If the disc is out of the guide it may damage the disc and cause the DVD player to malfunction Do not place anything except 3 discs or 5 discs on the disc tray 4 Press PLA...

Page 18: ...open and close the disc tray Do not push the disc tray while it is moving Doing so may cause the DVD player to malfunction Do not push up the disc tray or put any objects other than discs on the disc tray Doing so may cause the DVD video player to malfunction Keep your fingers well clear of the disc tray as it is closing Be especially careful with children s fingers around the closing disc tray as...

Page 19: ...ally STILL PICTURE PAUSE Press PAUSE STEP during playback DVD The player will be placed in the still picture mode CD The player will be placed in the pause mode FRAME ADVANCE DVD ONLY Press PAUSE STEP during still playback Each time you press PAUSE STEP the picture advance one frame To resume normal playback press PLAY SKIPPING FORWARD OR BACK Skipping forward Press SKIP during playback A chapter ...

Page 20: ...n be selected with SKIP SCAN To increase the playback speed press the button as the playback direction To reverse the playback direction press the other button opposite to the playback direction To return to normal playback press PLAY NOTES When SKIP SCAN button is pressed and held for more than 0 5 second scan function will engage The DVD player does not play back sound during slow motion playbac...

Page 21: ... be accessed from the stop mode 2 Press to select the desired item The currently selected item is indicated by a yellow frame on its DISPLAY menu icons 3 Press to select the desired setting When numbers are displayed e g title number the numeric buttons can also be used for setting instead of For some functions the setting will be registered immediately for others ENTER must be pressed To clear th...

Page 22: ...R To show the current audio soundtrack language encoding method channel number and to change the settings AUDIO To show the current subtitles language and to change the setting SUBTITLE To show the current angle number and to change the angle ANGLE To show the current sound NORMAL or 3D SURROUND and to change the setting To show the current track number and to jump to the desired track number Ente...

Page 23: ...e The selected title now starts playing Some DVDs have unique menu structures called DVD menus For example DVDs programmed with complex contents provide guide menus and those recorded with various languages provide menus for audio and subtitle language Although the DVD menu s contents and operation differ from disc to disc the following explains the basic operation when this feature is used 1 Pres...

Page 24: ...disc is removed subtitles appears in the language selected at the initial settings If this language is not recorded on the disc the disc s priority language appears It is possible to change the audio soundtrack language to a different language from the one selected at the initial settings in case of DVD disc See page 31 for further info This operation works only with discs on which multiple audio ...

Page 25: ... can produce a 3D Surround effect using Spatializer technology which simulates multi channel audio playback from two conventional stereo speakers instead of the five or more speakers normally required to listen to multi channel audio from a home theater This feature works with DVD discs encoded with Dolby Pro Logic Dolby Digital AC 3 and DTS multi channel audio tracks 1 Press DISPLAY during playba...

Page 26: ...played Repeat of title being played Cancel repeat mode normal play CD Repeat of track being played Repeat of entire disc contents Cancel repeat mode normal play To return to normal play Press REPEAT several times until OFF is displayed Notes NOTES Repeat play works only with discs for which the elapsed playing time appears in the DVD display window during playback Repeat play may not work correctl...

Page 27: ...uare frame will disappear Each press of the ZOOM button changes the TV screen in the left sequence The magnification level will be displayed in the upper right corner of the zoom area If you press buttons the zoom point shifts 2 Press ENTER The selected frame is displayed in full size on the TV screen 3 To resume normal playback Press ZOOM again to cancel Zoom feature and resume normal playback or...

Page 28: ...test Stop Position Page 19 TV Aspect Page 34 Disc Audio Language Page 24 Disc Subtitle Language Page 24 Disc Menu Language Page 31 Angle Page 25 1 Load the DVD that has memorized It will appear on the TV screen as below If the screen is left for more than 7 seconds play back will start automatically 2 Press 2 or ENTER to select Yes The memorized settings are automatically recalled NOTES Settings a...

Page 29: ... the screen The selected track is stored in the memory and play now begins in the programmed sequence If you press PROGRAM to exit the screen the selected tracks are not memorized After playback of all programmed tracks Play is stopped CLEARING THE PROGRAM To clear the program one by one Press to select the unwanted number and then press CLEAR To clear all the programs Press to select the Clear Al...

Page 30: ...setting s Disc Audio see page 31 Disc Subtitle see page 31 Disc Menu see page 31 Rating see page 32 Password see page 33 TV Aspect see page 34 Menu Language see page 35 TV Output see page 35 Pseudo Pal see page 36 Digital Audio Output see page 37 3 Press and then to select the desired setting and press ENTER Some items require additional steps See the respective page When the alternate setting is ...

Page 31: ...ss ENTER Original The original language of each disc will be selected English The English will be Selected Other Another language can be selected You can input 4 digit language code Refer to the language codes on page 38 Press CLEAR if an incorrect language code is entered The Disc Subtitle and Disc Menu are selected by the same method NOTE If the language selected is not available on the disc the...

Page 32: ... is equivalent to the following USA movie ratings Level 7 NC 17 Level 6 R Level 4 PG 13 Level 3 PG Level 1 G Some titles do not match with the rating level described as above If you change the level and enter a password playback of all DVDs with ratings higher than your selection will be blocked unless the correct password is entered again For example if you change the level to 5 the DVD player wi...

Page 33: ...MORIZED PASSWORD 1 At the SETUP screen press to select Password and press 2 Input your password and Press ENTER 3 To change or clear your password press to select the Change or Clear and press ENTER TO CLEAR YOUR 4 DIGIT PASSWORD If you forget your password to clear the current password follow the procedure below At the SETUP screen 1 Press to select Password item 2 Enter 6 digit number 210499 and...

Page 34: ...tyle is played back in that style the left and right edges are cut off 16 9 Wide Select when a wide screen TV set is connected Played in FULL size Setting the wide screen TV to FULL mode is also necessary Each screen shows an example when the video material for a wide screen is played This setting does not affect the video material for conventional size Disc Subtitle Disc Menu Rating Password TV A...

Page 35: ...ress ENTER Disc Subtitle Disc Menu Rating Password TV Aspect Menu Language TV Output Select Pseudo PAL Digital Audio Output Disc Audio English Spanish French Disc Subtitle Disc Menu Rating Password TV Aspect Menu Language TV Output Select Pseudo PAL Digital Audio Output Disc Audio English Spanish French Disc Subtitle Disc Menu Rating Password TV Aspect Menu Language TV Output Select Pseudo PAL Dig...

Page 36: ...he selected TV SYSTEM SETTING does not coincide with the system of your TV normal color picture may not be displayed When you playback NTSC disc with PAL TV some discs may produce black bands at the top and bottom of the screen TV SYSTEM SETTING Connected TV Available disc PAL PAL NTSC PAL DVD disc NTSC NTSC NTSC DVD disc AUTO MULTI system TV NTSC PAL DVD disc To enter the TV SYSTEM SETTING mode i...

Page 37: ...r s digital audio output don t select any of the options If an active digital audio output signal is supplied to an receiver or other equipment without a corresponding digital decoding capability a very loud noise may be produced which could permanently damage the speakers The DTS DVD disc sound is played back only when the DVD player is connected to a receiver with a DTS decoder Disc Subtitle Dis...

Page 38: ...285 Hungarian 7783 Malay 8469 Telugu 6678 Bengali Bangla 7289 Armenian 7784 Maltese 8471 Tajik 6679 Tibetan 7365 Interlingua 7789 Burmese 8472 Thai 6682 Breton 7378 Indonesian 7865 Nauru 8473 Tigrinya 6765 Catalan 7383 Icelandic 7869 Nepali 8475 Turkmen 6779 Corsican 7384 Italian 7876 Dutch 8476 Tagalog 6783 Czech 7387 Hebrew 7879 Norwegian 8479 Tonga 6789 Welsh 7465 Japanese 7982 Oriya 8482 Turki...

Page 39: ...VD disc If the Region number described on the DVD disc does not correspond to the Region number of this DVD player this DVD player cannot play that disc The Region number of this DVD player is EUROPE USA CANADA NOTES ON UNAUTHORIZED DISCS You may not be able to play back some DVD video discs on this player if they were purchased from outside your geographic area or made for business purposes When ...

Page 40: ...onnected with the audio cable The Digital Audio Output is set to the wrong position Set the Digital Audio Output to the correct position then turn on the DVD player again by pressing the POWER button The playback picture is poor The disc is dirty Clean the disc The DVD player does not start playback No disc is inserted Insert a disc Check that the DVD or audio CD indicator in the DVD display is li...

Page 41: ...re 41 F to 95 F Operation status Horizontal OUTPUTS Video output 1 0 V p p 75Ω negative sync RCA jack x 1 S video output Y 1 0 V p p 75Ω negative sync Mini DIN 4 pin x 1 C 0 286 V p p 75Ω SCART video output CVBS 1 0 V p p 75Ω negative sync RCA jack x 1 RGB 0 63 V p p 75Ω Audio output digital audio 0 5 V p p 75Ω RCA jack x 1 Audio output optical audio Optical connector x 1 Audio output analog audio...

Page 42: ... NAD ELECTRONICS INTERNATIONAL All rights reserved No part of this publication may be reproduced stored or transmitted in any form without the written permission of NAD Electronics International L55 Manual 02 01 Printed in Korea ...

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