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DVD-S35

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Contents

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Precautions

Warning

The DVD player

The remote control unit

Connections / batteries

6 - 7

Home cinema

Basic settings

SETUP menu

10 - 14

Ratings

General playback

15 - 19

Programme play

Other functions

On-screen displays

22 - 23

JPEG

MP3/WMA/

menu

General notes on DVDs

Before requesting service

28 - 29

Specifications

Index

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DVD-RAM

Glossary of technical terms

Information / Language codes

Operating Instructions

DVD/CD PLAYER

DVD-S35/S31

For error-free handling of your appliance, please read these
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Page 1: ...eral playback 15 19 Programme play 20 Other functions 21 On screen displays 22 23 JPEG 24 MP3 WMA menu 25 General notes on DVDs 26 Before requesting service 28 29 Specifications 31 Index last page DVD RAM Glossary of technical terms 27 Information Language codes 30 Operating Instructions DVD CD PLAYER DVD S35 S31 For error free handling of your appliance please read these operating instructions ca...

Page 2: ... to repair this unit by yourself If sound is interrupted indicators fail to light smoke appears or any other problem that is not covered in these instructions occurs disconnect the AC mains lead and contact your dealer or an authorized service center Tuotteen sisällä Inside of product CLASS 1 LASER PRODUCT Back of product see page 6 LUOKAN 1 LASERPLAITE KLASS 1 LASER APPARAT ENTER 1 2 3 4 5 7 8 9 ...

Page 3: ...RFORMANCE OF PROCEDURES OTHER THAN THOSE SPECIFIED HEREIN MAY RESULT IN HAZARDOUS RADIATION EXPOSURE DO NOT OPEN COVERS AND DO NOT REPAIR YOURSELF REFER SERVICING TO QUALIFIED PERSONNEL VAROITUS TULIPALO SÄHKÖISKUVAARAN TAI TUOTETTA KOHTAAVAN MUUN VAHINGON VÄHENTÄMISEKSI EI LAITETTA SAA ALTISTAA SATEELLE KOSTEUDELLE VESIPISAROILLE TAI ROISKEELLE EIKÄ NESTETTÄ SISÄLTÄVIÄ ESINEITÄ KUTEN ESIMERKIKSI ...

Page 4: ...emote control lets you make any changes to the device settings which will be retained when you switch off the player unit ZOOM MODE SKIP SEARCH STOP PAUSE PLAY Press to zoom Press to skip chapters tracks or pictures Press to search keep button pressed Press to stop playback Press to pause playback Press to start playback page 19 page 16 page 15 page 15 page 15 page 15 Stand by On switch Press to s...

Page 5: ...Chooses from various camera angles turns menu pages Repeats the last couple of seconds of the current playback Random play Programme play Zoom function during playback Repeat function Resumes playback at stored position following an interruption 4 17 10 14 15 21 21 21 22 11 20 16 15 15 15 15 25 26 24 25 26 22 24 9 10 22 22 22 24 16 17 20 19 19 18 SLEEP OPEN CLOSE A SRD CINEMA D ENH GROUP CANCEL SK...

Page 6: ...cart socket or to an amplifier component home cinema Connection to a TV set with scart socket Rear of DVD player AV socket on rear of TV set 21 pin scart cable Note on all connections shown Attach the unit directly to the TV set If you let the player connection go through a video recorder you will experience a disturbed picture when playing copy protected DVDs To avoid sound quality problems deact...

Page 7: ... the batteries Immediately remove used up batteries and replace with batteries of type AA UM3 or R6 Be sure not to confuse the polarity without and Batteries The labelling of the Component Video In terminal may differ depending on the TV set or monitor you use e g Y P P Y B Y R Y Y C C Please refer to the operating instructions of your TV set Attach the cables as shown on the illustrations Make su...

Page 8: ...tionality Please refer to page 21 Digital connection OPTICAL Adapt the settings of SETUP menu see page 13 to the following PCM Down Conversion Yes Dolby Digital PCM DTS Digital Surround PCM MPEG PCM Deactivate function A SRD Advanced Surround see page 21 Audio Prerequisites for making recordings with an external digital recorder The original disc must not be copy protected The recorder must be abl...

Page 9: ...lect your TV s aspect ratio The format of TV screens is either 4 3 standard or 16 9 wide screen Select the aspect ratio that matches the screen setting of your TV set QUICK SETUP Select the output combination for the AV and component terminals Before you proceed please check which setting is supported by your TV set Please refer to the operating instructions of your TV set To improve the quality o...

Page 10: ... numeric key pad of your remote control unit Original The primary language on the disc is played Subtitle Select a subtitle language as appropriate Select the Automatic display of subtitles if the disc contains no track with a dialogue language recording To select another language for the subtitles proceed as described in section Audio Menus Select the language for the disc menus Proceed as descri...

Page 11: ... To select a rating ENTER CANCEL factory setting is 8 When you select a rating between 0 and 7 you will be automatically prompted for a password Type in a 4 digit code using the numeric key pad of your remote control unit confirms your entry Press or to delete any mistakes The picture of a closed padlock tells you that the system is locked Make sure not to forget your password code Ratings Lock Al...

Page 12: ... a field based still image Automatic Field The unit automatically selects the optically better type of image Poorer quality than a frame based image however the image is less fuzzy Frame NTSC Disc Output To play a NTSC disc select a colour rendition standard NTSC PAL60 that matches the function of your TV set Please refer to the operating instructions of your TV set Pan Scan Automatically crops a ...

Page 13: ...es the volume range by putting up the level of soft passages and lowering the level of loud passages e g to turn down the overall volume late at night This option allows you to say whether or not the volume range is to be compressed Audio during Search Lets you decide whether or not the sound is to be on during the search Dolby Digital DTS Digital Surround MPEG PCM PCM PCM Bitstream Bitstream Bits...

Page 14: ... different displays that the player can output to the TV screen Press to return to the SETUP menu SETUP DVD Video Mode Playing back a DVD Audio disc in DVD Video mode On allows you to play the DVD Video section of the DVD Audio disc This feature is not supported by all discs QUICK SETUP Please refer to page 9 Basic settings Mixed Disc Audio Stills Your DVD player can play back display discs in the...

Page 15: ...of the disc information outputs some track information to the TV screen D SUBTITLE To pause playback PAUSE PLAY during playback resumes playback Slow motion SLOW PLAY slow motion playback forwards or backwards in pause mode The speed of slow playback will increase in 5 steps while the relevant button keeps being pressed resumes playback at normal speed D VCDs do not support reverse slow motion pla...

Page 16: ...scs QUICK REPLAY Skipping chapters tracks or pictures SKIP during playback or in pause mode Every push of one of these buttons will increment the count of chapters tracks or pictures skipped by 1 Resume function This function allows you to interrupt the playback of a disc during playback to store the current position on the disc while is flashing on the display Playback will be resumed at the poin...

Page 17: ...ox 30 minutes in Stop mode the player automatically goes into stand by mode irrespective of the sleep timer setting To check the time remaining SLEEP To clear the setting SLEEP then choose OFF DVD V WMA WMA RAM WMA WMA JPEG VCD CD MP3 WMA DVD A Random playback Plays all chapters tracks once each in a random order in Stop mode The PROGRAM screen is displayed Press Press or the numeric keys of the r...

Page 18: ... be resumed at the stored position and the position tag will be cleared Some discs do not fully support all of this function D Chapter review This function lets you browse back through the chapters of a DVD V by playing the first couple of seconds of every chapter during playback The first couple of seconds of every chapter are played back Normal playback will be resumed at the point where you sto...

Page 19: ...d by mode D The zoom functionality may be restricted depending on the disc format ZOOM This function allows you to zoom into the picture to make better use of the available screen space The setting can be changed via the remote control unit or the appliance ZOOM ZOOM MODE during playback Using the remote control buttons Press to set the zoom factor to select a zoom mode Or press the button on the ...

Page 20: ...ry press Choose Clear Select Clear all to clear all entries accepts your selection To quit the programme play mode PLAY MODE in stop mode until the programme play screen disappears The actual programme will be retained Switching off the player or opening the disc tray will clear the programme D DVD V VCD CD WMA MP3 DVD A PROGRAM RETURN Press PLAY to start Play Clear Clear all Choose a title and ch...

Page 21: ...RROUND is on CINEMA You can manipulate the picture quality of films CINEMA Press to select the individual settings CINEMA 1 Improved contrast of details of dark scenes CINEMA 2 Improved brightness setting for dark scenes USER User defined colour contrast and brightness settings Picture sharpness gamma brightness distribution NORMAL Factory default S35 only Normal DIALOGUE ENHANCER Available in the...

Page 22: ... button on your remote control unit Title Track or Allows you direct access to a title track if the disc hosts several Total Number of track picture selected plus total number of items in selection Time Display select playback time numeric keys Alternative display of elapsed or remaining playback time Playback time only DVD V DVD A RAM DVD V DVD A RAM VCD CD MP3 WMA SVCD Audio Allows you to alter ...

Page 23: ...unction page 19 OSD Brightness User defined brightness of OSD displays Bitrate Display Displays the video image data rate per second Mbps S35 only Play Mode Display normal playback RND Random play PGM Programme play Zoom Zoom function see page 19 A B Repeat ENTER ENTER Allows you to keep repeating a defined section between positions A and B of an item Press to set starting point A and end point B ...

Page 24: ... your pick or quit the menu screen pictures Press or and to page through the album Prev Next ENTER To rotate ANGLE PAGE ENTER RETURN pictures while the is being displayed Press to select the direction of rotation Press to actually rotate the to the desired position quits this menu picture picture To activate the JPEG on screen displays DISPLAY while pictures are being displayed The on screen displ...

Page 25: ... run the function All entries containing the word you specified are output to the match list Press and to select a track title To look for the first word in a title press to delete the asterisk All entries starting with the word you specified are output to the match list If there are no matches press to change your search entry browses the album for the previous or next group Find ENTER ENTER Find...

Page 26: ...nu has an option for selecting the language you prefer Many DVDs provide subtitles in several languages They may contain material in up to 32 different languages Some DVD player functions can be controlled by the DVD itself General notes on DVDs Playing DVDs and VCDs The producer of the programme material can define the way in which the disc is played Consequently you may sometimes find that in so...

Page 27: ...l Colour difference signals The three signals red green and blue can be converted into three different signals luminance signal Y luminous density and two chrominance signals P P or C C colour difference signals B R B R MP3 or MPEG 1 Audio Layer 3 is a file compression format used for digital audio files It provides files of an extremely small size and may cause a consequential loss of quality MP3...

Page 28: ...with regional code 2 All or from a group of regional codes containing regional code 2 The disc is dirty The disc is in the wrong way round The label of the disc you wish to play must face up You can only choose from the languages actually recorded on the disc Some discs require you to change languages via the disc menu The disc does not provide any subtitles You deactivated the display of subtitle...

Page 29: ...the menu Check whether the player is directly plugged into the TV set s AV IN Scart or whether it is going through a video recorder between the two units Check the Zoom setting page 19 Video This is indicative of a malfunction The digits following H depend on what state your player is in Press to put the player into stand by mode then briefly unplug and re attach the AC mains cable Contact the aft...

Page 30: ...072 Corsican 6779 Croatian 7282 Czech 6783 Danish 6865 Dutch 7876 English 6978 Esperanto 6979 Estonia 6984 Faroese 7079 Fiji 7074 Finnish 7073 French 7082 Frisian 7089 Galician 7176 Georgian 7565 German 6869 Greek 6976 Greenlandic 7576 Guarani 7178 Gujarati 7185 Hausa 7265 Hebrew 7387 Hindi 7273 Hungarian 7285 Icelandic 7383 Indonesian 7378 Interlingua 7365 Irish 7165 Italian 7384 Japanese 7465 Ja...

Page 31: ...t socket PAL 625 50 PAL525 60 NTSC 1 Vss 75 Ohm RGB output level 0 7 Vss 75 Ohm 1 Vss 75 Ohm C output level PAL PAL 60 0 3 Vss NTSC 0 286 Vss 75 Ohm 21 pin AV Scart RGB S Video included Video output Scart output Component video output Audio output Y output level green 1Vss 75 Ohm P output level blue 0 7 Vss 75 Ohm P output level red 0 7 Vss 75 Ohm Output level 2 V eff 1 kHz 0 dBFs Output sockets F...

Page 32: ...OP MENU 5 26 TV Aspect 12 arning 3 WMA 25 27 OOM 19 A B D J L M N P R T W Z C F G I O S hapter review 18 Connections 6 7 Dynamic Range Compression 13 ield 12 Frame 12 Frame by frame 16 page eneral playback 15 nformation 30 n screen display 22 23 OPTICAL 8 Optical digital audio cable 8 27 Playback 15 Precautions 2 Programme play 20 Random play 17 Ratings 11 Region code 30 Remote control unit 5 REPE...

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