Sony MEXDV2200 - DVD/SACD/CD Receiver, Operating Instructions Manual

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Additional Information
Precautions
• Cool off the unit beforehand if your car has been
parked in direct sunlight.
• Power antenna (aerial) extends automatically.
Moisture condensation
Should moisture condensation occur inside the unit,
remove the disc and wait for about an hour for it to
dry out; otherwise the unit will not operate properly.
To maintain high sound quality
Do not splash liquid onto the unit or discs.
Notes on discs
• Do not expose discs to direct sunlight or heat
sources such as hot air ducts, nor leave it in a car
parked in direct sunlight.
• Before playing, wipe the discs
with a cleaning cloth from the
center out. Do not use solvents
such as benzine, thinner,
commercially available
cleaners.
• This unit is designed to
playback discs that conform to
the Compact Disc (CD)
standard. DualDiscs and some of the music discs
encoded with copyright protection technologies do
not conform to the Compact Disc (CD) standard,
therefore, these discs may not be playable by this
unit.
• Discs that this unit CANNOT play
– Discs with labels, stickers, or sticky tape or
paper attached. Doing so may cause a
malfunction, or may ruin the disc.
– Discs with non-standard shapes (e.g., heart,
square, star). Attempting to do so may damage
the unit.
– 8 cm (3
1
/
4
in) discs.
Note on playback operations of DVDs
and VCDs
Some playback operations of DVDs and VCDs may
be intentionally set by software producers. Since
this unit plays DVDs and VCDs according to the
disc contents the software producers designed, some
playback features may not be available. Also, refer
to the instructions supplied with the DVDs or
VCDs.
Notes on DATA CDs and DATA DVDs
• Some DATA CDs/DATA DVDs (depending on the
equipment used for its recording, or the disc
condition) may not play on this unit.
• Finalization is required for some discs (page 52).
• The unit is compatible with the following
standards.
For DATA CDs
– ISO 9660 level 1/level 2 format, Joliet/Romeo in
the expansion format
– Multi Session
For DATA DVDs
– UDF Bridge format (combined UDF and ISO
9660)
– Multi Border
• The maximum number of:
– folders (albums): 256 (including root and empty
folders).
– files (tracks/images) and folders contained in a
disc: 2,000 (if a folder/file names contain many
characters, this number may become less than
2,000).
– displayable characters for a folder/file name: 64
(Joliet/Romeo).
Notes on finalizing discs
The following discs are required to be finalized to
play on this unit.
• DVD-R/DVD-R DL (in video mode/VR mode)
• DVD-RW in video mode
• DVD+R/DVD+R DL
• CD-R
• CD-RW
The following discs can be played without
finalization.
• DVD+RW – automatically finalized.
• DVD-RW in VR mode – finalization not required.
For details, see the manual supplied with the disc.
Notes on Multi Session CDs/Multi
Border DVDs
This unit can play Multi Session CDs/Multi Border
DVDs under the following conditions. Note that the
session must be closed and the disc must be
finalized.
• When CD-DA (Compact Disc Digital Audio) is
recorded in the first session:
The unit recognizes the disc as CD-DA and only
CD-DA of the first session is played, even if an
other format (e.g., MP3) is recorded in other
sessions.
• When CD-DA is recorded other than in the first
session:
The unit recognizes the disc as a DATA CD or
DATA DVD, and all CD-DA sessions are skipped.
• When an MP3/WMA/JPEG is recorded:
Only the sessions containing the selected file type
(audio/image)* are played (if CD-DA or other data
exists in other sessions, they are skipped).
*
For details on how to select the file type, see
page 34.