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Introduction
About this owner’s manual
This owner’s manual explains the basic instructions of
this DVD player. Some DVD video discs are produced in
a manner that allows specific or limited operation during
playback. As such, the DVD player may not respond to
all operating commands. This is not a defect in the DVD
player. Refer to instruction notes of discs.
“
” may appear on the TV screen during operation.
A “
” means that the operation is not permitted by the
DVD player or the disc.
Notes on region numbers
The region number of this DVD player is 1. If region
numbers, which stand for their playable area, are printed
on your DVD video disc and you do not find
1
or
ALL
,
disc playback will not be allowed by the player. (In this
case, the DVD player will display a message on-screen.)
On VIDEO CDs
This DVD player supports VIDEO CDs equipped with
the PBC (Version 2.0) function. (PBC is the abbreviation
of Playback Control.) You can enjoy two playback
variations depending on types of discs.
• VIDEO CD not equipped with PBC function
(Version 1.1)
Sound and movie can be played on this DVD player in
the same way as an audio CD.
• VIDEO CD equipped with PBC function
(Version 2.0)
In addition to operation of a VIDEO CD not equipped
with the PBC function, you can enjoy playback of
interactive software with search function by using the
menu displayed on the TV screen (Menu Playback).
Some of the functions described in this owner’s
manual may not work with some discs.
Playable discs
This DVD player can play the following discs.
• You cannot play discs other than those listed above.
• You cannot play discs of DVD-RAM or
non-standardized discs, etc., even if they may be
labeled as above.
• This DVD player uses the NTSC color system. PAL
signals in a playable disc are converted to NTSC
signals to be output. (They cannot be in the
progressive output format.) This conversion may
cause slight picture deterioration.
DVD
video
discs
Disc Mark
Contents
Disc
Size
VIDEO
CDs
8 cm
12 cm
8 cm
12 cm
video
(moving
pictures)
+
Audio
Notes on Discs (continued)
Audio
CDs
8 cm
(CD single)
12 cm
The following discs are also available.
DVD-R discs of DVD video format
CD-R/CD-RW discs of CD-DA or VIDEO CD format
Some of these discs may be incompatible.
DVD
audio
discs
video
(moving
pictures)
+
Audio
Audio
Audio
8 cm
12 cm
DIGITAL VIDEO
