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SYSTEM SETUP

SPDIF Input: Defines with which video input the
Coaxial Digital Input

9 should be associat-

ed. Should you wish to change the video input,
press the Enter Button

6 once the SPDIF

Input line is highlighted. The blue bar will disap-
pear and the rest of the settings will fade out.
Select the desired input by pressing the 

N

or 

M

9. Press the Enter Button 6 to

confirm.
When all the Set Up Menus for the Screen have
been set, press the Red Button 

N to exit the

Screen Set Up Menu and continue with the Set
Up Menus of the DVD Receiver.

The next step in checking or changing the system
defaults is to access the Setup Menu of the DVD
receiver. First, make certain that the DVD receiver
is properly connected to the screen, and that
power is connected. For this process, however,
you do not need to load a disc into the unit.

The Set Up of the receiver can be called at any
time, even during STOP, PAUSE or PLAY mode.
Now press the DVD Source Selector 

0 to put

the system in DVD receiver mode, followed by
pressing the Set Up Button 

8. This will access

the Set Up Menu of the DVD receiver.

The Set Up Menu of the DVD receiver and all
menus in the following section may look differ-
ent, listing the settings with different languages,
depending on the settings made previously. With
the factory default setting all languages are set
to ”English”, that´s why with all menus the
English version is shown in the manual.

In the SET-UP Menu you will find submenus for
making or changing all settings and adjustments
for both Audio and Video handling of your 
Digital Lounge system.

Press ENTER 

6 to activate the SYSTEM

Settings. Move the cursor to the left until the
SYSTEM Icon is highlighted and press ENTER
6 to access the System Settings.

The System Setting Submenu contains the
following settings. Follow the explanations in the
Upper Menu Line on the bottom of your screen
to change the settings.

Display Language: Sets the language in which
the OSD menus are shown on your screen.

Preferred Subtitle Language: Defines your
preferred subtitle language. Every time a disc
contains this subtitle language, it will be shown
automatically. If you do not find your preferred
language in the list of options, you can select
your preferred language by selecting OTHER, and
than typing a 4-digit code found in the code list
on page 27. You can also set the preferred subti-
tle language to OFF. In that case no subtitles will
be shown.

Panel Time-Out: Sets the time-out interval for
the Front Panel Information Display. After the
selected time, the display will dim completely.

Status Bar Time-Out: Sets the time-out inter-
val for the Status Bar, after which the Status Bar
will disappear from the screen.

Parental Control: Defines a password used to
control viewing of restricted programs. The
default password is 8888. After pressing the
default password, either the parental control set-
ting can be chosen, or a new password. The five
standard US rating symbols are ”G” (General,
level 1), ”PG” (Parental Guidance, level 3),
”PG13” (Parental Guidance and 13 years old,
level 4), ”R” (Restricted, level 6) and ”NC 17”
(from 17 years old, level 7). The DVD will
accommodate a total of eight rating steps, as set
by the DVD creators. These additional steps allow
for more critical control of program playback for
all audiences. Level 8: All DVDs can be played.
Levels 7 to 2: DVDs for general audiences/
children can be played. Level 1: DVDs for children
can be played; DVDs for adults/general audiences
are prohibited. Follow the explanations on the
screen to set a new password.

Disc Recognition: When set to on, the next
time a disc is inserted, the screen will show a
“Disc Recognized” message, with the question if
you would like to play the disc from the begin-
ning or would like to resume from where you last
stopped the disc. The memory can contain infor-
mation of the last 100 discs played.

PBC Support: Activates PBC (Play Back Control)
Support for VCD discs.

Screen Saver: Activates a Screen Saver to pre-
vent image “burn” in your screen, we recom-
mend you activate the screen saver at all times.

Show Angle Icon: Determines whether the
Angle Icon will appear on the screen when there
are different angles available on a DVD disc.

Once all System Settings have been set to your
personal taste, move the cursor to the left until
AUDIO SETTINGS is highlighted. Press ENTER

6 to access the Audio Settings Menu.

The Audio Setting Submenu contains the follow-
ing settings. Follow the explanations in the Upper
Menu Line on the bottom of your screen to
change the settings.

Preferred Audio Language: Defines your pre-
ferred audio language. Every time a disc is played
that contains this audio language, it will be acti-
vated automatically. If you do not find your pre-
ferred language in the list of options, you can
select your preferred language by selecting
OTHER, and than typing a 4-digit code found in
the code list on page 34.

Dynamic Range: This setting allows you to take
advantage of the programming present on some
Dolby Digital recordings to reduce the volume of
louder passages while maintaining intelligibility
of quieter passages. This means that you may lis-
ten to programs at a level that allows the full
impact of a soundtrack to be heard at a volume
that is lower than you might otherwise use to
avoid disturbing others. The DVD Receiver
accomplishes this by compressing the audio to a
greater or lesser degree, depending on which
setting you choose. Three options are available:

• 

MAXIMUM

enables the maximal dynamic

range and does not make any changes to the
original playback, and should be used when
the volume setting in the listening room may
be as loud as you desire.

• 

MEDIUM

applies a moderate amount of

compression so that louder passages are a lit-
tle bit quieter.

• 

MINIMUM

enables the minimum dynamic

and applies more compression so that louder
passages are much softer.

Feel free to experiment with the settings at any
time.

Delay Unit: This setting sets the measuring unit
for Delay in either Feet or Meter.

Tone Control: Activates or De-activates the
Bass and Treble settings. Once either the Bass or
Treble Settings are changed, the Tone Control
automatically switches to ON.

Bass Level: Sets the level of low frequencies.

Treble Level: Sets the level of high frequencies.

DVD Sound Mode: Sets the audio format of
the DVD-disc playing (for other sources, see
Surround Mode in each respective chapter). Once
set to stereo, every surround format on a DVD
will be converted to a pure stereo signal. Once
set to DPLII, all stereo signals on a DVD are
forced into 5.1., leaving all multichannel signals
in their original format. This setting is recom-
mended. Original will follow the surround format
on the disc.

Once all Audio Settings have been set to your
personal taste, move the cursor to the left until
AUDIO ADJUTMENTS is highlighted. Press ENTER
6 to access the Audio Adjustment Menu.

The Audio Adjustment Submenu contains the
access to the speaker delay and the output level
adjustment settings of the DVD receiver. Follow
the explanations in the Upper Menu Line on the
bottom of your screen to make adjustments.

Delay
Due to the different distances between the
listening position for the front channel speakers
and the surround speakers, the amount of time it
takes for sound to reach your ears from the front
or surround speakers is different. You may
compensate for this difference through the use of
the delay settings to adjust the timing for the
specific speaker placement and acoustic con-
ditions in your listening room or home theater.
Measure the distance from the listening position
to each of the individual loudspeakers. Now
reduce the volume of the system to a low level
with the Volume Buttons 

Q as a test signal

may come up when Disc/Player is selected as
source and cursor is moved over any speaker 
output level adjustment. Once done, select per
loudspeaker the distance that is closest to the
one measured.

Output level adjustment
Output level adjustment is a key part of the
configuration process for any surround sound
product.

NOTE: Listeners are often confused about the
operation of the surround channels. While some
assume that sound should always be coming
from each speaker, most of the time there will be
little or no sound in the surround channels. This is
because they are only used when a movie direc-
tor or sound mixer specifically places sound there
to create ambiance, a special effect or to contin-
ue action from the front of the room to the rear.
When the output levels are properly set it is nor-
mal for surround speakers to operate only occa-
sionally. Artificially increasing the volume to the
rear speakers may destroy the illusion of an
enveloping sound field that duplicates the way
you hear sound in a movie theater or concert hall.

The default settings of the system is 0 dB for all
channels. In case you feel adjustments are neces-
sary in your setup, we advise you to make the
adjustments using the internal test tone 
generator.

Once the Disc/Player is selected as source and
the cursor is moved to any of the speaker level
icons, the test noise will be heard from the 
corresponding speaker. If this is not the case
please check whether the loudspeaker is con-
nected to the correct loudspeaker output on the
rear panel. The speaker level can be adjusted by
pressing ENTER and selecting an appropriate
level indicated in the Lower Menu Line. The test
noise will stop as soon as the cursor is moved
away from any speaker level icon.

Once all Audio Adjustment Settings have been
set to your personal taste, move the cursor to the
left until VIDEO SETTINGS is highlighted. Press
ENTER 

6 to access the Video Settings Menu.

The Video Setting Submenu contains the follow-
ing settings. Follow the explanations in the Upper
Menu Line on the bottom of your screen to
change the settings.

Aspect Ratio: This step selects the TV aspect
ratio, conventional screen shape (4:3) or
widescreen (16:9). The Digital Lounge system
should be set to the 16:9 setting.

TV Standard: Sets the output video format i.e.
NTSC or PAL, of the DVD receiver, we recommend
the AUTO setting for optimal picture quality.

Scan Type: Sets the video output to Interlace or
Progressive. Due to the one-wire, digital HDMI
connection with the screen, the Digital Lounge
system should be set to the progressive setting.

Video Output: Due to the one-wire, digital
HDMI connection with the screen, the Digital
Lounge should keep set to the Component 
setting that guarantees the progressive setting
mendatory for the HDMI output.

Scart Connection: Due to the one-wire, digital
HDMI connection with the screen, the Digital
Lounge system does not require a setting
change.

Video Mode: This setting affects only the video
signal on the HDMI output and the progressive
signals on Component video and it controls how
the video signals are optimized for progressive
scan display. In most cases, the “automatic”
mode is your best choice, as it senses whether
the disc being played was originally recorded on
video or shot on film. However, in some cases
you may wish to compensate for errors in the
disc authoring that occur when the lag for the
film mode detection is not properly set when
films are converted to video. Three choices are
available reducing the impact of the digital
source perceptibly.

• Auto: This is the recommended setting, as it

lets the DVD player analyze the signals from
the DVD and adjust the output accordingly.

• Movie: Choose this option for optimal play-

back of material that was shot on film, even
though you are viewing it on video via a DVD.

• Video: Choose this option for optimal play-

back of material that was shot directly to
video, such as concerts and sports program-
ming.

Video Resolution: Selects the resolution of the
HDMI and Component video output. Due to the
one-wire, digital HDMI connection with the
screen, the Cinema Lounge system performs best
with the 720p setting.

Important Note:
The ouputs TV SCART, Component, Video and 
S-Video are not neccessary for proper operation of
the system. But they may be used to drive a 
secondary TV, when the appropriate settings for
the "Video Output" or "Scart Output" are made
in the Video menu. But for proper operation of the
HDMI output the Scan Type must keep
"Progressive" in that menu. In that case there will
be no signal on the S-Video outputs.

Once all Video Settings have been set to your per-
sonal taste, move the cursor to the left until the
lower VIDEO icon is highlighted. Press ENTER 

6

to access the Video Adjustments Menu.

26 SYSTEM SETUP

SYSTEM SETUP 27

The Video Adjustment Submenu contains access
to the Test Screen. First adjust the video display
device (TV) with the help of the Test Screen. After
that the output settings of the player can be fine-
tuned with the Color, Contrast, Brightness, Tint
and Black Level settings. In order to change the
settings, move the cursor to the “+“ or “-“ icon
on the same line as the setting. Once one of the
icons is highlighted, pressing ENTER will increase
or decrease the value of the setting, as will be
shown in the bar behind the setting.
To exit the Video Adjustment Menu, move the
cursor to DONE, and press ENTER.

Important Note: As the digital video signals
from the DVD shall be pathed directly to the
HDMI output without being affected by any D/A-
converter or video control stage the Video adjust-
ment will not work with the HDMI output select-
ed. But there are sufficient video adjustment con-
trols on the screen effective with its HDMI input
too.

This code allows you to rent and purchase videos
using the DivX VOD service. For more infor-
mation, visit www.divx.com/vod. Follow the
instructions and download the video onto a disc
for playback on this unit. Note that all the
downloaded videos from DivX VOD can only be
played back on this unit.

Once the DivX icon is highlighted, press ENTER
to access your personal DivX VOD code.

28 TEST SCREEN

When you activate the Test Screen via the OSD
you can activate a still image to test all settings
and the video performance of your TV. With the
vertical color bars you can test the following:
■ proper color intensity setting on your TV,
■ the proper color of each bar, showing if the

proper video standard is turned on: the colors
should be (left to right): black, white, yellow,
cyan (turquoise), green, magenta (purple), red,
blue, black.

■ proper color transition, seen as sharp 

separation of the bars, S-Video will be better
than Video, RGB/Scart and YUV best of analog
connections, HDMI best of all.

■ the performance of the color filter in your TV

(with ”Composite” signals), bar edges should
show no vertical crawling dots. Here all except
Composite Video formats usually give no
problems.

With the grey scale and the black/white fields
below the color bars the brightness and contrast
of your screen can be adjusted optimally, see
chapter ”TV Picture Adjustment” below.

These adjustments may be done now, but you
can also make them after setup has been 
finalized.

Brightness adjustment:
1. Turn down the color control on your TV until

the color bars are visible in black and white.

2. Adjust the contrast to the lowest level where

you still can see all bars within the grey scale
in the test picture separately and clearly.

3. Adjust the Brightness so that the bars in the

grey scale are all visible. The bar furtherst to
the left has to be as black as possible rather
than grey but the next aside must clearly be
differable. All the bars in the grey scale have to
be gradually and evenly changing from black
to whiter, going from left to right.

Contrast adjustment:
1. Adjust the contrast on your TV until you see a

bright white bar in the right low corner of the
screen and a deep dark black bar at the left.
The optimal contrast setting will depend from
your preference and the surrounding light in
the TV room.

2. If the brightness of the white bar will no more

increase while turning up the contrast or when
the borders of the white ”harman/kardon” text
letters on top will bloom (overlight) into the
black areas, what drasticly will decrease the
sharpness of the script, then the Contrast has
been turned up too much. Reduce the contrast
until these effects will disappear and the video
still looks realistic.

3. If you are watching TV with a usual surround-

ing daylight, adjust the Contrast so that a nor-
mal video picture has about the same looking
as the surroundings in your room. By that way
the eye is relazed when watching the TV pic-
ture. This contrast setting may be reduced
when the surrounding light is dimmed, usually
improving the sharpness of a video a lot 
thereby.

4. The grey scale in the middle line needs to have

the same clear difference between each bar as
before the contrast adjustment. If not, go back
to the brightness adjustment and repeat step 3
and then the contrast adjustments, making
only minor adjustments each time for 
optimisation.

Color adjustment.
1. When the Brightness and the Contrast are set

optimally, turn up the color control to the level
of your perference. Adjust to the level where
the colors look strong but still natural, not
overdone. If the color level is too high,
depending from the TV used some of the bars
will seem wider or the color intensity will not
increase while the control is turned up. Then
the color control must be reduced again. At the
end you should test the color intensity also
with a video, e.g. pictures of natural faces,
flowers, fruit and vegetables and other well
known natural articles of our life most usefull
for an optimal setting of the color intensity.

2. If your TV has a Tint option (with most

European TVs this is available or effective only
with NTSC signals, not with PAL), use the large
white bar below the Greyscale to tweak the
warmth of the picture. Every viewer has a 
difference in preference as how the glow of
the picture should be. Some prefer a little 
colder picture, some a warmer glow. The Tint
function on your TV and the white bar can be
used to control this. Adjust the Tint to the level
where you feel the white color has the tone
you prefer.

Sharpness Adjustment (on your TV)
Contrary to intuition, the picture will appear
sharper and clearer with the sharpness, setting
backed off from the maximum setting. Reduce
the sharpness setting on your television, if nec-
essary, to minimize the appearance of any white
lines between the bars in the gray scale portion
of the test screen.

Convergence and Edge Focus
The crosshatch pattern that surrounds the test
screen may be used to evaluate edge focus and
convergence in front- or rear-projection video
displays. However, the controls used to adjust
these parameters are often not user-accessible. In
any event, these adjustments are extremely com-
plex, and require proper training and experience
to avoid worsening the situation. Therefore, it is
recommended that if you are unable to improve
the picture using the available controls, contact
the video display manufacturer’s authorized serv-
ice representative for assistance.

When all desired setup and configuration entries
have been made, use the 

KL

9 until “Done” is highlighted at the

bottom of the Video Adjustments submenu. Press
the Enter Button

6 to select it to return to

the on-screen menu system. Then, press the
Setup Button

8 to remove the menu displays

from the screen. The unit will return to normal
operation and you are ready to enjoy the finest in
DVD or CD playback! 

In addition to the Test Screen in the product, the
Digital Lounge system comes with a set of com-
prehensive calibration tools to properly calibrate
the  TV screen.

First, calibrate the video output of the Digital
Lounge DVD receiver correctly, using the built-in
Test Screen.

Once that is done, you can use the supplied cali-
bration tools to properly calibrate the inputs of
the Digital Lounge display.