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16 SYSTEM SETUP

3. Press ARROW (UP or DOWN) on the remote to

select specific Subtitle Language.

4. Press ENTER.

5. Press PLAY to resume normal playback.

Select An other Subtitle Language
1. When Subtitle Menu is on the screen, select

”Other”

2. Press ENTER, the first digit in the fields below

will be marked.

3. Input first number of language code (see table

on page 29) into the first digit by pressing
ARROW (UP or DOWN) on the remote, then
ENTER or ARROW (right) and enter the other 3
digits in the same way. The code can also be
entered directly with the NUMBER (0~9) keys.

4. When cursor is on OK icon press ENTER.

5. Press PLAY to resume normal playback.

■ Note that when a default subtitle language is

selected, it will be used whenever that 
language is present on the DVD disc being
played. However, when that language is not
present, the language used will be the one
preprogrammed into the disc itself (typically,
that default will be English, but the selection
will vary at the discretion of each disc’s 
producer.)

Although the default will set the language that
will be used when the disc is first put into play,
the language may easily be changed at any time
by using the SUBTITLE Button on the remote (see
page 20 for more information).

This feature disables the playing of some DVDs
(particulary U.S. types) which are unsuitable for
some audiences, for example children. These
DVDs are encoded with a specific rating level. If
the rating level of the disc is higher than the 
preset in the settings operations described in this
chapter, playback of the disc will be prohibited
unless the password memorized (see below) is
entered.

Note that there is no rating system virtually on
any European DVD’s (region 2). They will play no
matter how the rating level is set.

Set the rating level in the following way:

1. Press ARROW (UP or DOWN) on the remote to

select ”Rating” in Set Up Menu Display.

2. Press ENTER or ARROW (right), the Rating

Menu as shown below appears, when no pass-
word (see below) has been entered.

3. Press the ARROW (UP or DOWN) on the

remote to select rating level (highest green
highlighted number). As indicated below the
rating scale, all DVD’s with a rating level within
the blue number area will require a password
before being played, all those with rating levels
within the green number area will have free
access.

4. Press ENTER. The rating menu will disappear

and rating level selected will be indicated in
the Set Up Menu.

■ If any password was memorized (see below),

rating menu is available only after correct
password has been entered.

The rating levels:
The rating system is based on information encod-
ed on the DVD disc being played, so even if
movies carry a rating symbol, the disc may or may
not contain that rating in its software. In addition
to the five standard (MPAA) rating symbols of
”G” (level 2), ”PG” (Parental Guidance,
level 4), ”PG13” (Parental Guidance and 13 years
old, level 4), ”R” (Restricted, level 6) and
”NC17” (from 17 years old, level 7), the DVD
1500 will accommodate a total of eight rating
steps, as set by the DVD creators. These addition-
al steps allow for more critical control of program
playback for all audiences.

Level 8:

All DVDs can be played (Factory
preset).

Level 7 to 2: DVDs for general audiences/

children can be played.

Level1:

DVDs for children can be played,
DVDs for adults/general audiences
are prohibited.

The DVD 1500’s Password System is used to 
control viewing of restricted programs and the
capability to change the password itself and the
rating. The DVD 1500 is shipped without a 
password and with the settings for the password
system unlocked. The following instructions will
show how to add a password and to lock the 
settings.

Note that virtually all european DVDs (Region 2)
do not use any rating system and can be played
no matter if the rating level is set or any 
password is entered or not.

Important Note:
It’s most important that you note the password in
a safe place or remember it reliably as access to
rated discs or rating/password menus or chang-
ing or clearing the password (see below) is not
possible without entering the correct password.

Enter Password
For disabling the playback of rated DVD’s a pass-
word, consisting of four digits, must be entered:

1. Press ARROW (UP or DOWN) on the remote to

select ”Password” on the Set Up Menu
Display.

2. Press ENTER or ARROW (right), Password

Menu appears.

3. Select ”Set Password”, press ENTER, Enter

Password Display appears.

4. Enter the first number of a four digit password

by pressing ARROW (Up or DOWN) on the
remote, then ENTER or ARROW (right), or enter
it with the numeric keys on the remote directly.
A black solid circle will appear in place of the
first digit. Enter the other 3 digits in the same
way.

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5. When the OK icon is highlighted, press ENTER

to finish password input, Confirm Password
display appears below Enter Password.

6. Press the NUMBER (0~9) buttons on the

remote to enter same password for con-
firmation.

7. When incorrect password is entered, new pass-

word menu with text "Incorrect password,
please try again" above appears and you can
enter and confirm the password again.

This time, as help the correct password is
repeated in each digit of the upper ”Try
Again” menu and the incorrect password in
the lower ”Confirm Password” menu, appear-
ing after the upper is passed.

8. After the correct password is entered in all

menus, press ENTER, the main password menu
will return (see right on top of page 16) and a
red key symbol appears in the front display. To
return to Set Up Menu press ARROW (left). The
lock symbol in the Set Up Menu appears
closed to indicate that the rating and password
system is locked.

■ After password is memorized, all password

menus are available only after correct pass-
word is entered. If incorrect password is
entered, new password menu appears where
the correct password can be entered again.

■ Note that the time delay before the password

can be re-entered will increase with each
attempt. This prevents attempts to find the
correct password by trial and error.

Change Password
Password can be changed at any time but at first
the current password must be entered:

1. Press ARROW (UP or DOWN) on the remote to

select ”Password” on the Set Up Menu 
Display.

2. Press ENTER or ARROW (right), Enter Password

Display appears.

3. Press the ARROW (UP or DOWN) or NUMBER

(0~9) buttons on the remote to enter the actu-
al password.

4. When the OK icon is highlighted, press ENTER

again, Password Display appears.

5. Press ARROW (UP or DOWN) on the remote to

select ”Change Password”.

6. Press ENTER, Enter Password Display appears

again (see right down on page 16).

7. Enter new password, then press ENTER,

Confirm Password Display appears.

8. Press the ARROW (UP or DOWN) or NUMBER

(0~9) buttons on the remote to enter same
password for confirmation.

9. After new password is entered correctly in all

menus, press ENTER. The main password menu
will return.
To return to Set Up Menu, press ARROW (left).

Clear Password
Password can be cleared easily, but first the cur-
rent password must be entered:

1. Press ARROW (UP or DOWN) on the remote to

select ”Password” on the SET UP MENU 
DISPLAY.

2. Press ENTER or ARROW (right), Enter Password

Display appears.

3. Press the ARROW (UP or DOWN) or NUMBER

(0~9) on the remote to enter the current pass-
word and press ENTER again, Password
Display appears.

4. Press ARROW (UP or DOWN) on the remote to

select Clear Password.

5. Press ENTER, Password is cleared, red key sym-

bol in the front display will disappear.

6. To return to Set Up Menu, press ARROW (left),

the lock symbol beneath "Password" in the
menu will be open again.

TV Aspect Ratio
This step selects the TV aspect, ratio, conventional
screen shape (4:3) or widescreen (16:9), accord-
ing to your TV:

■ 4:3 Letterbox: Choose this setting if the 

DVD 1500 is connected to a conventional (4:3)
TV set and you would prefer to see movies
without any parts being cut off. You will see
the entire frame of the movie and DVD’s
recorded with normal 4:3 format will fill the
entire screen. But movies in widescreen will
occupy a smaller portion of the screen, with
black bars at the top and bottom of the
screen.

18 SYSTEM SETUP

■ 4:3 Pan Scan: Choose this setting if the 

DVD 1500 is connected to a conventional (4:3)
TV set and you want widescreen movies to fill
the entire screen. Note that this setting is
effective only with a few widescreen DVD’s
recorded with the Pan and Scan mode. With
those movies you won’t see parts of the pic-
ture (particularly the right and left edges).
This setting is usefull only with a few DVD’s,
with all others the letterbox format fits best.

■ 16:9 Widescreen: Choose this setting if your

DVD player is connected to a widescreen TV, or
to a conventional (4:3) TV set to widescreen
(16:9) mode.
With this set up, discs recorded with 4:3
aspect ratio will appear as a boxed image in
the center of a 16:9 widescreen TV, with black
bars to the left and right of the image (not
with 4:3 TVs set to 16:9 mode). True
widescreen (anamorphic) DVD’s i.e. those
shown spread vertically when the DVD 1500 is
set to "16:9" and your TV is set to "4:3", will
be shown optimally with full vertical resolu-
tion. With some 4:3 TV’s, set to 16:9 format,
discs with 4:3 format may be played com-
pressed vertically. With those discs the TV must
be set to 4:3 format.

To select TV Aspect follow these steps:

1. Press ARROW (UP or DOWN) on the remote to

select ”TV Aspect” on the Set Up Menu 
Display.

2. Press ENTER or ARROW (right), TV Aspect

Menu appears.

3. In that menu the currently selected TV Aspect

ratio will be displayed and highlighted. Press
ARROW (UP or DOWN) on the remote to select
desired TV Aspect ratio. Then press ENTER.

4. Press ARROW (UP or DOWN) to select another

Set Up Menu item or PLAY to resume normal
playback.

5. Press ENTER. The previous Set Up Menu

appears again, displaying the TV Aspect ratio
selected.

6. Press PLAY to resume normal playback or

ARROW (Up or DOWN) to select another Set
Up Menu item.

This setting enables Dolby Digital recordings to
be played back with full dialogue intelligibility
while reducing peak levels and increasing low
levels by 1/4 to 1/3. This smooth level compres-
sion prevents abrupt loud transitions from dis-
turbing others without reducing the impact of the
digital source perceptibly.

To select Dynamic Range Compression:

1. Press ARROW (UP or DOWN) on the remote to

select ”Dynamic Range” on the Set Up Menu
Display.

2. Press ENTER, Dynamic Range Menu appears.

3. Press ARROW (UP or DOWN) on the remote to

select dynamic range mode (on or off).

4. Press ENTER.

5. Press ARROW (Up or DOWN) to select another

Set Up Menu item or PLAY to resume normal
playback.

■ This function only works with Dolby Digital

DVD and in conjunction with the Dolby Digital
Decoder connected to the digital output of
DVD 1500, depending on its ”Night Mode”
setting:

a) When Dynamic Range is off, normal audio

range is selected.

b) When Dynamic Range is On and ”Night

Mode” on decoder is off, normal audio
range is selected.

c) Dynamic compression is activated only

when Dynamic Range on DVD 1500 is on
AND “Night Mode” on the decoder is on.

This setting determines the digital signal format
to be output from the coaxial digital audio output
of the DVD 1500.

■ MPEG-2/DTS: Choose this setting if you’ve

connected the AVR 1500 to your DVD player.
Then all recordings will be output and played
with their original format, whether PCM,
MPEG (see Note below), Dolby Digital or DTS.

To select Digital Audio Output format follow
these steps:

1. Press ARROW (UP or DOWN) on the remote to

select ”Digital Audio Out” on the Set Up Menu
Display.

2. Press ENTER or ARROW (right), Digital Audio

Out Display appears.

3. Press ARROW (UP or DOWN) on the remote to

select MPEG-2/DTS.

4. Press ENTER.

5. Press PLAY to resume normal playback.

Important Note for MPEG Audio: Though the
MPEG-2 multichannel digital audio standard isn´t
used in Europe, some DVD’s use MPEG-1 alterna-
tive audio tracks, the same as MPEG 2/0 (2-chan-
nel stereo). The audio format of any DVD track
selected will be indicated on the screen when you
press the AUDIO button on the remote. Note that
when the digital output of the DVD 1500 is set to
"PCM" or "Dolby Digital", MPEG audio tracks
will be output in PCM format and can be decod-
ed with the AVR 1500. But when "MPEG-2/DTS"
is selected, they will be output as an original
MPEG datastream, and an MPEG-Decoder is
needed to convert the digital signal.

SYSTEM SETUP  19

Once a selection has been made for the type of
digital audio data streams that the DVD 1500
outputs, you may also need to adjust the way it
handles the various sampling frequencies used in
the production of digital audio for DVD. The 
DVD 1500 is compatible with both 48kHz and
96kHz sampling.

Your AVR 1500 is capable of handling 96kHz 
signals; select the 96kHz option to achieve the
greatest audio fidelity available. When this choice
is made, the DVD 1500 will pass each type of 
signal through without any further processing.

To select the Sample Frequency follow these
steps:

1. Press ARROW (UP or DOWN) on the remote to

select "LPCM 96K ➞ 48K" on the Set Up
Menu.

2. Press ENTER or ARROW (right), Sample

Frequency Menu appears.

3. Press ARROW (UP or DOWN) on the remote to

select the specific frequency option.

4. Press ENTER, the screen will return to the Set

Up Menu, the sample frequency selected will
be shown down at its right side.

At this point you will have completed all of the
steps needed to configure the DVD 1500 for the
specifics of your system. Press PLAY to resume
normal playback or MENU to delete the Set Up
Menu from the screen.