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PLAYER MENU 21

■ Disc: This line displays the disc type.
■ Disc ID: If the disc is encoded with an identi-

fication label, it will appear here.

■ Aspect Ratio: This line displays the aspect

ratio of the video content on the disc, and the
format in which it is being played back accord-
ing to the setting established in the 

VIDEO

SETUP

submenu as shown on page 19.

Some discs may contain two versions of the
same program with a widescreen aspect ratio
on one side of the disc, and a standard aspect
ratio on the other.

■ Video Standard: The disc’s format is shown 

here. For Region 2 players, this will normally
be PAL, although some DVDs that are open
region (playable in all regions) may be in the
NTSC format.

■ Scan Type: This line displays whether the

video program on the DVD was recorded with
a progressive or interlaced scan rate. It also
displays how the program is being played
back, based on the setting established in the

VIDEO SETUP

submenu as shown on

page 19.

■ Audio Resolution: This line displays the

sample rate and bit rate for the current audio
format.

■ Audio Format: This line displays the current

audio track, such as Dolby Digital 5.1 or linear
PCM.

■ Video Bit Rate: This line displays the video

bit rate up to the limit of 10 Mbps. This indica-
tion will vary as a disc is played in response to
changes in the amount of compression that
was applied to the video signal when the disc
was created. Thus, when the disc is stopped or
paused, this line will remain blank.

When you have finished viewing the Player
menus, press the Info Button

A to remove

the displays from the screen and return to normal
play.

When a DVD is playing, you may press the
Status Button

D at any time to view a quick

summary of the disc’s playback status. The Status
Bar not only gives you a snapshot of the unit’s
current state; it also provides an easy way to
select a different title, chapter or track, or use the
time search feature.

• Title: This displays the current title on the 

left, and the total number of titles on the disc
on the right.

• Chapter: This displays the current chapter on

the left, and the total number of chapters on
the disc on the right.

• Play Mode Icon: This displays the current

play mode icon: e.g. Play

B

, Pause

1

,

0

.

• Time Display: This section of the display

shows the time corresponding to the type of
display indicated in the Time Display Type.
The Time Search function enables you to start
playback at any point in the program. Use the

M N

9 to highlight

this display, and the numbers will change to
dashes. You may then use the Numeric Keys
to enter the numbers corresponding to the time
on the disc at which you wish play to com-
mence. Press the Enter Button

6, and play

will immediately begin at the selected time
position.

• Time Bar: This display is a graphic representa-

tion of the time elapsed for the title being
played. As the disc plays, the number of bars
will increase to reflect approximately what per-
centage of the title has been played thus far.

• Time Display Type: This section identifies the

type of information in the Time Display
section of the display. Use the

KLM N

9 to select this set-

ting, and each subsequent press of the Enter
Button

6 will change the time display from

Title Elapsed, to Title Remaining, to Chapter
Elapsed to Chapter Remaining, and cycle back
to Title Elapsed. The time displayed on screen
and in the front-panel Information Display
 will change accordingly.

The DVD 27’s Player Information menu displays
disc information and enables you to program
playback modes. Press the Info Button

A to

display the Player Information menu.

The Player Information menu has two submenus
which may be accessed by using the 

KL

9 to highlight the sub-

menu’s icon, and pressing the Enter Button
6 to select it. These submenus are different
from the Setup menus in that many items are for
display only and cannot be changed using the
menu system.

PLAYBACK INFO

Submenu: This submenu

displays basic disc and playback mode informa-
tion. You may not make any changes to the items
shown in this submenu, except for the Repeat
mode.
■ Disc: This line displays the disc type, such as

DVD-Video.

■ Disc ID: If the disc is encoded with an identifi-

cation label, such as a movie title, it will
appear here.

■ Playlist: For DVDs, this line will reflect that

playback will occur in the disc’s order.
Programmable playlists are not available when
a DVD is loaded.

■ Repeat: This line displays the current repeat

mode, or Off if Repeat mode is not active.

PROGRAM

submenu: The 

PROGRAM

sub-

menu is not accessible for DVDs.

DISC INFO

Submenu: This submenu dis-

plays detailed information about the disc content.
You will not be able to make any changes to the
items on this submenu. However, you may use
the 

SETUP

menu system as described on page

19 to change the DVD 27 player settings for
video aspect ratio or scan type.

22 CD PLAYBACK

Many functions of the DVD 27 operate the same
way for CD playback as for DVD play; however,
there are some important differences. When a CD
is loaded, the DVD 27 will automatically display
the Player Information menu. Status banners are
not available during CD play. A greater variety of
playback options are available during CD play,
including Random play and programmed
playlists. These and other features unique to CD
play are described in this section.

The DVD 27’s Player Information menu displays
disc information and enables you to program
playback modes. Press the Info Button

A to

display the Player Information menu.

The Player Information Menu has two submenus
which may be accessed by using the 

KL

9 to highlight the sub-

menu’s icon, and pressing the Enter Button
6 to select it. These submenus are different
from the Setup menus in that many items are for
display only and cannot be changed using the
menu system.

PLAYBACK INFO

Submenu: This submenu

displays basic disc and playback mode informa-
tion.
■ Disc: This line displays the disc type, such as

CDDA (Compact Disc Digital Audio).

■ Audio: This line displays the type of audio

recorded on the disc, usually Stereo.

■ Playlist: For CDs only, you may choose to

play the tracks in order as they appear on the
disc, or you may program a playlist containing
some or all of the tracks in the order in which
you wish to hear them. This line indicates
which of these two modes has been selected.
In order to change this setting, you will need
to access the 

PROGRAM

submenu as

described below.

■ Repeat: With this line highlighted, press the 

6 to activate Repeat mode.

Each press will change the repeat mode from
Repeat 1 (to repeat one track) to Repeat All
(to repeat all tracks on the disc) to Repeat Off.

■ Random: With this line highlighted, press the

6 to activate Random mode.

Each press will toggle between turning the
Random play on or off.

■ Track: This line displays the current track on

the left, and the total number of tracks on the

disc to the right.

■ Play Mode Icon: This icon will appear to the

right of the Track display and will indicate the
current playback mode.

■ Time: This section consists of three lines:

• Track Elapsed: Displays the elapsed or

remaining time of the current track.

• Disc Elapsed: Displays the elapsed or

remaining time of the disc.

• Elapsed Time Bar: Displays in graphical

form a temperature bar reflecting the per-
centage of the disc that has been played.

Use the 

KL

9 to

highlight either Track Elapsed or Disc Elapsed,
and each press of the Enter Button

6 will

toggle between the elapsed and remaining set-
tings. The time displayed to the right and in the
front-panel Information Display

 will

change accordingly.

The Time Search function enables you to start
playback at any point in the program. Use the

KL

9 to highlight

the time display. Press the Numeric Keys

followed by the Enter Button

6 to select a

new point in the track from which to commence
play.

PROGRAM

Submenu: This submenu lets you

program a playlist. The 

PROGRAM

submenu is

only accessible for CDs.
■ Disc: This line displays the disc type.
■ Audio: This line displays the type of audio

recorded on the disc, usually Stereo.

■ Playlist: With this line highlighted, press the

6 to change the order in

which the tracks are played from the order in
which they appear on the disc (

Disc’s

order

) to a playlist order which you may

program (

Programmed order

). A list

of program steps and the track programmed
for each step will appear at the bottom of the
screen. You may enter a track number using
the Numeric Keys

 and then press the

L

9 to program

another track. Use the 

KLM N

9 to select the

desired program steps. Note that you may not
enter a track more than once in the playlist, if
it appears in an earlier step. However, you may
use the Repeat function while the playlist is
playing. After you have finished programming

the playlist, press the Play Button

3G to

begin play.

When you have finished viewing the Player
menus, press the Info Button

A to remove

the displays from the screen and return to normal
play.

Selecting a Track
To select a track, make sure the Player
Information menu is on screen. Press the Info
Button

A to activate it if necessary. Next,

press the 

KLM N

9

so that the Track Number is highlighted. Use the
Numeric Keys

 to enter the desired track,

and press the Enter Button

6 to begin

playing the new track.

To select a specific track on a CD at any time
during playback, simply press the number corre-
sponding to the track you wish to listen to using
the Numeric Keys

. You may also move one

by one through the chapters at any time by
pressing the Skip Reverse (Previous)/Skip
Forward (Next) Buttons

67EF. When

you press the Previous

E or Skip Reverse

6 button once, the player will return to the start
of the current track. Additional presses of either
button will step back through the available
tracks, one at a time.

Note: When a JPEG, MP3 or Windows Media
disc is playing, a special screen will appear.

Repeat Play
The DVD 27 offers several repeat functions for
CDs that allow you to take advantage of the
capacity of the unit for unattended playback:

• Repeat Program: Repeats the current playlist

if Programmed Order has been selected at the
Playlist setting.

• Repeat 1 Track: For CDs, VCDs, MP3s and

WMAs, repeats the track or file currently being
played until the disc is manually stopped. The
Repeat and 1 indicators will light in the front-
panel display, and the 

REPEAT 1

icon will

appear on screen.

CD PLAYBACK  23

• Repeat Disc: For CDs, VCDs, MP3s, WMAs,

and JPEGs, repeats the entire disc until play is
manually stopped. The Repeat and All indica-
tors will light in the front-panel display, and
the 

REPEAT ALL

icon will appear in the

Status Bar.

• Repeat Folder: For MP3s, WMAs and JPEGs,

repeats all tracks within the current folder until
play is manually stopped. The Repeat 

H indi-

cator will light in the front-panel display, and
the 

REPEAT FOLDER

icon will appear on

screen.

• Repeat A-B: Repeats any selected portion of

the disc until the disc is manually stopped (see
below for more information).

To select any Repeat mode (other than Repeat 
A-B):

While a disc is playing, press the Repeat
Button

 on the remote. The Repeat icon will

appear on screen, indicating the new repeat
mode. Each press of the Repeat Button

will cycle through the available repeat modes. To
end Repeat play, continue pressing the Repeat
Button

 until the Off mode is selected.

The Repeat A-B function allows you to select any
portion of a CD and have it repeat continually
until the unit is manually stopped.

To initiate a Repeat A-B playback sequence, fol-
low these steps while a disc is playing:

1. Press the A-B Repeat Button

P on the

remote when you want to choose the begin-
ning point; the Repeat icon appears in the
upper right corner of the screen, followed by

A -

to indicate the beginning of the passage

to be repeated.

2. Press the A-B Repeat Button

P again to

choose the end point. Repeat A-B has been
set, and the A-B section will be played contin-
uously.

3. Press the A-B Repeat Button

P on the

remote again to cancel Repeat A-B mode.

The Random Play function will play all of the
tracks on a CD in a random order, as selected by
the DVD 27. Once the DVD 27 has played all of
the tracks on the disc once, it will stop.

You may select the random mode by pressing the
Random Button

O on the remote. Each press

of the Random Button

O will toggle the set-

ting between “Off” and “On”, meaning that the
remaining tracks on the disc will be played in
random order.

The Random Indicator 

J in the Front-Panel

 will light any time the

Random setting is on.

During CD playback, some listeners may prefer to
turn off the DVD 27’s video circuitry. Although
the video section is electrically isolated from the
audio section, some users may prefer to turn the
video displays off during audio playback to pre-
vent any possibility of interference between
audio and video. You may also wish to turn the
video display off if you find the menu system dis-
tracting or unnecessary during CD playback.

IMPORTANT NOTE: It is strongly recommended
that plasma video display owners use the Video
Off feature to avoid burn-in.

To turn the video displays off while a CD is play-
ing, simply press the Video Off Button

Q.

Press the button again to restore the video out-
put. The V-Off Indicator

G will light to remind

you that the video displays have been turned off.
Note that the video output will automatically be
restored each time the DVD 27 is turned on.

24 MP3, WINDOWS MEDIA AND JPEG PLAYBACK

The DVD 27 will recognize data from CD-ROM
discs recorded in the MP3, Windows Media 8
(WMA) or JPEG formats, including images stored
on Kodak Picture CDs. You may also play discs
with more than one of the three formats.

The Specific File Types That May be Played
on the DVD 27 Are:
• MP3 Files: MP3 is a popular audio compres-

sion format that was developed by the Motion
Picture Experts Group as part of the MPEG-1
video compression format. Depending on the
specific MP3 encoder used, file size is greatly
reduced so that you store many more songs on
one compact disc than in the standard audio
CD format. MP3 is also used to download
audio files to computers for home use. Note,
however, that in order to play an MP3 file on
the DVD 27, the disc may not contain any
encryption or coding that prevents playback.
Always be certain that you have, or have pur-
chased, the proper rights or authorization
before creating a CD-ROM with MP3 or any
other codec format. Due to variations in the
different encoders and variations of the MP3
codec and the different bit rates used to record
MP3 discs, the DVD 27 may not be able to play
all discs with MP3 files. We cannot guarantee
complete compatibility with MP3 discs, even
though they may play on a computer. This is
normal and does not indicate a problem with
the DVD 27. Note, also, that when a multises-
sion disc with both standard CD audio and
MP3 (or WMA) content is used, the DVD 27
will only play the CD audio sections of the disc.

• WMA Files: WMA (Windows Media Audio) is

an audio compression format developed by the
Microsoft

®

Corporation for use with its

Windows Media Player. WMA files may be cre-
ated with greater compression than MP3 with-
out sacrificing audio quality so that even more
songs may be recorded on a disc. Note that
there have been a number of versions of
Windows Media, and the DVD 27 is compatible
only with files that end in the “wma” exten-
sion and that were recorded using the
Windows Media Series 8 encoding.

• JPEG Files: “JPEG” is the acronym used to

identify image files recorded according to spec-
ifications established by Joint Photographic
Experts Group for compressing still images.
Identified by the file extension “jpg” when they
are recorded on most computers, JPEG files
may be created by a digital still camera and
then edited and “burned” to a disc in your per-
sonal computer, recorded on a CD-ROM disc
from film images by a photo processor, or
scanned from printed photos into your person-
al computer and then burned onto a CD-ROM.

Discs containing MP3, WMA or JPEG files are
navigated and controlled differently from stan-
dard DVDs and CDs. When a disc containing one
or more of these types of files is loaded in the
DVD 27, the Player Information menu screen will
appear.

This screen will display a list of the main folders
contained on the disc The elapsed time will
appear in the upper right corner of the screen. It
isn’t possible to change the time display, and the
Time Search function is not available.

MP3 or WMA Disc Playback
MP3 and WMA discs may contain 200 tracks or
even more. To get the best overview about all
tracks on the disc and their names and to select
them comfortably, use the on-screen display
rather than the front-panel display. The front-
panel display will only show the number and the
elapsed time of the track being played for WMA
files.

The supported bit rate for WMA files is between
64k bits and 320k bits. The supported bit rate for
MP3 files is between 32k bits and 320k bits.

• To select a folder (if any), press the 

KL

9 until the desired

folder name is high-lighted, then press the
Enter Button

6.

• To select a track, press the 

KL

9 until the desired track name is

highlighted. To start play of the track selected
on the list, press the Enter Button

6 or

Play Button 

3G.

During MP3/WMA playback, some of the stan-
dard CD/DVD playback controls operate in their
normal fashion:

• You may skip forward to the next track on the

disc by pressing the Skip/Next Button
7F.

• You may skip back to the previous track on the

disc by pressing the Skip/Prev Button
6E.

• Press the Pause Button

4C to momentar-

ily stop playback. Press the Play Button
3G to resume play. Press the Stop Button

5I to enter stop mode.

• Press the Search Forward

7F or Search

6E buttons, for fast search of a

track. Press the Play

3G, Pause 4C or

5I to end fast play.

• Slow-play is not available during MP3/WMA

playback.

• You may play an MP3 or WMA disc in random

mode like a normal CD. You may also access
the Random function while an MP3 or WMA
disc is playing by pressing the Random
Button

O.

• The Repeat function may be accessed during

playback of an MP3 or WMA disc by pressing
the Repeat Button

 on the remote.

Repeatedly press the Repeat Button

 to

scroll through the options of Repeat 1 (repeat
one file), Repeat All (repeat all files) or Repeat
Folder (repeat all files within the current fold-
er). The next press will turn the repeat function
off. Repeat A-B is not available during
MP3/WMA playback.

NOTES ON MP3 AND WMA PLAYBACK
• During playback, the front-panel display and

the time indicator on the screen above the list
will show the elapsed time of the track being
played. Other time display options are not
available with MP3/WMA playback.

• The DVD 27 is only compatible with standard

MP3- and WMA-encoded discs. Other com-
pressed audio formats used for Internet audio
downloads will not play on the DVD 27.

• Due to the differences in various versions of

the MP3 and WMA formats, and the many dif-
ferences between the CD-R machines used to
record discs on a computer, it is possible that
some discs may not play on the DVD 27 even
though they will work on a computer. This is
normal and does not indicate a fault with the
unit.

• When a multisession disc with both standard

CD audio and MP3 or WMA content is in use,
the DVD 27 will play only the CD audio sec-
tions of the disc. Track numbers will be visible
in the display, but the files will not be decoded.

• If a disc containing MP3, WMA and/or JPEG

files is created in more than one session, the
DVD 27 may not recognize files added during
the later sessions, especially if the disc was
finalized after the first session.