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Movies on DVDs may contain scenes not suitable for
children. Therefore, discs may contain Parental
Control information that applies to the complete disc
or to certain scenes on the disc. These scenes are
rated from 1 to 8, and alternatively, more suitable
scenes are available for selection on some discs.
Ratings are country-dependent. The Parental Control
feature allows you to prevent discs from being
played by your children or to have certain discs
played with alternative scenes.

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Enter a 4-digit password using the numbered buttons to
create a personal 4-digit security password. then press
ENTER. Enter the 4-digit password again and press
ENTER to verify.

Enter a 4-digit password using the numbered but-
tons to confirm the personal 4-digit security pass-
word, then press ENTER. 

If you make a mistake before pressing ENTER, press
CLEAR and enter 4-digit security password again.

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If you select Unlock, Parental Control is

not active. The disc will play in full.

Some discs contain scenes not

suitable for children. If you set a rating for the
player, all disc scenes with the same rating or
lower will be played. Higher rated scenes will not
be played unless an alternative scene is avail-
able on the disc. The alternative must have the
same rating or a lower one. If no suitable alter-
native is found, playback will stop. You must
enter the 4-digit password or change the rating
level in order to play the disc.

Enter the code of a country/area whose standards
were used to rate the DVD video disc, referring to
the list (See “Area Code List”, page 55-56.).

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• Confirmation of the 4-digit password is necessary

when the code is changed 
(see “Changing the 4-digit code” below.).

Follow Steps 1-2 as shown above to the left
(Rating).

Enter the old code, then press ENTER.

Select Change using 

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Enter the new 4-digit code, then press ENTER.

Enter exactly the same code a second time and
verify by pressing ENTER.

Press SET UP to exit the menu.

If you forget your password, to clear the current 
password, follow the procedure below.

Press SET UP to display the setup menu.

Use the Number buttons to enter the 6-digit num-
ber “210499”. 

Enter a new code as shown above to the left
(Rating).

Select the appropriate screen type according to your TV
set; conventional size screen (4:3) or wide-screen (16:9).

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The video material not formatted in

the Pan & Scan style is played back in the letter-
box style (black bands appear at top and bottom of
screen).

Select when a conventional TV set is 

connected. The video material formatted in the Pan
& Scan style is played back in that style (the left and
right edges are cut off).

Select when a wide-screen TV set is

connected. Played in “FULL” size. (Setting the wide-
screen TV to “FULL” mode is also necessary.)

* Each screen shows an example when the video

material for a wide-screen is played.
(This setting does not affect the video material for 
conventional size.)

CLEAR

PLAY

PAUSE

STOP

SET UP

SCAN

TOP MENU

MENU

DISPLAY

RETURN

SLOW

7

8

0

9

ENTER

Selects language for SETUP menus and displays on
the TV.

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AUDIO

PREV

NEXT

CLEAR

PLAY

PAUSE

STOP

SET UP

SCAN

TOP MENU

MENU

DISPLAY

RETURN

SLOW

REPEAT

RANDOM

A-B

PROGRAM

ANGLE

1

2

3

6

5

4

7

8

0

9

DVD PORTABLE

ENTER

Each DVD disc has a variety of audio output options.
Set the player’s Digital Audio Output according to the
type of audio system you use. 

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You can select Digital Audio Output or Sampling
Frequency item by pressing ENTER.

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Select “DOLBY

DIGITAL/PCM” if an active digital output is supplied
to a Dolby Digital decoder, (or an amplifier or other
equipment with Dolby Digital decoder).

Select “Stream/PCM” if an active 

digital output is supplied to an amplifier or other 
equipment with DTS decoder, Dolby Digital decoder
and MPEG decoder.

Select “PCM” if an active digital output is 

supplied to an amplifier or other equipment with lin-
ear PCM only (or MD recorder or DAT deck).

PCM

DTS bit Stream

Dolby Digital
bit Stream

MPEG bit Stream

PCM

DTS bit Stream

PCM

DTS bit Stream

Dolby Digital
bit Stream

PCM

PCM

DTS bit Stream

PCM

DTS bit Stream

PCM

PCM

PCM

DTS bit Stream

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To change the Sample Frequency setting, first select
the desired digital audio output type as indicated on
page 51.
If your A/V receiver or surround processor is NOT
capable of handling 96kHz signals, select the 48kHz
option. When this choice is made, this unit will auto-
matically convert any 96kHz signals to a 48kHz out-
put so that your system is capable of decoding them. 
If your A/V receiver or surround processor is capable
of handling 96kHz signals, select the 96kHz option.
When this choice is made, this unit will pass each
type of signal through without any further processing. 

• When you are not using the player’s digital audio

output, don’t select any of the options.

• If an active digital audio output signal is supplied

to a receiver or other equipment without a corre-
sponding digital decoding capability, a very loud
noise may be produced which could permanently
damage the speakers.

• The DTS DVD disc sound is played back only

when the DVD player is connected to a receiver
with a DTS decoder.

The DRC, PBC  settings can be changed.

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The setting of the selected item are changed
between On and Off.

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Select this option to turn on the Dynamic
Range Compression circuitry so that the dia-
logue remains clear even at low volume lev-
els.

Select this option to turn off the Dynamic
Range Compression and have the sound-
track presented exactly as it was created.

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Set Playback Control (PBC) to On or Off

Video CDs with PBC are played back
according to the PBC.

Video CDs with PBC are played back in the
same way Audio CDs.

With the DVD format you have the opportunity to
hear a program’s soundtrack in the most accurate
and realistic presentation possible, thanks to the use
of digital audio technology. However, in certain
instances you may wish to slightly compress the
dynamic range of the audio output (the difference
between the loudest sounds and the 
quietest ones) so that you may listen to a movie at a
lower volume without losing dialogue intelligibility.

• The DRC function works only during playback of

Dolby Digital recorded discs.

• The level of Dynamic Range Compression may

differ depending on the DVD disc.

• When playing karaoke, connect appropriate audio

equipment (such as an amplifier) to the DVD video
player.

Enter the appropriate code number for the initial settings “Audio”, “Subtitle” and/or “Menu” (See page 46).

6565

Afar

6566

Abkhazian

6570

Afrikaans

6577

Ameharic

6582

Arabic

6583

Assamese

6588

Aymara

6590

Azerbaijani

6665

Bashkir

6669

Byelorussian

6671

Bulgarian

6672

Bihari

6678

Bengali; Bangla

6679

Tibetan

6682

Breton

6765

Catalan

6779

Corsican

6783

Czech

6789

Welsh

6865

Danish

6869

German

6890

Bhutani

6976

Greek

6978

English

6979

Esperanto

6983

Spanish

6984

Estonian

6985

Basque

7065

Persian

7073

Finnish

7074

Fiji

7079

Faroese

7082

French

7089

Frisian

7165

Irish

7168

Scots Gaelic

7176

Galician

7178

Guarani

7185

Gujarati

7265

Hausa

7273

Hindi

7282

Croatian

7285

Hungarian

7289

Armenian

7365

Interlingua

7378

Indonesian

7383

Icelandic

7384

Italian

7387

Hebrew

7465

Japanese

7473

Yiddish

7487

Javanese

7565

Georgian

7575

Kazakh

7576

Greenlandic

7577

Cambodian

7578

Kannada

7579

Korean

7583

Kashmiri

7585

Kurdish

7589

Kirghiz

7665

Latin

7678

Lingala

7679

Laothian

7684

Lithuanian

7686

Latvian, Lettish

7771

Malagasy

7773

Maori

7775

Macedonian

7776

Malayalam

7778

Mongolian

7779

Moldavian

7782

Marathi

7783

Malay

7784

Maltese

7789

Burmese

7865

Nauru

7869

Nepali

7876

Dutch

7879

Norwegian

7982

Oriya

8065

Panjabi

8076

Polish

8083

Pashto, Pushto

8084

Portuguese

8185

Quechua

8277

Rhaeto-Romance

8279

Rumanian

8285

Russian

8365

Sanskrit

8368

Sindhi

8372

Serbo-Croatian

8373

Singhalese

8375

Slovak

8376

Slovenian

8377

Samoan

8378

Shona

8379

Somali

8381

Albanian

8382

Serbian

8385

Sudanese

8386

Swedish

8387

Swahili

8465

Tamil

8469

Telugu

8471

Tajik

8472

Thai

8473

Tigrinya

8475

Turkmen

8476

Tagalog

8479

Tonga

8482

Turkish

8484

Tatar

8487

Twi

8575

Ukrainian

8582

Urdu

8590

Uzbek

8673

Vietnamese

8679

Volapük

8779

Wolof

8872

Xhosa

8979

Yoruba

9072

Chinese

9085

Zulu