Instruction/ maintenance manual of the product DV SP404 Onkyo
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E n D VD Player DV -SP404 DV -SP404E Instruction Manual Thank you for purchasing an Onkyo D VD Player . Read this manual carefully before using your ne w D VD Player . A good understanding of its features and operation will allo w you to achie ve optimum performance and enjo yment.
2 Impor tant Safety Instructions 1. Read Instructions – All the safety and operating instructions should be read before the appliance is operated. 2. Retain Instructions – The safety and operating instructions should be retained for future reference.
3 Important Safety Instructions —Continued A. When the power -supply cord or plug is damaged, B. If liquid has been spilled, or objects have fallen into the appliance, C. If the appliance has been exposed to rain or water , D. If the appliance does not operate normally by following the operating instructions.
4 Precautions —Continued 8. T o Obtain a Clear Picture —This unit is a high- tech, precision device. If the lens on the optical pickup, or the disc driv e mechanism becomes dirty or worn, the picture quality may be af fected.
5 Precautions —Continued F or U .S. models FCC Information f or User CA UTION: The user changes or modifications not expressly approv ed by the party responsible for compliance could void the user’ s authority to operate the equipment.
6 Ta b le of Contents Basic Operation Overview Important Safety Instructions .............................. 2 Precautions ........................................................ 3 Introduction .........................................................
7 Intr oduction Make sure you ha ve the follo wing accessories: The letter displayed at the end of the product name found in catalogs and on package represents the color of the D V -SP404/ DV -SP404E D VD player. Though the color v aries, the specifi- cations and operations are the same.
8 Introduction —Continued Supported Discs The D V -SP404/DV -SP404E supports the following discs. • Some audio CDs feature copy protection that doesn’t conform to the official CD standard. Since these are nonstandard discs, they may not play properly in the DV -SP404/DV -SP404E.
9 Introduction —Continued About WMA WMA is an acronym for W indows Media Audio and refers to an audio compression technology dev eloped by Microsoft Corporation. WMA content can be encoded by using W indo ws Media ® Player version 7, 7.1, W in- dows Media ® Player for W indo ws ® XP , or W indows Media ® Player 9 Series.
10 Introduction —Continued Handling Discs •N ev er touch the underside of a disc. Always hold discs by the edge, as shown. •N ev er attach adhesi v e tape or sticky labels to discs. Cleaning Discs •F or best results, keep your discs clean. Fingerprints and dust can affect the sound and picture quality and should be remov ed as follows.
11 Bef ore Using the D V -SP404/D V -SP404E Notes: • If the remote controller doesn’t w ork reliably , try replacing both batteries. • Don’t mix ne w and old batteries, or dif ferent types of batteries. • If you intend not to use the remote controller for a long time, remov e the batteries to prev ent possible leakage and corrosion.
12 Fr ont & Rear P anels For detailed information, refer to the pages in brackets. A ST ANDBY/ON button [23, 26] This button is used to set the D V -SP404/D V - SP404E to On or Standby . B HDMI indicator Lights when the D V -SP404/DV -SP404E is recog- nized by another HDMI or D VI/HPCP compatible component.
13 Front & Rear P anels —Continued 1 P ause indicator This indicator appears when playback is paused. 2 Play indicator This indicator is shown during playback. 3 CHP indicator This indicator appears while the number of the cur- rent chapter is being displayed.
14 Front & Rear P anels —Continued A HDMI OUT [21] This connector can be used to connect a TV or pro- jector with an HDMI input. This connector outputs digital audio and digital video.
15 Front & Rear P anels —Continued A ST ANDBY button [23] This button is used to set the D V -SP404/D V - SP404E to Standby . B ON button [23] This button is used to turn on the D V -SP404/D V - SP404E. Don’t turn on the D V -SP404/D V -SP404E until you’ v e completed, and double checked all connec- tions (pages 17–22).
16 Front & Rear P anels —Continued K Fast Forwar d /( ) button [27, 30, 31] This button is used for f ast forward, slo w motion, and frame-by-frame playback. L OPEN/CLOSE button [26] This button is used to open and close the disc tray . M PLA Y MODE button [34–37] This button is used to open and close the Play Mode menu.
17 Connecting the D V -SP404/D V -SP404E • Read the manuals supplied with your A V components. • Don’t connect the po wer cord until you’ ve completed all audio and video connections. Optical Digital Output (not North American and European models) The optical digital connector is fitted with protectiv e cap.
18 Connecting the D V -SP404/DV -SP404E —Continued The setup described here is a basic setup that allows you to play discs using just the supplied A V cable (RCA/phono). In this setup, stereo audio is played through the speakers in your TV . Important: • This player is equipped with copy protection technol- ogy .
19 Connecting the D V -SP404/DV -SP404E —Continued Switching the video output to interlace using the front panel contr ols Switch the player to standby then, using the front panel controls, press ST ANDBY/ON while pressing to switch the player back to Interlace.
20 Connecting the D V -SP404/DV -SP404E —Continued • Connect the D VD Player to the TV directly . If you connect the D VD Player to a VCR, TV/VCR combi- nation, or video selector , the playback picture may be distorted as D VD videos are copy protected.
21 Connecting the D V -SP404/DV -SP404E —Continued Using HDMI If you hav e a HDMI equipped monitor or display , you can connect it to this player using a commercially av ail- able HDMI cable.
22 Connecting the D V -SP404/DV -SP404E —Continued Although you can reproduce the D VD Player’ s sound from the TV speakers with the connections on page 18, connecting with an amplifier provides you high quality dynamic sounds.
23 Connecting the P ower/T urning on the D V -SP404/ DV -SP404E Befor e connecting • Make sure that all the connections on pages 17 – 22 are complete (the connection to a TV is required). Note: • This player features a screen sav er and an auto power off function.
24 Getting Star ted For ease of use, this player makes e xtensi ve use of graphical on-screen displays (OSDs). All the screens are navigated in basically the same w ay , using the cursor (///) b uttons to change the highlighted item and pressing ENTER to select it.
25 Getting Started —Continued This sets the language of this system’ s on-screen dis- plays. Setting the language of this play er’ s on-screen displays 1 Press SETUP and select “Initial Settings”. 2 Select “OSD Language” from the “Display” settings.
26 Getting Started —Continued The basic playback controls for playing D VD, CD, V ideo CD, DivX V ideo and MP3/WMA discs are cov- ered here. Further functions are detailed in the next chap- ter . F or details on playing JPEG picture discs, see “V iewing a JPEG slideshow” on page 31.
27 Getting Started —Continued The table below sho ws the basic controls on the remote for playing discs. The follo wing chapter cov ers other playback features in more detail. When you stop playback of a disc, RESUME is shown in the display indicating that you can resume playback again from that point.
28 Getting Started —Continued Many D VD-V ideo discs feature menus from which you can select what you want to watch. They may also gi v e access to additional features, such as subtitle and audio language selection, or special features such as slide- shows.
29 Getting Started —Continued Hint: • After I load a D VD disc, it ejects automatically after a few seconds! → Most likely , the disc is the wrong region for your player . The region number should be printed on the disc; check it against the region number of the player (which you can find on the rear panel).
30 Pla ying discs Notes: • Many of the functions co vered in this chapter apply to D VD discs, V ideo CDs, CDs, Di vX V ideo and MP3/ JPEG discs, although the exact operation of some v ar- ies slightly with the kind of disc loaded.
31 Playing discs —Continued Y ou can advance or back up D VD discs frame-by-frame. W ith V ideo CD and Di vX V ideo you can only use frame advance. Note: • Backward frame-by-frame playback does not work with V ideo CD and DivX V ideo.
32 Playing discs —Continued Use the Disc Navigator to bro wse through the contents of a D VD or V ideo CD disc to find the part you want to play . Important: •Y ou can’t use the Disc Na vigator with V ideo CD in PBC mode. Tip: • Another way to find a particular place on a disc is to use one of the search modes.
33 Playing discs —Continued Use the Disc Navigator to find a particular file or folder by filename. Note that if there are other types of files on the same disc, these will not be displayed in the Disc Navigator .
34 Playing discs —Continued The A-B Repeat function allows you to specify two points (A and B) within a track (CD, V ideo CD) or title (D VD) that form a loop which is played ov er and ov er . •Y ou can’t use A-B Repeat with V ideo CD in PBC mode, or WMA/MP3/DivX V ideo files.
35 Playing discs —Continued Use the random play function to play titles or chapters (D VD-V ideo) or tracks (CD, V ideo CD) at random. (Note that the same track/title/chapter may play more than once.) Y ou can set the random play option when a disc is play- ing or stopped.
36 Playing discs —Continued This feature lets you program the play order of titles/ chapters/tracks on a disc. Important: •Y ou can’t use Program play with VR format DVD-R W discs, V ideo CD playing in PBC mode, WMA/MP3 discs, or while a D VD disc menu is being displayed.
37 Playing discs —Continued There are a number of other options in the program menu in addition to Create/Edit. • Playback Start – Starts playback of a sa ved program list • Playback Stop – .
38 Playing discs —Continued Some D VD or Di vX V ideo discs hav e subtitles in one or more languages; the disc box will usually tell you which subtitle languages are av ailable. Y ou can switch subtitle language during playback. • See Displaying DivX subtitle files on page 9 for more on DivX subtitle.
39 Playing discs —Continued Using the zoom feature you can magnify a part of the screen by a factor of 2 or 4, while watching a D VD, DivX V ideo title or V ideo CD, or playing a JPEG disc. Some D VD discs feature scenes shot from two or more angles—check the disc box for details.
40 A udio Settings and Video Adjust menus The Audio Settings menu offers features for adjusting the way discs sound. • Settings: High, Medium, Lo w , Off (default) The Dialog feature is designed to make the dialog stand out from other background sounds in the soundtrack.
41 A udio Settings and Video Adjust menus —Continued From the V ideo Adjust screen you can adjust v arious set- tings that affect ho w the picture is presented. Notes: • Depending on your TV , the picture may appear dis- torted if the brightness is set too high.
42 Initial Settings menu The Initial Settings menu provides audio and video out- put settings, parental lock settings, and display settings, among others. If an option is grayed out it means that it cannot be changed at the current time. This is usually because a disc is playing.
43 Initial Settings menu —Continued Digital A udio Out settings Setting Option What it means Digital Out On Digital audio is output from the digital outputs. Off No digital audio output. Dolby Digital Out Dolby Digital Dolby Digital encoded digital audio is output when pla ying a Dolby Digital D VD disc.
44 Initial Settings menu —Continued Video Out settings Setting Option What it means TV Screen (This setting effective for analog and HDMI video output. See also “Screen sizes and disc formats” on page 49.) 4:3 (Letter Box) Set if you ha ve a con v entional 4:3 TV .
45 Initial Settings menu —Continued Language settings Setting Option What it means Audio Langua ge *1 *1 This setting is your preferred audio language for DVD discs. You can switch between the languages recorded on a DVD disc during playback using the AUDIO button.
46 Initial Settings menu —Continued • Default le vel: Of f; Def ault password: none; Default Country/Area code: us (2119) To giv e you some control ov er what your children watch on your D VD player , some D VD-V ideo discs feature a P arental Lock le vel.
47 Initial Settings menu —Continued Y ou can find the Country/Area code list in the adjacent column. Setting/changing the Country/Area code 1 Select “Country Code”. 2 Use number b uttons to enter your passw ord, then press ENTER. 3 Select a Country/Area code and press ENTER.
48 Initial Settings menu —Continued In order to play DivX V OD (video on demand) content on this player , you first need to register the player with your DivX V OD content provider . Y ou do this by gener- ating a DivX V OD registration code, which you submit to your provider .
49 Additional inf ormation D VD-V ideo discs come in several dif ferent screen aspect ratios, ranging from TV programs, which are generally 4:3, to Cinema- Scope widescreen movies, with an aspect ratio of up to about 7:3. T elevisions, too, come in dif ferent aspect ratios; “stan- dard” 4:3 and widescreen 16:9.
50 Additional inf ormation —Continued Note: •Y ou hav e to switch the player into standby (press ST ANDBY/ON) before each change. D VD discs are generally di vided into one or more titles. T itles may be further subdivided into chapters. CDs and V ideo CDs are divided into tracks.
51 Additional inf ormation —Continued Language code list Language Language code letter Language code Japanese ja 1001 English en 0514 F rench fr 0618 German de 0405 Italian it 0920 Spanish es 0519 C.
52 Glossary Analog audio An electrical signal that directly represents sound. Com- pare this to digital audio which can be an electrical sig- nal, but is an indirect representation of sound. See also “Digital audio”. Aspect ratio The width of a TV screen relati ve to its height.
53 Glossary —Continued Progressive scan video All the lines that make up a video picture are updated in one pass (compared to interlace which takes two passes to update the whole picture). Regions (D VD-Video only) These associate discs and players with particular areas of the world.
54 Tr oubleshooting If you hav e any trouble using your D V -SP404/D V -SP404E, check the following table for possible causes and remedies. If you still can’t resolv e the issue yourself, please contact your Onkyo dealer . Symptoms Causes Remedies D VD Player Can’t turn on the D V - SP404/D V -SP404E? The power cord is not connected.
55 Tr oubleshooting —Continued D VD Player No sound? The 96 kHz PCM Out setting is set to “96 kHz. ” Change the 96 kHz PCM Out setting to “96 kHz > 48 kHz, ” or use analog connections (page 43). The Digital Out setting is set to “Off. ” Change the Digital Out setting to “On” (page 43).
56 Tr oubleshooting —Continued D VD Player Can’t play MP3/WMA/ JPEG discs? The disc is not ISO 9660 Level 1 or 2 for - mat. Correct format should be used when recording is ISO 9660 and closed session (page 8). The disc has not been finalized. Finalize the disc (page 8).
57 Tr oubleshooting —Continued HDMI troub leshooting Incorrect operation is often mistaken for trouble or malfunction. If you think that there is something wrong with this component, check the points below . Sometimes the trouble may lie in another component.
58 Specifications ■ General Specifications and features subject to change without notice. Signal System NTSC/P AL/A UT O Composite Video Output/Impedance 1.0 V (p-p)/75 Ω negative sync , RCA/phono S-Video Output/Impedance (not European model) Y: 1.
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