Instruction/ maintenance manual of the product DV-L55 Onkyo
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E n D VD Player DV -L55 Instruction Manual Thank you for purchasing the Onkyo D V -L55 D VD Player . Read this manual carefully before using your ne w D VD Player . A good understand- ing of its features and operation will allo w you to achie ve optimum performance and enjoyment.
2 Important Safety Instructions 1. Read these instructions. 2. Keep these instructions. 3. Heed all warnings. 4. Follo w all instructions. 5. Do not use this apparatus near water . 6. Clean only with dry cloth. 7. Do not block any ventilation openings.
3 Precautions F or British models Replacement and mounting of an A C plug on the power supply cord of this unit should be performed only by qualified service personnel.
4 Precautions —Continued • Install this unit horizontally . Never use it on its side or on a sloping surface, because it may cause a malfunc- tion. • If you install this unit near a TV , radio, or VCR, the picture and sound quality may be affected.
5 Ta b le of Contents Basic Operation Overview Important Safety Instructions .............................. 2 Precautions ......................................................... 3 Introduction ........................................................
6 Intr oduction Make sure you ha ve the following accessories: Supplied Accessories Remote controller & 2 batteries (AA) AV cable (RCA/phono) (1.5 m) S-Video cable (1.5 m) (not supplied with European model) Coaxial cable (1 m) Po wer-plug adapter Only supplied in certain countries.
7 Introduction —Continued Highlights • Dolby *1 Digital and DTS *2 •D VD-V ideo / V ideo CD / Audio CD playback • CD-R, CD-R W (V ideo CD, audio CD, MP3/WMA *3 / JPEG) •D VD-R (D VD-V ideo) .
8 Introduction —Continued • Don’t use discs with an unusual shape, such as those shown belo w , because you may damage the DV -L55. • Don’t use discs that ha ve residue from adhesi ve tape, rental discs with peeling labels, or discs with custom- made labels or stickers.
9 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 adhesiv 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.
10 Bef ore Using the D V -L55 Notes: • The supplied batteries should last for about six months, although this will vary with usage. • If the remote controller doesn’t w ork reliably , try replacing both batteries. • Don’t mix ne w and old batteries, or different types of batteries.
11 Fr ont & Rear P anels For detailed information, refer to the pages in brackets. A ST ANDBY/ON button [22, 24] This button is used to set the D V -L55 to On or Standby . B ST ANDBY indicator [22] This indicator lights up when the D V -L55 is in Standby .
12 Front & Rear P anels —Continued 1 D indicator This indicator appears when playing Dolby Digital material. 2 Disc type indicators These indicators show the type of disc loaded. 3 TITLE indicator While stopped, the total number of titles on the cur- rent D VD-V ideo disc is displayed here.
13 Front & Rear P anels —Continued A OPTICAL DIGIT AL A UDIO OUTPUT [20] This optical digital audio output can be connected to an optical digital audio input on a hi-fi amp, A V receiv er , or surround sound decoder (Dolby Digital, DTS).
14 Front & Rear P anels —Continued A ST ANDBY button [22] This button is used to set the D V -L55 to Standby . B ON button [22] This button is used to turn on the D V -L55. Don’t turn on the D V -L55 until you’ ve completed, and double checked all connections (pages 16–21).
15 Front & Rear P anels —Continued K Fast Forwar d / ( ) button [25, 28, 29] This button is used for f ast forward, slow motion, and frame-by-frame playback. L OPEN/CLOSE button [24] This button is used to open and close the disc tray . M PLA Y MODE button [32–35] This button is used to open and close the Play Mode menu.
16 Connecting the D V -L55 • 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.
17 Connecting the D V -L55 —Continued The setup described here is a basic setup that allows you to play discs using just the cables supplied with the player . In this setup, stereo audio is played through the speakers in your TV . • This player is equipped with copy protection technol- ogy .
18 Connecting the D V -L55 —Continued Switching the video output to interlace from pr ogressive Switch the player to standby then, using the front panel controls, press ST ANDBY/ON while pressing to switch the player back to Interlace.
19 Connecting the D V -L55 —Continued • Connect the D VD Player to the TV directly . If you connect the D VD Player to a VCR, TV/VCR combina- tion, or video selector , the playback picture may be distorted as D VD videos are copy protected.
20 Connecting the D V -L55 —Continued Although you can reproduce the D VD Player’ s sound from the TV speak ers with the connections on page 17, connecting with an amplifier provides you high quality dynamic sounds.
21 Connecting the D V -L55 —Continued • The remote controller supplied with Onkyo A V receiv er or amplifiers can be used to control the DV -L55. • The function of the upper and lower connectors are the same. Connect to either one. • Connecting an cable only does not make the sys- tem operational.
22 Connecting the P ower/T urning on the D V -L55 Befor e connecting • Make sure that all the connections on pages 16 – 21 are complete (the connection to a TV is required).
23 Getting Star ted F or ease of use, this player makes e xtensiv e use of graph- ical on-screen displays (OSDs). All the screens are navigated in basically the same w ay , using the cursor buttons (///) t o change the highlighted item and pressing ENTER to select it.
24 Getting Started —Continued This sets the language of this system’ s on-screen dis- plays. The basic playback controls for playing D VD, CD, V ideo CD and MP3/WMA discs are covered here. Fur- ther functions are detailed in the next chapter . F or details on playing JPEG picture discs, see “V iewing a JPEG slideshow” on page 29.
25 Getting Started —Continued Note: •Y ou may find with some D VD discs that some play- back controls don’t w ork in certain parts of the disc. This is not a malfunction. The table below sho ws the basic controls on the remote for playing discs.
26 Getting Started —Continued When you stop playback of a disc, RESUME is shown in the display indicating that you can resume playback again from that point. If the disc tray is not opened, the next time you start play- back the display shows RESUME and playback resumes from the resume point.
27 Getting Started —Continued Some V ideo CD have menus from which you can choose what you want to watch. These are called PBC (Playback control) menus. Y ou can play a PBC V ideo CD without having to navi- g ate the PBC menu by starting playback using a number button to select a track, rather than the (play) button.
28 Pla ying discs Notes: • Many of the functions co vered in this chapter apply to D VD discs, V ideo CDs, CDs and MP3/JPEG discs, although the exact operation of some v aries slightly with the kind of disc loaded. • Some D VDs restrict the use of some functions (ran- dom or repeat, for example) in some or all parts of the disc.
29 Playing discs —Continued Y ou can advance or back up D VD discs frame-by-frame. W ith V ideo CD you can only use frame adv ance. Note: • Backward frame-by-frame playback does not work with V ideo CD. After loading a CD/CD-R/R W containing JPEG picture files, press (play) to start a slideshow from the first folder/picture on the disc.
30 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.
31 Playing discs —Continued Use the Disc Navigator to find a particular file or folder by filename. Tip: •T o play the contents of the whole disc rather than just the current folder , exit the Disc Navig ator and start playback using the (play) button.
32 Playing discs —Continued The A-B Repeat function allo ws 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 over and o ver . •Y ou can’t use A-B Repeat with V ideo CD in PBC mode, or WMA/MP3/JPEG files.
33 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.
34 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/ JPEG discs, or while a D VD disc menu is being dis- played.
35 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 – .
36 Playing discs —Continued Some D VD discs have subtitles in one or more lan- guages; the disc box will usually tell you which subtitle languages are av ailable. Y ou can switch subtitle lan- guage during playback. When playing a D VD disc recorded with dialog in two or more languages, you can switch audio language during playback.
37 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 or V ideo CD or playing a JPEG disc. Notes: If you are displaying subtitles, these will disappear when the screen is zoomed.
38 A udio Settings and Video Adjust menus The Audio Settings menu of fers features for adjusting the way discs sound. • Settings: High, Medium, Low , Off (default) When watching Dolby Digital D VDs at low v olume, it’ s easy to lose the quieter sounds completely—including some of the dialog.
39 A udio Settings and Video Adjust menus —Continued From the V ideo Adjust screen you can adjust various set- tings that affect ho w the picture is presented. Note: • Depending on your TV , the picture may appear dis- torted if the brightness is set too high.
40 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.
41 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.
42 Initial Settings menu —Continued *4 The default settings may be different depending on where you purchased the unit. Language settings Setting Option What it means Audio Langua ge *1 *1 (The default settings may be different depending on where you purchased the unit.
43 Initial Settings menu —Continued • Default le vel: Off; Def ault password: none; Default Country code: us (2119) To give you some control o ver what your children watch on your D VD player , some DVD-V ideo discs feature a P arental Lock le vel.
44 Initial Settings menu —Continued Y ou can find the Country code list in the adjacent col- umn. Setting/changing the Country code 1 Select “Country Code”. 2 Use number b uttons to enter your passw ord, then press ENTER. 3 Select a Country code and press ENTER.
45 Additional inf ormation D VD-V ideo discs come in sev eral different 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.
46 Additional inf ormation —Continued The default setting of this player is “ A UTO”, and unless you notice that the picture is distorted when playing some discs, you should leav e it set to “ A UTO”. If you e xperience picture distortion with some discs, set the TV system to match your country or region’ s system.
47 Additional inf ormation —Continued Some of the language options (such as “D VD Language” in the Setup Navigator) allo w you to set your prefered language from any of the 136 languages listed in the lan- guage code list on page 48. Selecting languages using the language code list 1 Select “Other Language”.
48 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.
49 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.
50 Tr oubleshooting If you hav e any trouble using your D V -L55, check the following table for possible causes and remedies. If you still can’t resolve the issue yourself, please contact your Onk yo dealer . Symptoms Causes Remedies D VD Player Can’t turn on the DV -L55? The power cord is not connected.
51 Tr oubleshooting —Continued D VD Player Buttons on the D V -L55 and remote controller don’t work? Power supply v oltage fluctuations and other anomalies, such as static electricity , can interfere with normal operation. T urn off the D V -L55, wait five seconds, then turn it on again.
52 Tr oubleshooting —Continued The D V -L55 contains a microcomputer for signal processing and control functions. In very rare situations, sev ere inter- ference, noise from an external source, or static electricity may cause it to lockup.
53 Specifications ■ General Specifications and features subject to change without notice. Signal System NTSC/P AL/A UTO Composite Video Output/Impedance 1.0 V (p-p)/75 Ω negative sync , RCA/phono S-Video Output/Impedance Y: 0.7 V (p-p)/75 Ω negative sync , 4-pin mini DIN C: 0.
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