Curtis DVD1056 User Manual

Table of Contents

Table of Contents…………………………...………………………1-2

Safety Precaution…………………………………………………….3

Important Safety Instructions……………………………………4-5

Chapter 1 Basic Operation…………………….….…….……..…6-8

I. Turn on your DVD player………………………………..………..………………………6

2. Place a disc into the tray…………………………………………………………………6

3. Playing discs……………………………………………………………………………...6

a) Menu Play (compatible with DVD, VCD2.0 discs)……………….…………….6-8

b) Title Play (compatible with DVD discs only)………………………………………8

c) Sequence Play (compatible with DVD, VCD, HD-CD, MP3/JPEG

discs)……………………………………………………………………….…………8

d) Program Play (compatible with DVD, VCD, CD, HD-CD, MP3/JPEG

discs)………………………………………………………………………………… 8

Chapter 2 Additional Operation………………………………..8-13

1. Selecting Tracks (compatible with DVD, VCD, CD, HD-CD, MP3/JPEG

discs)………………………………………………………………………………………….8

2. Skipping Tracks (compatible with DVD, VCD, CD, HD-CD, MP3/JPEG

discs)………………………………………………………………………………………….8

3. Multi speed Fast Motion Playback (compatible with DVD, VCD, CD, MP3/JPEG

discs)…………………………………………………………..……………………..……8-9

4. Multi speed Slow Motion Playback (compatible with DVD, VCD, CD, HD-CD,

MP3/JPEG discs)……………………………………………………………………………9

5. Freeze Frame and Frame Advance (compatible with DVD, VCD, CD, HD-CD,

MP3/JPEG discs)……………………………………………………………………………9

6. Using the Repeat Feature (compatible with DVD, VCD, CD, HD-CD, MP3/JPEG

discs)……………………………………………………………………………….……9-10

7. Using the Display Feature (compatible with DVD, VCD, CD, MP3/JPEG

discs)…………………………………….……………………………………………..….10

8. Using the Search Feature (compatible with DVD, VCD, CD, HD-CD

discs)………………………………………………………….……………..…….…10

9. Using the Browse / Scan / Index feature (compatible with VCD discs; the scan

feature is also compatible with CD, HD-CD discs)…………………………….10-11

10. Changing the Audio Language (compatible with DVD discs)…….…..…….. 11

11. Subtitles (compatible with DVD discs)………………………………………….12

12. Changing the Camera Angle (compatible with DVD discs)…………………....12

13. Mute the Audio Output (compatible with DVD, VCD, CD, HD-CD, MP3/JPEG

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discs)………………………………………………………………………….…………….12

14. Zoom In the Video Image(compatible with DVD, VCD, JPEG discs)………….12

15. Repeat a Specific Segment on the Disc that You Define (compatible with DVD,

VCD, CD, HD-CD, MP3 discs)……………………………………..……………..…12-13

16. Volume control (compatible with DVD, VCD, CD, HD-CD, MP3/JPEG

discs)…………………………………………………………………………...……………13

Chapter 3 Playing MP3 and JPEG discs……………………..14-15

Chapter 4 The Setup Menu System…………………………..16-20

1. General Steps of Setup Menu……………………………………………………………..16

2. Setup Items Introduction …………………………………………………………………..16

a) System Setup………………………………………………………………. 16-18

b) Language Setup…………………………………………………………………18

c) Audio Setup…………………………………………………………..………18-19

d) Video Setup…….………………………………………………………………..19

e) Speaker Setup………………………………………………………………..…19

f) Digital Setup…………………………………………………………………19-20

Chapter 5 DVD Player User’s Manual…………………………21-22

1. Types of Discs Your DVD Player Will Play……………………..…………..…………21

2. Remote Controller……………………………………….…..………………..…….22-23

3. Specification…………………………………………………………………………..…24

Basic Operation

1. Turn On the TV and Your DVD Player

Press the Power button on the player or the remote controller, and “ Read” appears on the

TV screen. If there hasn’t a disc in the DVD player, “No disc” will be displayed on the screen

2. Place A Disc

Press the Open / Close button on the remote controller or the front of the DVD player, and

“Open” appears on the screen. Then Place a disc gently into the tray with the disc’s label

facing up (double-sided discs have content on both sides, so you can place either side up),

and press the Open / Close button again to close the disc tray, “Close” appears and the player

starts to read. Then the disc starts playing automatically. (Note: Of some certain type discs,

after reading out the type, the Play or Enter button should be pressed to start playing.)

3. Play

The contents of each disc menu vary according to how the disc was authored and what

features are included. The disc menu will be turned on for you to select, when Root button

pressed. Also play and pause can be switched with the Pause button on the remote. Moreover,

such as menu play, title play, sequence play etc., these different play modes are offered.

a) Menu Play (compatible with DVD, VCD2.0 discs)

I. Press Root Button

! TV screen displays the DVD Root Menu when a DVD disc is loaded. ! When a VCD 2.0 disc is loaded, VCD 2.0 menu will be displayed on the screen

(when PBC is off) (At this moment, press PBC button once to display current

PBC state).

! PBC is initialized on when a VCD2.0 disc is loaded.

II. When a DVD disc is loaded, you can press Arrow buttons to highlight the menu

item you want to choose; As VCD2.0, you can press Numeric buttons to select a

track to play.

III. Press Enter or Play button, you can begin play with the highlighted.

IV. Return when playing: When a DVD disc is playing, press Root button, and you can

return to Root Menu; As VCD2.0, and PBC is on, press PBC button, you can return

to the menu.

V. Stop

1) When you press Stop button for the first time, the player turns into quasi stop

state. At the same time the OSD appears “Quasi Stop”. To begin the title over,

press Stop twice.

2) In quasi stop state, the player remembers where you stopped, when you start

playing the disc again, the DVD player picked up where you left off.

3) In stop state, when you press Play, the player enters sequence playback mode. ! For the disc protection, before you press Open / Close button to eject the disc

tray when playing, please press Stop button at first. After taking out the disc,

press Open / Close again to close the tray.

! If you’re not going to use the DVD player for a long time, be sure to remove

the electronic plug.

Basic Operation

b) Title Play (compatible with DVD discs only)

I. During DVD playback, press Title button to display the DVD title content.

II. Press the Arrow buttons to highlight the title you want to choose, and press Enter;

Also you can press numeric buttons to choose.

III. The DVD player begins with the chapter 1 of the chosen title.

c) Sequence Play (compatible with DVD, VCD, HD-CD, MP3/JPEG discs)

I. When a VCD disc is loaded and PBC is on, once PBC button pressed, PBC

switches off. Then the player can play in sequence playback mode; when PBC

button pressed twice, PBC switches on.

II. Except for VCD discs, in the stop state, when press Play button, the player then

enters sequence playback mode. This feature is effective to all the compatible discs.

d) Program Play (compatible with DVD, VCD, CD, HD-CD, MP3/JPEG discs)

The Program Playback option allows you to enter the order in which you want

chapters or tracks to play, maximum to 16.

! Program Menu:

# If PBC is on, this operation will turn PBC off while the chapters / tracks plays

in programmed order.

! According to the highlight, use the Numeric buttons to enter the chapters / tracks in

the order you want them to play. Then press Play or use Arrow buttons to highlight

the “PLAY” item and press Enter. The chapters / tracks will play in the programmed

order.

# You can program maximum 16 titles / chapters / tracks.

! According to the Direction Indicator on the menu, you can press Arrow buttons to

highlight where you want to enter.

! During Program Playback, if PROG button pressed, the programmed order and the

contents will be displayed on the screen, and the Program Playback will be stopped;

Also you can press Stop and Play to resume normal playback.

! Notes:

# To clear the programmed order, use Arrow buttons to highlight the “CLEAR”

item, then press Enter.

# To modify the programmed order, use Arrow buttons to highlight the modifying

item and enter the new chapter / track you want to program directly.

! Meanwhile, the playing chapter / track also illuminate.

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