Curtis DVD5028 User Manual

Table of Contents

DVD5028 Table of Contents

Safety Precaution…………………………………………...…………I

Important Safety Instructions……………………………………II-III

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

Part 1 Instructions for DVD………………………………………….3

Chapter 1 DVD Basic Operation…………………….……………...3

1. Turn on your DVD player………………………………..………..………………………3

2. Place a disc into the tray…………………………………………………………………3

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

a) Menu Play (compatible with DVD, VCD2.0 discs) …………………………….3-4

b) Title Play (compatible with DVD discs only)………………………………………4

c) Sequence Play (compatible with DVD, VCD, CD-G, DTS-CD, HD-CD, WMA,

MP3/JPEG discs)……………………………………………………………………4

d) Program Play (compatible with DVD, VCD, CD, CD-G, DTS-CD, HD-CD, WMA,

MP3/JPEG discs) …….………………………………………………….………… 4

Chapter 2 DVD Additional Operation

1. Selecting Tracks (compatible with DVD, VCD, CD, CD-G, DTS-CD, HD-CD,

WMA, MP3/JPEG discs) ………………………………… ……………………………….5

2. Skipping Tracks (compatible with DVD, VCD, CD, CD-G, DTS-CD, HD-CD, WMA,

MP3/JPEG discs) ……………………………………………… ………………………….5

3. Multi speed Fast Motion Playback (compatible with DVD, VCD, CD, DTS-CD,

WMA, MP3/JPEG discs) ………………………………………………………..……….5-6

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

DTS-CD, HD-CD, WMA, MP3/JPEG discs)………………………………………………6

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

DTS-CD, HD-CD, WMA, MP3/JPEG discs)………………………………………………6

6. Using the Repeat Feature (compatible with DVD, VCD, CD, CD-G, DTS-CD,

HD-CD, WMA, MP3/JPEG discs) ………………………………………………………6-7

7. Using the OSD Feature (compatible with DVD, VCD, CD, CD-G, DTS-CD, WMA,

MP3/JPEG discs) …………………….………………………………….………………….7

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

discs) ……………………………………………………….……… ….…………..7-8

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

feature is also compatible with CD, CD-G, DTS-CD, HD-CD discs)………….8-9

10. Changing the Soundtrack (compatible with VCD, CD, CD-G, HD-CD, WMA,

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

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11. Changing the Audio Language (compatible with DVD discs) …..…………….9

12. Subtitles (compatible with DVD discs). …………………… ………………….9

13. Changing the Camera Angle (compatible with DVD discs) … …….………9-10

14. Mute the Audio Output (compatible with DVD, VCD, CD, CD-G, DTS-CD,

HD-CD, WMA, MP3/JPEG discs)………………………………………………….….….10

15. Zoom In the Video Image(compatible with DVD, VCD, JPEG discs) ……….…10

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

VCD, CD, CD-G, DTS-CD, HD-CD, WMA, MP3 discs ……………………………10

17. Volume control (compatible with DVD, VCD, CD, CD-G, DTS-CD, HD-CD, WMA,

MP3/JPEG discs) …………………………… ……………………… ………..……..….….10

Chapter 3 Playing WMA, MP3 and JPEG discs……………..11-13

Chapter 4 The Setup Menu System…………………………..13-17

1. General Steps of Setup Menu………………………………………………………..13

2. Setup Items Introduction ……………………………………………………………..13

a) System Setup ………………………………………………………………. 13-15

b) Language Setup…………………………………………………………………15

c) Audio Setup…………………………………………………………..………15-16

d) Video Setup…….………………………………………………………………..16

e) Speaker Setup ………………………………………………………………16-17

f) Digital Setup……………………………………………………………………..17

DVD Player User’s Manual………………….…………………..….18

1. Types of Discs Your DVD Player Will Play……………………..…………..…………18

2. Remote Controller ..……………………………………….…..……………………..…18

3.REMOTE CONTROL GUIDE………………………………………………….…….… 19

4. VFD Illustration……………………….…..………………………………...…………...20

Part 2 Instructions for Speaker System………………………….21

1.Speaker Package checklist……………………………………………………………..21

2.Connection And Back panel Function……………………………………………………..22

3.Set-up Procedures………………………………………………………………………….23

4. Trouble Shooting……………………………………………………………………..……24

5.Technical specification……………………………………………………………………..25

Supplemental Hookup Instructions for Model DVD5028

It is important to understand that the main unit is basically a DVD player with fully decoded 6 channel output jack bay in the back.

The six amplifiers are all in the Subwoofer.

1. This is why we must first send the 6 signals from the back of DVD player to the Subwoofer’s Input Jack Bay (using 3 Stereo RCA cables).

2. Then we must connect the speakers to the Subwoofers’ Output Jack Bay

Please refer to the simple illustration below

REAR OF THE DVD PLAYER REAR OF THE SUBWOOFER

REAR PANEL AUDIO INPUT AUDIO OUTPUT

FRONT LEFT (FL) ---------------Æ (FL) (FL) Å------ Front Left Speaker

FRONT RIGHT (FR) -------------Æ (FR) (FR) Å------ Front Right Speaker

REAR LEFT (RL) -----------------Æ (RL) (RL) Å------Rear Left Speaker

REAR RIGHT (RR) ---------------Æ (RR) (RR) Å------Rear Right Speaker

CENTER (CENT) -----------------Æ (CEN) (CEN) Å----Center Speaker

SUBWOOFER (SW) (SUB)

Legend: Æ or Å Connect to

3. Speaker Setup must be adjusted for the 6 speakers to function together. To play DVD with Dolby Digital Soundtrack, please make sure that at the Speaker Setup – Downmix is OFF. (see page 16 of the instruction manual for more detail)

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 both the

screen and the VFD.

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 Menu 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 Menu 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 Menu (PBC) button, and

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

Basic Operation

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

the electronic plug.

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, CD-G, DTS-CD, HD-CD, WMA,

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, CD-G, DTS-CD, HD-CD, WMA,

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 Program 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 program indicator in the VFD illuminate, and the playing chapter /

track also illuminate.

Additional Operation

Chapter 2 Additional Operation

1. Selecting Tracks (compatible with DVD, VCD, CD, CD-G, DTS-CD, HD-CD, WMA,

MP3/JPEG discs)

a) When playing a DVD disc, press Numeric buttons on the menu or title page to select

tracks; During DVD playback, you can input desired title number directly.

b) As a VCD disc, during sequence playback, press Numeric buttons to select tracks.

(During Program Playback and PBC is on, you can only press Prev / Next button to

select)

c) As for CD, CD-G, HD-CD, DTS-CD discs, press Numeric buttons directly to select

tracks.

d) When playing WMA, MP3 / JPEG discs, press Numeric buttons to select different tracks

on current track list.

Notes: To select tracks from 1 to 10, press corresponding Numeric buttons (1-9, 10)

To select tracks above 10, press 10+ button. For example, to select the track 15,

press 10+ and 5 button.

If the selected track is not available, the input would be invalid.

2. Skipping Tracks (compatible with DVD, VCD, CD, CD-G, DTS-CD, HD-CD, WMA,

MP3/JPEG discs)

a) To skip forward to the beginning of the next title / chapter / track on a disc, press Next

on the remote or the front of the player

b) To skip backward to the beginning of the preceding title / chapter / track on a disc, press

Prev on the remote or the front of the player.

 When playing the last chapter / track on a VCD disc with PBC off, pressing Next

button will stop the playback; When playing the first chapter / track., pressing Prev

button will stop the playback; When stop, pressing Next / Prev button will be

invalid

 If a DVD disc is loaded, it varies according to how the disc was configed.

3. Multi speed Fast Motion Playback (compatible with DVD, VCD, CD, DTS-CD,

WMA, MP3/JPEG discs)

You can search in forward or reverse mode during playback.

a) Press the F.F button on the remote during playback to search through a disc. Press the

button again on the remote to search at the next speed. Fast Forward Playback has four

speeds: × 2, × 4, × 8, × 20. With each consecutive press of the button, the

search speed increases. If you press the button five times, Fast Forward Playback cycles

back to normal playback.

During DVD playback, when Fast Forward Playback gets to the beginning of the next

title / chapter, it resumes normal playback; During VCD playback with PBC on, when

Fast Forward Playback gets to the beginning of the next track, it resumes normal

playback.

 Press Play button to resume normal playback.  During CD, HD-CD, MP3, or WMA playback ,with the speed F.F × 2, the player

Additional Operation

has audio output.

b) Press the F.R button on the remote during playback to search through a disc. Press the

button again on the remote to search at the next speed. Fast Reverse Playback has four

speeds: × 2, × 4, × 8, × 20. With each consecutive press of the button, the

search speed increases. If you press the button five times, Fast Reverse Playback cycles

back to normal playback.

During DVD playback, when Fast Reverse Playback gets to the beginning of the playing

title / chapter, it resumes normal playback; During VCD playback with PBC on, when

Fast Reverse Playback gets to the beginning of the playing track, it resumes normal

playback.

 Press Play button to resume normal playback.  During CD, HD-CD, MP3, or WMA playback ,with the speed F.R × 2, the player

has audio output.

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

DTS-CD, HD-CD, WMA, MP3/JPEG discs)

Press Slow button when pictures moving, you can enter Slow Motion Playback mode.

Press the Slow button on the remote during playback. Press the button again on the remote

to play at the next speed. Slow Motion Playback has four speeds: 1/2, 1/4, 1/6, 1/8. With each

consecutive press of the button, the play speed decreases. If you press the button five times,

Slow Motion Playback cycles back to normal playback.

Press Play button to resume normal playback.

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

DTS-CD, HD-CD, WMA, MP3/JPEG discs)

a) During CD, CD-G, HD-CD, DTS-CD, WMA or MP3 / JPEG playback, press Pause once

to freeze playback; Press the Pause button again or Play button to resume normal

playback.

b) During DVD, VCD playback, press Pause once to freeze playback; Press of the Pause

button again to advance the picture one frame at a time; Press Play to resume normal

playback.

6. Using the Repeat Feature (compatible with DVD, VCD, CD, CD-G, DTS-CD,

HD-CD, WMA, MP3/JPEG discs)

While a disc is playing, press Repeat button once, and the repeat banner appears to show

current repeat mode.

a) In VCD, CD, CD-G, HD-CD, DTS-CD, WMA, or MP3 / JPEG sequence playback

mode, press Repeat button again to turn on repeat mode.

Press the button again on the remote to turn to the next repeat mode. There are three repeat

options: Off, Track Repeat, and Disc Repeat. With each consecutive press of the button, the

repeat mode switches. If you press the button four times, repeat mode cycles back to Off.

b) In DVD playback, press Repeat button again to turn on repeat mode.

There are three repeat options: Off, Chapter Repeat, and Title Repeat. With each

consecutive press of the button, the repeat mode switches. If you press the button four

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