Pioneer LX03 User Manual

DVD 5.1 ch Surround System

XV-LX03 SSP-LX03

DVD/CD Receiver Speaker System

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The lightning flash with arrowhead symbol, within an equilateral triangle, is intended to alert the user to the presence of uninsulated "dangerous voltage" within the product's enclosure that may be of sufficient magnitude to constitute a risk of electric shock to persons.

CAUTION:

TO PREVENT THE RISK OF ELECTRIC SHOCK, DO NOT REMOVE COVER (OR BACK). NO USER-SERVICEABLE PARTS INSIDE. REFER SERVICING TO QUALIFIED SERVICE PERSONNEL.

CAUTION

RISK OF ELECTRIC SHOCK

DO NOT OPEN

IMPORTANT

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WARNING

This equipment is not waterproof. To prevent a fire or shock hazard, do not place any container filled with liquid near this equipment (such as a vase or flower pot) or expose it to dripping, splashing, rain or moisture.

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WARNING

The voltage of the available power supply differs according to country or region. Be sure that the power supply voltage of the area where this unit will be used meets the required voltage (e.g., 230 V or 120 V) written on the rear panel.

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Before plugging in for the first time, read the following

section carefully.

WARNING

To prevent a fire hazard, do not place any naked flame sources (such as a lighted candle) on the equipment.

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VENTILATION CAUTION

When installing this unit, make sure to leave space around the unit for ventilation to improve heat radiation (at least 10 cm at top, 10 cm at rear, and 10 cm at each side).

WARNING

Slots and openings in the cabinet are provided for ventilation to ensure reliable operation of the product, and to protect it from overheating. To prevent fire hazard, the openings should never be blocked or covered with items (such as newspapers, table-cloths, curtains) or by operating the equipment on thick carpet or a bed.

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Operating Environment

Operating environment temperature and humidity: +5 ºC to +35 ºC (+41 ºF to +95 ºF); less than 85 %RH (cooling vents not blocked) Do not install this unit in a poorly ventilated area, or in locations exposed to high humidity or direct sunlight (or strong artificial light)

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If the AC plug of this unit does not match the AC outlet you want to use, the plug must be removed and appropriate one fitted. Replacement and mounting of an AC plug on the power supply cord of this unit should be performed only by qualified service personnel. If connected to an AC outlet, the cut-off plug can cause severe electrical shock. Make sure it is properly disposed of after removal. The equipment should be disconnected by removing the mains plug from the wall socket when left unused for a long period of time (for example, when on vacation).

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CAUTION

The STANDBY/ON switch on this unit will not completely shut off all power from the AC outlet. Since the power cord serves as the main disconnect device for the unit, you will need to unplug it from the AC outlet to shut down all power. Therefore, make sure the unit has been installed so that the power cord can be easily unplugged from the AC outlet in case of an accident. To avoid fire hazard, the power cord should also be unplugged from the AC outlet when left unused for a long period of time (for example, when on vacation).

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This product complies with the Low Voltage Directive 2006/95/EC and EMC Directive 2004/108/EC.

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POWER-CORD CAUTION

Handle the power cord by the plug. Do not pull out the plug by tugging the cord and never touch the power cord when your hands are wet as this could cause a short circuit or electric shock. Do not place the unit, a piece of furniture, etc., on the power cord, or pinch the cord. Never make a knot in the cord or tie it with other cords. The power cords should be routed such that they are not likely to be stepped on. A damaged power cord can cause a fire or give you an electrical shock. Check the power cord once in a while. When you find it damaged, ask your nearest PIONEER authorized service center or your dealer for a replacement.

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This product is for general household purposes. Any failure due to use for other than household purposes (such as long-term use for business purposes in a restaurant or use in a car or ship) and which requires repair will be charged for even during the warranty period.

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Replacement and mounting of an AC plug on the power supply cord of this unit should be performed only by qualified service personnel.

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IMPORTANT: THE MOULDED PLUG

This appliance is supplied with a moulded three pin mains plug for your safety and convenience. A 5 amp fuse is fitted in this plug. Should the fuse need to be replaced, please ensure that the replacement fuse has a rating of 5 amps and that it is approved by ASTA or BSI to BS1362.

Check for the ASTA mark or the BSI mark on the body of the fuse.

If the plug contains a removable fuse cover, you must ensure that it is refitted when the fuse is replaced. If you lose the fuse cover the plug must not be used until a replacement cover is obtained. A replacement fuse cover can be obtained from your local dealer.

If the fitted moulded plug is unsuitable for your socket outlet, then the fuse shall be removed and the plug cut off and disposed of safely. There is a danger of severe electrical shock if the cut off plug is inserted into any 13 amp socket.

If a new plug is to be fitted, please observe the wiring code as shown below. If in any doubt, please consult a qualified electrician.

IMPORTANT: The wires in this mains lead are coloured in accordance with the following code: Blue : Neutral Brown : Live As the colours of the wires in the mains lead of this appliance may not correspond with the coloured markings identifying the terminals in your plug, proceed as follows ;

The wire which is coloured BLUE must be connected to the terminal which is marked with the

letter N or coloured BLACK.

The wire which is coloured BROWN must be connected to the terminal which is marked with the

letter L or coloured RED.

How to replace the fuse: Open the fuse compartment with a screwdriver and replace the fuse.

CAUTION

This product is a class 1 laser product, but this product contains a laser diode higher than Class 1. To ensure continued safety, do not remove any covers or attempt to gain access to the inside of the product. Refer all servicing to qualified personnel. The following caution label appears on your unit. Location: inside of the unit

CLASS 1 LASER PRODUCT

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Information for users on collection and disposal of old equipment and used batteries

These symbols on the products, packaging, and/or accompanying documents mean that used electrical and electronic products and batteries should not be mixed with general household waste.

For proper treatment, recovery and recycling of old products and used batteries, please take them to applicable collection points in accordance with your national legislation.

By disposing of these products and batteries correctly, you will help to save valuable resources and prevent any potential negative effects on human health and the environment which could otherwise arise from inappropriate waste handling.

For more information about collection and recycling of old products and batteries, please contact your local municipality, your waste disposal service or the point of sale where you purchased the items.

These symbols are only valid in the European Union.

For countries outside the European Union:

If you wish to discard these items, please contact your local authorities or dealer and ask for the correct method of disposal.

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Thank you for buying this Pioneer product.

Please read through these operating instructions so that you will know how to operate your model properly. After you have finished reading the instructions, put them in a safe place for future reference

Contents

What’s in the box. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6

01 Speaker Setup Guide

Safety precautions when setting up . . . . . . .7

Home theater sound setup . . . . . . . . . . . . .7

Standard surround setup . . . . . . . . . . . . .7

Front surround setup. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7

Preparing the speakers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8

Using the supplied speaker stands . . . . . . .9

Wall mounting the speakers . . . . . . . . . . .10

Before mounting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10

Additional notes on speaker placement . . .10

02 Connecting up

Rear panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11

Basic connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12

03 Controls and displays

Front panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .16

Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .17

Remote control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .19

Putting the batteries in

the remote control. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .21

Using the remote control. . . . . . . . . . . . .21

04 Getting started

Using the Auto MCACC setup for optimal

surround sound . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .22

Using the on-screen displays. . . . . . . . . . .23

Playing discs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .24

Basic playback controls . . . . . . . . . . . . .25

Resume and Last Memory. . . . . . . . . . . .25

DVD-Video disc menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . .26

Video CD/Super VCD PBC menus . . . . . .26

05 Listening to your system

Auto listening mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .27

Listening in surround sound . . . . . . . . . . .27

Dolby Pro Logic II Music settings . . . . . .27

Using Advanced Surround. . . . . . . . . . . . .28

Using Front Stage Surround Advance . . . .28

Listening in stereo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .29

Listening with headphones . . . . . . . . . . . .29

Using the Sound Retriever. . . . . . . . . . . . .29

Listening with Acoustic Calibration EQ . . .29

Enhancing dialogue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Using Midnight and Quiet listening modes

Adjusting the bass and treble . . . . . . . . . . 30

Boosting the bass level . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Adjusting sound delay. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

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06 Disc playback features

Scanning discs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Playing in slow motion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Frame advance/frame reverse . . . . . . . . . . 32

Playing a JPEG slideshow . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Browsing DVD or Video CD/Super VCD

discs with the Disc Navigator . . . . . . . . . . 33

Browsing Windows Media™ Audio (WMA), MP3, MPEG-4 AAC, DivX video/WMV and

JPEG files with the Disc Navigator . . . . . . 34

Using playlists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Programming playlists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Listening to playlists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Clearing files from a playlist . . . . . . . . . . 35

Looping a section of a disc . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Using repeat play . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Using random play . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Creating a program list . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Other functions available from

the program menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Searching a disc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Switching subtitles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Switching language/audio channels . . .

Zooming the screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Switching camera angles . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Displaying disc information. . . . . . . . . . . . 39

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07 iPod/USB playback

Connecting an iPod. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Connecting your iPod to this unit . . . . . . 40

iPod playback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Using the USB interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Basic playback controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Scanning files. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Playing a JPEG slideshow . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Browsing files with the Navigator . . . . . . 44

08 Listening to the radio

Listening to the radio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Improving poor FM reception. . . . . . . . . 45

Improving poor AM sound . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Changing the noise cut mode . . . . . . . . 46

Memorizing stations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Listening to station presets . . . . . . . . . . 46

Using RDS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

Displaying RDS information . . . . . . . . . 47

Searching for RDS programs. . . . . . . . . 47

09 Surround sound settings

Using the Sound Setup menu . . . . . . . . . 48

Effective Sound (for optimum sound) . . 48

Channel level setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

Speaker distance setting . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

Dynamic Range Control. . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Virtual Surround Back . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

LFE Attenuate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

DTS CD setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Dual mono setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

10 Video Adjust menu

Video Adjust menu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

11 Initial Settings menu

Using the Initial Settings menu . . . . . . . . 53

Video Output settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Language settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

Display settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Options settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Parental Lock. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

About DivX

VOD content . . . . . . . . . . . 56

12 Other connections

Using this unit for TV audio . . . . . . . . . . . 58

Audio input settings from the TVs

(TV Input) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

Connecting auxiliary components . . . . . . 59

Connecting for digital audio. . . . . . . . . . 59

Connecting an analog audio component

Using the SCART AV connector . . . . . . . . 60

Line Output setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

Listening to an external audio source. . . . 61

Connecting external antennas . . . . . . . . . 61

About control out connections . . . . . . . . . 62

Connecting using HDMI . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

Switching the HDMI audio setting . . . . . 63

Setting the Auto Delay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

Resetting the HDMI connection. . . . . . . 64

About HDMI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

13 HDMI Control

Making the HDMI Control connections . . .65

Setting the HDMI options . . . . . . . . . . . . .67

Setting the HDMI Control mode . . . . . . .67

Before using synchronization . . . . . . . . . .67

Synchronized amp mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . .68

Synchronized amp mode operations. . . .68

Canceling synchronized amp mode . . . . 68

14 Additional information

Optional system settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . .69

Setting the sleep timer . . . . . . . . . . . . . .69

Dimming the display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .69

Changing the display mode. . . . . . . . . . .70

Key lock setting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

TV system setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .70

Setting up the remote to control your TV . .71

TV Preset code list. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .71

Surround sound formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

Dolby. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .72

Dolby Digital . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

Dolby Pro Logic II and Dolby Surround . .72

DTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .72

DTS Digital Surround . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .72

Disc/content format playback compatibility

CD-R/-RW compatibility . . . . . . . . . . . . .73

DVD+R/DVD+RW compatibility. . . . . . .74

DVD-R/-RW compatibility . . . . . . . . . . . .74

Compressed audio compatibility . . . . . . .74

About MPEG-4 AAC. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .74

WMA (Windows Media™ Audio)

compatibility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .74

About DivX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .75

About WMV. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .75

JPEG file compatibility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

PC-created disc compatibility . . . . . . . . .76

Using and taking care of discs . . . . . . . . .76

DVD Video regions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

Installation and maintenance . . . . . . . . . .77

Hints on installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .77

Cleaning the pickup lens. . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

Problems with condensation. . . . . . . . . .77

Moving the system unit . . . . . . . . . . . . . .77

Screen sizes and disc formats . . . . . . . . . . 77

Widescreen TV users. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .77

Standard TV users. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .78

Using your own speaker cables . . . . . . . . .78

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English

FrançaisDeutsch

Italiano Español

Nederlands

Troubleshooting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .79

General . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .79

DVD/CD/Video CD player. . . . . . . . . . . . .80

Tuner. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .81

USB connection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .82

HDMI connection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .82

Front panel display messages . . . . . . . . .83

Resetting the system. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84

Using the language code list. . . . . . . . . . . 84

Language code list . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

Country/Area code list. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86

What’s in the box

Please confirm that the following items are all supplied.

DVD/CD receiver box:

• Remote control

• AA/R6 dry cell batteries (to confirm system operation) x2

• Video cable (yellow plugs)

•AM loop antenna

•FM antenna

• Microphone (for Auto MCACC setup)

•Power cords x2

• Speaker cable adaptors x5

•Cleaning cloth*

• Warranty card

•Setup Guide

• These operating instructions

Speakers box:

• Speakers (front x2, center x2, surround x2)

•Subwoofer

• Speaker cables x7

•Brackets x2

• Screws (for brackets) x4

• Speaker stands x2

• Non-skid pads (for satellite speakers) x24

• Non-skid pads (for subwoofer) x4

• Non-skid pads (for speaker stands) x8

•Spiral wrap x2

*When cleaning the cabinet, use the provided cleaning cloth. Do not allow alcohol, thinner, benzene, or insecticides to come into contact with the surface, since finish discoloration may occur.

Speaker Setup Guide 01

Chapter 1

Speaker Setup Guide

Safety precautions when setting up

When assembling the speakers, lay them down flat on their side to avoid accidents or injury. Make sure to use a stable surface when assembling, setting up, and placing the speakers.

If the speakers are to be used in a stacked configuration, always use the provided brackets to secure them together (page 8).

Home theater sound setup

Depending on the size and characteristics of your room, you can place your speakers in one of two ways using this system.

Standard surround setup

This is a standard multichannel surround sound speaker setup for optimal 5.1 channel home theater sound. The front left and right speakers should be about 1.8 m to 2.7 m apart.

Front surround setup

This setup is ideal when rear surround speaker placement isn’t possible or you want to avoid running long speaker cables in your listening

area. The surround left and right speakers should be about 1.5 m apart.

Surround

Center

Front

left

*When center speakers are placed in the center.

left

Listening position

English

Front right

Surround

right

Center

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Italiano Español

Subwoofer

Nederlands

Front

left

Center

Surround

left

*When center speakers are placed in the center.

Listening position

FL FR

Surround

Front right

Subwoofer

right

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Preparing the speakers

1 Attach the non-skid pads to the base of each speaker (as shown).

Use the adhesive side of the pads to attach them to the base (flat surface) of each speaker.

As shown in the illustration, stack the speakers. Align the brackets with the screw holes on the back of the two speakers, and use the two screws to fix in place.

Standard surround setup:

Left

Right

Non-skid pads (for satellite speakers)

Front

speaker

Non-skid pads (for subwoofer)

Center

speaker

Subwoofer

Surround

speaker

2 (When mounting center speakers to right and left) Stack the speakers and fix with the bracket.

Each speaker is provided with a color-coded indicator on the label on the rear side to assist identification. Refer to the color indicators and install the speakers correctly.

Front

speaker

Center

speaker

Front

White

speaker

Center

Green Green

speaker

Red

Bracket

Screw

Color indicator

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Front surround setup:

Surround

speaker

Center

speaker

Left

Surround

Blue

speaker

Center

Green Green

speaker

Right

Grey

Bracket

Screw

Caution

• Do not attempt to carry the speakers when they are connected with the bracket. Doing so may cause damage to the bracket or worsen damage to the bracket and speakers in the event they are dropped.

3 Connect the speaker system.

Refer to Connecting up on page 11 to connect the speakers properly. After connecting everything, place the speakers as shown in the diagram above for optimal surround sound. After placing the speakers, run the Auto MCACC setup (page 22) to complete your surround sound setup.

Using the supplied speaker stands

When setting up the front surround, the supplied accessory speaker stand can be used. Apply the non-skid pads (for speaker stand) to the four corners of the speaker stand and set the speakers on the stand.

Non-skid pads

(for speaker stands)

Speaker stand

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Nederlands

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Wall mounting the speakers

The front, center and surround speakers have a mounting hole which can be used to mount the speaker on the wall.

Before mounting

• Remember that the speaker system is

heavy and that its weight could cause the screws to work loose, or the wall material to fail to support it, resulting in the speaker falling. Make sure that the wall you intend to mount the speakers on is strong enough to support them. Do not mount on plywood or soft surface walls.

• Mounting screws are not supplied. Use screws suitable for the wall material and support the weight of the speaker.

Caution

•If you are unsure of the qualities and strength of the wall, consult a professional for advice.

•Pioneer is not responsible for any accidents or damage that result from improper insta

Mounting screw

(not supplied)

llation.

Additional notes on speaker placement

• Install the main front left and right speakers at an equal distance from the TV.

• When using the Standard surround setup, install the surround speakers slightly above ear level for optimum effect.

Precautions:

• When installing the center speaker on top of the TV, be sure to secure it with tape or some other suitable means. Otherwise, the speaker may fall from the TV due to external shocks such as earthquakes, endangering those nearby or damaging the speaker.

•The front, center and surround speakers supplied with this system are magnetically shielded. However, depending on the ins

allation location, color distortion may

occur if the speaker is installed extremely close to the screen of a television set. If this case happens, turn the power switch of the television set OFF, and turn it ON after 15 min. to 30 min. If the problem persists, place the speaker system away from the television set.

•The subwoofer is not magnetically shielded and so should not be placed near a TV or monitor. Magnetic storage media (such as floppy discs and tape or video cassettes) should also not be kept close to the subwoofer.

• Do not attach the subwoofer to the wall or ceiling. They may fall off and cause injury.

6 mm to 8

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Chapter 2

Connecting up

Rear panel

1 2 3 6 7 8 1110 12 1354 9

ANALOG

OUT

CONTROL

FRONT 4

CENTER 4

ANALOG

AUDIO OUT

SURROUND 8 SUB WOOFER 4

SPEAKERS

jacks

AC IN

AC IN – Power inlet

AUDIO OUT (ANALOG)

Connect to the other audio component

CONTROL IN/OUT

jacks

Use to connect other Pioneer components so that you can control all your equipment from a single IR remote sensor.

SPEAKERS

terminals

Match the colors of the speaker cables to their respective connectors.

DIGITAL IN3 (COAX)

jack

To listen to coaxial digital audio, change the input to Digital 3 COAX.

AUDIO IN1 (ANALOG)

jacks

Handle sound from an external component by using stereo audio cable. To listen to analog audio, change the input to Analog 1 RCA.

VIDEO OUT

jack

Use to connect a TV.

HDMI OUT

connector

Connect to a television that has an HDMI terminal.

AUDIO IN

OPTICAL

ANALOG

connectors

DIGITAL IN

LOOP

UNBAL 75

ANTENNA

COAX

DIGITAL IN

VIDEO OUT

OUT IN 2 IN 1

HDMI

HDMI IN1/2

AV CONNECTOR

Use high-quality audio/video connection with compatible HDMI devices.

To select this input, choose

AV CONNECTOR

HDMI 1

Audio/video output SCART-type AV connector for connecting to a TV or other equipment with a SCART connector.

To select this input, choose Analog 2 SCART.

DIGITAL IN1/2 (OPTICAL)

jacks

To listen to optical digital audio, change the input to Digital 1 OPT or Digital 2 OPT.

AM LOOP

antenna terminal

antenna socket

HDMI 2

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Nederlands

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Basic connections

AC IN

ANALOG

AUDIO OUT

Front left

(White)

Surround left

(Blue)

To video input

OUT

CONTROL

FRONT 4

CENTER 4

SURROUND 8 SUB WOOFER 4

SPEAKERS

Listening position

Center

(Green)

FM antenna

ANALOG

VIDEO OUT

AUDIO IN

COAX

DIGITAL IN

OUT IN 2 IN 1

HDMI

Front right

(Red)

Surround right

(Grey)

AV CONNECTOR

AM loop antenna

OPTICAL

ANALOG

Subwoofer

(Purple)

DIGITAL IN

LOOP

UNBAL 75

ANTENNA

Important

• When connecting this system or changing connections, be sure to switch power off and disconnect the power cord from the wall socket. After completing all connections, connect the power cords to the wall socket.

WARNING

•Pioneer bears no responsibility for accidents resulting from faulty assembly or installation, insufficient mounting strength of walls, mounting fixtures (or other building fixtures), misuse or natural disasters.

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fig. a fig. b

fig. c

1 Assemble the AM loop antenna.

a. Bend the stand in the direction indicated by

the arrow. b. Clip the loop onto the stand. c. If you want to fix to a wall or other surface,

perform step b after first securing the

stand with screws.

It is recommended that you determine the

reception strength before securing the

stand with the screws.

2 Connect the AM and FM antennas

a. Connect one wire of the AM loop antenna

to each AM antenna terminal

For each terminal, press down on the tab to

open; insert the wire, then release to

secure.

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3 Connect each speaker.

•You may purchase and use your own

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speaker cables if desired. For details, see Using your own speaker cables on page 78.

•The front and surround speaker cables have a color-coded connector at one end and two bare wires at the other end.

•Two purple cables are provided for the subwoofer, one 4 meters and the other 10 meters in length. Use the appropriate cord depending on the length needed for the installation location.

Color-coded wire (Connect to speaker)

Color-coded connector (Connect to rear panel)

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•Since there is only one terminal to connect the two center speakers, you will need to use the supplied Y-cable for the connection.

• Twist and pull off the protective shields on

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each wire.

b. Push the FM antenna

plug onto the center

pin of the FM antenna socket.

•Connect the wires to the speaker. Each speaker in the illustration can be identified by means of the color-coded indicator provided on the rear-surface label.

1• Keep antenna cables away from the receiver and other cables.

• If reception with the supplied antenna is poor, see Improving poor FM reception and Improving poor AM sound on page 45 or Connecting external antennas on page 61.

• Do not attach any antenna other than the provided loop antenna, or an external antenna as described on page 61.

2 • Don’t let it come into contact with metal objects and avoid placing near computers, television sets or other electrical

appliances.

• If radio reception is poor, you may be able improve it by re-inserting each antenna wire into the opposite terminal.

• For best reception, do not untwist the AM loop antenna wires or wrap them

3To ensure optimum reception, make sure the FM antenna is fully extended and not coiled or hanging at the rear of

the unit.

around

the loop antenna.

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Upper terminal Lower terminal

Match the color-coded wire with the color indicator on the label, then insert the color- coded wire into the red (+) side and the other wire into the black (–) side.

Black (–)

Red (+)

Color-coded wire

• When connecting the center speakers,

connect the Y-cable dual end to the two center speakers in the same way.

Y-cable

To receiver

• Connect the other end to the color-coded speaker terminals on the rear of the receiver. Make sure to insert completely.

The small lug at the wire-end of the speaker plug should face up or down depending on whether it’s being plugged into one of the upper or lower speaker terminals. Please make sure to connect correctly.

•

asten the cables together with the spiral wrap. Hold multiple cables together and place the wrap over the cables from the end. Wrap the spiral wrap with the cables in the center. The spiral wrap may be cut at a desired length.

Caution

•These speaker terminals carry HAZARDOUS LIVE voltage. To prevent the risk of electric shock when connecting or disconnecting the speaker cables, disconnect the power cord before touching any uninsulated parts.

• Do not connect any speakers other than tho

e supplied to this system.

• Do not connect the supplied speakers to any amplifier other than the one supplied with this system. Connection to any other amplifier may result in malfunction or fire.

•After connecting the plugs, pull lightly on the cables to make sure that the ends of the cables are securely connected to the terminals. Poor connections can create noise and interruptions on the sound.

• If the cable’s wires happen to be pushed out of the terminals, allowing the wires to come into contact with each other, it places an excessive additional load on the amp. This may cause the amp to stop functioning, and may even damage the amp.

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4 Connect one end to a video input on your TV.

•Use the supplied video cable.

Connect the other end to the video

output of the receiver.

• This unit is equipped with copy protection

technology. Do not connect this unit to your TV via a VCR using AV cables, as the

picture from this unit will not appear properly on your TV.

6 Connect the power cord.

•Connect the power cord to AC inlet on the receiver. Connect the power cord to a wall

socket.

To AC outlet

AC IN

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1 • Do not use any power cord other than the one supplied with this system.

• Do not use the supplied power cord for any purpose other than connecting to this system.

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OPEN / CLOSE

PHONES MCACC

STANDBY / ON

HDMI

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Controls and displays

Front panel

PULL OPEN



HDMI

STANDBY/ON

•Open the front door flap when inserting a disc or using the front panel connectors.

 STANDBY/ON

Switches the system on or into standby.

HDMI

indicator (Red)

Lights when this system is connected to HDMI (HDCP) compatible component.

Also lights during initialization, after you plug this unit into an AC outlet.

3 Disc tray 4

 OPEN/CLOSE

Opens/closes the disc tray.

PHONES

jack

Connect headphones.

MCACC

Use to connect the supplied microphone for the Auto MCACC setup (page 22).

jack

iPod DIRECT/USB

terminal

Use to connect your Apple iPod as an audio source (page 40), or connect a USB audio device for playback (page 42).

8 IR remote sensor 9 Front panel display

See Display below for details.

10 Motion sensor

When the front panel display is off, if Display Mode is set to Auto Display, the display will automatically turn on when movement is detected by the motion sensor (page 70).

11 Action indicator

Lights when a touch sensor operation is performed.

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PULL OPEN

12 Touch sensor

Touch sensor is on top of the unit. Lightly touch the displayed words or symbols to

operate controls.

FUNCTION

Selects the source you want to listen to (

Digital 1

DVD/CD, iPod, USB, HDMI 1

Digital 3, Analog 1, Analog 2

HDMI 2

/

Starts/pauses playback.



Stops playback.

VOLUME +/–

Use to adjust the volume.

Display

2 31 4

DIRECT

STEREO D AAC PCM BASS

ADV SURR

PGM RD RPTV1

F.S.SURR DTS ALC S.RTRV

Using the motion sensor

This system features a motion sensor. Install it in a location that will able to sense the movement of people near by.

The motion sensor detects movement in the left/right and up/down directions within a distance of 2.5 m and an angle of 40º (20º only

in the upper direction). Walking towards the unit will reduce the sensing range to 0.7 m.

MODE

TONE

V.SB

DIALOG

L.OUT

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6 7 8 9 10

DIRECT

Lights when Direct Sound is selected (i.e. Effective Sound is off) (page 48).

2 Listening mode indicators

STEREO

Lights when the Stereo mode is selected or when a stereo source is being played back in the Auto listening mode (page 27).

ADV SURR

Lights when one of the Advanced Surround listening modes is selected (page 28).

F.S.SURR

Lights when one of the Front Stage Surround Advance listening modes is selected (page 28).

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3 Digital format indicators

2 D

Lights during playback of a Dolby Digital source (page 27).

2 PLII

Lights during Dolby Pro Logic II decoding (page 27).

PCM

Lights during playback of PCM signals.

DTS

Lights during playback of a DTS source (page 27).

4 Sound processing indicators

BASS MODE

Lights when Bass Mode is active (page 30).

TONE

Lights when any of the Midnight, Quiet or tone controls feature is selected (page 30).

V.SB

Lights when Virtual Surround Back mode is active (page 50).

L.OUT

Lights when Line Output is set to Lt/Rt (page 60).

ALC

Lights when listening mode is set to A.L.C. (page 27).

S.RTRV

Lights when Sound Retriever is active (page 29).

DIALOG

Lights when Dialogue Enhancement is active (page 30).

MCACC

Lights when Acoustic Calibration EQ is active (page 29).

Blinks during Auto MCACC Setup (page 22).

PGM

Lights during program play (page 35).

RDM

Lights during random play (page 36).

RPT and RPT-1 RPT lights during repeat play. RPT-1 lights

during repeat one-track play (page 36).

Lights when playing a video part of a DVD disc.



Lights during playback.

Lights when playing a multi-angle scene.

7 iPod indicators

Lights during shuffle play.

Lights during repeat play.

Lights during 1-track repeat play.

8 Character display 9 Tuner indicators

Lights when a broadcast is being received.

Lights when a stereo FM broadcast is being received in auto stereo mode.

Lights when FM mono reception is selected.

Lights when in one of the RDS display or search modes.

A, B, C

Indicate the class of tuner function.

Lights when sleep timer is active (page 69).

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Remote control

STANDBY / ON



DVD

HDMI iPod

USB LINE

FM/AM

TUNER

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

SETUP SOUND

TOP

MENU AUDIO

ZOOM CLASS T.EDIT

SURROUND

ADV SURR

iPod

CTRL

1/2

VOL

INPUT MUTE

TUNE

ENTER

TUNE

SUBTITLE

SOUND

RETRIEVER

HOME MENU

PLAYLIST

VOLUME

RETURN

ANGLE

MCACC

DISPLAY

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 STANDBY/ON

Switches the system on or into standby.

HOME MENU

Displays (or exits) the on-screen menu for

Initial Settings, Play Mode functions, etc.

3 Function select buttons

Use to select an input source. See the section Audio input settings from the

TVs (TV Input) on page 58 for information regarding the TV button.

PLAYLIST

Add tracks (during playback), or select a playlist (while stopped) (page 35).

5 Number buttons

Use to enter a track number or radio station.

TV CONTROL

These control Pioneer flat screen TVs.

VOLUME +/–

Adjusts the volume.

MUTE

Mutes the sound (press again to cancel).

SETUP

Use to make various system and surround sound settings (page 48, 63, 69).

SOUND

Accesses the sound menu to adjust the tone, bass and treble, etc. (page 27, 29, 30).

11 /// (TUNE +/–, ST +/–), ENTER

Use to select/switch system settings and modes, and to confirm actions.

Use TUNE +/– to find radio frequencies and use ST +/– to find preset stations.

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TOP MENU

Displays the top menu of a DVD disc in the play position — this may be the same as pressing

MENU (page 26). Press to return to the iPod Top menu when

using iPod functions.

RETURN

Returns to a previous menu screen.

Press to display a USB menu, or the Navigator (page 26, 33, 44).

15 DVD controls

AUDIO

Selects audio channel/language (page 38).

SUBTITLE

Displays/changes the subtitles (page 38).

ANGLE

Changes camera angle during DVD multiangle scene playback (page 39).

ZOOM

Changes the screen zoom level (page 39).

17 Tuner controls

CLASS

Switches between the three banks (classes) of radio station presets (page 46).

T.EDIT

Memorizes stations for recall (page 46).

18 Playback controls

See Basic playback controls on page 25, Disc playback features on page 32, iPod playback on

page 40 and Using the USB interface on page 42 for an explanation of these controls.

19 Sound controls

SURROUND

Selects a Surround mode (page 27) or switches to stereo playback (page 29).

ADV SURR

Selects a Pioneer original surround mode (page 28).

SOUND RETRIEVER

Press to restore CD quality sound to compressed audio sources (page 29).

MCACC

Starts the Auto MCACC setup (page 22).

22 iPod controls

CTRL

Switches between the iPod controls and the receiver controls.

Changes repeat play setting.

Changes shuffle play setting.

DISPLAY

Displays/changes disc information shown onscreen (page 39) or to display RDS information (page 47).

Displays song playback information when using the iPod function.

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Putting the batteries in the remote control

1 Open the battery compartment cover on the back of the remote control.

2 Insert two AA/R6 batteries into the battery compartment following the indications (, ) inside the compartment.

3 Close the cover.

Caution

Incorrect use of batteries can result in hazards such as leakage and bursting. Please observe the following:

• Don’t mix new and old batteries together.

•Don’t use different kinds of battery together — although they may look similar, different batteries may have different voltages.

•Make sure that the plus and minus ends of each battery match the indications in the battery compartment.

• Remove batteries from equipment that isn’t going to be used for a month or more.

• When disposing of used batteries, please comply with governmental regulations or environmental public instruction’s rules that apply in your country/area.

•Do not use or store batteries in direct sunlight or other excessively hot place, such as inside a car or near a heater. This can cause batteries to leak, overheat, explode or catch fire. It can also reduce the life or performance of batteries.

Using the remote control

Please keep in mind the following when using the remote control:

•Make sure that there are no obstacles between the remote and the remote sensor on the unit.

• Remote operation may become unreliable if strong sunlight or fluorescent light is shining on the unit’s remote sensor.

• Remote controllers for different devices can interfere with each other. Avoid using remotes for other equipment located close to this unit.

•Replace the batteries when you notice a fall off in the operating range of the remote.

• Use within the operating range in front of the remote control sensor on the display unit, as shown.

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MCACC

Microphone



STANDBY / ON

MCACC

Chapter 4

Getting started

Using the Auto MCACC setup for optimal surround sound

The Multichannel Acoustic Calibration (MCACC) system measures the acoustic characteristics of your listening area, taking into account ambient noise, and testing for channel delay and channel level. After you have set up the microphone provided, the system uses the information from a series of test tones to measure reverb, optimizing the speaker settings and equalization (Acoustic Calibration EQ) for your particular room.

Important

• The test tones used for Auto MCACC setup are loud; however, do not turn the volume down during setup as this may result in a sub-optimal setup.

•Make sure the microphone and speakers are not moved during the MCACC setup.

1 Connect the microphone to the

MCACC

jack on the front panel.

•Open the front panel door to access the

MCACC jack.

iPod DIRECT / USB

OPEN / CLOSE

PHONES MCACC

2 Place the microphone at your normal listening position.

Place it about ear height, and make sure it is level by using a table or chair.

Make sure there are no obstacles between the speakers and the microphone.

3 If the system isn’t already on, switch it on.

MCACC

4 Press

Try to be as quiet as possible after pressing MCACC. The volume increases automatically and the system outputs a series of test tones.

• To cancel Auto MCACC setup before it has finished, press MCACC. The unit will continue to use the previous settings.

1 You only need to use the Auto MCACC setup once (unless you change the placement of your speakers or your room layout).

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HOME MENU

• If the ambient noise level is too high,

Noisy! blinks in the display for five seconds. To exit and check the noise

levels

, press MCACC, or to try again, press

ENTER when Retry shows in the display.

• If you see an Error MIC! or Error Speaker! message in the display, there may be a problem with the microphone or the speaker connections. To try again, press

ENTER

When the MCACC setup is complete, the volume level returns to normal, Complete shows in the display, and Acoustic Calibration EQ is activated.

•Be sure to disconnect the microphone from this unit upon completion of the Auto MCACC setup.

Using the on-screen displays

Simple and convenient graphic on-screen displays (OSDs) are used when this system is connected to a television.

All the screens are navigated in basically the same way, using /// to change the highlighted item and pressing ENTER to select

it.

Important

•Throughout this manual, ‘Select’ means use the cursor buttons to highlight an item on-screen, then press ENTER.

Button What it does

Displays/exits the on-screen display.

Changes the highlighted menu item.

ENTER

RETURN

Selects the highlighted menu item.

Returns to the main menu without saving changes.

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Tip

• The button guide at the bottom of every OSD screen shows you which buttons you’ll need to use for that screen.

1• If the room environment is not optimal for the Auto MCACC setup (too much ambient noise, echo off the walls, obstacles

blocking the speakers from the microphone) the final settings may be incorrect. Check for household appliances (air conditioner, fridge, fan, etc.), that may be affecting the environment and switch them off if necessary.

• Some older TVs may interfere with the operation of the microphone. If this seems to be happening, switch off the TV during Auto MCACC setup.

2 If this doesn’t work, press MCACC, turn off the power, and check the problem indicated by the Error message, then try the

Auto MCACC setup again.

3If Complete doesn’t appear, it is likely an error occurred during the setup. Please check all connections and try a

See Listening with Acoustic Calibration EQ on page 29 to switch on/off Acoustic Calibration EQ.

4 5The screen saver will appear after five minutes of inactivity.

gain.

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Playing discs

The basic playback controls for playing DVD, CD, SACD, Video CD/Super VCD, DivX video/ WMV and MP3/WMA/MPEG-4 AAC discs are covered here. Further functions are detailed in chapter 6.

Important

•Throughout this manual, the term ‘DVD’

means DVD-Video, DVD-Audio and DVD-R/-RW. If a function is specific to a particular kind of DVD disc, it is specified.

STANDBY / ON



1 If the system isn’t already on, switch it on.

If you’re playing a DVD, disc containing DivX video/WMV files or Video CD/Super VCD, also turn on your TV and make sure that it is set to the correct video input.

OPEN / CLOSE

2 [front panel] Press to load a disc.

•Open the front panel door to access the 

OPEN/CLOSE button.

Load a disc with the label side facing up, using the disc tray guide to align the disc (if you’re loading a double-sided DVD disc, load it with the side you want to play face down).

If you loaded a disc containing JPEGs, a slideshow will start. See Playing a JPEG slideshow on page 33 for more on this.

• If a disc contains a mixture of DivX video/ WMV and other media file types (MP3, for example), first select whether to play the DivX video/WMV files (DivX/WMV) or the other media file types (MP3/WMA/JPEG/ MPEG-4 AAC) from the on-screen display.

• Please see Disc/content format playback compatibility on page 73 if you want to play a DualDisc

VOLUME

(DVD/CD hybrid disc).

4 Adjust the volume.

3 Start playback.

If you’re playing a DVD or Video CD/Super VCD, a menu may appear. See DVD-Video disc menus and Video CD/Super VCD PBC menus on page 26 to navigate these.

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Basic playback controls

The following table shows the basic controls on the remote for playing discs. other playback features in chapter 6.

Button What it does

Starts/resumes normal playback.

• If the display shows Resume or Last Memory playback starts from

the resume or last memory point (see Resume and Last Memory below).

Pau ses/unpauses a disc.

Stops playback or cancels the resume function shows

Resume

Press to start fast reverse scanning.

Press to start fast forward scanning.

Skips to the start of the current track, title or chapter, then to previous tracks/titles/chapters.

Skips to the next track, title or chapter.

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Use to enter a title/chapter/track number. Press ENTER to select.

• If the disc is stopped, playback starts from the selected title (for DVD), group (for DVD-Audio) or track (for CD/SACD/Video CD

VCD).

• If the disc is playing, playback jumps to the start of the selected title (VR mode DVD-RW), chapter (DVD-Video) or track (DVD-Audio*/ SACD/CD/Video CD/Super VCD).

*within the current group

You can find

(if the display

/Super

Resume and Last Memory

With the exception of DVD-Audio, SACD and MP3/WMA/MPEG-4 AAC discs, when you stop playback of a DVD, CD, or Video CD/Super VCD or DivX video/WMV discs, 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 playback the display shows Resume and playback resumes from the resume point. (If you want to clear the resume point, press  (stop) while Resume is displayed.)

With DVDs and Video CD/Super VCDs, if you take the disc out of the player after stopping playback, the last play position is stored in memory. If the next disc you load is the same one, the display shows Last Memory and pla

yback will resume.

For DVD-Video discs,

the player stores the play position of the last five discs. When one of these discs is next loaded, you can resume playback.

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1 You may find with some DVD discs that some playback controls don’t work in certain parts of the disc. 2 The Resume and Last memory functions may not work with some discs. 3• The Last Memory function doesn’t work with VR format DVD-R/-RW, DVD-Audio or SACD discs.

• If you don’t need the Last Memory function when you stop a disc, you can press  OPEN/CLOSE to stop playback and open the disc tray.

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DVD-Video disc menus

Many DVD-Video and DVD-Audio discs feature menus from which you can select what you want to watch. They may also give access to additional features, such as subtitle and audio language selection, or s pecial features such as slideshows. See the disc packaging for details.

Sometimes DVD-Video and DVD-Audio menus are displayed automatically when you start playback; others only appear when you press MENU or TOP MENU.

Important

• Some DVD-Audio discs feature a ‘bonus group’. To play this group you first have to input a password, which you can find on the disc’s packaging. Use the number buttons to input the password.

Button What it does

Displays the ‘top menu’ of a DVD disc — this varies with the disc.

Displays a DVD disc menu — this varies with the disc and may be the same as the ‘top menu’.

Moves the cursor around the screen.

Video CD/Super VCD PBC menus

Some Video CD/Super VCDs have menus from which you can choose what you want to watch. These are PBC (Playback control) menus.

You can play a PBC Video CD/Super VCD without having to navigate the PBC menu by starting playback using a number button to select a track, rather than the  (play) button.

Button What it does

Displays the PBC menu.

Selects numbered menu options.

ENTER to select.

Press

ENTER

Displays the previous menu page (if there is one).

Displays the next menu page (if there is one).

ENTER

RETURN

ENTER

Selects the current menu option.

Returns to the previously displayed menu screen. On some DVD-Audio discs featuring browsable pictures, press to display the browser screen.

Highlights a numbered menu option (some discs only). Press

ENTER to select.

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Listening to your system

Important

• This unit’s audio function may be restricted depending on the sound source, Line Output setting (page 60), and HDMI audio setting (page 63). In this event, the menus may not appear, or a message may be displayed instead (page 83).

Auto listening mode

The Auto listening mode is the simplest way to listen to any source as it was mastered: the output from the speakers mirrors the channels in the source material.

•If you set up the system for Front surround (page 7), the Front Stage Surround modes will give the best results (page 28).

• Press to select the

mode.

• When playing stereo sources, the STEREO indicator will light. The 2D indicator will light when playing a Dolby Surround sound source.

Auto

listening

SURROUND

• Press repeatedly to select a listening mode.

The choices that appear in the display will vary according to the type of source that’s playing.

With two channel sources, you can select from:

• Auto – See Auto listening mode above

• 2PL II Movie (Dolby Pro Logic II Movie)2 – 5.1 channel surround sound, especially suited to movie sources

• 2PL II Music (Dolby Pro Logic II Music)

5.1 channel surround sound, especially suited to music sources; see Dolby Pro Logic II Music settings below

• 2Pro Logic (Dolby Pro Logic) channel surround sound for use with any two-channel source

• Stereo – See Listening in stereo on page 29

• A.L.C. – See Listening in stereo on page 29

With multichannel sources, you can select (according to format):

• Auto – See Auto listening mode above

• Stereo – See Listening in stereo on page 29

• A.L.C. – See Listening in stereo on page 29

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Listening in surround sound

You can listen to stereo or multichannel sources in surround sound. Surround sound is generated from stereo sources using one of the Dolby Pro Logic decoding modes.

•If you set up the system for Front surround (page 7), the Front Stage Surround modes will give the best results (page 28).

1• If the source is Dolby Digital or DTS, the corresponding indicator lights in the front panel display.

• During 88.2 kHz/96 kHz source playback, the listening mode is fixed to Auto and cannot be changed.

2The 2PL II indicator will light.

Dolby Pro Logic II Music settings

When listening in Dolby Pro Logic II Music mode (see above), there are three settings you can adjust: Center Width, Dimension, and Panorama.

SOUND

1 Press when Dolby Pro Logic II Music mode is active.

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ENTER

2 Select ‘ ‘

Dimension

ENTER

• Center Width – Provides a better blend of the front speakers by spreading the center channel between the front right and left speakers, making it sound wider (higher settings) or narrower (lower settings).

• Dimension – Adjusts the depth of the surround sound balance from front to back, making the sound more distant (minus settings), or more forward (positive settings).

• Panorama – Extends the front stereo image to include the surround speakers for a ‘wraparound’ effect.

ENTER

3 Adjust the setting, then press ENTER

to confirm.

’ or ‘

Panorama

Center Width

’ then press

’,

Using Advanced Surround

The Advanced Surround effects can be used with any multichannel or stereo source for a variety of additional surround sound effects. These modes are designed to provide optimum listening effect when using the Standard surround setup described on page 7.

ADV SURR

• Press to select an Advanced Surround mode.

The ADV SURR indicator lights when one of these modes is chosen. You cannot switch between modes for some audio streams.

Press repeatedly to select:

• Action – Designed for action movies with dynamic soundtracks

• Unplugged – Suitable for acoustic music sources

• Expanded – Creates an extra wide stereo field.

• TV Surround – Provides surround sound for both mono and stereo TV sources.

• Sports – Suitable for sports programs

• Advanced Game – Suitable for video games

• Virtual – The virtual surround effect is heard only from the front speakers, and from the subwoofer.

• Ext Stereo – Gives multichannel sound to a stereo source, using all of your speakers.

Using Front Stage Surround Advance

The Front Stage Surround Advance modes are effective when you are using the Front surround setup as described on page 7.

ADV SURR

• Press to select a Front Stage Surround Advance mode.

The F.S.SURR indicator lights. You cannot switch between modes for some audio streams.

Press repeatedly to select:

• F.S.S.Focus5.1 – Use to provide a rich surround sound effect directed to the center area where the left and right speakers sound projection converges.

• F.S.S.Wide5.1 – Use to provide a surround sound effect to a wider area than F.S.S.Focus5.1 mode.

• Extra Power –

Outputs stereo sound (in the case of multichannel sources, downmixed stereo sound) from the surround speakers for powerful stereo effect.

1• During 88.2 kHz/96 kHz source playback, the listening mode is fixed to Auto and cannot be changed.

• When using a Pioneer flat screen TV with HDMI Control function support, these operating modes can be changed by operating the TV.

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Listening in stereo

You can listen to any source — stereo or multichannel — in stereo. When playing a multichannel source, all channels are downmixed to the front left/right speakers and the subwoofer.

In the Auto level control stereo mode (A.L.C.), this unit equalizes playback sound levels if each sound level varies with the music source recorded in a portable audio player.

• Press repeatedly to select A.L.C.

mode.

Stereo

• Stereo – The STEREO indicator will light and ordinary stereo sound will be produced.

• A.L.C. – Listening in Auto level control stereo mode. The STEREO and ALC indicators will light.

Listening with headphones

When headphones are connected, only the Stereo, A.L.C. and PhonesSurround modes are available.

• With headphones connected, press SURROUND press

to select

ADV SURR

Stereo

to select

A.L.C.

, or

PhonesSurround

• Stereo – See Listening in stereo above

• A.L.C. – See Listening in stereo above

• PhonesSurround – Virtual surround sound for headphones.

Using the Sound Retriever

When audio data is removed during the MP3 or WMA compression process, sound quality often suffers from an uneven sound image. The Sound Retriever feature employs new DSP

technology that helps bring CD quality sound back to compressed two channel audio by restoring sound pressure and smoothing jagged artifacts left over after compression.

SOUND

RETRIEVER

• Press while listening to a stereo

source.

Press repeatedly to switch between:

• Retriever On — Switches the Sound

Retriever on. The S.RTRV indicator lights.

• Retriever Off — Switches the Sound

Retriever off.

Listening with Acoustic Calibration EQ

You can listen to sources using the Acoustic Calibration Equalization set in Using the Auto MCACC setup for optimal surround sound on page 22.

1 Press to open the sound menu.

2 Select ‘ ENTER

3 Switch ‘ press

SOUND

MCACC EQ

’ then press

ENTER

EQ On

to confirm.

’ or ‘

EQ Off

•The MCACC indicator lights when Acoustic Calibration EQ is active.

•On the EQ Off setting, equalization is set to off and speaker settings (channel delay and channel level) remains as it is set.

• EQ On is selected automatically after the Auto MCACC setup is completed.

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1 This setting cannot be used with multichannel or 88.2 kHz/96 kHz sources. 2 Acoustic Calibration EQ is not available when headphones are connected.

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Enhancing dialogue

The Dialogue Enhancement feature is designed to make the dialogue stand out from other background sounds in a TV or movie soundtrack.

SOUND

1 Press to open the sound menu.

ENTER

2 Select ‘ ENTER

ENTER

3 S Enhancement then press

Dialogue

elect

the amount of Dialogue

’ then press

ENTER

to confirm.

Select between Off, Mid, Max or Auto.

• When Dialogue is set to Auto, the amount

of Enhancement is selected automatically to optimally match the audio signal.

•The DIALOG indicator lights when

Dialogue Enhancement is active.

Using Midnight and Quiet listening modes

The Midnight listening feature allows you to hear effective surround sound of movies at low volume levels.

The Quiet listening feature reduces excessive bass or treble in a sound source.

SOUND

1 Press to open the sound menu.

ENTER

2 Select ‘

Tone

’ then press

ENTER

•The TONE indicator lights.

• To cancel the Midnight or Quiet listening

modes, select Bass/Treble.

Adjusting the bass and treble

Use the bass and treble controls to adjust the overall tone.

SOUND

1 Press to open the sound menu.

ENTER

2 Select ‘

ENTER

3 S ENTER

Tone

’ then press

elect ‘Bass/Treble

ENTER

’ then press

• Selecting Bass/Treble cancels the

Midnight and Quiet listening modes. These modes cannot be used at the same time.

ENTER

4 Use ‘

Treble

’; use

press

ENTER

• Bass and Treble can be adjusted from

+6dB

/

to select ‘

/

to adjust the sound then

to confirm.

Bass

’ or

–6dB

• When the Bass or Treble is set to something other than 0dB, the TONE indicator lights.

Boosting the bass level

There are two bass modes you can use to enhance the bass in a source.

SOUND

1 Press to open the sound menu.

ENTER

elect ‘

3 S

ENTER

press

1 The Bass Mode is not available when headphones are connected.

Midnight

to confirm.

’ or ‘

Quiet’ then

ENTER

2 Select ‘ ENTER

Bass Mode

’ then press

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ENTER

3 Select the desired Bass Mode setting, then press

ENTER

to confirm.

Select between Off, Music, Cinema or Auto.

• When Bass Mode is set to Auto, the

setting (Music or Cinema) is selected automatically to optimally match the audio signal.

•The BASS MODE indicator lights when

Bass Mode is active.

Adjusting sound delay

Some monitors have a slight delay when showing video, so the soundtrack will be slightly out of sync with the picture. By adding a bit of delay, you can adjust the sound to match the presentation of the video.

There are a total of 60 steps (levels) that you can adjust, with a total range of 200 msec.

SOUND

1 Press to open the sound menu.

ENTER

2 Select ‘ ENTER

Sound Delay

’ then press

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3 Select the length of the delay in sound, then press

ENTER

to confirm.

•This option is deactivated and not displayed if you have Auto Delay set to On in HDMI Setup (see Setting the Auto Delay on page 64).

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Chapter 6

Disc playback features

Important

• Many of the functions covered in this chapter apply to DVD and SACD discs, Video CDs/Super VCDs, CDs, DivX video/ WMV and WMA/MP3/MPEG-4 AAC/JPEG discs, although the exact operation of some varies slightly with the kind of disc loaded.

•Some DVDs restrict the use of some functions (random or repeat, for example) in some or all parts of the disc. This is not a malfunction.

•When playing Video CD/Super VCDs, some of the functions are not available during PBC playback. If you want to use them, start the disc playing using a number button to select a track.

Scanning discs

You can fast-scan discs forward or backward at various different speeds.

• During playback, start reverse or forward scanning.

Press repeatedly to increase the scanning speed (shown on-screen).

•To resume playback, press  (play).

Playing in slow motion

You can play DVD-Videos and DVD-R/-RW at four different slow motion speeds, forwards and backwards. Video CD/Super VCDs and DivX video/WMV can be played at four different forward slow motion speeds.

1 Pause playback.

2 Press and hold to start slow motion reverse or forward play.

Press repeatedly to change the slow motion speed (shown on-screen).

•To resume playback, press  (play).

Frame advance/frame reverse

You can advance or back up DVD-Video and DVD-R/-RW discs frame-by-frame. With Video CD/Super VCDs and DivX video/WMV file you can only use frame advance.

1 Pause playback.

2 Back up or advance one frame with each press.

•To resume playback, press  (play).

1Only one speed is available for DivX video/WMV discs. 2• Depending on the disc, normal playback may automatically resume when a new chapter is reached on a DVD disc.

• For Video CDs/Super VCDs in PBC mode and WMA/MP3/MPEG-4 AAC tracks (in Scan mode only), normal playback resumes

when you reach the beginning or the end of track.

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Disc Navigator

Playing a JPEG slideshow

After loading a disc containing JPEG pictures, press  (play) to start a slideshow from the first

folder/picture on the disc. the pictures in each folder in alphabetical order.

•If the folder contains WMA/MP3/MPEG-4 AAC files, playback of the slideshow and WMA/MP3/MPEG-4 AAC file repeats. During the audio playback, you can still use the skip (/), scan (/) and pause () functions.

Pictures are automatically adjusted so that they fill as much of the screen as possible.

While the slideshow is running:

Button What it does

Pauses the slideshow (or audio); press again to restart.

Jumps to the previous picture (or audio file with audio playback).

Jumps to the next picture (or audio file with audio playback).

Pauses the slideshow and

rotates/flips the displayed picture (Press  (play) to restart

slideshow).

ZOOM

Pauses the slideshow and zooms the picture. Press again to toggle between 1x, 2x and 4x zoom (Press  (play) to restart slideshow).

Displays the Disc Navigator screen (see below).

The player displays

Browsing DVD or Video CD/ Super VCD discs with the Disc Navigator

Use the Disc Navigator to browse through the co nt ent s of a DV D-V ideo , VR m od e DV D-R/ -R W or Video CD/Super VCD disc to find the part you want to play.

HOME MENU

1 During playback, select ‘Disc Navigator’ from the on-screen menu.

2 Select a view option.

The options available depend on the kind of disc loaded and whether the disc is playing or not, but include:

• Title – Titles from a DVD-Video disc.

• Chapter – Chapters from the current title

of a DVD-Video disc.

• Track – Tracks from a Video CD/Super VCD

disc.

• Time – Thumbnails from a Video CD/Super VCD disc at 10 minute intervals.

• Original: Title – Original titles from a VR mode DVD-R/-RW disc.

• Playlist: Title – Playlist titles from a VR mode DVD-R/-RW disc.

• Original: Time – Thumbnails from the Original content at 10 minute interva

• Pl Playlist at 10 minute intervals.

ENTER

Disc Navigator Title Chapter

aylist: Time – Thumbnails from the

ls.

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1 • The time it takes for the player to load a file increases with large file sizes.

• Discs can contain up to 299 folders and up to 648 folders and files combined.

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Disc Navigator: Title 01- 49: - -

Note

ENTER

File1

File2

File3

File4

File5

Folder2

00:00/ 00:00 0kbps

The screen shows up to six moving thumbnail images displayed one after another. To display the previous/next six thumbnails, press / .

3 Select the thumbnail image for what you want to play.

You can use either /// and ENTER to select a thumbnail, or the number buttons.

To select using the number buttons, enter a two-digit number then press ENTER.

Browsing Windows Media™ Audio (WMA), MP3, MPEG-4 AAC, DivX video/WMV and JPEG files with the Disc Navigator

Use the Disc Navigator to find a particular file or folder by filename.

HOME MENU

1 Select ‘Disc Navigator’ from the on-screen menu.

1 You can also do this by going to the ‘..’ folder at the top, then pressing ENTER.

ENTER

00:00/ 00:00 0kbps

Folder1

Folder2

Folder3

Folder4

2 Use for navigating folders and files.

Use / to move up and down the folder/file list.

Use  to return to the parent folder.

Use ENTER or  to open a highlighted folder.

• When a JPEG file is highlighted, a

thumbnail image is displayed on the right.

3 To play the highlighted track or DivX video/WMV file or display the highlighted JPEG file, press ENTER.

• When a WMA/MP3/MPEG-4 AAC or DivX video/WMV file is selected, playback begins from that file, and continues until the end of the folder.

• When a JPEG file is selected, a slideshow begins, starting with that file, and continues to the end of the folder.

Tip

•You can also play a JPEG slideshow while listening to WMA/MP3/MPEG-4 AAC playback. Simply select the audio file you want to listen to followed by the JPEG from which you want the slideshow to start. Playback of both the slideshow and the audio files repeats. Playback controls are effective for the JPEG slideshow only.

•To play the contents of the whole disc rather than just the current folder, exit the Disc Navigator and start playback using  (play).

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Play Mode

Using playlists

With this feature, you can make up to three playlists of 30 files each for discs containing

WMA, MP3, MPEG-4 AAC and JPEG files. Since this unit will remember all playlists for the last ten discs you have loaded, this is useful if you have a large number of files that you want to organize quickly and easily.

Programming playlists

HOME MENU

1 With the disc stopped, select ‘Disc Navigator’ from the on-screen menu.

2 Select the file you want to add to the playlist.

See Browsing Windows Media™ Audio (WMA), MP3, MPEG-4 AAC, DivX video/WMV and JPEG files with the Disc Navigator above if you don’t

know how to do this.

3 Press

The file is added to the playlist you select.

4 Repeat steps 2 and 3 until you’re done.

• To add files without the on-screen display, simply press PLAYLIST normal playback of the file you want (except when a JPEG slideshow is playing at the same time as audio).

PLAYLIST

Tip

ENTER

PLAYLIST

1, 2 or 3.

1, 2 or 3 during

Listening to playlists

•

With playback stopped, p

1, 2

or 3.

ress

PLAYLIST

During playback, PGM lights in the front panel display. If no playlist has been programmed, No PLAYLIST shows in the display.

•If the playlist contains both JPEG and audio files, playback of the slideshow and audio files starts.

Clearing files from a playlist

1 Start playback of your playlist. 2From the ‘

Disc Navigator

’ screen, highlight the file you want to remove from the playlist and press

CLEAR

Looping a section of a disc

The A-B Repeat function allows you to specify two points (A and B) within a track (CD, Video CD/Super VCD) or title (DVD-Video and DVDRW) that form a loop which is played over and over.

• You can’t use A-B Repeat with DVD-Audio, SACD, Video CD/Super VCDs in PBC mode, or WMA/MP3/MPEG-4 AAC/DivX video/WMV files.

HOME MENU

1 ‘

Play Mode

ENTER

During playback, select

’.

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1 The disc must be loaded for the files in your playlist to play back.

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ENTER

HOME MENU

3 Press at the desired starting point (

A(Start Point)

Select ‘A-B Repeat’.

ENTER

) to set the loop start point.

4 Press at the desired ending point (

B(End Point)

) to set the loop end point.

After pressing ENTER, playback jumps back to the start point and plays the loop.

5 To resume normal playback, select ‘

Off

’.

Using repeat play

In addition to various repeat play options, it’s also possible to use repeat play together with

program play (see Creating a program list on page 37).

HOME MENU

1 ‘

Play Mode

2 option. If program play is active, select Program Repeat to repeat the program list, or Repeat Off to cancel.

•For DVD discs, select Title Repeat or

Chapter Repeat.

•For DVD-Audio discs, select Group Repeat or Track Repeat.

•For SACDs, CDs and Video CD/Super VCDs, select Disc Repeat or Track Repeat.

•For DivX video/WMV discs, select Title

Repeat (or Repeat Off).

’.

Select ‘

Repeat

ENTER

During playback, select

’ then select a repeat play

Using random play

Use the random play function to play titles or chapters (DVD-Video), Groups (DVD-Audio), or tracks (DVD-Audio, SACD, CD, Video CD/ Super VCD) at random. (Note that the same track/title/chapter may play more than once.)

1 ‘

Play Mode

2Select ‘

•For DVD discs, select Random Title or

Random Chapter.

•For DVD-Audio discs, select Random Group or Random Track.

•For CDs, SACDs and Video CD/Super VCDs, select On or Off to switch random play on or off.

•Use the following controls during random play:

Button What it does

•Random play remains in effect until you select Random Off from the random play menu options.

ENTER

During playback, select

’.

Random

’ then select an option.

Tip

Selects a new track/title/chapter at random.

Returns to the beginning of the current track/title/chapter; further presses select another random track/title/chapter.

1 You can’t use repeat play with Video CD/Super VCDs in PBC mode, or with WMA/MP3/MPEG-4 AAC discs. 2 • You can set the random play option when a disc is playing or stopped. However, you can’t use random play together with

program play.

• You can’t use random play with VR format DVD-R/-RW discs, Video CD/Super VCDs playing in PBC mode, WMA/MP3/MPEG- 4 AAC discs, DivX video/WMV discs, or while a DVD disc menu is being displayed.

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Creating a program list

This feature lets you program the play order of titles/chapters/groups/tracks on a disc.

HOME MENU

1 ‘

Play Mode

2 Select ‘

ENTER

During playback, select

’.

Program

’ then select ‘

from the list of program options.

ENTER

Select a title, chapter or track for

the current step in the program list.

•For a DVD disc, you can add a title or a chapter.

•For a DVD-Audio disc, you can add a whole group, or a track within a group to the program list.

•For a CD, SACD or Video CD/Super VCD, select a track to add to the program list.

After pressing ENTER to select the title/ chapter/track, the step number automatically moves down one.

4 Repeat step 3 to build up a program list.

A program list can contain up to 24 steps.

•You can insert steps by just highlighting the position where you want the new step to appear and entering a title/chapter/ group/track number.

•To delete a step, highlight it and press CLEAR.

Create/Edit

Tip

• Use the following controls during program play:

Button What it does

HOME MENU

’

Save the program list and exit without starting playback.

Skip to the next step in the program list.

Other functions available from the program menu

There are a number of other options in the program menu in addition to Create/Edit.

• Playback Start – Starts playback of a saved program list

• Playback Stop – Turns off program play, but does not erase the program list

• Program Delete – Erases the program list and turns off program play

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5 Play the program list.

Program play remains active until you turn off program play (see below), erase the program

list (see below), eject the disc or switch off.

1 You can’t use program play with VR format DVD-R/-RW discs, Video CD/Super VCDs playing in PBC mode, WMA/MP3/MPEG-

4 AAC discs, DivX video/WMV discs, or while a DVD disc menu is being displayed.

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Searching a disc

You can search DVD-Video discs by title or chapter number, or by time; DVD-Audio discs can be searched by group or track number; SACDs by track number, CDs and Video CD/ Super VCDs by track number or time; DivX video /WMV discs by time.

HOME MENU

2 Select ‘

ENTER

Select ‘

Search Mode

The search options that appear depend on the kind of disc loaded.

3 Select a search mode.

• The disc must be playing in order to use time search.

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CLEAR

4 Enter a title, chapter or track number, or a time.

•For a time search, enter the number of minutes and seconds into the currently playing title (DVD/DivX video/WMV) or track (CD/Video CD/Super VCD) you want

playback to resume from. For example, press 4, 5, 0, 0 to have playback start from

45 minutes into the disc. For 1 hour, 20 minutes and 30 seconds, press 8, 0, 3, 0.

• Some DVD-Audio discs feature pages of browsable pictures. Enter the page number you want.

ENTER

5 Start playback.

Play Mode

’.

Switching subtitles

Some DVD discs and DivX video discs have subtitles in one or more languages; the disc box will usually tell you which subtitle languages are available. You can switch subtitle language during playback.

SUBTITLE

• Press repeatedly to select a subtitle option.

• To set subtitle preferences, see Language settings on page 54.

• See Displaying DivX subtitle files on

page 75 for more on DivX subtitles.

Switching language/audio channels

When playing discs recorded with dialogue in two or more languages, or with dual-mono

audio

you can switch these during playback.

When playing a DVD-Audio disc, you may be able to switch channels — see the disc box for details. (When you change the audio channel, playback restarts from the beginning of the current track.)

When playing a Video CD/Super VCD, you can switch between stereo, just the left channel or just the right channel.

AUDIO

• Press repeatedly to select an audio language option.

• To set audio language preferences, see Language settings on page 54.

1Search functions are not available with Video CD/Super VCDs in PBC mode, or with WMA/MP3/MPEG-4 AAC discs. 2 Some discs only allow you to change subtitle language from the disc menu. Press TOP MENU or MENU to access. 3Some Super VCDs have two soundtracks. With these discs you can switch between the two soundtracks as well as individual

channels in each.

4 Some discs only allow you to change audio language from the disc menu. Press TOP MENU or MENU to access.

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Zooming the screen

Using the zoom feature you can magnify a part of the screen by a factor of 2 or 4, while watching a DVD, DivX video/WMV title or Video CD/Super VCD or playing a JPEG disc.

ZOOM

1 During playback, press repeatedly to select the zoom factor (

2 Change the zoomed area.

You can change the zoom factor and the zoomed area freely during playback.

Normal, 2x

or 4x).

Switching camera angles

Some DVD discs feature scenes shot from two or more angles — check the disc box for details.

When a multi-angle scene is playing, a icon appears on screen (this can be switched off if you prefer — see Display settings on page 55).

ANGLE

• During playback (or when paused), press to switch angle.

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Displaying disc information

Various track, chapter and title information can be displayed on-screen during playback.

DISPLAY

• Press repeatedly to show, change, and hide the disc information display.

Limited disc information also appears in the front panel display. Press DISPLAY to change the displayed information.

1• Since DVD, Video CD/Super VCD, DivX video/WMV title and JPEG pictures have a fixed resolution, picture quality will

deteriorate, especially at 4x zoom. This is not a malfunction.

• If the navigation square at the top of the screen disappears, press ZOOM again to display it.

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iPod DIRECT/USB

Chapter 7

iPod/USB playback

Connecting an iPod

This unit has a dedicated iPod terminal that will allow you to control playback of audio content from your iPod using the controls of this unit.

iPod DIRECT / USB

OPEN / CLOSE

PHONES MCACC

USB cable (for

iPod connection)

iPod





Connecting your iPod to this unit

1 Set this unit to the standby mode, and then use the USB cable (for iPod connection) to connect your iPod to the

iPod DIRECT/USB

terminal on the front panel of this unit.

For the cable connection, refer to also the operating instructions for iPod.

2 Switch the unit on and press the input source

button on the remote control to

iPod

switch the unit to the iPod.

The front panel display shows Loading while the unit verifies the connection and retrieves data from the iPod.

3 Press

TOP MENU

to display iPod Top

menu.

When the display shows Top Menu you’re ready to play music from the iPod.

•If after pressing iPod the display shows

No Device, try switching off the unit and reconnecting the iPod to the unit.

iPod playback

To navigate songs on your iPod, you can take advantage of the OSD of your TV connected to this unit. for music in the front panel display of this unit.

You can also control all operations

1 • This unit is compatible with the audio of iPod nano, iPod fifth generation, iPod classic, iPod touch (not supported iPod shuffle

and iPhone). However, that some of the functions may be restricted for some models. Note, however, compatibility may vary depending on the software version of your iPod. Please be sure to use the latest available software version.

• iPod is licensed for reproduction of non-copyrighted materials or materials the user is legally permitted to reproduce.

• Features such as the equalizer cannot be controlled using this unit, and we recommend switching the equalizer off before connecting.

• Pioneer cannot under any circumstances accept responsibility for any direct or indirect loss arising from any

or loss of recorded material resulting from the iPod failure. 2The USB cable (for iPod connection) is not included with this unit. 3 The controls of your iPod will be inoperable when connected to this unit. Features such as the equalizer cannot be controlled

using this unit, and we recommend switching the equalizer off before connecting. 4 • Note that non-roman characters in the title are displayed as #.

• This feature is not available for photos or video clips on your iPod.

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Finding what you want to play

When your iPod is connected to this unit, you can browse songs stored on your iPod by playlist, artist, album name, song name, genre or composer, similar to using your iPod directly.

iPod Navigator

Playlists 001/009

ENTER

1 Select a category, then press ENTER

to browse that category.

•To return to the previous level any time,

press RETURN.

ENTER

2 Browse the selected category (e.g.,

albums

•Use / to move to previous/next levels.

3 Continue browsing until you arrive at what you want to play, then press playback.



to start

Navigation through categories on your iPod looks like this:

Playlists  Songs Artists  Albums  Songs Albums  Songs Songs Podcasts Genres  Artists  Albums  Songs Composers  Albums  Songs Audiobooks Shuffle Songs

Basic playback controls

The following table shows the basic playback controls for your iPod. Press iPod to switch the remote control to the iPod operation mode.

Button What it does

Press to start playback. If you start playback when something

other than a song is selected, all the songs that fall into that category will play.

DISPLAY

RETURN

Pauses playback, or restarts playback when paused.

Press and hold during playback to start

scanning.

Press to skip to previous/next track.

Press repeatedly to switch between

Repeat One, Repeat All and Repeat Off.

Press repeatedly to switch between

Shuffle Songs, Shuffle Albums and Shuffle Off.

Press repeatedly to change the song playback information displayed in the

front panel display. When browsing, press to move to

previous/next levels. During playback, press to skip to previous/next track.

During Audiobook playback, press to switch the playback speed: Faster  Normal  Slower

Press to return to the iPod Top menu screen.

Press to return to the previous level.

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Tip

•You can play all of the songs in a particular

category by selecting the All item at the top of each category list. For example, you can play all the songs by a particular artist.

1If you’re in the song category, you can also press ENTER to start playback.

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Important

If an error message lights in the front panel display, try following the points below:

Symptom

Error I1 There is a problem with the signal path

Error I2 The software version being used with

Error I3 The iPod that is not supported is

Error I4 When there is no response from the

iPod Error

No Music Track

No Track When there are no tracks in the

What it means

from the iPod to the unit. Switch off the unit and reconnect the iPod to the unit. If this doesn’t seem to work, try resetting your iPod.

the iPod needs to be updated. Update the software being used with the iPod (please use the latest iPod software versions later than the iPod updater 2004-10-20).

connected. Check whether the iPod was supported by this unit (page 40).

When the iPod software version is too old, update the iPod software to the latest version.

iPod, update the iPod software to the latest version. If this doesn’t seem to work, try resetting your iPod.

The power requirements of the iPod are too high for this unit.

There are no playable songs currently stored in the iPod. Input some music files compatible with iPod playback.

category selected on the iPod. Select a different category.

Switching the iPod controls

You can switch over the iPod controls between the iPod and the unit.

CTRL

1 Press to switch the iPod controls.

This enables operation and display on your iPod, and this unit’s remote control and OSD become inactive.

CTRL

2 Press again to switch back to the receiver controls.

iPod is a trademark of Apple Inc., registered in the U.S. and other countries.

Using the USB interface

It is possible to listen to two-channel audio3 and watch JPEG files using the USB interface on the front of this unit. Connect a USB mass storage device

USB

1 With the system switched on, press USB

Make sure your TV is on and set to the correct video input.

2 Connect your USB memory device.

as shown below.

1 You cannot use this function, when an iPod of fifth generation or iPod nano of first generation is connected. 2 When this function is set, iPod images cannot be played on this unit. 3 This includes playback of WMA/MP3/MPEG-4 AAC files (except files with copy-protection or restricted playback). 4• Compatible USB devices include external magnetic hard drives, portable flash memory (particularly keydrives) and digital

audio players (MP3 players) of format FAT16/32. It is not possible to connect this unit to a personal computer for USB playback.

• Pioneer cannot guarantee compatibility (operation and/or bus power) with all USB mass storage devices and assumes no

responsibility for any loss of data that may occur when connec

• With large amounts of data, it may take longer for the system to read the contents of a USB device.

ed to this unit.

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iPod DIRECT/USB

Note

The USB terminal is located on the front panel.

iPod DIRECT / USB

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USB mass

storage device

3 Start playback.

If your USB memory device contains JPEGs, a slideshow will start. See Playing a JPEG slideshow below for more on this.

•Make sure USB DATA is showing in the

front panel display (or the system is in standby) when disconnecting.

Important

If a USB Error message lights in the display, it may mean that the power requirements of the USB device are too high for this unit, or that the device is incompatible. Try the following:

• Switch the player off, then on again.

• Reconnecting the USB device with the

player switched off.

• Selecting to another input source (like

DVD/CD), then back to USB.

• Using a dedicated AC adaptor (supplied

with the device) for USB power.

If this doesn’t remedy the problem, it is likely your USB device is incompatible.

Basic playback controls

The following table shows the basic controls on the remote for USB playback.

Button What it does

Starts normal playback.

Pau ses/unpauses playback.

Stops playback.

Press to start fast reverse scanning.

Press to start fast forward scanning.

Skips to the start of the current file, then previous files.

Skips to the next file.

Scanning files

You can fast-scan forward or backward at various different speeds.

• During playback, start reverse or forward scanning.

Press repeatedly to increase the scanning speed (shown on-screen).

•To resume playback, press  (play).

Playing a JPEG slideshow

Press  to start a slideshow from the first folder/picture. displayed in order.

• If the device contains WMA/MP3/MPEG-4

AAC files, playback of the slideshow and audio files repeats. During audio playback, you can still use the skip (/), scan (/) and pause () functions.

The pictures in each folder are

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1 With WMA/MP3/MPEG-4 AAC tracks, playback automatically resumes at the end or beginning of the track. 2 • The time it takes for the player to load a file increases with large file sizes.

• USB devices can contain up to 299 folders and up to 648 folders and files combined.

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Note

Pictures are automatically adjusted so that they fill as much of the screen as possible.

While the slideshow is running:

Button What it does

Pauses the slideshow (or audio); press again to restart.

Jumps to the previous picture (or audio file with audio playback).

Jumps to the next picture (or audio file with audio playback).

Pauses the slideshow and rotates/ flips the current picture (Press  to restart slideshow).

ZOOM

Pauses the slideshow and zooms the picture. Press again to toggle between 1x, 2x and 4x zoom (Press  to restart slideshow).

Displays the Navigator screen (see below).

Browsing files with the Navigator

Use the Navigator to find WMA, MP3, MPEG-4 AAC and JPEG files or folders by name.

1 Press MENU.

3 To play the highlighted track or display the highlighted JPEG file, press ENTER.

• When a WMA/MP3/MPEG-4 AAC file is

selected, playback begins from that file, and continues until the end of the folder.

• When a JPEG file is selected, a slideshow

begins, starting with that file, and continues to the end of the folder.

Tip

•You can also play a JPEG slideshow while

listening to WMA/MP3/MPEG-4 AAC playback. Simply select the audio file you want to listen to followed by the JPEG from which you want the slideshow to start. Playback of both the slideshow and the audio files repeats. Playback controls are effective for the JPEG slideshow only.

•To play all of the contents, rather than just the current folder, exit the Navigator and start playback using  (play).

ENTER

Use for navigating folders and

files.

Use / to move up/down the folder/file list. Use  to return to the parent folder.

Use ENTER or  to open a highlighted folder.

• When a JPEG file is highlighted, a

thumbnail image is displayed on the right.

1 Filenames may be displayed incorrectly with some digital audio players. 2 You can also do this by going to the ‘..’ folder at the top, then pressing ENTER.

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TUNE

Chapter 8

Listening to the radio

The tuner can receive both FM and AM broadcasts, and lets you memorize your favorite stations so you don’t have to manually tune in every time you want to listen.

FM/AM

TUNER

1 repeatedly to select the FM or AM band.

The display shows the band and frequency.

There are three tuning modes — manual, auto, and high-speed:

Switch to the tuner, then press

Tune to a frequency.

• Manual tuning – Press TUNE +/– repeatedly to change the displayed

frequency.

• Auto tuning – Press and hold TUNE +/– until the frequency display starts to move, then release. The tuner will stop on the next station it finds. Repeat to keep searching.

• High-speed tuning – Press and hold TUNE +/– until the frequency display starts to move rapidly. Keep the button held down until you reach the frequency you want. If necessary, fine tune the frequency using the manual tuning method.

Improving poor FM reception

If you’re listening to an FM station in stereo but the reception is weak, you can improve the sound quality by switching to mono.

SETUP

1 Press after tuning to an FM radio station.

ENTER

2 Select ‘ ENTER

ENTER

3 Choose ‘

ENTER

press

ENTER

4 Select ‘ ENTER

The mono indicator ( ) lights when the tuner is in mono reception mode.

Select FM Auto above to switch back to autostereo mode (the stereo indicator () lights

when receiving a stereo broadcast).

Tuner Setup

FM Auto/Mono

FM Mono

Improving poor AM sound

The simplest way to improve the sound quality of AM radio is to make sure that the TV in the

room is switched off. Also try changing the position and direction of the AM loop antenna.

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SETUP

ENTER

CLASS

Changing the noise cut mode

If you find that the AM sound quality is bad even after trying the above, you may be able to improve it using a different noise cut mode. Just choose the one that sounds best.

1 Press after tuning to an AM radio station.

ENTER

2 Select ‘ ENTER

3 Choose ‘ ENTER

ENTER

4 Select a Noise cut mode ( then press

ENTER

Tuner Setup

Noise Cut

’ then press

1, 2

or 3)

Memorizing stations

This system can memorize up to 30 stations, stored in three banks, or classes (A, B and C) of 10 stations each.

1 Tune to an FM or AM radio station.

Select mono or auto-stereo reception (FM) or the Noise Cut mode (AM) as necessary. These settings are saved along with the preset.

T.EDIT

2 Press

CLASS

3 Press to select one of the three classes, then press preset you want.

You can also use the number buttons to select a preset.

T.EDIT

ST +/–

to select the station

Listening to station presets

You will need to have some presets stored to do this.

1 Press to select the class in which the channel is stored.

Press repeatedly to cycle through classes A, B and C.

2 Select the station preset you want.

• You can also use the number buttons on the remote control to recall the station preset.

ENTER

4 Press

ENTER

After pressing ENTER, the preset class and number stop blinking and the system memorize station.

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Using RDS

Radio Data System (RDS) is a system used by most FM radio stations to provide listeners with various kinds of information — the name of the station and the kind of show they’re broadcasting, for example.

One feature of RDS is that you can search by type of program. For example, you can search for a station that’s broadcasting a show with the program type, Jazz.

You can search the following program types:

News – News Affairs – Current Affairs Info

– General Information

Sport – Sport Educate – Educational Drama – Radio plays, etc. Culture – National or

regional culture, theater, etc. Science – Science and technology Varied – Usually talkbased material, such as quiz shows or interviews.

Pop M – Pop music Rock M – Rock music Easy M – Easy listening Light M – ‘Light’ classical

music Classics – ‘Serious’ classical music Other M – Music not fitting above categories

Weather – Weather reports and forecasts, meteorological information

Finance – Stock market reports, commerce, trading, etc.

Children – Programs for children

ial – Social affairs

So Religion – Programs

concerning religion Phone In – Public expressing their views by phone Travel – Holiday-type travel information as opposed to traffic announcements. Leisure – Leisure interests and hobbies

Jazz – Jazz Country

– Country music Nation M – Popular music in a language other than English Oldies – Popular music from the ’50s and ’60s

Folk M – Folk music Document

– Documentary

Displaying RDS information

Use DISPLAY to display the different types of RDS information available.

DISPLAY

• Press for RDS information.

Each press changes the display as follows:

• Radio Text (RT) – Messages sent by the

radio station. For example, a talk radio station may provide a phone number as RT.

•Program Service Name (PS) – The name of

the radio station.

•Program Type (PTY) – This indicates the kind of program currently being broadcast.

• PTY SEARCH – PTY search (see below)

•Current tuner frequency

Searching for RDS programs

You can search for a program type listed above.

FM/AM

TUNER

1 Press for the FM band.

DISPLAY

2 Press repeatedly until ‘ SEARCH

’ appears in the display.

3 Select the program type you want to hear.

ENTER

4 Start the search.

The system searches the station presets for a match. If it finds one, searching stops for five sec.

5 If you want to keep listening to the station, press

ENTER

within the five seconds.

If you don’t press ENTER, searching resumes.

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PTY

1 In addition, there are three other program types, TEST, ALARM!, and None, ALARM! and TEST are used for emergency

announcements. None appears when a program type cannot be found.

2 • If any noise is picked up while displaying the RT scroll, some characters may be displayed incorrectly.

• If you see No Radio Text Data in the RT display, it means no RT data is sent from the broadcast station. The display will automatically switch to the PS data display (if no PS data, the frequency is displayed).

• In the PTY display, NO DATA or None may be shown. In this case, the PS display is shown after a few seconds.

3 RDS is only possible in the FM band.

Surround sound settings09

Note

Chapter 9

Surround sound settings

Important

• This unit’s audio function may be restricted depending on the Line Output setting (page 60) and HDMI audio setting (page 63). In this event, the menus may not appear.

Using the Sound Setup menu

From the Sound Setup menu you can access all the surround sound settings of the system.

During setup, the speakers are represented by the following letters:

• L – Front left speaker

• C – Center speaker

• R – Front right speaker

• SR – Surround right speaker

• SL – Surround left speaker

• SW – Subwoofer

Effective Sound (for optimum sound)

With the uniquely shaped high-quality speakers supplied with this unit, the Effective Sound mode enables the following Pioneer exclusive audio technologies designed to maximize the real experience of sound originally inherent in movies and music.

Turn on the Effective Sound mode under normal circumstances to maximize the

capabilities of this unit.

• Dynamic Range Compression

Resuscitates detailed sound susceptible to ambient noise to create an acoustic environment where you feel as if you are right in the action.

• Frequency Characteristic Correction

Realizes the playback characteristic optimized for long hours of listening in addition to the added featur es of the supplied speaker units.

The Effective Sound mode can be turned off (activating Direct Sound mode) by doing the following:

SETUP

1 Press

ENTER

2 Select ‘ ENTER

ENTER

3 Select ‘ ENTER

ENTER

4 Select ‘ ENTER

To return to Effective Sound mode, perform the same procedure noted above to select ‘EffectiveSound’.

•When Direct Sound is selected, the

DIRECT indicator lights.

SETUP

to confirm.

Sound Setup

Sound Field

Direct Sound

’, then press

1 The Sound Field setting is not available when headphones are connected.

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Note

ENTER

Channel level setting

The Auto MCACC feature (see page 22) should give you the best surround sound setup. However you may find that by further adjustment of the channel levels you can improve the surround sound in your listening room.

This method of setting the channel levels allows you to listen to a source and adjust the levels of each playback channel.

The test tone method can also be used to adjust channel levels.

SETUP

ENTER

Open the ‘

Sound Setup

’

menu.

2 Select ‘ ENTER

3 Use

/

to adjust the level of that channel.

ChannelLevel

/

to select a channel3 or

’, then press

• You can adjust the level of each channel by ±10 dB.

ENTER

4 Press once when you’re finished.

• If you use the Auto MCACC feature again, it will overwrite the settings you have made here.

Speaker distance setting

The Auto MCACC feature (see page 22) should give you the best surround sound setup. However you may find that by further adjustment of the speaker distance settings you can improve the surround sound in your listening room.

Set the distance of each speaker from your normal listening position.

SETUP

1 menu.

2 Select ‘ ENTER

3 Use

/

Each speaker can be adjusted from 0.1m to

9.0m.

4 Press

Open the ‘

Distance

Sound Setup

’, then press

’

/

to select a speaker or

to adjust the distance.

ENTER

when you’re finished.

• If you use the Auto MCACC feature again, it will overwrite the settings you have made here.

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1 The Channel level setting is not available when headphones are connected. 2 No test tone is output when audio is muted. 3 When Test Tone is selected, the test tone moves automatically from speaker to speaker in the order

LCRSRSLSW. Adjust the / controls so that the test tone is heard at the same volume from each speaker when sitting in the main listening position. However, the test tone from the subwoofer may sound lower than other tones, in which case adjust the level while listening to a source. Press ENTER when you’re finished.

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ENTER

Dynamic Range Control

When watching Dolby Digital or DTS material at low volume, low level sounds — including some of the dialog — can be difficult to hear properly. Using one of the Dynamic Range Control (DRC) settings can help by bringing up the low level sounds, while controlling high level peaks.

Dynamic Range Control works only with Dolby Digital soundtracks and some DTS soundtracks.

SETUP

1 menu.

2 Select ‘

3 Select a setting.

Select one of the following:

• D.R.C. High – Dynamic range is reduced

• D.R.C. Mid – Mid setting

• D.R.C. Off – No dynamic range adjustment

4 Press to exit.

ENTER

Open the ‘

ENTER

D.R.C.

Sound Setup

’, then press

’

ENTER

(loud sounds are reduced in volume while quieter sounds are increased)

(use when listening at higher volume)

ENTER

Virtual Surround Back

This mode allows you to use your surround speakers with standard surround setup to listen to a virtual surround back channel. You can choose to listen to sources with no surround back channel information, or if the material sounds better in the format (for example, 5.1) for which it was originally encoded, you can have the unit only apply this effect to 6.1 encoded sources like Dolby Digital EX or DTS-ES.

SETUP

1 menu.

2 Select ‘

ENTER

3 Select a setting.

Select one of the following:

• Vir.SB On – Virtual Surround Back is always used (for example, on 5.1 encoded material).

• Vir.SB Off – Virtual Surround Back mode is switched off.

The V.SB indicator lights when Virtual Surround Back is active.

ENTER

4 Press to exit.

ENTER

Open the ‘

Virtual SB

Sound Setup

’, then press

’

1• Depending on the input signal and the listening mode, the Virtual Surround Back mode may not be effective.

• The Virtual Surround Back mode is not effective when the headphones are connected or when using the Front surround setup.

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SETUP

Note

LFE Attenuate

Some Dolby Digital and DTS audio sources include ultra-low bass tones.

Set the LFE attenuator as necessary to prevent the ultra-low bass tones from distorting the sound from the speakers.

1 menu.

2 Select ‘ ENTER

3 Select a setting.

Select one of the following:

• 0dB – The LFE is not limited, which is the

• -10dB – The LFE is limited by the respective

• LFE Off – No sound is output from the LFE

4 Press to exit.

ENTER

Open the ‘

ENTER

LFE ATT

recommended value.

degree.

channel.

ENTER

Sound Setup

’, then press

’

DTS CD setting

If you play a DTS-encoded CD, you will need to change this setting to hear the decoded signal.

SETUP

ENTER

Open the ‘

Sound Setup

’

menu.

ENTER

2 Select ‘ ENTER

CD Type

’, then press

3 Select a setting.

Select one of the following:

• Normal CD – Use for playback of regular

audio CDs. Some DTS-encoded CDs will output noise when played.

• DTS-CD – Use for playback of DTS-

encoded CDs, but note that the beginning of regular CD tracks may be skipped.

ENTER

4 Press to exit.

Dual mono setting

Specifies how dual mono encoded Dolby Digital soundtracks should be played. This setting can also be used to change the audio channels for DVD-RW discs recorded in bilingual audio, and external inputs with bilingual audio (HDMI and optical/coaxial digital inputs).

AUDIO

1 Press repeatedly to select a setting.

Select one of the following:

• CH1 Mono – Only channel 1 is played

• CH2 Mono – Only channel 2 is played

• CH1/CH2 – Both channels are played through the front speakers

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1 When DVD function is selected, the displayed setting items are L, R and L+R (displayed on OSD).

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Video Adjust

Chapter 10

Video Adjust menu

Adjust the Brightness, Contrast, Hue and

Video Adjust menu

From the Video Adjust screen you can adjust settings that affect picture presentation.

HOME MENU

1 Press

ENTER

2 Select ‘ screen display.

ENTER

3 Make settings.

Sharpness Brightness Contrast Gamma Hue Chroma Level

Video Adjust

HOME MENU

Video Adjust

Standard



Off



’ from the on-

Chroma Level settings using /.

Brightness min max 0

ENTER

4 Press to return to the Video Adjust screen, or press

HOME MENU

to exit.

You can adjust the following settings:

• Sharpness – Adjusts the sharpness of edges in the picture (Fine, Standard, Soft).

• Brightness – Adjusts the overall brightness (–20 to +20).

• Contrast – Adjusts the contrast between light and dark (–16 to +16).

• Gamma – Adjusts the ‘warmth’ of the picture (High, Medium, Low, Off).

• Hue – Adjusts the red/green balance (Green 9 to Red 9).

• Chroma Level – Adjusts how saturated colors appear (–9 to +9).

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Note

Initial Settings

ENTER

Chapter 11

Initial Settings menu

Using the Initial Settings menu

The Initial Settings menu provides audio and video output 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. Stop the disc, then change the setting.

DVD

1 Press

HOME MENU

2 With playback stopped, press to display the Home Menu.

Video Output settings

Setting Option What it means

TV Screen

(See also Screen sizes and disc formats on

page 77.)

AV Connector Out

(See Connecting auxiliary components on

page 59.)

DVD

4:3 (Letter Box) Set if you have a conventional 4:3 TV. Widescreen movies are

4:3 (Pan & Scan) Set if you have a conventional 4:3 TV. Widescreen movies are

16:9 (Wide) Set if you have a widescreen TV. 16:9 (Compressed) Can be selected when

Video Ordinary (composite) video output, compatible with all TVs.

S-Video Almost the same quality as RGB, but can give better results if

RGB If your TV is compatible, this setting gives the best picture

shown with black bars top and bottom.

shown with the sides cropped so that the image fills the screen.

1080p

properly displayed on a 16:9 high definition television (with black bars shown on either side of the screen).

you are using a long SCART cable.

quality.

ENTER

3 Select ‘

4 Select the setting and option you want to set.

All the settings and options are explained on the following pages.

1920 x 1080i or 1280 x 720p. Video in 4:3 can be

Initial Settings

the

HDMI Resolution

’.

is set to

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1920 x

1 • In the table, the default setting is shown in bold: other settings are shown in italics.

• Some settings, such as TV Screen, Audio Language and Subtitle Language may be overridden by the DVD disc. Often these settings can also be made from the DVD disc menu.

• The AV Connector Out setting only needs to be set if you have connected this unit to your TV using a SCART cable.

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Note

Setting Option What it means

HDMI Resolution*

(See Connecting using HDMI on page 62.)

* Default changes with TV format (PAL/NTSC).

HDMI Color*

(See Connecting using HDMI on page 62.)

* Default changes depending on device connected.

1920x1080p Set if your TV supports 1920 x 1080 pixel progressive-scan video. 1920x1080i Set if your TV supports 1920 x 1080 pixel interlace video. 1280x720p Set if your TV supports 1280 x 720 pixel progressive-scan video.

720x480p (NTSC)/ 720x576p (PAL)

Full range RGB If colors are weak, this gives brighter colors and deeper black

RGB Use this setting if colors appear overly rich on

Component Outputs 8-bit component video format (default setting for

Set if your TV supports 720 x 480 (NTSC)/720 x 576 (PAL) pixel progressive-scan video.

(default setting for HDMI-compatible DVI devices).

RGB setting.

HDMI-compatible devices).

the Full Range

Language settings

Setting Option What it means

Audio Language English If there is an English soundtrack on the disc, it is played.

Languages as displayed If there is a language selected on the disc, it is played. Other Language Select to choose a language other than the ones displayed (see

Subtitle Language English If there are English subtitles on the disc they are displayed.

Languages as displayed The subtitle language selected on the disc is displayed. Other Language Select to choose a language other than the ones displayed (see

DVD Menu Lang.

Subtitle Display On Subtitles are displayed in your selected subtitle language.

w/Subtitle Lang. DVD disc menus are displayed in the same language as your

Languages as displayed DVD menus are displayed in the selected language, if possible. Other Language Select to choose a language other than the ones displayed (see

Off Subtitles are always off by default when you play a DVD disc.

Language code list on page 85).

selected subtitle language, if possible.

Language code list on page 85).

1 When you have this unit connected to an HDMI Control compatible Pioneer flat screen TV, language settings are imported

from the flat screen TV’s OSD settings before HOME MENU or Disc Navigator begins.

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Display settings

Setting Option What it means

OSD Language English On-screen displays of the player are in English.

Languages as displayed On-screen displays are shown in the language selected.

Angle Indicator On A camera icon is displayed on-screen during multi-angle

Off No multi-angle indication is shown.

scenes on a DVD disc.

Options settings

Setting Option What it means

Parental Lock – See Parental Lock below. DVD Playback DVD-Audio All material on a DVD-Audio disc is playable.

DVD-Video Only the DVD-Video part of a DVD-Audio disc is playable.

SACD Playback 2ch Area Selects the 2 channel (stereo) SACD audio area of the disc

Multich Area Selects the multichannel SACD audio area of the disc for

CD Area Selects the standard CD audio area of an SACD/CD hybrid

DivX(R) VOD Display

Parental Lock

• Default level: Off; Default password: none;

Default Country/Area code: us (2119)

To give you some control over what your children watch on your DVD player, some DVDVideo discs feature a Parental Lock level. If your player is set to a lower level than the disc, the disc won’t play.

Some discs also support the Country/Area Code feature. The player does not play certain scenes on these discs, depending on the Country/Area Code you set.

for playback.

playback.

disc for playback.

See About DivX

VOD content on page 56.

Registering a new password

ENTER

Select ‘

Password

’ then press

ENTER.

Initial Settings

Video Output Language Display Options

Parental Lock DVD Playback SACD Playback DivX (R) VOD

Password

Level Change Country Code

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1 • Not all discs use Parental Lock, and will play without requiring the password.

• If you forget your password, you’ll need to reset the player to register a new password (see Resetting the system on page 84).

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CLEAR

123 456 7809

Note

2 Input a four-digit password then press

Changing your password

To change your password, confirm your existing password then enter a new one.

1 Select ‘ existing password, then press

2 Enter a new password and press

Setting/changing the Parental Lock

1 Select ‘ 2 Enter your password, then press 3 Select a new level and press

•Press  repeatedly to lock more levels

Setting/changing the Country/Area code

You can find the Country/Area code list on page 85.

1 Select ‘ password, then press

2 Select a Country/Area code then press ENTER

There are two ways you can do this:

• Select by code letter: Use / to change

• Select by code number: Press  then use

The new Country/Area code takes effect after ejecting the disc once.

ENTER

Password Change

’, input your

ENTER

Level Change

’ then press

ENTER

(more discs will require the password); press  to unlock levels. You can’t lock

level 1.

Country Code

’, input your

ENTER

the Country/Area code.

the number buttons to enter the four-digit Country/Area code.

About DivX® VOD content

In order to play DivX VOD (video on demand) content on this player, you first need to register the player with your DivX VOD content

provider. You do this by generating a DivX VOD registration code, which you submit to your provider.

Displaying your DivX VOD registration code

1 Press HOME MENU and select ‘Initial Settings’.

2 Select ‘Options’, then ‘DivX (R) VOD’.

3 Select ‘Display’.

Your eight-digit registration code is displayed.

Make a note of the code as you will need it when you register with a DivX VOD provider.

Important

• DivX VOD content is protected by a DRM

(Digital Rights Management) system. This

restricts playback of content to specific, registered devices.

• If you load a disc that contains DivX VOD

content not authorized for your player, the message Authorization Error is displayed and the content will not play.

Initial Settings

Video Output Language Display Options

Parental Lock DVD playback SACD playback DivX (R) VOD

Display

1 Resetting the system (as described in page 84) will not cause you to lose your registration code.

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Playing DivX® VOD content

Some DivX VOD content may only be playable for a fixed number of times. When you load a disc containing this type of DivX VOD content, the remaining number of plays is shown onscreen and you then have the option of playing the disc (thereby using up one of the remaining plays), or stopping. If you load a disc that contains expired DivX VOD content (for example, content that has zero remaining plays), the message Rental Expired is displayed.

If your DivX VOD content allows an unlimited number of plays, then you may load the disc into your player and play the content as often as you like, and no message will be displayed.

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ANALOG

COAX

AUDIO IN

DIGITAL IN

ANTENNA

HDMI

OUT IN 2 IN 1

VIDEO OUT

ANALOG

OPTICAL

AM LOOP

FM UNBAL

AV CONNECTOR

From digital output

From analog output

(coaxial)

(optical)

Chapter 12

Other connections

Important

• When making or changing connections on the rear panel of this unit, be sure to switch power off and disconnect the power cord from the wall socket. After completing all connections, connect the power cord to the wall socket.

Using this unit for TV audio

To listen to audio from a TV, connect the TV’s audio cable to one of the inputs on this unit.

• When digital connections are used, it may be necessary to adjust the digital audio output settings on the TV. For details, consult the operating instructions for your TV.

Audio input settings from the TVs (TV Input)

To listen to audio from a flat screen TV on this device, you will need to connect an audio cable other th an an HDMI ca ble . F rom this menu, set the audio input to that which you would like to connect. Press TV on the remote control to switch this unit to the input source selected here. This setting is changed to the selected input and the audio from the flat screen TV is output from this device.

Select from inputs Digital 1 OPT, Digital 2

OPT, Digital 3 COAX, Analog 1 RCA and Analog 2 SCART.

SETUP

1 Press

ENTER

2 Select ‘ ENTER

SETUP

System Setup

’ then press

• Connect the audio output jacks on your TV to the audio input jacks on the receiver.

• You can connect by either a digital or

analog audio cable. Select only one method to make connections.

• To use the HDMI Control function when you are connected to a supported Pioneer flat screen TV, you must connect via HDMI.

ENTER

3 Select ‘ ENTER

ENTER

TV Input

’, then press

4 Adjust the setting then press ENTER

to confirm.

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Connecting auxiliary components

You can connect both analog and digital external audio sources to this system. Digital audio sources include digital satellite receivers, CD recorders, etc.

We recommend using an HDMI cable to connect sources that have HDMI terminals. For more information see Connecting using HDMI on page 62.

Connecting for digital audio

This system has several digital inputs for digital playback components, such as your MD or CD recorder.

MD, CD recorder, etc.

From digital

output (coaxial)

ANALOG

VIDEO OUT

AUDIO IN

COAX

DIGITAL IN

OUT IN 2 IN 1

HDMI

AV CONNECTOR

From digital

output (optical)

OPTICAL

ANALOG

DIGITAL IN

LOOP

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ANTENNA

Connecting an analog audio component

You can use the ANALOG AUDIO IN jacks to connect an analog audio component, such as a tape player.

Tape player, etc.

From

analog output

ANALOG

VIDEO OUT

AUDIO IN

COAX

DIGITAL IN HDMI

AV CONNECTOR

OUT IN 2 IN 1

ANALOG

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• Connect the digital output jack on CD recorder, etc. to one of the DIGITAL input jacks on this unit.

Use a commercially available optical cable or coaxial cable to make this connection.

These include digital components such as an MD player, digital satellite, or a game system.

• When digital connections are used, it may be necessary to adjust the digital audio output settings on the connected component. For details, consult the operating instructions for the component involved.

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Note

Using the SCART AV connector

The SCART output should give you better picture quality than the standard composite

video output. The SCART AV connector functions as both a video and audio output.

• Use a commercially available SCART cable

LINE

to connect the (

AV CONNECTOR

your TV.

To SCART

input

ANALOG

AUDIO IN

COAX

DIGITAL IN

VIDEO OUT

OUT IN 2 IN 1

HDMI

AV CONNECTOR

ANALOG

OPTICAL

DIGITAL IN

AM LOOP

UNBAL 75

ANTENNA

SCART pin assignment

The diagram below shows the SCART 21-pin connector assignment. This connector provides the video and audio signals for connection to a compatible color TV/monitor.

Pin No. Assignment Pin No. Assignment

1 Audio R OUT 12 No connection

2 Audio R IN 13 GND (video)

3 Audio L OUT 14 GND (video)

4 GND (audio) 15 R or C OUT

5 GND (video) 16 BLANK OUT

6 Audio L IN 17 GND (video)

7 B OUT 18 GND (video)

8 Status 19 Video or Y OUT

9 GND (video) 20 No connection

10 No connection 21 GND (video)

11 G OUT

Line Output setting

Use to select the audio down-mix method when outputting Dolby Digital multi-channel sound sources from the AUDIO OUT jacks or AV CONNECTOR.

SETUP

1 Press

SETUP

1• SCART cables are available in several configurations. Make sure that the one you get will work with this system and your TV/

monitor (see SCART pin assignment below).

• If the TV’s SCART connector is a dual input/output connector, a single SCART cable can be used to input the television sound to this unit. To listen to that sound, select Analog 2 SCART.

2 • When the Line Output is switched to Lt/Rt, the sound function will be fixed at the current setting and cannot be changed.

The display will briefly flash Line Out Mode if an attempt is made to use a prohibited function.

• When the Line Output is to Lo/Ro(Stereo), the audio from the analog output jacks may be interrupted, depending on the operation.

• When using DTS multi-channel sound sources, output is in Lo/Ro(Stereo).

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ENTER

2 Select ‘ ENTER

ENTER

3 Select ‘ ENTER

Sound Setup

Line Output

’, then press

4 Select a setting.

Select one of the following:

• Lo/Ro(Stereo) – A simple stereo downmix (left-only/right-only, or Lo/Ro) is output (suitable for playback on a two-channel stereo system or on headphones).

• Lt/Rt – A surround-compatible downmix (left-total/right-total, or Lt/Rt) of Dolby multichannel sources is output, (suitable for Dolby Surround Pro Logic or other matrix decoding). The L.OUT indicator lights.

ENTER

5 Press to exit.

Listening to an external audio source

To listen to audio from a connected external component on this system, choose its input function on the remote control. Some Pioneer products can be controlled via this remote.

STANDBY / ON



1 If the system isn’t already on, switch it on.

Also make sure that the external source (TV, satellite receiver, etc.) is switched on.

LINE

2 Select an audio input source.

Input sources are cycled through as shown below:

Digital 1 OPT

Digital 2 OPT

Analog 2 SCART

Analog 1

RCA

Digital 3 COAX

3 If necessary, start playback of the external source.

Connecting external antennas

For an external AM antenna, use 5 to 6 meters of vinyl-insulated wire and set up either indoors or outdoors. Leave the loop antenna connected.

For an external FM antenna, use a PAL connector to hook up an external FM antenna.

External AM antenna

Outdoor antenna

Indoor antenna

(vinyl-coated Wire)

AM Loop antenna

(5 m to 6 m)

OPTICAL

DIGITAL IN

AM LOOP

UNBAL 75

ANTENNA

External

FM antenna

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Note

About control out connections

Many Pioneer components support CONTROL connections, by which you can use the remote controls of any connected components by aiming them at the sensor of just one component.

When you use a remote control, the control signal is passed along the chain to the appropriate component.

If you choose to use this feature, you must make sure that you also have at least one set of HDMI or analog audio jacks connected to another component for grounding purposes.

• Using a cable with a mono mini-plug on

either end, connect the another Pioneer component to the OUT

jack on the rear panel.

This will allow you to control the other component by pointing its remote at the front panel.

CONTROL IN

CONTROL

jack on

Connecting using HDMI

If you have a HDMI or DVI (with HDCP) equipped monitor or display, you can connect it to this system using a commercially available HDMI cable for high quality digital video.

See About HDMI on page 64 for more about the HDMI connection.

To HDMI input

OPTICAL

ANALOG

O OUT

HDMI

AV CONNECTOR

OUT IN 2 IN 1

DIGITAL IN

From HDMI output

AM LOOP

FM UNBAL

ANTENNA

HDMI/DVI-equipped component

1 • An HDMI connection can only be made with DVI-equipped components compatible with both DVI and High Bandwidth

Digital Content Protection (HDCP). If you choose to connect to a DVI connector, you will need a separate adaptor (DVIHDMI) to do so. A DVI connection, however, does not support audio signals. Consult your local audio dealer for more information.

• This system has been designed to be compliant with HDMI (High-Definition Multimedia Interface).

• When HDMI Audio is set to TV, sound is output from this unit to the TV connected to the HDMI connectors in for audio format supported by that TV.

• Depending on the component you have connected, using a DVI connection may result in unreliable signal transfers.

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Note

1 Use an HDMI cable to connect the HDMI IN 1/2 interconnect on this system to an HDMI output on your HDMI component.

•With the arrow on the cable plug facing up, connect the plug to the player’s connector.

Once this system is properly connected to your HDMI component, the HDMI indicator (red) lights up on the front panel when you watch HDMI contents.

2 Use an HDMI cable to connect the HDMI OUT interconnect on this system to an HDMI interconnect on an HDMI-compatible display.

1/2

HDMI

3 Press repeatedly to select the HDMI input you’ve connected to (for example, HDMI 2

You can also use the front panel FUNCTION to carry out this operation.

• Set the HDMI Audio setting to TV in Switching the HDMI audio setting below if you want to hear HDMI audio output from your TV or flat screen TV (no sound will be heard from this unit).

• If the video signal does not appear on your TV or flat screen TV, try adjusting the resolution settings on your component or display.

Switching the HDMI audio setting

Specifies the routing of the HDMI audio signal out of this system (amp) or through to a TV or flat screen TV. You cannot use a number of sound functions of this system when HDMI audio is set to TV.

SETUP

1 Press

ENTER

2 Select ‘ ENTER

ENTER

3 Select ‘ ENTER

ENTER

4 Adjust the setting then press ENTER

• AMP – Output an HDMI audio signal from

this system.

• TV – Output an HDMI audio signal from a TV or flat screen TV.

SETUP

to confirm.

HDMI Setup

HDMI Audio

’ then press

’, then press

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1 This makes it possible to use the TV’s built-in speakers to listen to the audio input from a

HDMI 1/2

(including

compon ent . In th is e ven t, n o so un d wi ll b e he ard from this unit’s speakers (or headphones). All other audio sources

TUNER

) are output from this unit normally.

DVD, iPod

(44.1kHz only),

USB

device

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SETUP

ENTER

Setting the Auto Delay

This feature automatically corrects the audioto-video delay between components connected with an HDMI cable. The audio delay time is set depending on the operational status of the display connected with an HDMI cable. The audio delay time is automatically adjusted according to the video delay time.

2 Select ‘ ENTER

ENTER

3 Select ‘ ENTER

Initialize

HDMI Init

• Initialize OK? is displayed.

’ then press

1 Press

ENTER

2 Select ‘ ENTER

ENTER

3 Select ‘ ENTER

ENTER

4 Select ‘ Off

’ then press

SETUP

HDMI Setup

’ then press

Auto Delay

’, then press

A.Delay On

ENTER

’ or ‘

to confirm.

A.Delay

Tip

•This feature is only available when the connected display supports the automatic audio/video synchronizing capability (‘lip- sync’) for HDMI or HDMI Control. If you find the automatically set delay time unsuitable, set A.Delay to Off and adjust the sound delay settings manually (page 31).

Resetting the HDMI connection

If the screen goes blank (for example, after changing the resolution), check the troubleshooting guide on (page 82). If this doesn’t solve the problem, follow the steps below to reset the HDMI connection.

SETUP

1 Press

SETUP

ENTER

4 Press

ENTER

to confirm initialization.

The system will restart and the HDMI settings are automatically reset to the factory defaults. See Video Output settings on page 53 for more on these settings.

About HDMI

HDMI (High-Definition Multimedia Interface) supports both video and audio on a single digital connection for use with DVD players, DTV, set-top boxes, and other AV devices. HDMI was developed to provide the technologies of High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection (HDCP) as well as Digital Visual Interface (DVI) in one specification. HDCP is used to protect digital content transmitted and received by DVI-compliant displays.

HDMI has the capability to support standard, enhanced, or high-definition video plus standard to multichannel surround-sound audio. HDMI features include uncompressed digital video, a bandwidth of up to 2.2 gigabytes per second (with HDTV signals), one connector (instead of several cables and connectors), and communication between the AV source and AV devices such as DTVs.

HDMI, the HDMI logo and High-Definition Multimedia Interface are trademarks or registered trademarks of HDMI Licensing LLC.

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HDMI Control

Important

• The KURO LINK function name used on

the web and in catalogues is referred to as HDMI Control in the operating instructions and on the product.

By connecting this unit to an HDMI Control- compatible Pioneer flat screen TV or the HDD/ DVD recorder with an HDMI cable, you can control this unit from the remote control of a connected flat screen TV, as well as have the connected flat screen TV automatically change inputs in response to operations carried out on this unit.

In addition, when language information is input from the connected flat screen TV, this unit’s GUI display language automatically changes (only when playback is stopped and GUI screen is not displayed, with DVD/CD function only).

Refer to the operating instructions for your fla screen TV for more in operations can be carried out by connecting via HDMI cable.

• You cannot use this function with

components that do not support HDMI Control.

•We cannot guarantee this unit will work with HDMI Control-compatible components other than those made by Pioneer.

formation about which

Making the HDMI Control connections

You can use synchronized operation for a connected flat screen TV and up to two other components (including a recorder or player).

Be sure to connect the flat screen TV’s audio cable to the audio input of this unit.

• HDMI Control may not operate properly if you do not use a High Speed HDMI cable.

•Requires connection of audio cables and additional settings. For details see Audio input settings from the TVs (TV Input) on page 58.

HDMI Control-compatible Pioneer flat screen TV

From

analog output

ANALOG

AUDIO IN

COAX

DIGITAL IN

HDMI input

VIDEO OUT

HDMI

OUT IN 2 IN 1

From optical digital output (or coaxial)

AV CONNECTOR

ANALOG

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U 7

DIGITAL IN

From HDMI output

HDMI Control-compatible Pioneer HDD/DVD recorder Blu-ray disc player or DVD player

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• Connect the flat screen TV directly to this unit. Interrupting a direct connection with other amps or an AV converter (such as an HDMI switch) can cause operational errors.

HDMI Control-compatible Pioneer flat screen TV

HDMI input

HDMI cable

HDMI output

HDMI

Other amps or AV converter

HDMI cable

This unit

HDMI input

HDMI OUT

PULL OPEN

STANDBY / ON

• Only connect components you intend to use as a source to the HDMI input of this unit. Interrupting a direct connection with other amps or an AV converter (such as an HDMI switch) can cause operational errors.

HDMI Control-compatible Pioneer flat screen TV

HDMI input

HDMI cable

HDMI OUT

PULL OPEN

HDMI

STANDBY / ON

HDMI IN

This unit

HDMI cable

HDMI output

Other amps or AV converter

Important

• When connecting this system or changing connections, be sure to switch the power off and disconnect the power cord from the wall socket. After completing all connections, connect the power cords to the wall socket.

•

After connecting this unit to an AC outlet, a 15-second

initialization process begins. You cannot carry out any operations during initialization. The HDMI indicator on the front panel blinks during initialization, and you can turn this unit on once it has stopped blinking.

• To get the most out of this function, we

recommend that you connect your HDMI component not to a flat screen TV but rather directly to the HDMI terminal on this unit.

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SETUP

ENTER

Setting the HDMI options

You must adjust the settings of this unit as well as HDMI Control-compatible connected components in order to make use of the HDMI Control function. For more information see the operating instructions for each component.

Setting the HDMI Control mode

Choose whether to set this unit’s HDMI Control function On or Off. You will need to set it to Control On to use the HDMI Control function.

• When using a TV not manufactured by Pioneer, put this setting to Control Off.

1 Press

ENTER

2 Select ‘ ENTER

ENTER

3 Select ‘ ENTER

4 Adjust the setting then press ENTER

• Control On – Enables the HDMI Control function. When this unit’s power is turned off and you have a supported source begin playback while using the HDMI Control function, the audio and video output from the HDMI connection are output from the flat screen TV.

• Control Off – The HDMI Control is disabled. Synchronized operations cannot be used. When this unit’s power is turned off, audio and video of sources connected via HDMI are not output.

SETUP

to confirm.

HDMI Setup

HDMI Ctrl

’, then press

’ then press

Before using synchronization

Once you have finished all connections and settings, you must:

1 Put all components into standby mode. 2 Turn the power ON for all components,

with the power for the flat screen TV being turned on last.

3 Choose the HDMI input to which the TV is connected to this unit, and see if video output from connected components displays properly on the screen or not.

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Synchronized amp mode

Synchronized amp mode begins once you carry out an operation for the flat screen TV. For more information, see the operating instructions of your flat screen TV.

Synchronized amp mode operations

The synchronized amp mode can be used to perform the following operations when using

the internal DVD/CD player, USB or iPod function, or when the HDMI cable is used to connect an external component:

•Displays on the flat screen TV when you mute or adjust the volume of this unit.

•The input of this unit is automatically changed when playback occurs on a connected component.

• Even if you change this unit’s input to a device that is not connected by HDMI, the synchronized amp mode remains in effect.

Canceling synchronized amp mode

If you cancel synchronized amp mode while connected via HDMI to a flat screen TV or while you are watching a TV program, the power for this unit is turned off.

However, the power remains ON when an input other than HDMI is selected (including internal DVD/CD, USB, or iPod function).

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Additional information

Optional system settings

All the available settings in the System Setup menu are listed below. See the notes in each section for more information about the settings. The first setting in each section is the default.

SETUP

1 Press

ENTER

2 Select ‘ ENTER

3 Choose the setting you want to adjust, then press

The available settings are shown in the front panel display.

ENTER

4 Adjust the setting, then press ENTER

Setting the sleep timer

The sleep timer switches off the system after about an hour so you can fall asleep without worrying about it.

SETUP

System Setup

’ then press

ENTER

to confirm the settings and exit.

ENTER

2 Adjust the setting, then press ENTER

to confirm the settings and exit.

• Sleep On – Switches off after about an hour. The indicator lights.

• Sleep Off – Cancels the sleep timer.

After selecting Sleep On, you can press SLEEP ag ai n to chec k h ow m uc h ti me is le ft. Each li ne indicates approximately 12 minutes (remaining):

Dimming the display

You can adjust the brightness of the text in the front panel display.

1 Select ‘ Setup

menu, then press

ENTER

2 Adjust the setting, then press ENTER

to confirm the settings and exit.

• Dimmer Light – Brighter setting

• Dimmer Dark – Darker setting

Dimmer

’ from the

ENTER

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System

ENTER

1 Select ‘ System Setup

1The setup menu is exited automatically after 5 minutes of inactivity. 2The display dims when the sleep timer is set. 3The display of the front panel dims when the sleep timer is set, regardless of this setting.

Sleep Timer

’ from the

menu, then press

ENTER

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ENTER

Note

Changing the display mode

If no operation is performed for one minute, the front panel display and button illumination automatically turns off. The display will turn on again automatically if a command is input or movement is detected by the motion sensor.

To make the display remain on constantly, set the display mode to Display On.

ENTER

1 Select ‘ System Setup

Display Mode

menu, then press

’ from the ENTER

2 Adjust the setting, then press ENTER

to confirm the settings and exit.

• Auto Display – Turns off automatically if no operation is performed for one minute.

• Display On – Displays constantly.

Even when set to not display, the display is temporarily shown when you carry out a control function.

•The motion sensor detects movement in the left/right and up/down directions within a distance of 2.5 m and an angle of 40º (20º only in the upper direction). Walking towards the unit will reduce the sensing range to 0.7 m.

Key lock setting

1 Select ‘ Setup

menu, then press

ENTER

2 Adjust the setting, then press ENTER

to confirm the settings and exit.

• Lock On – Makes the front panel buttons and controls inoperative.

Key Lock

ENTER

’ from the

System

• Lock Off – Restores regular use of the front panel buttons and controls.

TV system setting

The default setting of this system is Auto, and unless you notice that the picture is distorted when playing some discs, you should leave it set to Auto. If you find picture distortion with some discs, set the TV system to match your country or region’s system. However, this may restrict the kinds of disc you can watch. See the table for the kinds of discs compatible with each setting (Auto, PAL and NTSC).

ENTER

1 Select ‘ System Setup

TV System

menu, then press

• Change TV SYS? is displayed.

ENTER

2 Press

ENTER

to confirm.

Change the TV system as follows:

• Auto  NTSC

• NTSC  PAL

• PAL  Auto

The system will automatically enter standby mode, then turn ON once again. You will see the new TV system setting in the display after seeing Power On.

Player setting

Media Type

DVD/Super VCD/ Video CD/DivX Video/WMV

CD/MP3/WMA/ MPEG-4 AAC/ JPEG/no disc

Format NTSC PAL Auto

NTSC PAL NTSC

NTSC

NTSC PAL PAL

PAL

NTSC PAL NTSC or

—

’ from the

ENTER

PAL

1 Most models of the newly developed countdown PAL TV system detect 50 Hz (PAL)/60 Hz (NTSC) and automatically switch

vertical amplitude, resulting in a display without vertical shrinkage. However, in some cases, the image may appear without color. If your PAL TV does not have a V-Hold control, you may not be able to watch NTSC discs because of picture roll. If the TV has a V-Hold control, adjust it until the picture stops rolling. On some TVs, the picture may shrink vertically, leaving black bands at the top and bottom of the screen.

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Setting up the remote to control your TV

You can use the supplied remote to control your TV. To be able to use this feature you first have to program the remote with a maker code from the following table.

123 456 7809

CLEAR

1 Press and hold the number buttons to input the maker code for your TV, and press

See the following table for the list of maker codes. If there is more than one code given for your make, input the first one in the list.

•If the maker ’s name of your TV doesn’t appear in the table, you will not be able to use this remote to control your TV.

2 Point the remote towards your TV and press

TV Control 

to check that the remote

works with your TV.

If the remote is set up correctly, the TV should switch off. If it doesn’t and there is another code given for your maker, repeat step 1 with a new code.

ENTER

CLEAR

and Use

TV Preset code list

Please note that there are cases where only certain functions may be controllable after assigning the proper preset code, or the codes for the manufacturer in the list will not work for the model that you are using.

Manufacturer Code(s)

Aiwa 660 Alba 639

Bush 647 Fisher 635, 638

Fujitsu 648 Funai 640, 658

GE 611, 628 General 629 Goldstar 610, 623, 650 Grandiente 630 Grundig 631, 653

Hitachi 606, 624, 625, 633, 634, 654 ITT 642 JVC 613 Magnabox 612

Mitsubishi 609 NEC 659

Nokia 632, 652 Panasonic 608, 622

Philips 607, 656, 668 RCA 601, 615, 616, 617, 618, 661, 662 Salora 643

Samsung 644, 646, 669, 670 Sanyo 614, 621, 645 SEI 649 Sharp 602, 619, 627, 667 Sony 604

Tandy 641 Telefunken 637 Thomson 636, 663 Toshiba 605, 626

Uniden 671 Zenith 603, 620 Pioneer 600, 651

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Surround sound formats

Below is a brief description of the main surround sound formats you’ll find on DVDs, satellite, cable and terrestrial broadcasts, and video cassettes.

Dolby

The Dolby technologies are explained below. See www.dolby.com for more detailed information.

Dolby Digital

Dolby Digital is a multichannel digital audio coding system widely used in cinemas, and in the home for DVD and digital broadcast soundtracks. It can deliver up to six discrete audio channels, comprising five full range channels and a special LFE (low fr equency effects) channel used mainly for deep, rumbling sound effects; hence the term “5.1channel” Dolby Digital.

In addition to the format features above, Dolby Digital decoders offer downmixing for compatibility with mono, stereo and Dolby Pro Logic audio from a number of bit rates and channels. Another feature, called Dialog Normalization, attenuates programs based on the average level of dialog in a program relative to its peak level (also known as Dialnorm) in order to achieve uniform playback level.

Dolby Pro Logic II and Dolby Surround

Using the innovative “steering logic” circuit, this system extracts surround sound from sources as follows:

• Dolby Pro Logic – 4.1 channel sound

(mono surround) from any stereo source

• Dolby Pro Logic II – 5.1 channel sound

(stereo surround) from any stereo source

With two channel sources, the “.1” subwoofer channel is generated by bass management in the receiver.

Dolby Surround is an encoding system which embeds surround sound information within a stereo soundtrack, which a Dolby Pro Logic decoder can then use for enhanced surround listening with greater sound detail.

Manufactured under license from Dolby Laboratories. Dolby, Pro Logic, and the double-D symbol are trademarks of Dolby Laboratories.

DTS

The DTS technologies are explained below. See www.dtstech.com for more detailed information.

DTS Digital Surround

DTS Digital Surround is a 5.1-channel audio coding system from DTS Inc. now widely used for DVD-Video, DVD-Audio, 5.1 music discs, digital broadcasts, and video games. It can deliver up to six discrete audio channels, comprising five full range channels, including an LFE channel. Higher sound quality is achieved through the use of a low compression

rate, and high rates of transmittance during playback.

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DVD-Video DVD-R DVD-RW

Video CDAudio CD CD-R CD-RW

DVD-Audio

Super Audio CD

Manufactured under license under U.S. Patent #’s: 5,451,942; 5,956,674; 5,974,380; 5,978,762; 6,487,535 & other U.S. and worldwide patents issued & pending. DTS and DTS Digital Surround are registered trademarks and the DTS logos and Symbol are trademarks of DTS, Inc. © 1996-2007 DTS, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Disc/content format playback compatibility

This player is compatible with a wide range of disc types (media) and formats. Playable discs will generally feature one of the following logos on the disc and/or disc packaging. Note however that some disc types, such as recordable CD and DVD, may be in an unplayable format — see below for further compatibility information.

Please also note that recordable discs cannot be recorded using this unit.

Fujicolor CD

• This unit will play DVD+R/+RW discs.

• is a trademark of DVD Format/Logo

Licensing Corporation.

• is a trademark of FUJIFILM Corporation.

•Also compatible with KODAK Picture CD.

This unit supports the IEC’s Super VCD standard. Compared to the Video CD standard, Super VCD offers superior picture quality, and allows two stereo soundtracks to be recorded. Super VCD also supports the widescreen size.

Super Video CD (Super VCD)

About DualDisc playback

A DualDisc is a new two -sided disc, one side of which contains DVD content video, audio, etc. while the other side contains non-DVD content such as digital audio material.

The non-DVD, audio side of the disc is not compliant with the CD Audio specification and therefore may not play.

The DVD side of a DualDisc plays in this product. DVD-Audio content will not play.

For more detailed information on the DualDisc specification, please refer to the disc manufacturer or disc retailer.

CD-R/-RW compatibility

•Compatible formats: CD-Audio, Video CD/ Super VCD, ISO 9660 CD-ROM* containing MP3, WMA, MPEG-4 AAC, JPEG or DivX video/WMV files * ISO 9660 Level 1 or 2 compliant. CD

physical format: Mode1, Mode2 XA Form1. Romeo and Joliet file systems are both compatible with this player.

•Multi-session playback: No

•Unfinalized disc playback: No

•File structure (may differ): Up to 299 folders on a disc; up to 648 folders and files (combined) within each folder

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DVD+R/DVD+RW compatibility

Only DVD+R/DVD+RW discs recorded in ‘Video Mode (DVD Video Mode)’ which have been finalized, can be played back. However, some editing made during the recording may not be played back accurately.

DVD-R/-RW compatibility

•Compatible formats: DVD-Video, Video Recording (VR)* * Edit points may not play exactly as edited;

screen may go momentarily blank at edited points.

• Unfinalized playback: No

• MP3/WMA/MPEG-4 AAC/JPEG or DivX video/WMV file playback on DVD-R/-RW: Yes

Compressed audio compatibility

•Compatible formats: MPEG-1 Audio Layer 3 (MP3), Windows Media Audio (WMA), MPEG-4 AAC

•Sampling rates: 32 kHz, 44.1 kHz or 48 kHz

•Bit-rates: Any (128 kbps or higher recommended)

•VBR (variable bit rate) MP3/WMA/MPEG-4 AAC playback: No

• WMA lossless encoding compatible: No

• DRM (Digital Rights Management) compatible: No (DRM-protected audio files will not play in this unit.)

• File extensions: .mp3, .wma, .m4a (these must be used for the player to recognize MP3, WMA and MPEG-4 AAC files – do not use for other file types)

About MPEG-4 AAC

Advanced Audio Coding (AAC) is at the core of the MPEG-4 AAC standard, which incorporates MPEG-2 AAC, forming the basis of the MPEG-4 audio compression technology. The file format and extension used depend on the application used to encode the AAC file. This unit plays back AAC files encoded by iTunes bearing the extension ‘.m4a’. DRM-protected files will not play, and files encoded with some versions of iTunes may not play, or filenames may display incorrectly.

Apple and iTunes are trademarks of Apple Inc., registered in the U.S. and other countries.

WMA (Windows Media™ Audio) compatibility

This player can playback Windows Media Audio content.

WMA is an acronym for Windows Media Audio and refers to an audio compression technology developed by Microsoft Corporation. WMA content can be encoded by using Windows Media Player for Windows XP, Windows Media Player 9 or Windows Media Player 10 series.

Windows Media is a trademark of Microsoft Corporation.

This product includes technology owned by Microsoft Corporation and cannot be used or distributed without a license from Microsoft Licensing, Inc.

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About DivX

DivX is a compressed digital video format created by the DivX video codec from DivX, Inc. This player can play DivX video files burned on CD-R/-RW and DVD-R/-RW/-ROM discs. Keeping the same terminology as DVD-Video, individual DivX video files are called ‘Titles’. When naming files/titles on a CD-R/-RW or DVD-R/-RW disc prior to burning, keep in mind that by default they will play in alphabetical order.

DivX video compatibility

• Official DivX Certified product.

•Plays all versions of DivX video (including DivX 6) with standard playback of DivX media files.

• File extensions: .avi and .divx (these must be used for the player to recognize DivX video files). Note that all files with the .avi

extension are recognized as MP EG4 , bu t no t all of these are necessarily DivX video files and therefore may not be playable on this player.

Displaying DivX subtitle files

The font sets listed below are available for DivX external subtitle files. You can see the proper font set on-screen by setting the Subtitle Language (in Language settings on page 54) to match the subtitle file.

Group 1: Albanian (sq), Basque (eu), Catalan (ca), Danish (da), Dutch (nl), English (en), Faroese (fo), Finnish (fi), French (fr), German (de), Icelandic (is), Irish (ga), Italian (it), Norwegian (no), Portuguese (pt),

Rhaeto-Romanic (rm), Scottish (gd), Spanish (es), Swedish (sv) Group 2: Albanian (sq), Croatian (hr), Czech (cs),

Hungarian (hu), Polish (pl), Romanian (ro), Slovak (sk), Slovenian (sl) Group 3: Bulgarian (bg), Byelorussian (be), Macedonian (mk), Russian (ru), Serbian (sr), Ukrainian (uk)

Group 4: Hebrew (iw), Yiddish (ji) Group 5: Turkish (tr)

DivX, DivX Certified, and associated logos are trademarks of DivX, Inc. and are used under license.

About WMV

WMV is an acronym for Windows Media Video and refers to a video compression technology developed by Microsoft Corporation. WMV content can be encoded by using Windows

Media

Encoder.

•This player is compatible with WMV9 files that are encoded by using the Windows

Encoder 9 Series, with .wmv as an

Media extension.

•Compatible with size under 720 x 576 pixels/720 x 480 pixels.

• Advanced Profile is not supported.

•DRM-protected video files will not play in this player.

•Compatible with bit rate under 192 kbps.

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1 Playback of .avi video files larger than 4 GB is not possible. 2• For external subtitle files the following subtitle format filename extensions are supported (please note that these files are not

shown within the disc navigation menu): .srt, .sub, .ssa, .smi

• Some external subtitle files may be displayed incorrectly or not at all.

• The filename of the movie file has to be repeated at the beginning of the filename for the external subtitle file.

• The number of external subtitle files which can be switched for the same movie file is limited to a maximum of 10.

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JPEG file compatibility

•Compatible formats: Baseline JPEG and EXIF 2.2* still image files up to a resolution of 3072 x 2048. *File format used by digital still cameras.

•Progressive JPEG compatible: No

• File extensions: .jpg (must be used for the player to recognize JPEG files – do not use for other file types)

PC-created disc compatibility

Discs recorded using a personal computer may not be playable in this unit due to the setting of the application software used to create the disc. In these particular instances, check with the software publisher for more detailed information.

Discs recorded in packet write mode (UDF format) are not compatible with this player.

Check the DVD-R/-RW or CD-R/-RW software disc boxes for additional compatibility information.

Using and taking care of discs

Handling discs

Hold the disc by its edges when handling so as not to leave fingerprints, dirt or scratches on either side of the disc. Damaged or dirty discs can affect playback performance.

If a disc becomes marked with fingerprints, dust, etc., clean using a soft, dry cloth.

If necessary, use a cloth soaked in alcohol, or a commercially available CD/DVD cleaning kit to clean a disc more thoroughly. Never use benzine, thinner or other cleaning agents such as those designed for cleaning vinyl records.

Storing discs

Avoid leaving discs in excessively cold, humid, or hot environments (including under direct sunlight). Don’t glue paper or put stickers onto the disc, or use a pencil, ball-point pen or other sharp-tipped writing instrument. These could all damage the disc.

Discs to avoid

Discs spin at high speed inside the player. If a disc is cracked, chipped, warped, or otherwise damaged, don’t risk using it in your player— you could end up damaging the unit.

This unit is designed for use with conventional, fully circular discs only. Pioneer disclaims all liability arising in connection with the use of shaped discs.

DVD Video regions

All DVD Video discs carry a region mark that indicates which region(s) of the world the disc is compatible with. Your DVD system also has a region mark (on the rear panel). Discs from incompatible regions will not play in this player. In this instance, the following message appears on-screen:

Incompatible disc region number Can’t play disc

Discs marked ALL play in any player.

Wipe lightly from the center of the disc using straight strokes. Don’t wipe the disc surface with circular strokes.

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Installation and maintenance

Hints on installation

We want you to enjoy using this system for years to come, so please bear in mind the following points when choosing a location:

Do...

 Use in a well-ventilated room.

 Place on a solid, flat, level surface, such as a

table, shelf or stereo rack.

Don’t...

 Use in a place exposed to high temperatures or

humidity, including near radiators and other heat-generating appliances.

 Place on a window sill or other place where the

system will be exposed to direct sunlight.

 Use in an excessively dusty or damp

environment.

 Place directly on top of an amplifier, or other

component in your stereo system that becomes hot in use.

 Use near a television or monitor as you may

experience interference — especially if the television uses an indoor antenna.

 Use in a kitchen or other room where the system

may be exposed to smoke or steam.

 Use on a thick rug or carpet, or cover with cloth

— this may prevent proper cooling of the system unit.

 Place on an unstable surface, or one that is not

large enough to support all four of the system unit’s feet.

Cleaning the pickup lens

The DVD player’s lens should not become dirty in normal use, but if for some reason it should malfunction due to dust or dirt, consult your nearest Pioneer authorized service center. Although lens cleaners are commercially available, we do not recommend using them since some may damage the lens.

Problems with condensation

Condensation may form inside the player if it is brought into a warm room from outside, or if the temperature of the room rises quickly. Although the condensation won’t damage the player, it may temporarily impair performance. Leave it to adjust to the warmer temperature for about an hour before switching on.

Moving the system unit

If you need to move the main unit, first remove a disc if there’s one in the player, then press  STANDBY/ON on the front panel to turn the system off. Wait for --Off-- to disappear from the display, then unplug the power cord.

Never lift or move the unit during playback — discs rotate at high speeds and may damage.

Screen sizes and disc formats

DVD-Video discs come in different screen aspects, ranging from TV programs, which are generally 4:3, to CinemaScope widescreen

movies

, with an aspect ratio of up to about 7:3.

Televisions also come in different aspect ratios; ‘standard’ 4:3 and widescreen 16:9.

Widescreen TV users

If you have a widescreen TV, the TV Screen setting (page 53) of this player should be set to 16:9 (Wide) or 16:9 (Compressed).

When you watch discs recorded in 4:3 format with the 16:9 (Wide) setting, you can use the TV controls to select how the picture is presented. Your TV may offer various zoom and stretch options; see the instructions that came with your TV for details.

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1Unplugging the unit before --Off-- disappears from the display may cause the system to return to the factory settings. 2 Many widescreen discs override the system’s settings so that the disc is shown in letterbox format regardless of the setting. 3Using the 16:9 (Wide) or 16:9 (Compressed) setting with a standard 4:3 TV, or one of the 4:3 settings with a widescreen TV,

will result in picture distortion.

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Note

Please note that some movie aspect ratios are wider than 16:9, so even though you have a widescreen TV, these discs will still play in a ‘letter box’ style with black bars at the top and bottom of the screen.

Standard TV users

If you have a standard TV, the TV Screen setting (page 53) of this player should be set to 4:3 (Letter Box) or 4:3 (Pan & Scan), depending on which you prefer.

Set to 4:3 (Letter Box), widescreen discs are shown with black bars top and bottom.

Set to 4:3 (Pan & Scan), widescreen discs are shown with the left and

right sides cropped. Although the picture looks larger, you don’t

actually see the whole picture.

Please note that many widescreen discs override the player’s setting so that the disc is shown in letter box format regardless of the setting.

Using your own speaker cables

When connecting the speakers, you can purchase and use your own speaker cables if

desired, in place of those furnished. In this case, perform the following procedures to attach the speaker cable adaptor to your own

cables:

• While holding down the two buttons on the adaptor, insert the wire ends of your own cable into the adaptor.

Separately purchased

speaker cable

• White, Red, Blue, Gray and Purple speaker cable adaptors are provided as accessories. Use these to attach your own cables for the front left/right speakers, surround left/right speakers and subwoofer.

• Use the supplied Y- cable for center speakers connections.

•Confirm the +/– polarities of the two wires and the corresponding markings on the adaptor, and be sure to insert the proper wire core into the proper side.

•After inserti on the cable to confirm that the wires do not slip out.

•Be careful to prevent the cores of the two wires from touching each other, since a short circuit will result.

ng the wire cores,

pull gently

1Speaker cables can be of sizes between 0.3 sq and 1.0 sq (equivalent to 22 gauge and 17 gauge, respectively).

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Troubleshooting

Incorrect operations are often mistaken for trouble and malfunctions. If you think that ther e is something wrong with this component, check the points below. Sometimes the trouble may lie in another component. Investigate the other components and electrical appliances being used. If the trouble cannot be rectified even after exercising the checks listed below, ask your nearest Pioneer authorized service center or your dealer to carry out repair work.

• If the system does not operate normally due to external effects such as static electricity disconnect the plug from the outlet and insert again to return to normal opera

or audio-related problems, please also check the settings of the audio playback device. See

•F the operating instructions for the device for detailed information.

General

Problem Remedy

The power does not turn on, or switches off suddenly (an error message may be displayed at startup). Or, the display disappears suddenly and no sound is output.

No sound is output when an input function is selected.

No sound from surround or center speakers.

No sound from AUDIO OUT jacks.

• Leave the unit plugged in, wait for one minute, then switch back on.

• Make sure there are no loose strands of wire touching the unit. This could cause the system to shut off automatically.

• Check that the speakers are connected correctly.

• Make sure there is enough space for ventilation around the unit.

• Make sure the voltage of the mains power source is correct for the model.

• Try reducing the volume level.

• If the problem persists, take it to your nearest Pioneer authorized service center or your dealer for servicing.

• Do not block the air intake opening on the bottom as well as the air exhaust opening on the back of this unit.

• If you’re using the line input, make sure the component is connected correctly and the volume level of your external component (i.e. a portable player, etc.) is adjusted (see Connecting auxiliary components on page 59).

• Turn up the volume.

• No audio is output from the speakers connected to this unit if HDMI Audio is set to TV (page 63).

• No audio is output if a DVI component is connected via HDMI.

• Press MUTE on the remote control to turn muting off.

• Refer to Channel level setting on page 49 to check the speaker levels.

• Check that you haven’t selected the Auto, Stereo, A.L.C. or Virtual mode (see Listening in surround sound on page 27).

• Connect the speakers properly (see Basic connections on page 12).

Confirm audio output and HDMI settings for the external component

•

connected by optical digital cable, coaxial digital cable, or HDMI cable.

• If the source is 88.2 kHz/96 kHz, it will be played in stereo.

• Sound input from ANALOG RCA jacks cannot be output from AUDIO OUT jacks.

ting conditions.

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Problem Remedy

Can’t operate using the remote control.

The front panel display and indicators do not appear.

Motion sensor not working.

Tray Lock shows in the display and the tray can’t be ejected.

• Replace the batteries (see Putting the batteries in the remote control on page 21).

• Operate within 7 m, 30° of the remote sensor (see Using the remote control on page 21).

• Remove any obstacles or operate from another position.

• Avoid exposing the remote sensor on the front panel to direct light.

• Check that there’s nothing mistakenly plugged into the CONTROL IN jack.

• For operating the other Pioneer component connected to the CONTROL OUT jack of this unit, make sure that the control cable and either an HDMI or analog audio cable are connected (page 62).

• If an object is placed on top of the touch sensor, the sensor will be activated, thus disabling the remote control unit operations. If the action indicator remains continuously lighted, remove any object sitting on the touch sensor panel.

• If the display mode is set to Auto Display, the display will automatically turn off if no operation is performed for a period of one minute. Try performing an operation.

• The motion sensor is on the front of the unit. Make sure you are within 2.5 m and 40° of the sensor.

• Since the motion sensor uses infrared rays, it may not work correctly if placed in direct sunlight or close to heat source.

• Minimum unit height must be 25 cm or above from ground level. The sensor will not work properly when located at ground level.

• Motion sensor will not work if placed in a fully sealed cabinet (include glass / clear cabinet).

• Press and hold  OPEN/CLOSE on the front panel for about eight seconds. Then the tray can be opened/closed using  OPEN/CLOSE.

DVD/CD/Video CD player

Problem Remedy

The disc is ejected automatically after loading.

Playback not possible. • If the disc is loaded upside down, reload the disc with label side face up. Picture playback stops

and buttons cannot be used.

Settings are canceled. • When the power is cut, settings will be canceled.

• Clean the disc and align the disc properly in the disc guide.

• If the region number on a DVD-video disc does not match the number on the player, the disc cannot be used (see DVD Video regions on page 76). In this instance, the following message appears on screen: Incompatible disc region number/Can’t play disc.

• Allow time for any condensation inside the player to evaporate. Avoid using the player near an air-conditioning unit.

• Press  (stop), then  (play) to start playback again.

• Switch the power off once, then on again using the front panel  STANDBY/ON button.

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Problem Remedy

No picture/No color. • Check that connections are correct and that plugs are inserted fully.

Screen is stretched or aspect doesn’t change.

When recorded on a VCR or passed through an AV selector, there is disturbance in the playback picture.

Picture disturbance during playback or dark.

Noticeable difference in DVD and CD volume.

CD-ROM disc is not recognized.

DVD-ROM disc is not recognized.

Files don’t show up in the Disc Navigator/ Photo Browser.

Can’t play WMA or MPEG-4 AAC files.

Can’t play WMV files. • When the bit rate the file is more than 192 kbps, the file cannot be played back.

• Check the manual of the TV/monitor to make sure the settings are correct.

• The TV Screen setting is incorrect. Set the TV Screen option to match the TV/ monitor you’re using (page 53).

• This system uses copy-protection technology which may prevent recording or cause picture problems when connected through a VCR or AV selector. This is not a malfunction.

• This player is compatible with Macro-Vision System copy guard. Some discs include a copy prevention signal, and when this type of disc is played back, stripes etc., may appear on some sections of the picture depending on the TV. This is not a malfunction.

• Discs respond differently to particular player functions. This may result in the screen becoming black for a brief instant or shaking slightly when the function is executed. These problems are largely due to differences between discs and disc content and are not malfunctions of this player.

• DVDs and CDs use different recording methods. This is not a malfunction.

•

Make sure that the CD-ROM was recorded using the ISO 9660 disc format. See

Disc/content format playback compatibility on page 73 compatibility.

•

Make sure that the DVD-ROM was recorded using the UDF bridge format. See

Disc/content format playback compatibility on page 73 compatibility.

• The files on the disc must be named with the correct file extension: .mp3 for MP3 files; .wma for WMA files; .m4a for MPEG-4 AAC files; .jpg for JPEG files (upper or lower-case is OK). See Disc/content format playback compatibility on page 73.

• The files were recorded using DRM (digital rights management). This is not a malfunction.

for more on disc

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Tuner

Problem Remedy

Considerable noise in radio broadcasts.

• Connect the AM antenna (see Basic connections on page 12) and adjust the direction and position for best reception. You may also connect an additional internal or external AM antenna (refer to Connecting external antennas on page 61).

• Fully extend the FM wire antenna, position for best reception, and secure to a wall. You may also connect an outdoor FM antenna (see Connecting external antennas on page 61).

• Turn off other equipment that may be causing the noise or move it further away.

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Problem Remedy

Auto tuning does not pick up some stations.

USB connection

Problem Remedy

USB mass storage device is not recognized by the system.

Files don’t show up in the Navigator/Photo Browser.

Can’t play WMA or MPEG-4 AAC files.

HDMI connection

Symptom Remedy

No picture or sound. • This unit is HDCP-compatible. Check that the components you are connecting

No sound, or sound suddenly ceases.

HDMI Control does not function.

Your TV automatically change inputs.

• The radio signal is weak. Auto tuning will only detect radio stations with a good signal. For more sensitive tuning, connect an outdoor antenna.

• Make sure you have completely inserted the USB connector to this unit.

• Check that the memory format is FAT16 or FAT32.

• USB devices with an internal USB hub are not supported.

• The files must have the correct file extension: .mp3 for MP3 files; .wma for WMA files; .m4a for MPEG-4 AAC files; .jpg for JPEG files (upper or lower-case is OK).

• Make sure the file permission hasn’t been restricted (through a password, etc.).

• The files were recorded using DRM (digital rights management). This is not a malfunction.

are also HDCP-compatible.

• Depending on the connected source component, it’s possible that it will not work with this unit (even if it is HDCP-compatible).

• If the problem still persists when connecting your HDMI component directly to your monitor, please consult the component or monitor manual or contact the manufacturer for support.

• Check that the HDMI Audio is set to AMP.

• If the component is a DVI device, use a separate connection for the audio.

• Check the audio output settings of the source component.

• Verify that the HDMI cable is firmly connected.

• Make sure that this unit’s HDMI Control mode is set to Control On (page 67).

• Check whether the connected component supports HDMI Control or not. For more information refer to the operating manual of your flat screen TV, DVD player, Blu-ray disc player, etc.

• This unit does not guarantee HDMI Control-compatible components other than those made by Pioneer.

• HDMI Control may not work properly if a SCART cable and an HDMI cable are connected simultaneously. Set HDMI Control mode to Control Off when connecting SCART and HDMI cables simultaneously.

• The connected TV automatically may change inputs in response to this unit starting playback DVD or having the GUI screen (ex. Disc Navigator) displayed, etc. If you do not want your TV to change inputs in this way, set this unit HDMI Control mode to Control Off (page 67).

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Front panel display messages

Message Description

192kHz PCM 2ch Only

96kHz PCM Error MIC!

Error Speaker!

Exit HDMI Audio <TV>

HDMI C.ERR 1**

HDCP ERROR

Key Lock Line Out Mode Muting No MIC

Noisy! Not support

OC Error1 OC Error2

Over Temp

Phones In Tray Lock USB Error *** BackUpERR

An operation is prohibited because the source is 176.4 kHz/192 kHz PCM. An operation is prohibited because it is only applicable to 2 channel sources, while

the current source is a multichannel source. An operation is prohibited because the source is 88.2 kHz/96 kHz PCM. An error occurred during MCACC setup because the microphone is not connected

or is not connected properly. An error occurred during MCACC setup because the speakers are not connected or

are not connected properly. Appears when a menu is automatically exited after a set period of inactivity. Displays when you change the listening mode, the volume level, or some sound

settings when the HDMI Audio is set to TV. Check if the HDMI cable is properly connected. If the cable is properly connected,

this unit may be damaged. In such an event, please contact a Pioneer-authorized service center or your nearest dealer.

Check whether or not the connected component is compatible with HDCP. If it is not compatible with HDCP, reconnect the source device using a different type of connection (SCART or composite). Some components that are compatible with HDCP still cause this message to be displayed, but so long as there is no problem with displaying video, this is not a malfunction.

The key lock is enabled. See Key lock setting on page 70. Operation is disabled since Line Output is set to Lt/Rt. When audio is muted, display appears if Auto MCACC setup is performed. Display appears when Auto MCACC setup is performed without a microphone

connected. Background noise is too high to complete MCACC setup successfully.

For HDMI1 or 2 inputs:

Try adjusting the resolution, DeepColor or other setting for your component.

For DVD input:

Try changing the resolution in the HDMI Resolution setting (page 54). Check whether the speaker cables are short-circuited. If the error message continues

to be displayed, contact your Pioneer authorized service center or your dealer for servicing.

Try lowering the volume. If this problem is not fixed by removing and inserting the power cable, this unit may be damaged. In such an event, please contact a Pioneer- authorized service center or your nearest dealer.

An operation is prohibited because the headphones are connected. The tray lock is on (see page 80). See Important on page 43 for more on this. Contact your Pioneer authorized service center or your dealer for servicing.

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Resetting the system

Use this procedure to reset all system settings to the factory default.

SETUP

1 Press

ENTER

2 Select ‘ ENTER

ENTER

3 Select ‘

• Initialize OK? is displayed.

ENTER

4 Press

The system will restart and all the system settings should be reset.

• Note that following settings will be saved,

even if the receiver is unplugged.

Input function

Listening mode Sound Retriever

Sound Field Tone controls

Bass Mode

Dialogue Enhancement Acoustic Calibration EQ

Sound Delay Center Width

Dimension Panorama

Channel Level Speaker Distance Dynamic Range Control

Dual Mono Virtual Surround Back LFE Attenuator CD Type

SETUP

Initialize

’ then press

All Init

’ then press

ENTER

to confirm initialization.

‘HDMI 1’, ‘Digital 1’ ‘Auto’, ‘Action’ ‘Retriever On’

‘Retriever Off’ Sound Field Bass, Treble, Quiet,

Midnight Bass Mode Dialogue MCACC EQ Sound Delay Center Width Dimension Panorama Channel Level Distance D.R.C. Dual Mono Virtual SB LFE ATT CD Type

ENTER

, etc.

Display Mode Line Output TV Input

HDMI Audio HDMI Control mode

Auto Delay Storing stations

Display Mode Line Output TV Input HDMI Audio HDMI Ctrl Auto Delay

Using the language code list

Some of the language options (see Language settings on page 54) allow you to set your

preferred language from any of the 136 languages in the Language code list below.

1Select ‘

2 Select either a code letter or a code number.

3 Select a code letter or a code number.

See the Language code list below for a complete list of languages and codes.

Other Language

’.

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Language code list

Language (Language code letter), Language code

Japanese (ja), 1001 English (en), 0514 French (fr), 0618 German (de), 0405 Italian (it), 0920 Spanish (es), 0519 Dutch (nl), 1412 Russian (ru), 1821 Chinese (zh), 2608 Korean (ko), 1115 Greek (el), 0512 Afar (aa), 0101 Abkhazian (ab), 0102 Afrikaans (af), 0106 Amharic (am), 0113 Arabic (ar), 0118 Assamese (as), 0119 Aymara (ay), 0125 Azerbaijani (az), 0126 Bashkir (ba), 0201 Byelorussian (be), 0205 Bulgarian (bg), 0207 Bihari (bh), 0208 Bislama (bi), 0209 Bengali (bn), 0214 Tibetan (bo), 0215 Breton (br), 0218 Catalan (ca), 0301 Corsican (co), 0315

h (cs), 0319

Cz Welsh (cy), 0325 Danish (da), 0401 Bhutani (dz), 0426

Esperanto (eo), 0515

Estonian (et), 0520 Basque (eu), 0521 Persian (fa), 0601 Finnish (fi), 0609 Fiji (fj), 0610 Faroese (fo), 0615 Frisian (fy), 0625 Irish (ga), 0701 Scots-Gaelic (gd), 0704 Galician (gl), 0712 Guarani (gn), 0714 Gujarati (gu), 0721 Hausa (ha), 0801 Hindi (hi), 0809 Croatian (hr), 0818 Hungarian (hu), 0821 Armenian (hy), 0825 Interlingua (ia), 0901 Interlingue (ie), 0905 Inupiak (ik), 0911 Indonesian (in), 0914 Icelandic (is), 0919 Hebrew (iw), 0923 Yiddish (ji), 1009 Javanese (jw), 1023 Georgian (ka), 1101 Kazakh (kk), 1111 Greenlandic (kl), 1112 Cambodian (km), 1113 Kannada (kn), 1114 Kashmiri (ks), 1119 Kurdish (ku), 1121 Kirghiz (ky), 1 Latin (la), 1201

125

Ling Laothian (lo), 1215 Lithuanian (lt), 1220 Latvian (lv), 1222 Malagasy (mg), 1307 Maori (mi), 1309 Macedonian (mk), 1311 Malayalam (ml), 1312 Mongolian (mn), 1314 Moldavian (mo), 1315 Marathi (mr), 1318 Malay (ms), 1319 Maltese (mt), 1320 Burmese (my), 1325 Nauru (na), 1401 Nepali (ne), 1405 Norwegian (no), 1415 Occitan (oc), 1503 Oromo (om), 1513 Oriya (or), 1518 Panjabi (pa), 1601 Polish (pl), 1612 Pashto, Pushto (ps), 1619 Portuguese (pt), 1620 Quechua (qu), 1721 Rhaeto-Romance (rm), 1813 Kirundi (rn), 1814 Romanian (ro), 1815 Kinyarwanda (rw), 1823 Sa Sindhi (sd), 1904 Sangho (sg), 1907 Serbo-Croatian (sh), 1908 Sinhalese (si), 1909

ala (ln), 1214

nskrit (sa), 1

901

Slovak (sk), 1911 Slovenian (sl), 1912 Samoan (sm), 1913 Shona (sn), 1914 Somali (so), 1915 Albanian (sq), 1917 Serbian (sr), 1918 Siswati (ss), 1919 Sesotho (st), 1920 Sundanese (su), 1921 Swedish (sv), 1922 Swahili (sw), 1923 Tamil (ta), 2001 Telugu (te), 2005 Tajik (tg), 2007 Thai (th), 2008 Tigrinya (ti), 2009 Turkmen (tk), 2011 Tagalog (tl), 2012 Setswana (tn), 2014 Tonga (to), 2015 Turkish (tr), 2018 Tsonga (ts), 2019 Tatar (tt), 2020 Twi (tw), 2023 Ukrainian (uk), 2111 Urdu (ur), 2118 Uzbek (uz), 2126 Vietnamese (vi), 2209 Volapük (vo), 2215 Wolof (wo), 2 Xhosa (xh), 2408 Yoruba (yo), Zulu (zu), 2621

315

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Country/Area code list

Country/Area, Country/Area code, Country/Area code letter

Argentina, 0118, ar Australia, 0121, au Austria, 0120, at Belgium, 0205, be Brazil, 0218, br Canada, 0301, ca Chile, 0312, cl China, 0314, cn Denmark, 0411, dk Finland, 0609, fi France, 0618, fr Germany, 0405, de

Hong Kong, 0811, hk India, 0914, in Indonesia, 0904, id Italy, 0920, it Japan, 1016, jp Korea, Republic of, 1118, kr Malaysia, 1325, my Mexico, 1324, mx Netherlands, 1412, nl New Zealand, 1426, nz Norway, 1415, no Pakistan, 1611, pk

Philippines, 1608, ph Portugal, 1620, pt Russian Federation, 1821, ru Singapore, 1907, sg

519, es

Spain, 0

itzerland, 0308, ch

Sw Sweden, 1905, se Taiwan, 2023, tw Thailand, 2008, th United Kingdom, 0702, gb United States of America, 2119, us

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Specifications

DVD/CD

• Amplifier section

RMS Power Output:

• Disc section

Type . . . . . . . DVD system, Video CD/Super VCD

Wow and Flutter . . . . . . . .Limit of measurement

• FM tuner section

Frequency range . . . . . . . . 87.5 MHz to 108 MHz

Antenna . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 Ω, unbalanced

• AM tuner section

Frequency range . . . . . . . . . 531 kHz to 1602 kHz

Antenna . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Loop antenna

• Input/Output section

HDMI terminal:

Audio input . . . . . Coaxial x1, Optical x2 (Digital)

Audio output . . . . . . . . . . . . RCA (2-pin) (Analog)

Video output . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . RCA x1

AV connector output. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21-pin

Control jack . . . . Input x1, Output x1 (Mini jack)

MCACC input . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Mini jack

iPod/USB connector. . . . . . . . . . . . . .5 V, 500 mA

receiver

Front, Center . . . . . . . . . . . 100 W per channel

Surround

Subwoofer

system and Compact Disc digital audio system

Input. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19-pin x2

Output . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19-pin (5 V, 55 mA)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 W per channel

. . .100 W (100 Hz, 10 % T.H.D., 4 Ω)

(±0.001 % W.PEAK) or less (JEITA)

(1 kHz, 10 % T.H.D., 4 Ω)

(1 kHz, 10 % T.H.D., 8 Ω)

RCA (2-pin) (Analog)

• Miscellaneous

Power requirements

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . AC 220 V to 240 V, 50 Hz/60 Hz

Power consumption . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .60 W

Power consumption in standby

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0.7 W (HDMI Control ON)

0.4 W (HDMI Control OFF) Dimensions

. . . . . . . .420 mm (W) x 80 mm (H) x 364 mm (D)

Weight. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.2 kg

Speaker system

(Front speakers x2, Center speakers x2, Surround speakers x2, Subwoofer x1)

• Front speakers

Enclosure . . . . . . . . . . Closed-box bookshelf type

(magnetically shielded)

System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2-way system

Speakers:

Woofer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.2 cm cone type x2

Tweeter . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.6 cm semi-dome type

Impedance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Ω

Frequency range . . . . . . . . . . . . 200 Hz to 20 kHz

Maximum input power . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .100 W

Dimensions

. . . . . . . 80 mm (W) x 196.8 mm (H) x 82 mm (D)

Weight. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.02 kg

• Center speakers

Enclosure . . . . . . . . . . Closed-box bookshelf type

(magnetically shielded)

System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.2 cm 1-way system

Speakers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.2 cm cone type

Impedance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Ω

Frequency range . . . . . . . . . . . . 200 Hz to 20 kHz

Maximum input power . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .50 W

Dimensions

. . . . . . . . . .80 mm (W) x 80 mm (H) x 82 mm (D)

Weight. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0.48 kg

Additional information 14

This product includes FontAvenue® fonts licenced by NEC corporation. FontAvenue is a registered trademark of NEC Corporation.

DRM (digital rights management) copy protection is a technology designed to prevent unauthorized copying by restricting playback, etc. of compressed audio files on devices other than the PC (or other recording equipment) used to record it. For detailed information, please see the instruction manuals or help files that came with your PC and/or software.

• Surround speakers

Enclosure . . . . . . . . . . Closed-box bookshelf type

System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2-way system

Speakers:

Woofer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5.2 cm cone type

Tweeter . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.6 cm semi-dome type

Impedance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Ω

Frequency range . . . . . . . . . . . . 200 Hz to 20 kHz

Maximum input power . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .50 W

Dimensions

. . . . . . . 80 mm (W) x 115.8 mm (H) x 82 mm (D)

Weight . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0.60 kg

(magnetically shielded)

•Subwoofer

Enclosure . . . . . . .Bass-reflex floorstanding type

System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 cm 1-way system

Speaker. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 cm cone type

Impedance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Ω

Frequency range . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Hz to 1500 Hz

Maximum input power . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .100 W

Dimensions

. . . . . . .211 mm (W) x 320 mm (H) x 358 mm (D)

Weight . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.50 kg

Accessories

• DVD/CD receiver box:

Remote control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

AA/R6 dry cell batteries

(to confirm system operation) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

Video cable (yellow plugs) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

AM loop antenna . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

FM antenna . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

Microphone (for Auto MCACC setup) . . . . . . . . 1

Power cords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

Speaker cable adaptors

(White, Red, Blue, Gray, Purple) . . . . . . . 1 each

Cleaning cloth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

Warranty card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

Setup Guide These operating instructions

•

Speakers box:

Speaker cables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Brackets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

Screws (for brackets) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Speaker stands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

Non-skid pads (for satellite speakers). . . . . . . .24

Non-skid pads (for subwoofer) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Non-skid pads (for speaker stands) . . . . . . . . . 8

Spiral wrap . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

Note

• Specifications and design subject to possible modification without notice, due to improvements.

This product incorporates copyright protection technology that is protected by method claims of certain U.S. patents and other intellectual property rights owned by Macrovision Corporation and other rights owners. Use of this copyright protection technology must be authorized by Macrovision Corporation, and is intended for home and other limited viewing uses only unless otherwise authorized by Macrovision Corporation. Reverse engineering or disassembly is prohibited.

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