Table Of Contents - Pioneer DCS-353 Operating Instructions Manual

Contents
01 Controls and displays
Front panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Remote control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
02 Getting started
Home theater sound setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Setting the channel levels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Using the on-screen displays . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Playing discs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Basic playback controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Resume and Last Memory . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
DVD-Video disc menus. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Video CD/Super VCD PBC menus . . . . . . . 11
Listening to the radio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Improving poor FM reception . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Memorizing stations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Listening to station presets . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Listening to other sources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Setting the sleep timer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Dimming the display. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
03 Listening to your system
Auto listening mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Listening in surround sound . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Using Front Surround . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Listening in stereo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Listening with headphones . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Using the SFC modes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Adjusting the bass and treble . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Boosting the bass level . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
04 Disc playback features
Scanning discs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Playing in slow motion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Frame advance/frame reverse. . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Playing a JPEG slideshow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Browsing DVD or Video CD/Super VCD discs
with the Disc Navigator. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Browsing WMA, MP3, MPEG-4 AAC, DivX video
and JPEG files with the Disc Navigator . . . . . 18
Looping a section of a disc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Using repeat play . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Using random play . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Creating a program list . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Other functions available from the program
menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Searching a disc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Switching subtitles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Switching language / audio channels . . . . . . 20
Zooming the screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Switching camera angles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Displaying disc information . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
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05 USB playback
Using the USB interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Basic playback controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Scanning files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Playing a JPEG slideshow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Browsing files with the Navigator . . . . . . . . . 23
06 More tuner features: RDS
An introduction to RDS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Displaying RDS information . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Searching for RDS programs . . . . . . . . . . . 24
07 Audio Settings and Video Adjust
menus
Audio Settings menu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Audio DRC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Video Adjust menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
08 Initial Settings menu
Using the Initial Settings menu . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Video Output settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Language settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Display settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Options settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Speakers settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Parental Lock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
About DivX® VOD content . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Speaker Distance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
09 Other connections
Connecting external antennas. . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Connecting auxiliary audio components . . . . 31
Connecting the S-video output . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Connecting using the component video
output . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
About progressive scan video . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Using the SCART AV output . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Recording mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Connecting using HDMI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Switching the HDMI audio setting . . . . . . . 34
Resetting the HDMI connection . . . . . . . . . 34
About HDMI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
10 Additional information
Disc / content format playback
compatibility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Disc compatibility table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
About DVD+R/DVD+RW compatibility . . . 36
About DivX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
About MPEG-4 AAC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
About WMA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Using and taking care of discs . . . . . . . . . . . 37
DVD Video regions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38