Table Of Contents - Pioneer DV-79AVi Operating Instructions Manual

Contents
01 Before you start
Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
What's in the box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Putting the batteries in the remote
control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Using the remote control . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Disc / content format playback
compatibility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
General disc compatibility . . . . . . . . . . . 11
CD-R/RW compatibility . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
DVD-R/RW Compatibility . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Compressed Audio Compatibility. . . . . . 12
PC Created Disc Compatibility . . . . . . . . 12
Titles, chapters, groups and tracks. . . . . . 13
DVD-Video regions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
02 Connecting up
Rear panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Easy connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Using other types of video output . . . . . . . 17
Connecting using an S-Video output . . . 17
Connecting using the component
video output. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Connecting for multichannel surround
sound. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Connecting using the multichannel
analog outputs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Connecting using a digital audio
output . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Connecting using i.LINK . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
About i.LINK. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Creating an i.LINK network . . . . . . . . . . 21
Connecting using HDMI. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
About HDMI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Controlling this player from another
Pioneer component . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
03 Controls and displays
Front panel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
About progressive scan video. . . . . . . . . . 26
Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Remote control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Setting up the remote to control
your TV. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
04 Getting Started
Switching on . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Let's Get Started . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Using the on-screen displays. . . . . . . . . . . 32
Setting up with the Setup Navigator . . . . .33
Playing discs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Basic playback controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
DVD disc menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Video CD PBC menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
05 Playing discs
Introduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Using the Disc Navigator to browse the
contents of a disc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Scanning discs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Using the Multi Dial. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Playing in slow motion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Frame advance/frame reverse . . . . . . . . . . 45
Looping a section of a disc . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Using repeat play. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Using random play . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Creating a program list . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Editing a program list . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Other functions available from the
program menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Searching a disc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Switching subtitles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Switching the DVD audio language . . . . . .51
Switching DVD-RW audio channels . . . . .52
Switching DVD-Audio audio channels . . . .52
Switching CD/MP3/Video CD audio
channels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Switching camera angles . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Displaying disc information . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
06 Audio Settings menu
Note about features in the Audio
Settings menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Audio DRC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Legato PRO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Hi-Bit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Virtual Surround . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Channel Level . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Speaker Distance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57