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RDV-03 DVD Player
RDV-03
Digital Audio Formats
DVD and CD discs can be encoded with
several different digital audio formats. Gen-
erally, the type of digital audio encoding is
indicated on the disc packaging.
• Dolby Digital. A digital surround format
that may contain as many as five discrete
audio channels plus an LFE (low frequency
effects) channel (referred to as 5.1 chan-
nel surround). Particularly for older sound
tracks, Dolby Digital may be used for a
2.0 channel stereo sound track with Dolby
Surround matrix encoding.
• DTS (Digital Theater Systems). An-
other 5.1 channel digital surround format
similar to Dolby Digital, but somewhat dif-
ferent encoding characteristics. Also plays
DTS 96/24 used on DTS music discs.
• MPEG. Another compressed digital for-
mat.
• LPCM (Linear PCM). Uncompressed
digital audio, the format used on CDs
and most studio masters.
• MP3 (MPEG 1, Layer 3). Compressed
2-channel digital audio, a format often
used for music on recordable CD-R and
CD-RW discs.
• WMA (Windows ® Media Audio).
Another compressed 2-channel digital
audio format developed by Microsoft
Corporation.
Basic Features
This section of the manual covers the basic
commands and features need to play a disc
in the RDV-03. Additional features are de-
scribed in later sections.
Power On/Off
The RDV-03 has a STANDBY button on the
front panel and a POWER button on the re-
mote. Press either button to turn the unit on.
The front panel LCD display lights up.
Press either button again to turn the unit off.
When turned off, the RDV-03 remains in a
low current standby mode. The LED above
the STANDBY button on the front panel lights
when the unit is in standby mode.
: To completely power off the RDV-03
NOTE
when away from home for a long period
of time, unplug the unit from the AC wall
outlet.
There is an auto standby function that can
automatically turn the unit off either 30 or 60
minutes after the disc is stopped. See the Oth-
ers Menu in the Setup section for selecting the
time option or disabling this feature.
Changing Display
Brightness
There are four brightness settings for the front
panel display: bright, medium, dim, and off.
Press the DIM button on the remote repeatedly
to step through the four options.
: If the display is turned off, press the
NOTE
DIM button one time to restore the display to
the bright setting.
Inserting a Disc
A disc drawer slides out to accept a disc
and retracts for playback. Place the disc in
the drawer label-side up. Make sure the disc
is properly centered in the tray. The OPN/
CLOSE button on the front panel or the remote
opens or closes the drawer.
Playing a Disc
Press the PLAY
button on the remote to start
playing the disc from the beginning. If the disc
drawer is open, it will close automatically.
: Many DVDs either begin playing auto-
NOTE
matically or display a start-up menu as soon
as the disc is inserted.
The PLAY
button usually starts play from
the beginning of the disc, except after the
PAUSE
button has been pressed. In this
case, the disc will resume playing from the
current location. The RDV-03 also has a re-
sume feature that restarts play at the current
location after pressing the STOP
time during playback.
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Stopping Disc Playback
Press the STOP
is playing.
The first press of the STOP
the point at which the disc stopped playing as
indicated by RESUME appearing in the front
panel display. Resume play at that point by
pressing the PLAY
tion remains in memory until the disc drawer
is opened, or the top menu is selected.
The second press of the STOP
the RESUME position.
: The resume feature described above
NOTE
is the default setting. It is also possible to dis-
able the resume feature entirely or to have the
RDV-03 memorize the resume position for the
most recently played 30 discs. See the Others
Menu in the Setup section for details.
Pause/Still Frame
Press the PAUSE
pend play. To resume playing the disc from the
current location, press the PLAY
Still-Frame: When playing a video disc, a
still-frame picture remains on the TV screen
with no sound when the PAUSE
pressed. Press the PAUSE
advance to the next still-frame picture. Each
button press advances one frame.
Skip forward/back
The TRACK
back to the beginning of the next selection.
While a disc is playing, pressing the right
TRACK
beginning of the next Chapter or Track. Press-
ing the left button returns to the beginning of
the current scene or song. Pressing twice in
quick succession returns to the beginning of
the previous Chapter or Track.
Press the button as many times as necessary
to find the desired scene or selection.
button one
button to stop a disc that
button memorizes
button. This stored posi-
button clears
button to temporarily sus-
button.
button is
button again to
buttons skip forward/
button once advances to the
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