Table Of Contents - Pioneer DV-59AVi 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. . . . . . 11
PC Created Disc Compatibility . . . . . . . . 12
Titles, chapters, groups and tracks. . . . . . 12
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 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Connecting using the D1/D2 video
output . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Connecting for multichannel surround
sound. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Connecting using the multichannel
analog outputs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Connecting using a digital audio
output . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Connecting using i.LINK . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
About i.LINK. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Creating an i.LINK network . . . . . . . . . . 22
Connecting using HDMI. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
About HDMI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Controlling this player from another
Pioneer component . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
03 Controls and displays
Front panel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
About progressive scan video. . . . . . . . . . 28
Compatibility of this unit with
progressive-scan TVs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Remote control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Setting up the remote to control
your TV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
04 Getting Started
Switching on . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Let's Get Started . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Using the on-screen displays. . . . . . . . . . . 34
Setting up with the Setup Navigator . . . . .35
Playing discs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Basic playback controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
DVD disc menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Video CD/Super VCD PBC menus . . . . . .41
05 Playing discs
Introduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Using the Disc Navigator to browse the
contents of a disc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Scanning discs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Using the Multi Dial. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Playing in slow motion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Frame advance/frame reverse . . . . . . . . . . 47
Looping a section of a disc . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Using repeat play. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Using random play . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Creating a program list . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Editing a program list . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Other functions available from the
program menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Searching a disc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Switching subtitles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Switching the DVD audio language . . . . . .53
Switching DVD-RW audio channels . . . . .54
Switching DVD-Audio audio channels . . . .54
Switching CD/MP3/Video CD/Super VCD
audio channels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Switching camera angles . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Displaying disc information . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
06 Audio Settings menu
Note about features in the Audio Settings
menu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Audio DRC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Legato PRO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56