FCC and Safety Information CAUTION: This unit employs a laser. Due to possible eye injury, only qualified service personnel should remove the cover or attempt to service this device. Use of controls or adjustments or performance of procedures other than those specified herein may result in hazardous radiation exposure.
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FCC and Safety Information Read these instructions. Keep these instructions. Heed all warnings. Follow all instructions. Do not use this apparatus near water. Clean only with a dry cloth. Do not bolck any ventilation openings. Install in accordance with the manufacturer's instructions. Do not install near any heat sources such as radia- tors, heat registers, stoves, or other apparatus (including amplifiers) that produce heat.
Table of Contents FCC and Safety Information...1 Table of Contents...3 Introduction to your Player...5 What’s in the Box?...5 Care of the Disc...5 Remote Control Battery Installation...6 Remote Control Overview...7 Front & Rear Panel Overview...8 Front Panel View...8 Rear Panel View...8 How to Connect your Player...9 Getting Started...12 How to Play a Disc...12...
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Table of Contents - continued What is MP3...22 About MP3...22 MP3/WMA Playback...23 MP3 Playback...23 WMA Playback...23 Kodak Picture CD...24 Playing back your Kodak Picture CD...24 Setup Menu Options...25 General Setup Page...25 Angle Mark...25 OSD Language...25 Captions...26 Screen Saver...26 Audio Setup Page...26 Downmix...26 Digital Out...27 Video Setup Page...27...
Introduction to your Player Thank you for purchasing your new Apex Digital AD-1165 DVD player, it is designed for you to enjoy most forms of disc media. Your player will allow you to enjoy "at -the- movies" picture and cinema quality sound.
Remote Control Battery Installation Remove the battery compartment cover. Load two AA batteries into the battery compartment. Make sure that the batteries have been inserted prop- erly, matching to the symbols +, - marked in the bat- tery compartment. Close the battery compartment cover.
Remote Control Overview Important: Certain features may not operate if the disc does not support the feature, or requires special settings. Check the feature content printed on the disc’s packaging. Notes: The remote control transmits a directional infrared beam. Be sure to aim the remote control directly at the infrared sensor during operation.
Front & Rear Panel Overview Front Panel View Open/Close Play/Pause IR Sensor Stop Next Previous Forward Power On/Off Disc Tray Reverse Back Panel View Analog /Down Mix Audio 2 channel L/R Composite Video Coaxial Digital Output Output Progressive Scan (Component Video) Outputs S-Video Y Pb Pr Output...
I/P. (Your installation may be interlaced and it may have been put into Pro-gressive Scan mode by mistake). Note: Your Apex DVD Player is equipped with Progressive Scan Output (Y Pb Pr/Component Video outputs) otherwise known as 480P (p=progressive) The 480P image offers the best quality picture and eliminates virtually all motion arti- facts.
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How to Connect your Player - continued Good Enjoy the dynamic and realistic sound of Dolby Pro Logic Sur-round by connecting an amplifier and speaker system (right and left front speakers, a cen- ter speaker, and one or two rear speakers). Yellow White To Dolby Surround...
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You can enjoy your APEX DVD with a Dolby Digital or DTS Digital equipped home theater system. All you need is to connect your DVD player to a Dolby Digital/DTS receiver or a Dolby Digital Ready receiver with an external decoder.
Getting Started - Unpack the unit and save the box and packing ...for the duration of the warranty period in the ...event you may need to ship the unit to us. - Read through this owner’s manual before ...installa- tion and use. - Load batteries into the remote control unit and ...verify batteries are installed correctly.
Function Buttons Power ON / OFF To switch the player between power on and off mode: Press POWER button on front panel or the remote control. Note: (Always) remove the disc and switch off the player after Open/Close Disc Tray To open and close the disc tray: Press EJECT button on the remote EJECT button on the front panel...
Function Buttons - continued Skip Forward/Backward Search Forward/Backward Slow Forward NOTE: The unit is muted during slow mode Press to skip forward (chapters) Press to skip backward (chapters) Player will not advance or reverse during "WARNING" sec- tion of any disc. Press to search forward Repeat pressing the button to change search speed...
Function Buttons - continued Select an item in the Menu In the Disc menu or Setup Press cursor button(s) to move between listed content. Press ENTER/ PLAY to confirm a selection. Press CLEAR to cancel an entry. On Screen Display Menu Press DISPLAY button to switch the OSD screen on or off while the disc is playing to get more detailed playback information.
Function Buttons - continued GOTO a desired selection DVD Disc Press the GOTO button select GOTO mode. Press the DOWN cursor button highlight desired item. TITLE --- Input title number CHAPTER --- Input chapter number TIME --:--:-- Input time hh:mm:ss (Hour : Minute : Second) Press ENTER button.
Function Buttons - continued Repeat DVD Disc Press REPEAT button multiple times to reach desired repeat mode (see below). Repeat function off Repeat Chapter Repeat the Chapter Repeat Title Repeat the Title Repeat All Repeat All CD Disc Single Play the selected track Repeat One Repeat the selected track Repeat Folder...
Function Buttons - continued Numeric Key Pad / Direct Program access NOTE: Certain DVD discs may not allow direct access functionality Multi-Angle A DVD disc may contain up to 9 selectable viewing angles Progressive Scan The player is equipped with two modes of video out- put: 1) Interlace video output (S-Video, CVBS, Y Cb Cr), 2) Progressive Scan video output (Y Pb Pr)*...
Function Buttons - continued Multi-Subtitle NOTE: A DVD disc may contain up to 32 subtitle selections. Multi-Audio Soundtrack NOTE: A DVD disc may contain up to 8 audio language selections. If a DVD disc contains the Multi-Subtitle feature, a subti- tle may be selected: While in playback mode, repeatedly press the SUB-T button to select the desired subtitle.
Function Buttons - continued AFF (Active Full Screen Function) Zoom NOTE: The picture quality is degraded as the picture is zoomed. AFF (Active Full Screen Function)allows you to fill the TV screen viewing area when playing a widescreen for- matted DVD. Press AFF button to eliminate (1.85:1 aspect ratio) black bars or to reduce the black bars on the top and bottom of the screen.
Function Buttons - continued Mute Press MUTE button To mute ( turn off ) the audio output. Press the button again to resume normal audio output. Volume Up/Down While playing back a disc, Press the VOLUME button - or + to adjust the volume output Volume level will display on screen.
What is MP3? This player is compatible with the following disc formats: CD-DA CD-MP3 CD-WMA Kodak Picture CD CD-R / CD-RW* About MP3 MP3 (MPEG 1, Audio Layer 3) is a digital audio format for quick downloading files that sound similar in performance to CDs. MP3 uses entropy encoding to reduce the number of redundant sounds in an audio signal to a minimum.
The compression used allows you to record from your computer up to 22 hours of music on CD-ROM and play back through your DVD Player. APEX Digital was the first company to offer this fea- ture in a home DVD player. 00:30...
Kodak Picture CD A Kodak Picture CD is the size and shape of a regular CD. You can order a KODAK Picture CD simply by checking the box on the photo finishing envelope when you drop off a roll of film (35mm or Advanced Photo System (APS) color print film) at the time of processing in Kodak Express store displaying "Kodak Picture CD"...
Setup Menu Options Various features of the player can be adjusted in the SETUP menu: - Press SETUP button - SETUP menu appears. Note: These options can be accessed while a disc is playing in the unit: (General, Audio, Video). - The "Preference"...
Setup Menu Options - continued General Audio Video General Setup Page Angle Mark OSD Lang Captions Screen Saver Closed Caption General Audio Video General Setup Page Angle Mark OSD Lang Captions Screen Saver Screen Saver Audio Setup Page General Audio Video Audio Setup Page Downmix...
Setup Menu Options - continued General Audio Video Audio Setup Page Downmix Digital Out Set Audio Digital Out Audio Setup Page General Audio Video Video Setup Page TV Shape TV Mode NTSC Output Mode Sharpness Brightness Contrast Set TV Shape Mode Digital Out: Preference Use your remote’s...
Setup Menu Options - continued General Audio Video Video Setup Page TV Shape TV Mode NTSC Output Mode Sharpness Brightness Contrast Set TV Standard General Audio Video Audio Setup Page TV Shape TV Mode NTSC Output Mode Sharpness Brightness Contrast Set Output Mode General Audio...
Setup Menu Options - continued General Audio Video Video Setup Page TV Shape TV Mode NTSC Output Mode Sharpness Brightness Contrast Brightness General Audio Video Video Setup Page TV Shape TV Mode NTSC Output Mode Sharpness Brightness Contrast Contrast Preference Setup Page General Audio Video...
Setup Menu Options - continued General Audio Video Preference Setup Page Audio Subtitle Disc Menu Parental Password Default Preferred Subtitle Language General Audio Video Preference Setup Page Audio Subtitle Disc Menu Parental Password Default Preferred Menu Language General Video Audio Preference Setup Page Audio Subtitle...
Setup Menu Options - continued General Audio Video Preference Setup Page Audio Subtitle Disc Menu Parental Password Default Set Password General Audio Video Old Password 3308 New Password Confirm Pwd General Audio Video Preference Setup Page Audio Subtitle Disc Menu Parental Password Default...
Definition of Terms Angle Encoded onto certain special edition DVD discs are scenes that have been simultaneously shot from a number of differ- ent angles (the same scene is shot from the front, from the left side, from the right side, etc.). With such discs, the ANGLE button can be used to view the scene from different angles.
Troubleshooting Guide Check the following guide for a possible correction to a problem before contacting customer support. We recommend visiting our website, www.apexdigitalinc.com and review Customer Support & FAQ’s for updates. Register and Validate your warranty online. SYMPTOMS AND CORRECTION Symptom No power No picture...
APEX Digital, Inc. dealer in N. America. Keep your original box and packaging in case your unit needs to be shipped to us. You will need to prepay shipping and APEX will pay the cost of shipping the unit back to you. You are required to email or call Customer Support for proper instructions to ship unit for repair.
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