Playing A Disc; Basic Playback; General Features; Disc Navigation - Hitachi DV-P543U Instruction Manual

PLAYING A DISC

Basic Playback

Getting started
• Turn on the power of the TV, amplifier and any other
components which are connected to the DVD player.
• Make sure the TV and audio receiver (commercially
available) are set to the correct channel.
1
Press y y /I .
• "P-ON" will appear briefly on the display panel.
2 Press OPEN/CLOSE to open disc
loading tray.
3 Place the chosen disc on the tray, with
the label facing up.
4 Press PLAY.
• The tray will close automatically, and play-
back will then start from the first chapter or track of the disc.
If the playback does not start automatically, press PLAY.
• When you playback the DVD with a title menu, it may
appear on the screen. In this case, refer to "Title Menu".
5 Press STOP to stop playback.
NOTES:
• A "prohibited icon" may appear at the top-right on the TV
screen during operation, warning that a prohib-
ited operation has been encountered by the
DVD player or the disc.
• With DVDs that use some titles for playback
program signals, playback may start from the second
title, or it may skip these titles.
• During the playback of two layered disc, pictures may
stop for a moment. This happens when the 1st layer
switches to the 2nd layer. This is not a malfunction.

General Features

DVD may contain menus to navigate the disc and access
special features. Press the appropriate numerical key or use
Arrow ( L / K / B / s ) to highlight your selection in the DVD
main menu and press ENTER to confirm.
NOTE:
• Unless stated, all operations described are based on
remote control use. Some operations can be carried
out using the menu bar on the TV screen.

Disc Navigation

1
Press DISC
NAVIGATION.
During title playback or when resume is on:
• A shot from each chapter including the one currently
being played will be displayed on the screen.
• The chapter currently being played is selected in yellow.
In STOP mode (resume off):
• The first scene of each chapter of the first title will be displayed.
2 Press Arrow (K/L/s/B) to select your desired chapter.
• Up to 6 chapters can be displayed at one time. If the title
has more than 6 chapters, press SKIP G to go to the next
page. Press SKIP H to go back to the previous page.
• You can change the title by moving up to the field
where the title number is shown with Arrow (K), and
entering a title number of your choice.
3
Press ENTER or PLAY.
• Playback of the selected chapter will start.
• Pressing DISC NAVIGATION before pressing ENTER or
PLAY at step 3 will cease the DISC NAVIGATION function,
and the playback will be stopped. The resume information
will be lost.
• When a disc menu is shown, the DISC NAVIGATION
feature does not function.
• DISC NAVIGATION takes a few seconds to respond.
• With some discs, part of the DISC NAVIGATION screen
may not be displayed properly. This is not a malfunction.
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• Some discs do not support DISC NAVIGATION feature.
• The sound is muted while DISC NAVIGATION is on the screen.
• It takes about 15 seconds to display 6 shots.

Pause

1
During playback, press PAUSE/STEP.
• Playback will pause and sound will be muted.
2 To continue playback, press PLAY.
NOTE:
• Set STILL MODE to FIELD on the display menu if pic-
tures in the pause mode are blurred. (Refer to page 15.)

Disc Menus

1 Press MENU.
• The DVD main menu will appear.
2 If the feature is not available,
appear on the TV screen.
3 If disc menu is available on the disc, audio lan-
guage, subtitle options, chapters for the title and
other options will appear for selection.
4 Press Arrow ( L / K / B / s ) to select an item, and
ENTER to confirm selection.

Title Menu

1
Press TOP MENU.
• The title menu will appear.
2
If the feature is not available,
appear on the TV screen.
3
Press Arrow ( L / K / B / s ) to select an item, and
ENTER to confirm selection.
• Playback will begin at the selected Title.

CALLING UP A MENU SCREEN DURING PLAYBACK

• Press MENU to call up the DVD main menu.
• Press TOP MENU to call up the title menu.
NOTE:
• Contents of menus and corresponding menu opera-
tions may vary between discs. Refer to the manual
accompanying the disc for details.

Step by Step Playback

1
During playback, press PAUSE/STEP.
• Playback will pause and sound will be muted.
2 The disc advances by one frame each time
PAUSE/STEP is pressed.
3 To exit step by step playback, press PLAY.
NOTE:
• Set STILL MODE to FIELD on the display menu if pic-
tures in the pause mode are blurred. (Refer to page 15.)

Resume

1 During playback, press STOP.
• Resume message will appear on the TV screen.
2 Press PLAY, playback will resume from the point
at which playback was stopped.
• To cancel resume, press STOP twice.
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