Rotel RDV-985 Owner's Manual

RDV-985 DVD Player
Appendix A:Table of languages and their abbreviations
When you select the subtitle language or sound, the languages shown below are displayed as abbreviations. To select the desired language,
select the abbreviation corresponding the language you want to.
AA Afar IK
AB Abkhazian IN
AF Afrikaans IS
AM Ameharic IW
AR Arabic JI
AS Assamese JW
AY Aymara KA
AZ Azerbaijani KK
BA Bashkir KL
BE Byelorussian KM
BG Bulgarian KN
BH Bihari KO
BI Bislama KS
BN Bengali, Bangla KU
BO Tibetan KY
BR Breton LA
CA Catalan LN
CO Corsican LO
CS Czech LT
CY Welsh LV
DA Danish MG
DZ Bhutani MI
EL Greek MK
EO Esperanto ML
ET Estonian MN
EU Basque MO
FA Persian MR
FI Finnish MS
FJ Fiji MT
FO Faroese MY
FY Frisian NA
GA Irish NE
GD Scots Gaelic NL
GL Galician NO
GN Guarani OC
GU Gujarati OM
HA Hausa OR
HI Hindi PA
HR Croatian PL
HU Hungarian PS
HY Armenian PT
IA Interlingua QU
IE Interlingue RM
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Inupiak RN Kirundi
Indonesian RO Rumanian
Icelandic RU Russian
Hebrew RW Kinyarwanda
Yiddish SA Sanskrit
Javanese SD Sindhi
Georgian SG Sangho
Kazakh SH Serbo-Croatian
Greenlandic SI Singhalese
Cambodian SK Slovak
Kannada SL Slovenian
Korean (KOR) SM Samoan
Kashmiri SN Shona
Kurdish SO Somali
Kirghiz SQ Albanian
Latin SR Serbian
Lingala SS Siswati
Laothian ST Sesotho
Lithuanian SU Sundanese
Latvian, Lettish SV Swedish
Malagasy SW Swahili
Maori TA Tamil
Macedonian TE Telugu
Malayalam TG Tajik
Mongolian TH Thai
Moldavian TI Tigrinya
Marathi TK Turkmen
Malay (MAY) TL Tagalog
Maltese TN Setswana
Burmese TO Tonga
Nauru TR Turkish
Nepali TS Tsonga
Dutch TT Tatar
Norwegian TW Twi
Occitan UK Ukrainian
(Afan) Oromo UR Urdu
Oriya UZ Uzbek
Panjabi VI Vietnamese
Polish VO Volapuk
Pashto, Pushto WO Wolof
Portuguese XH Xhosa
Quechua YO Yoruba
Rhaeto-Romance ZU Zulu
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Contents

About Rotel

About Rotel ........................................... 5
A family whose passionate interest in music
About This Manual ................................ 5
led them to manufacture high fidelity compo-
About the RDV-985 ............................... 5
nents of uncompromising quality founded Rotel
Precautions ........................................... 6
over 30 years ago. Over the years that pas-
Audio/Video Connections ..................... 6
sion has remained undiminished and has
Connecting the Power Cord ................... 9
expanded to include the goal of providing ex-
RR-DV91 Remote Control ....................... 9
ceptional equipment for audio/video systems
On Screen Displays ............................. 10
as well as dedicated audio systems.
Screen Saver ....................................... 11
On Screen Icons .................................. 11
The engineers work as a close team, listen-
About discs ......................................... 12
ing to, and fine tuning each new product until
Using Numeric Buttons ........................ 12
it reaches their exacting performance stan-
Getting Started .................................... 12
dards. They are free to choose components
Disc Play Basics ................................... 13
from around the world in order to make that
Advanced Operations ......................... 14
product the best they can.
Special Playback Features .................... 16
Rotel's reputation for excellence has been
Changing the Track Order ................... 17
earned through hundreds of good reviews and
Repeat Play ......................................... 18
awards from the most respected reviewers in
Multiple Angle Viewing ....................... 19
the industry. Their comments keep the com-
Subtitle Language Selection.................. 20
pany true to its goal - to supply equipment
Audio Language Selection ................... 21
that provides exceptional performance, reli-
Selecting Picture Quality ...................... 21
ability and affordability.
Using 3D PHONIC /
Virtual Surround Sound ....................... 22
All of us at Rotel thank you for buying this
Time Display Functions ........................ 22
product and hope it will bring you many hours
Setting Preferences .............................. 23
of enjoyment.
Parental Lock Feature ........................... 25
Care and Handling of Discs ................. 26

About This Manual

Troubleshooting ................................... 27
Appendix A: Table of languages
and their abbreviations ........................ 28
Throughout this manual the controls and com-
Specifications ...................................... 29
ponents of the RDV-985 are identified with
numbers and letters in dark gray circles and
squares.
Numbers in circles such as
on the RR-DV91 remote control. (To help you
remember this think of "round equals remote".)
Numbers in squares such as
on the front and rear panel of the unit.
Letters in squares such as
in the front panel display window.
In the operation section of the manual some
function descriptions apply only to certain kinds
of discs. The types of discs to which the in-
formation applies are indicated with symbols
such as .
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English

About the RDV-985

Thank you for purchasing the Rotel RDV-985.
It will provide years of enjoyment when used
in a high-quality home theater system.
The RDV-985 is one of the most flexible com-
ponents you can add to your audio/video
system. In addition to DVD Video disks, the
RDV-985 can play Video and audio CD disks.
It provides a full range of operating features
and control functions.
Strobe function
The unit can display nine continuous still pic-
tures on the TV screen.
Digest function
You can select the desired title from the opening
scenes displayed on the TV screen.
Angle function*
You can select a desired angle from multiple
camera angles recorded on the DVD disc.
Zoom function
You can view scenes close-up.
Parental lock*
You can restrict the playback of DVD discs with
scenes which you do not want your child to
see, such as adult or violent films.
Theater position
You can select the picture character accord-
ing to the lighting of your room.
High quality digital sound
You can enjoy high quality sound with Dolby
Digital or Linear-PCM.
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Surround function*
The unit is compatible with Dolby Digital sur-
round and DTS surround.
identify items
VSS function
You can enjoy surround sound with your 2-
channel system.
identify items
Multi-language subtitles and
sound*
You can select a subtitle or sound language
from those recorded on the DVD disc.
On-screen display
User-friendly on-screen displays allow you to
operate the unit easily.
* Functions only with DVD discs.