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DVD Player DV-360 DV-464 DV-2650 Operating Instructions...
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IMPORTANT CAUTION RISK OF ELECTRIC SHOCK DO NOT OPEN The lightning flash with arrowhead CAUTION: The exclamation point within an symbol, within an equilateral triangle, is TO PREVENT THE RISK OF ELECTRIC equilateral triangle is intended to alert intended to alert the user to the presence SHOCK, DO NOT REMOVE COVER (OR the user to the presence of important of uninsulated “dangerous voltage”...
WARNING: This product is for general household purposes. Any BEFORE PLUGGING IN THE UNIT failure due to use for other than household purposes FOR THE FIRST TIME, READ THE FOLLOWING SECTION (such as long-term use for business purposes in a res- CAREFULLY.
Thank you for buying this Pioneer product. Please read through these operating instructions so that you will know how to operate your model properly. After you have finished reading the instructions, put them in a safe place for future reference.
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06 Viewing JPEG discs 010 Additional information Viewing JPEG discs ....40 Taking care of your player and discs ..54 Handling discs .
Before you start Chapter 1 Before you start Features Graphical on-screen displays Setting up and using your DVD player is made very easy using the graphical on-screen 24-bit/192kHz compatible DAC displays. This player is fully compatible with high sampling-rate discs, capable of delivering Energy saving design better-than-CD sound quality in terms of This player features an auto power-off func-...
Before you start What’s in the box Open the battery compartment cover on the back of the remote control. Please confirm that the following accessories are in the box when you open it. • Remote control • AA/R6P dry cell batteries x2 •...
Before you start • Replace the batteries when you notice a type of recording; damage, dirt or condensa- fall off in the operating range of the tion on either the disc or the player’s pick-up remote. lens. See below for notes about particular software and formats.
Before you start Compressed audio compatibility playable in this machine due to the setting of the application software used to • This unit will play CD-ROM, CD-R, and create the disc. In these particular CD-RW discs containing files saved in the instances, check with the software MPEG-1 Audio Layer 3 (MP3) or Windows publisher for more detailed information.
Before you start JPEG file compatibility • When naming MP3 and WMA files, add the corresponding file name extension • Baseline JPEG and EXIF 2.1* still image (.mp3 or .wma). Files are played files up to 8 mega-pixels are supported according to the file extension.
Connecting up Chapter 2 Connecting up Rear panel connections DIGITAL AUDIO OUT AUDIO OUT COAXIAL AV CONNECTOR (RGB) - TV/AV Receiver OPTICAL VIDEO OUT AV CONNECTOR (RGB) - TV/AV Receiver This is a combined audio and video output for • When connecting this player up to your connection to a TV that has a SCART input.
Connecting up DIGITAL AUDIO OUT – OPTICAL This is a digital audio output for connection to a PCM, Dolby Digital, DTS and/or MPEG- • You may find it useful to have the manuals compatible AV receiver that has an optical supplied with your other components digital input.
Connecting up Connecting using the S-video Connect the VIDEO OUT and AUDIO OUT L/R jacks to a set of A/V inputs on output your TV. If your TV (or other equipment) has an S-video Use the supplied audio/video cable, input, you can use this instead of the stan- connecting the red and white plugs to the dard (composite) output for a better quality audio outputs and the yellow plug to the video...
Connecting up Connecting using the AV Connecting to an AV receiver connector output To enjoy multichannel surround sound you need to connect this player to an AV receiver If your TV has a SCART-type AV input, you can using a digital output. This player has both use a SCART cable to connect this player to coaxial and optical digital jacks;...
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Connecting up Connect the analog AUDIO OUT L/R • My VCR is already connected to my TV, so and VIDEO OUT jacks on this player to a there aren’t any spare inputs. What should set of analog audio and video inputs on I do? your AV receiver.
Controls and displays Chapter 3 Controls and displays Front panel TOP MENU MENU OPEN/ CLOSE ENTER HOME MENU RETURN STANDBY/ON DV-2650 STANDBY/ON DV-360 15 12 5 OPEN/CLOSE STANDBY/ON DV-464...
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Controls and displays STANDBY/ON 10 RETURN Press to switch the player on or into standby. Press to return to a previous menu screen. FL DIMMER 11 HOME MENU Press to dim or brighten the display. Press to display (or exit). Disc tray Press to stop the disc (you can resume play- OPEN/CLOSE...
Controls and displays Display DV-2650 DV-360 / DV-464 Indicates whether a disc is playing or paused. Lights in any of the repeat play modes. REMAIN Indicates that the character display is Indicates that the character display is showing a DVD chapter number.
Controls and displays Remote control STANDBY/ON Press to switch the player on or into standby. AUDIO Press to select the audio channel or language (see Switching DVD audio language on STANDBY/ON OPEN/CLOSE page 37). SUBTITLE AUDIO SUBTITLE ANGLE Press to select a subtitle display (see Switching subtitles on page 37).
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Controls and displays 13 SURROUND 19 RETURN Press to activate/switch off 2V/SRS TruSur- Press to return to a previous menu screen. round. OPEN/CLOSE Use for forward slow motion playback, frame Press to open or close the disc tray. advance and forward scanning. 15 ANGLE Press to change the camera angle during Press to jump to the next chapter or track.
Getting started Chapter 4 Getting started Switching on Let’s Get Started After making sure that everything is When you switch on the player for the first connected properly and that the player is time, you should see a welcome screen plugged in, press STANDBY/ON on the displayed on your TV.
Getting started Use the (cursor left/right) buttons to select either ‘Wide screen (16:9)’ or ‘Standard size screen (4:3)’ • Throughout this manual, ‘Select’ means according to the kind of TV you have, then use the cursor buttons to highlight an press ENTER.
Getting started Setting up with the Setup Select a DVD language. Some DVD discs feature on-screen menus, Navigator soundtracks and subtitles in several Using the Setup Navigator you can make a languages. Set your preferred language here. number of other initial settings for this player. We recommend using the Setup Navigator, Setup Navigator especially if you connected this player to an...
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Getting started Did you connect this player to an AV Is your AV receiver MPEG compatible? receiver using a digital output? Select Compatible, Not Compatible or Select Connected or Not Connected. Don’t Know. Setup Navigator Setup Navigator Language Settings AV Receiver Connected Language Settings Dolby Digital...
Getting started Playing discs Press OPEN/CLOSE to open the disc tray. The basic playback controls for playing DVD, CD, Video CD and WMA/MP3 discs are Load a disc. covered here. Further functions are detailed Load a disc with the label side facing up, in the next chapter.
Getting started • I have a standard (4:3) TV and set the player to show widescreen DVDs in pan & scan format, so why do I still get black bars top • After I load a DVD disc, it ejects automati- and bottom with some discs? cally after a few seconds! Some discs override the display prefer-...
Getting started Button What it does Stops playback. • You may find with some DVD discs that DVD and Video CD: Display shows some playback controls don’t work in RESUME. Press (stop) again to certain parts of the disc. This is not a cancel the resume function.
Getting started DVD-Video disc menus Many DVD-Video discs contain menus from which you can select what you want to watch. • If you’re using the DV–2650, most of the They may give access to additional features, buttons to navigate DVD disc menus are such as subtitle and audio language selec- available on the front panel as well as the tion, or special features such as slideshows.
Playing discs Chapter 5 Playing discs Introduction Press HOME MENU and select ‘Disc Navigator’ from the on-screen display. Most of the features described in this chapter Alternatively, if a VR format DVD-RW, CD, make use of on-screen displays. For an expla- Video CD or WMA/MP3/JPEG disc is loaded, nation of how to navigate these, see Using the you can press MENU, which takes you...
Playing discs • Not all VR format DVD-RW discs have a • It’s not possible to use the Disc Navigator Playlist. when playing a Video CD in PBC mode, or an unfinalized CD-R/RW disc. Disc Navigator • Another way to find a particular place on DVD-RW Title(1-03) a disc is to use one of the search modes.
Playing discs During playback, press (pause). Press and hold until • The picture quality when using frame slow motion playback starts. reverse is not as good as frame advance. • The slow motion speed is shown on- screen. • Depending on the disc, normal playback may automatically resume when a new •...
Playing discs Press ENTER on ‘A(Start Point)’ to set During playback, press PLAY MODE the loop start point. and select ‘Repeat’ from the list of func- tions on the left. Play Mode Play Mode A-B Repeat A(Start Point) Repeat B(End Point) A-B Repeat Title Repeat Random...
Playing discs For WMA/MP3 discs, select Disc Repeat, Select a random play option. Folder Repeat or Track Repeat (or Repeat For DVD discs, select Random Title or Off). Random Chapter, (or Random Off). Play Mode Play Mode A-B Repeat Disc Repeat A-B Repeat Random Title Repeat...
Playing discs • During random play, the On the left side is the program list, then to the buttons function a little differently to right is a list of titles (if a DVD disc is loaded), normal: returns to the beginning of tracks (for CDs and Video CDs), or folder the current track/chapter.
Playing discs For an WMA/MP3 disc, you can add a whole folder, or a track within a folder to the program list. • To save your program list and exit the • To add a folder, select the folder. program edit screen without starting play- back, press PLAY MODE or HOME Program MENU.
Playing discs Searching a disc • If you want to exit the program edit screen without saving the changes you made, You can search DVD discs by title or chapter press RETURN. number, or by time. CDs can be searched by track number, and Video CDs by track Other functions available from the number or time.
Playing discs Press ENTER to start playback. • Some discs only allow you to change audio language from the disc menu. Press TOP MENU to access. • The disc must be playing in order to use time search. • To set audio language preferences, see •...
Playing discs Zooming the screen Using the zoom feature you can magnify a • We do not recommend using DVD disc part of the screen by a factor of 2 or 4, while menus when the screen is zoomed as watching a DVD or Video CD.
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Playing discs • DVD displays Play • You can see disc information (number of Current / Total Elapsed Remain Total Title 11/38 2.05 4.57 7.02 titles/chapters, tracks, folders and so on) 1. French 1. English from the Disc Navigator screen. See Audio Dolby Digital 3/2.1CH Subtitle...
Viewing JPEG discs Chapter 6 Viewing JPEG discs Viewing JPEG discs After loading a CD/CD-R/RW containing • The , ANGLE and ZOOM buttons do not JPEG pictures, press to start a slideshow work while the display shows LOADING. from the first folder/picture on the disc. The player displays the pictures in each folder in •...
Viewing JPEG discs Zooming the screen • When a folder is highlighted you can press ENTER to open the Photo Browser Using the zoom feature you can magnify a screen for that folder. See below for more part of the screen by a factor of 2 or 4, while on using the Photo Browser.
Audio Settings menu Chapter 7 Audio Settings menu Audio DRC Press ENTER to make the setting and exit the Audio Settings screen. • Default setting: Off When watching Dolby Digital DVDs at low volume, it’s easy to lose the quieter sounds completely—including some of the dialog.
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Audio Settings menu Press HOME MENU and select ‘Audio Settings’ from the on-screen display. • You can also use the SURROUND button HOME MENU on the remote control to switch Virtual Surround on (2V/SRS TruSurround)/ Audio Settings Video Adjust Off. Play Mode Disc Navigator Setup Navigator...
Video Adjust menu Chapter 8 Video Adjust menu Video Adjust Creating your own presets You can create up to three presets of your • Default setting: Standard own. From the Video Adjust screen you can select the standard video presentation or define Select one of the Memory presets (see presets of your own.
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Video Adjust menu You can adjust any or all of the following picture quality settings: • Contrast – Adjusts the contrast between light and dark. • Brightness – Adjusts the overall bright- ness. • Chroma Level – Adjusts how saturated colors appear.
Initial Settings menu Chapter 9 Initial Settings menu Using the Initial Settings Digital Audio Out settings menu Digital Out The Initial Settings menu gives you complete control in setting up your DVD player, You only need to make this setting if you including audio, and video output settings, connected this player to an AV receiver (or other audience limitation settings, among others.
Initial Settings menu If your AV receiver (or other connected component) is Dolby Digital compatible, set to Dolby Digital, otherwise set to Dolby Initial Settings Digital > PCM. Digital Audio Out Digital Out 96 kHz > 48kHz Video Output Dolby Digital Out 96 kHz Language DTS Out...
Initial Settings menu Video Output settings • If you make a setting here that is incom- TV Screen patible with your TV, the TV may not • Default setting: 4:3 (Letter Box) display any picture at all. If this happens either switch everything off and reconnect Initial Settings to the TV using either the supplied audio/...
Initial Settings menu Subtitle Language If you find that the picture is stretched or distorted on the default S2 setting, try • Default setting: English changing it to S1. Initial Settings Language settings Digital Audio Out Audio Language English Video Output Subtitle Language French Language...
Initial Settings menu Display settings DVD Menu Language • Default setting: w/Subtitle Lang. OSD Language Initial Settings • Default setting: English Digital Audio Out Audio Language w/Subtitle Lang. Video Output Subtitle Language English Initial Settings Language DVD Menu Lang. French Display Subtitle Display German...
Initial Settings menu Select ‘Password’. If you prefer not to see the camera icon on- screen during multi-angle scenes on DVD discs, change this setting to Off. Initial Settings Digital Audio Out Parental Lock Password Options Video Output PhotoViewer Level Change Language Country Code Display...
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Initial Settings menu Use the number buttons to enter your Use number buttons to enter your existing password, then press ENTER. password, then press ENTER. The numbers appear as asterisks as you enter them. Initial Settings Parental Lock : Level Change Digital Audio Out Initial Settings Video Output...
Initial Settings menu PhotoViewer Use number buttons to enter your password, then press ENTER. Default setting: On • Initial Settings Initial Settings Parental Lock: Country Code Digital Audio Out Digital Audio Out Parental Lock Video Output Password * * * * Video Output PhotoViewer Language...
Additional information Chapter 10 Additional information Taking care of your player and If necessary, use a cloth soaked in alcohol, or a commercially available CD/DVD cleaning kit discs to clean a disc more thoroughly. Never use benzine, thinner or other cleaning agents, including products designed for cleaning Handling discs vinyl records.
For this reason you should leave it to Pioneer disclaims all liability arising in adjust to the warmer temperature for about connection with the use of shaped discs.
A damaged power cable can cause a fire or give you an electric shock. Check the power cable once in a while. If you find it damaged, ask your nearest Pioneer authorized service center or your dealer for a replacement.
Additional information Set to 4:3 (Pan&Scan), widescreen discs are The player’s display shows “Welcome Pioneer”, then indicates the new setting. shown with the left and right sides cropped. Although the picture looks larger, you don’t actually see the whole picture.
Additional information Resetting the player DVD-Video regions Use this procedure to reset all the player’s All DVD-Video discs carry a region mark on settings to the factory default. the case somewhere that indicates which region(s) of the world the disc is compatible Switch the player into standby.
Additional information Language code list Language (Language code letter), Language code Japanese (ja), 1001 Bhutani (dz), 0426 Kirghiz (ky), 1125 Sinhalese (si), 1909 English (en), 0514 Esperanto (eo), 0515 Latin (la), 1201 Slovak (sk), 1911 French (fr), 0618 Estonian (et), 0520 Lingala (ln), 1214 Slovenian (sl), 1912 German (de), 0405...
Additional information Glossary DRM (digital rights management) is a type of server software developed to enable secure Analog audio distribution of paid content over the web, An electrical signal that directly represents recently incorporated by WMA (Windows sound. Compare this to digital audio which Media Audio ).
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Additional information JPEG Regions (DVD-Video only) A file format used for still images, such as These associate discs and players with partic- photographs and illustrations. JPEG files are ular areas of the world. This unit will only play identified by the file extension “.jpg” or “.JPG”. discs that have compatible region codes.
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