User manual APEX HT-170

[. . . ] Safety Precautions The lightning flash with an arrowhead symbol within an equilateral triangle is intended to alert the user to the presence of uninsulated "dangerous voltage" within the product's enclosure that may be of sufficient magnitude to constitute a risk of electric shock to persons. The exclamation point within an equilateral triangle is intended to alert the user to the presence of important operating and maintenance (servicing) instructions in the literature accompanying the appliance. CAUTION RISK OF ELECTRIC SHOCK DO NOT OPEN ! AVIS RISQUE DE CHOC ELECTRIQUE NE PAS OUVRIR ! CAUTION: TO REDUCE THE RISK OF ELECTRIC SHOCK, DO NOT REMOVE COVER (OR BACK). REFER SERVICING TO QUALIFIED SERVICE PERSONNEL. CAUTION: (VISIBLE) LASER RADIATION WHEN OPEN. [. . . ] Use of this copyright protection technology must be authorized by Macrovision Corporation, and is intended for home and other limited viewing uses only unless otherwise authorized by Macrovision Corporation. Reverse engineering or disassembly is prohibited. It is forbidden by law to copy, broadcast, show, play in public, and rent copyrighted material without permission. DVD video discs are copy protected, and any recordings made from these discs will be distorted. Manufactured under license from Dolby Labs. "Dolby" and the double-D symbol are trademarks of Dolby Laboratories. ©1992-1997 Dolby Laboratories, Inc. 10 A P E X D I G I TA L H T 1 7 0 AFF Function WHAT IS AFF? AFF stands for Active Full-screen Function. It allows you to fill the television screen viewing area when using a wide screen formatted DVD. Press the AFF button on your remote control, this will eliminate black bars on the top & bottom of the TV screen when viewing movies with an aspect ratio of 1. 85:1 and minimize (but not eliminate) black bars on movies with a wider aspect ratio (2. 35:1). Before AFF After AFF Playing Back a Disc HOW TO PLAYBACK A DISC. ck Basic Playback How to playback DVD video discs. · Turn on the TV and select the video input source which is connected to the unit. 1. Press the STANDBY/ON button on the front panel. The power indicator lights up in green, the unit turns on. 2. Press the OPEN/CLOSE button. This will open the disc tray. ! · When the unit enters into standby mode, the indicator turns to red. 3. Place the disc on the disc tray. Be sure the playback side is faced down. ! · A disc may be damaged if not correctly placed on the guides in the disc tray. This may also cause the unit to malfunction. ! · The menu screen will appear automatically or you may access the menu screen by pressing the TITLE button. 4. Press the OPEN/CLOSE button again. After closing the disc tray, playback will start. NOTICE: · Moving the unit during playback may cause damage to the disc as well as player. · To open and close the disc tray, you may only use the OPEN/CLOSE button on the remote control or the unit. H T 1 7 0 A P E X D I G I TA L 11 Playing Back a Disc FOR A HIGHER QUALITY PICTURE Continued The DVD discs produce a high resolution picture with abundance of information. This may cause some picture noise on the TV during playback. The noise will vary depending on the TV used with the unit. To control picture noise reduce the sharpness adjustment on your TV when viewing DVD discs. ABOUT DVD, CD DVD, CD icons will appear depending on the disc being played back. DVD: DVD video discs CD: Audio CDs HOW TO START PLAYBACK FROM THE MENU SCREEN 1. Press or the number buttons to select the title. Press the ENTER button. The unit will start playback from the title selected. Title 1 Title 2 Title 3 Title 4 HOW TO PAUSE PLAYBACK (STILL PLAYBACK) Press the PLAY/PAUSE during playback. [. . . ] What you're viewing is the effect of the copy protection circuitry required on all units. · If you don't have a video input on your TV, you must purchase an RF adapter from your dealer. · Place the disc with the graphics side up. · Place the disc on the disc tray correctly inside the guide. [. . . ]