User manual JBL DVD 280

[. . . ] Important Safety Precautions! CAUTION RISK OF ELECTRIC SHOCK DO NOT OPEN CAUTION: To reduce the risk of electric shock, do not remove cover (or back). Refer servicing to qualified service personnel. CAUTION: To prevent electric shock, do not use this (polarized) plug with an extension cord, receptacle or other outlet unless the blades can be fully inserted to prevent blade exposure. The lightning flash with 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. 1. [. . . ] However, if your receiver or processor is not capable of decoding these formats, set the digital output to "PCM" to enable the receiver or processor to play back 2-channel audio or use matrix decoding (e. g. , Dolby Pro Logic I or II) if available (see Figure 21). Changes to this setting that are made during disc playback will not take effect until after play is stopped and restarted. Figure 22 The Dynamic Range setting allows you to take advantage of the programming present on some Dolby Digital recordings to reduce the volume of louder, peak passages so as to avoid disturbing others, while Figure 24 The Aspect Ratio setting selects the TV aspect ratio: conventional screen shape (4:3) or widescreen (16:9), according to your TV. · 4:3 Letterbox: Choose this setting if 25 the DVD280 is connected to a conventional (4:3) TV set and you would prefer to see movies without any parts being cut off. You will see the entire frame of the movie, and DVDs recorded with normal 4:3 format will fill the entire screen. But movies in widescreen will occupy a smaller portion of the screen, with black bars at the top and bottom of the screen. · 4:3 PanScan: Choose this setting if the DVD280 is connected to a conventional (4:3) TV set and you want widescreen movies to fill the entire screen. Note that this setting is effective only with a few widescreen DVDs recorded with the Pan and Scan mode. With those movies, you won't see parts of the picture (particularly the right and left edges). Most discs produced in a widescreen format can't be cropped in this fashion, which means the black bars will appear at the top and bottom of the screen (letterbox format). Some widescreen DVDs, particularly anamorphic types (with full verticalline resolution; see section "16:9" below), may be shown with original width but spread vertically. With these discs, the letterbox format must be selected. This setting is useful only with a few DVDs; with all others, the letterbox format fits best. · 16:9 Widescreen: Choose this setting if your DVD player is connected to a widescreen TV, or to a conventional (4:3) TV changeable to widescreen (16:9) mode. With this setup, discs recorded with 4:3 aspect ratio will appear as a boxed image in the center of a 16:9 widescreen TV, with black bars to the left and right of the image (not with 4:3 TVs changeable to 16:9 mode). True widescreen (anamorphic) DVDs (i. e. , those shown spread vertically when the DVD280 is set to "16:9" and your TV is set to "4:3") will be shown optimally with full vertical resolution. With some 4:3 TVs set to 16:9 format, discs with 4:3 format may be played compressed vertically. With those discs, the TV must be set to 4:3 format. If you are using a 16:9 video display, then select that setting. If your display is in the 4:3 format, then you should choose either the 4:3 Letterbox setting if you wish to preserve all of the information available in widescreen programs, or the 4:3 PanScan setting if you prefer not to see black bars on-screen, at the expense of losing some portions of the picture during some programs (see Figure 25). change this setting to "Interlaced" . This setting does not affect the SCART connection (see Figure 27). NOTE: If you have connected the DVD280 to a video display that is not capable of displaying progressive scan video using the Component (Y/Pr/Pb) Video Outputs , and you have inadvertently changed the Scan Type setting to Progressive, you may reset the scan type to interlaced by pressing and holding the Clear Button q for at least 5 seconds. The display will blink, indicating that the scan type has been reset to interlaced mode. [. . . ] · Make sure disc's Region Code matches code shown on rear panel of unit. · Enter password to override or change rating settings (see page 23). · Check input selection of TV or receiver. · Use Progressive Scan mode only with compatible TV. [. . . ]