User manual PANASONIC SC-HT920

[. . . ] Operating Instructions DVD Home Theater Sound System Model No. SC-HT920 Before connecting, operating or adjusting this product, please read these instructions completely. Please keep this manual for future reference. Table of contents Getting started IMPORTANT SAFETY INSTRUCTIONS . 3 Simple setup Region number The player plays DVD-Video marked with labels containing "1" or "ALL". Example: STEP 1 STEP 2 STEP 3 STEP 4 STEP 5 STEP 6 STEP 7 1 ALL 1 2 4 Front speaker assembly . 6 Connecting speakers with the subwoofer . [. . . ] While stopped Select "Play as Data Disc" to play JPEG files on DVD-RAM or to play a HighMAT disc without using the HighMAT function. Signal type/data LPCM/PPCM/ÎDigital/DTS/MPEG: Signal type kHz (Sampling frequency)/bit/ch (Number of channels) Example: 3/2 . 1ch . 1: . 1: . 0: . 1: . 2: . 1: . 2: . 3: Low frequency effect (not displayed if there is no signal) No surround Mono surround Stereo surround (left/right) Center Front leftiFront right Front leftiFront rightiCenter Multi Re-master RQT7696 19 Using on-screen menus Changing the player settings (Refer to page 10 for remote control button positions. ) 1 SHIFT 2 Select 3 Select ENTER ENTER 4 Select DISC 1 DISC 2 DISC 3 5 1 2 DISC 5 3 6 9 ENTER r SETUP MUTING DISC 4 4 ENTER 5 8 0 7 Go right Register Register SHIFT S10 r SETUP MUTING Shows Setup menu. Item Select the tab. Select the item. Make the settings. Press to exit. The settings remain intact even if you switch the unit to standby. Underlined items are the factory preset. The QUICK SETUP enables successive settings of the items in the shaded area. Changing the player settings Setup Tab Disc Video Audio Display Others Audio Subtitle Menus Ratings English Automatic English Level 8 Setting to select and press ENTER RETURN to exit "Disc" tab Audio Choose the audio language. English Automatic§3 French English Spanish French Original§1 Spanish Other¢¢¢¢§2 Other¢¢¢¢§2 Subtitle Choose the subtitle language. Menus Choose the language for disc menus. English French Spanish Other¢¢¢¢§2 Changing the menu language from QUICK SETUP also changes this setting. Setting ratings (When level 8 is selected) 8 No Limit 1 to 7 0 Lock All: To prevent play of discs without ratings levels. Changing ratings (When level 0­7 is selected) Unlock Player Change Password Change Level §3 Ratings Set a ratings level to limit DVD-Video play. Follow the on-screen instructions. §1 Temporary Unlock The original language designated on the disc is selected. §2 Input a code number referring to the table on page 34. If the language selected for "Audio" is not available, subtitle appears in that language (If available on the disc). "Video" tab TV Aspect Choose the setting to suit your television and preference. 4:3 Pan&Scan: Regular aspect television (4:3) The sides of the widescreen picture are cut off so it fills the screen (unless prohibited by the disc). 4:3 Letterbox: Regular aspect television (4:3) Widescreen picture is shown in the letterbox style. 16:9: Widescreen television (16:9) TV Type Select to suit the type of television. Standard (Direct View TV) CRT Projector Projection TV 0ms 20ms 40ms LCD TV/Projector Plasma TV 60ms 80ms 100ms Time Delay When connected with a Plasma display, adjust if you notice the audio is out of sync with the video. Still Mode Specify the type of picture shown when paused. Automatic Field: The picture is not blurred, but picture quality is lower. Frame: Overall quality is high, but the picture may appear blurred. Lighter: When connected through VIDEO OUT or S VIDEO OUT Darker: When connected through COMPONENT VIDEO OUT (Y/PB/PR) Black Level Control Change the black level of the picture if you connected a television through the COMPONENT VIDEO OUT terminals. RQT7696 20 "Audio" tab Dynamic Range Compression Off On: Adjust for clarity even when the volume is low through compressing the range of the lowest sound level and the highest sound level. (Only works with Dolby Digital) Audio during Search Speaker Setting (< below) Set the delay time for your center and surround speakers. On Off Center: Surround (L/R): 0. 0/1. 0/2. 0/3. 0/4. 0/5. 0 ms 0. 0/5. 0/10. 0/15. 0 ms "Display" tab Menu Language On-Screen Messages English On Français Español "Others" tab FL Dimmer HighMAT QUICK SETUP Re-initialize Setting This returns all values in the Setup menus to the default settings. Bright Dim Auto: The display is dimmed during play, but brightens when you perform some operations. Enable Disable (Unable to use the HighMAT function. ) Yes No Yes: The password screen is shown if Ratings (<page 20) are set. After "INIT" on the display disappears, turn the unit off and on again. No Changing the delay time (Speaker Setting) (Effective when playing multi-channel audio) (Center and surround speakers only) For optimum listening with 5. 1-channel sound, all the speakers, except for the subwoofer, should be the same distance from the seating position. If you have to place the center or surround speakers closer to the seating position, adjust the delay time to make up for the difference. Center delay time a Center speaker Difference Approx. 170 cm (51/2 feet) L ms 0. 0 C 2 1 Setting 1. 0 ms 2. 0 ms 3. 0 ms 4. 0 ms 5. 0 ms R b Surround speaker Difference Setting 5. 0 ms 10. 0 ms 15. 0 ms Exit Exit SW Approx. 340 cm (11 feet) 1 LS ms 0. 0 RS Approx. 510 cm (161/2 feet) To finish the speaker setting Press [2] to select "Exit" and press [ENTER]. Surround delay time 1 Press [3 4] to select the delay time box and press [ENTER]. [. . . ] Reverse engineering or disassembly is prohibited. MPEG Layer-3 audio decoding technology licensed from Fraunhofer IIS and Thomson multimedia. Windows Media, and the Windows logo are trademarks, or registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/or other countries. WMA is a compression format developed by Microsoft Corporation. [. . . ]