User manual SAMSUNG HT-D355

[. . . ] Thank you for purchasing this Samsung product. To receive more complete service, please register your product at This symbol indicates "dangerous voltage" inside the product that presents a risk of electric shock or personal injury. ~ To reduce the risk of fire or electric shock, do not expose this appliance to rain or moisture. ~ Apparatus shall not be exposed to dripping or splashing and no objects filled with liquids, such as vases, shall be placed on the apparatus. [. . . ] If you have not selected a preferred language in the initial settings, you will see a language selection window next time you turn on the product. your language selection will apply to all menus: On-Screen Menu , Disc Menu , Audio , Subtitle. If you want to move to the previous screen, press the RETURN button. Once you select a menu language, you can change it by pressing the STOP (@) button on the remote control for more than 5 seconds with no disc inserted. When the Initial Settings screen does not appear, refer to the Initial Settings. This will optimize the picture quality according to the content (In the DVD disc, etc) that you want to play and the product or your BD Wise-compliant Samsung TV. If you want to change the resolution in BD Wise mode, you must set BD mode to Off in advance. Depending on the type of television you have, you may want to adjust the screen setting. ~ 4:3 Pan-Scan Select when you want to see the 16:9 video supplied by the DVD without the black bars on top and bottom, even though you have a TV with a 4:3 ratio screen(extreme left and right portion of the movie picture will be cut off). ~ 4:3 Letter Box Select when you want to see the total 16:9 ratio screen DVD supplies, even though you have a TV with a 4:3 ratio screen. black bars will appear at the top and bottom of the screen. ~ 16:9 Wide You can view the full 16:9 picture on your widescreen TV. The number in 480p(576p), 720p, 1080i and 1080p indicates the number of lines of video. ~ BD Wise : Automatically sets the optimal resolution when connected via HDMI to a TV with the BD Wise feature. You can optimize the colour setting from the HDMI output. If a DVD is in the 4:3 ratio, you cannot view it in the wide screen. Since DVD discs are recorded in various image formats, they will look different depending on the software, the type of TV, and the TV aspect ratio setting. Different countries apply different TV standard. ~ NTSC : You can select the NTSC video format ~ PAL : You can select the PAL video format When you connect Samsung products with BD-Wise to each other via HDMI, the optimum resolution will be set automatically. You can set the Speaker Size of the Center and Surround Speakers, as well as Test Tone in this mode. If the speakers cannot be placed at equal distances from the listening position, you can adjust the delay time of the audio signals from the Center and Surround speakers. You can also set the Test Tone in this mode. [. . . ] Audio language and subtitles do not work. The Disc/Title menu screen does not appear even when the Disc/Title function is selected. You can play 16:9 DVDs in 16:9 WIDE mode, 4:3 LETTER BOX mode, or 4:3 PAN SCAN mode, but 4:3 DVDs can be seen in 4:3 ratio only. (Example: The power goes out or the front panel key doesn't work or a strange noise is heard. [. . . ]