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DVD Player
Reproductor DVD
DV-868AVi
DV-668AV
Operating Instructions
Manual de instrucciones
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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.
IMPORTANT
CAUTION:
TO PREVENT THE RISK OF ELECTRIC
SHOCK, DO NOT REMOVE COVER (OR
BACK). NO USER-SERVICEABLE PARTS
INSIDE. REFER SERVICING TO QUALIFIED
SERVICE PERSONNEL.
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.
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RISK OF ELECTRIC SHOCK
DO NOT OPEN
CAUTION
This product complies with the Low Voltage Directive
(73/23/EEC, amended by 93/68/EEC), EMC Directives
(89/336/EEC, amended by 92/31/EEC and 93/68/EEC).
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CAUTION
This product contains a laser diode of higher class
than 1. To ensure continued safety, do not remove
any covers or attempt to gain access to the inside of
the product.
Refer all servicing to qualified personnel.
The following caution label appears on your unit.
Location: rear of the unit
CLASS 1
LASER PRODUCT
CAUTION: THE STANDBY/ON BUTTON IS
SECONDARY CONNECTED AND THEREFORE DOES
NOT SEPARATE THE UNIT FROM MAINS POWER IN
STANDBY POSITION. THEREFORE INSTALL THE
UNIT SUITABLE PLACES EASY TO DISCONNECT
THE MAINS PLUG IN CASE OF THE ACCIDENT. THE
MAINS PLUG OF UNIT SHOULD BE UNPLUGGED
FROM THE WALL SOCKET WHEN LEFT UNUSED
FOR A LONG PERIOD OF TIME.
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WARNING: Slot and openings in the cabinet
are provided for ventilation and to ensure reliable op-
eration of the product and to protect it from overheat-
ing, to prevent fire hazard, the openings should never
be blocked and covered with items, such as newspa-
pers, table-cloths, curtains, etc. Also do not put the ap-
paratus on the thick carpet, bed, sofa, or fabric having a
thick pile.
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WARNING: THE APPARATUS IS NOT WATER-
PROOFS, TO PREVENT FIRE OR SHOCK HAZARD, DO
NOT EXPOSE THIS APPARATUS TO RAIN OR MOIS-
TURE AND DO NOT PUT ANY WATER SOURCE NEAR
THIS APPARATUS, SUCH AS VASE, FLOWER POT, COS-
METICS CONTAINER AND MEDICINE BOTTLE ETC.
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On the top of the player
[For DV-668AV only]
[For DV-868AVi only]
CAUTION: The POWER switch does not
completely separates the unit from the MAINS
in off position, therefore install the unit suitable
places easy to disconnect the MAINS plug in case
of the accident. The MAINS plug of unit should
be unplugged from the wall socket when left
unused for a long period of time.
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WARNING: BEFORE PLUGGING IN THE UNIT
FOR THE FIRST TIME, READ THE FOLLOWING SECTION
CAREFULLY. THE VOLTAGE OF THE AVAILABLE POWER
SUPPLY DIFFERS ACCORDING TO COUNTRY OR RE-
GION. BE SURE THAT THE POWER SUPPLY VOLTAGE
OF THE AREA WHERE THIS UNIT WILL BE USED MEETS
THE REQUIRED VOLTAGE (E.G., 230V OR 120V) WRIT-
TEN ON THE REAR PANEL.
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WARNING: NO NAKED FLAME SOURCES,
SUCH AS LIGHTED CANDLE, SHOULD BE PLACED ON
THE APPARATUS. IF NAKED FLAME SOURCES ACCI-
DENTALLY FALL DOWN, FIRE SPREAD OVER THE AP-
PARATUS THEN MAY CAUSE FIRE.
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OPERATING ENVIRONMENT
Operating environment temperature and humidity:
+5
°C +35°C (+41°F +95°F); less than 85%RH (cooling
vents not blocked)
Do not install in the following locations
Location exposed to direct sunlight or strong artificial light
Location exposed to high humidity, or poorly ventilated
location
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When disposing of used batteries, please comply with
governmental regulations or environmental public
instruction's rules that apply in your country or area.
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This product complies with the following
i.LINK interface specifications:
1) IEEE Std 1394a-2000, Standard for a High
Performance Serial Bus
2) Audio and Music Data Transmission
Protocol 2.0
Following the standard for AM824 sequence
adaptation layers, the product is compatible
with IEC60958 bitstream, DVD-A and SACD
media.
This product includes FontAvenue fonts
licenced by NEC corporation.FontAvenue is a
registered trademark of NEC Corporation.
This product is for general household purposes. Any
failure due to use for other than household purposes
(such as long-term use for business purposes in a res-
taurant or use in a car or ship) and which requires repair
will be charged for even during the warranty period.
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This product incorporates copyright protection
technology that is protected by method claims of
certain U.S. patents and other intellectual property
rights owned by Macrovision Corporation and other
rights owners. 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.
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Contents
01 Before you start
Features
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
What's in the box
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Putting the batteries in the remote
control
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Using the remote control
. . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Disc / content format playback
compatibility
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
General disc compatibility
. . . . . . . . . . . . 9
CD-R/RW compatibility
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
DVD-R/RW compatibility
. . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Compressed audio compatibility
. . . . . . . 9
PC created disc compatibility
. . . . . . . . 10
Titles, chapters, groups and tracks
. . . . . . 10
DVD-Video regions
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
02 Connecting up
Rear panel
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Easy connections
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Using other types of video output
. . . . . . . 15
Connecting using an S-Video output
. . . 15
Connecting using the AV connector
output
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Connecting using the component video
output
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Connecting for multichannel surround
sound
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Connecting using the multichannel
analog outputs
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Connecting using a digital audio
output
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Connecting using i.LINK
. . . . . . . . . . . . 19
About i.LINK
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Creating an i.LINK network
. . . . . . . . . . 20
Connecting using HDMI
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
About HDMI
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Controlling this player from another
Pioneer component
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
03 Controls and displays
Front panel
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
About progressive scan video
. . . . . . . . . . 26
Compatibility of this unit with
progressive-scan TVs.
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Display
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Remote control
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
04 Getting Started
Setting the TV system
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Watching NTSC on a PAL TV
. . . . . . . . . . 30
Switching on
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Let's Get Started
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Using the on-screen displays
. . . . . . . . . . . 32
Setting up with the Setup Navigator
. . . . . 33
Playing discs
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Basic playback controls
. . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
DVD disc menus
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Video CD/Super VCD PBC menus
. . . . . . 38
05 Playing discs
Introduction
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Using the Disc Navigator to browse the
contents of a disc
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Scanning discs
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Using the MULTI dial
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Playing in slow motion
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Frame advance/frame reverse
. . . . . . . . . . 44
Looping a section of a disc
. . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Using repeat play
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Using random play
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Creating a program list
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Editing a program list
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Other functions available from the
program menu
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Searching a disc
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Switching subtitles
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Switching the DVD audio language
. . . . . . 50
Switching DVD-RW audio channels
. . . . . 51
Switching DVD-Audio audio channels
. . . . 51
Switching CD/MP3/Video CD/Super VCD
audio channels
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Switching camera angles
. . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Displaying disc information
. . . . . . . . . . . . 51
06 Audio Settings menu
Note about features in the Audio
Settings menu
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Audio DRC
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
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Hi-Bit
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Virtual Surround
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Channel Level
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Speaker Distance
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
07 Video Settings menu
Video Adjust
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Creating your own presets
. . . . . . . . . . . 57
08 Initial Settings menu
Using the Initial Settings menu
. . . . . . . . 60
Digital Audio Out settings
. . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Digital Out
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Dolby Digital Out
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
DTS Out
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Linear PCM Out
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
MPEG Out
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Video Output settings
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
TV Screen
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Component Out
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
AV Connector Out
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
S-Video Out
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Still Picture
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Language settings
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Audio Language
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Subtitle Language
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Auto Language
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
DVD Menu Language
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Subtitle Display
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Display settings
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
OSD Language
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
On Screen Display
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Angle Indicator
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Background
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Screen Saver
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Options
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Parental Lock
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Bonus Group
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Auto Disc Menu
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Group Playback
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
DVD Playback Mode
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
SACD Playback
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
HDMI Settings
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
CD Playback
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
DTS Downmix
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Speakers
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Audio Output Mode
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Speaker Installation
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Speaker Distance
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Channel Level
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
i.LINK Setup
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Audio Out
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Connections Setup
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Auto Select Play
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
DVD-Audio Out
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
09 Additional information
Taking care of your player and discs
. . . . . 79
Handling discs
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Storing discs
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Discs to avoid
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Cleaning the pickup lens
. . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Problems with condensation
. . . . . . . . . . 80
Hints on installation
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Moving the player
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Power cable caution
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Screen sizes and disc formats
. . . . . . . . . . 81
Widescreen TV users
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Standard TV users
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Resetting the player
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
About the audio output settings
. . . . . . . . 82
About the HDMI output settings
. . . . . . . . 83
About the i.LINK output settings
. . . . . . . . 84
Language Code list
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Country Code list
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Selecting languages using the Language
Code list
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Glossary
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Troubleshooting
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
General
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
DVD/CD/Video CD/Super VCD player
. . . 90
HDMI troubleshooting
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
i.LINK troubleshooting
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
i.LINK-related messages
. . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
Specifications
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
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