Cary Audio Design DVD 8 manual

OWNER’S MANUAL ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo DVD 8 All F ormat Disk Play er NOTE: Bef ore installing your new DVD 8 player , please read this manual carefully as it will inform you of the product speci fi cations, proper installa[...]

TABLE OF CONTENTS 1 Important Safety Instructions .............................................................. 2 Welcome Thank You ................................................................................................... 5 Product Features .......................................................................................... 5 Unpac[...]

IMPORTANT SAFETY INSTRUCTIONS 2 WARNING: To reduce the risk of fi re or electric shock, do not expose this app liance to rain or moisture. The li ghtning flash with arrowhead symb ol within an equilateral t riang le is intended to alert the user to the presen ce of un-insulated dangerous voltage within the product’s en cl osure that may be of suf[...]

IMPORTANT SAFETY INSTRUCTIONS 3 14. LIGHTNING: For added protectio n for t he un it dur ing a lightning storm, or when it is left unattended and unused for long periods of t ime, unp lug it from the wall outlet an d disconnect the antenna or cable system. This will prevent damage to the unit due to li ghtning and power line surges. 15. POWER LINES:[...]

IMPORTANT SAFETY INSTRUCTIONS 4 26. FCC INFORMAT ION FOR USER: CAUTION: ANY changes or mo difications not expres sly approved by the party responsible for compliance could void the use r 's author ity to operate the equipment. NOTE: This equipment has been tested and found t o comply wi th the l imits for a Class B digital device pursuant to P[...]

WELCOME 5 THANK YOU Dear Cary Audio Customer: We would like to thank you for your decision to buy a Cinema Series DVD 8 player. The DVD 8 offers superb audio quality playback of your CD s and DVDs, and has a fantastic picture to ma tch. Whether you are enjoying listening to your favorite artists through your CD and SACD collection, or jumping out o[...]

WELCOME 6 UNPACKING AND INSTALLATION This section describes the unpacking and instal lation procedures for your new component. Unpacking All Cary Audio Design shipping cartons have been specially designed to protect their contents and special care has been taken to prevent damage under normal ship ping conditions. Mishandling should be evident upon[...]

SPECIFICATIONS 7 Operating the DVD 8 player is a simple procedure. It is designed fo r long term stability in virtually any home operating environment. However, if th e uni t is operated outside the parameters outlined in this owner's manual, dam age may re sult. Please read this manual carefully before putting your new DVD 8 player into opera[...]

SPECIFICATIONS 8 DIGITAL AUDIO OUTPUT SPECIFICATIONS ........................................................................................................................................................................... Coaxial Digital Dolby Digital / DTS / LPCM 200 mV rms. @ 75 Ohms ............................................................[...]

MAKING CONNECTIONS 9 To accommodate a wide r ange of home entertainment systems, this player features num erous types of connections for both au dio and video. Please continue reading this section for help determining the best possible connectio ns for your system. BEFORE CONNECTING Read the instruction manuals of any component that you plan to con[...]

MAKING CONNECTIONS 10 HDMI cables are available from your de aler and sh ould not be more than 15’ (4.5 m) in length without having special signal repeaters ‘in line’ to mak e the signal go further. HDMI to DVI-D connectors will possibly work with the HDMI connector on the DVD 8 but they m ust provide the ‘digital handshake’ to the DVD 8 [...]

MAKING CONNECTIONS 11 playback then the 5.1 analog outputs will need to be c onnected to the 5.1 analog bypass inputs of the companion surround sound preamplifie r, processor or AV receiver. Please make sure you have the correct channels plugged into the Front Left, Front Right, Center, Left and Right Surrounds and the Sub Woofer connecti ons on th[...]

CONTROLS AND DISPLAYS 12 FRONT PANEL 1. POWER • Press once to turn the power ON. • Press again to turn the power OFF. The DVD 8 will enter into S TANDBY and the blue POWER LED will light. 2. DISC LOADER TRAY • Load discs here. 3. OPEN • Press this button to open and close the disc load er tray. 4. PLAY • Press this button to start playbac[...]

CONTROLS AND DISPLAYS 13 REAR PANEL 1. POWER INPUT (AC IN) • Connect to an AC power supply using the in cluded power supply cord. Aftermar ket AC power cables may also be used. Consult your dealer for advice. 2. HDMI OUTPUT JACK • Use HDMI to connect to a compatible TV, Video Monitor, surround preamplifier or AV receiver that has an HDMI input.[...]

CONTROLS AND DISPLAYS 14 8. COAXIAL DIGITAL AUDIO JACK • Connect this to your compatible surround sound preamplifier, processor or AV rec eiver. Use only one of the digital audio connec tions, eith er the optical video output or the coaxial (RCA) digital output. This connection offers the digital aud i o signal to y our associated surround so und[...]

CONTROLS AND DISPLAYS 15 REMOTE CONTROL This section explains how b est to use the remote control to set up and operate th e DVD 8 play er. 1. POWER – Power ON; toggle STANDBY 2. MEMORY – Save/jump to playing point 3. AUDIO ONLY – Turn video On/Off 4. VOLUME - – Decre ase vo lume 5. NUMBERS – Enter numeric title or track number values 6. [...]

GETTING STARTED 16 SWITCHING ON After making sure that everything is connected pr operly and that the player is plugged in, press the POWER button on the front panel to turn the player on. Turn on your TV and make sure th at it is set to the correct input for the DVD 8. The video display shoul d be ON first if you are using the HDMI connection so t[...]

GETTING STARTED 17 screen. Pan and Scan selects the center of the scene of widescreen material to make it fit the NORMAL screen (so even though th e image looks larger on the screen, you're actually seeing less of the complete pict ure). Press ENTER to save the setting. 3. Select the desired display option . The options are: • 4:3 Pan/Scan ?[...]

CHANGING THE DEFAULT SETTINGS 18 CHOOSE THE SETUP MENU The SETUP menu allows you to make alterations to the video, audio, disc, progressive and AV Sync settings. Use the UP  , DOWN  , LEFT  , and RIGHT  cursors button s to select the desired setting. Press ENTER to save changes in settings. Press t he SETUP button and the following opti[...]

CHANGING THE DEFAULT SETTINGS 19 ........................................................................................................................................................................... ANGLE MARK Use this to set the MULTI-ANGLE camer a scenes on some DVD Discs. The options are: • ON – Offers multi-angle camera scenes on some[...]

CHANGING THE DEFAULT SETTINGS 20 output will be stereo. For multi-channel content only the left front and right front channels will be re-produced. • Stereo (default) - This mode down-mixes decoded multi-channel (5.1ch) audio to 2- channel stereo output. For stereo content the ou tput will be stereo. For multi-channel content the surround and cen[...]

CHANGING THE DEFAULT SETTINGS 21 • Press the LEFT/RIGHT ARROW button s to set the distance difference. • Press the SELECT button to confirm the settings and return to the Speaker Setup Page. • The channel delay is the difference between the distance from th e listener to the front speakers and the dist ance from the listener to the speaker to[...]

CHANGING THE DEFAULT SETTINGS 22 The DVD 8 will automatically set the digital to analog converte r (DA C) sample rate to match the data rate of any CD, DVD-Audio or DVD disk it is playing (48, 96, 192 kHz) when you have the audio turned ON for the HDMI section. If you wish to control the sample rate ma nually you need to first set the HDMI audio to[...]

CHANGING THE DEFAULT SETTINGS 23 • L-Mono – Left channel output to both Left and Right speak ers. • R-Mono – Right channel output to both Left and Right speak ers. • Mix Mono – Left and Right channels mixed to b oth Left and Right speakers. B. Dynamic: To set the D ynamic Range Compression (DRC). DRC can smooth out the sonic peaks and v[...]

CHANGING THE DEFAULT SETTINGS 24 ........................................................................................................................................................................... Brightness (Default: 00) Use this to adjust the brightness (black l evel) of th e video output. • Press the SELECT button to sh ow the Brig htn[...]

CHANGING THE DEFAULT SETTINGS 25 PREFERENCE SETUP OPTIO NS : ........................................................................................................................................................................... TV TYPE Use this to set the ou tput v ideo system (PAL/NTS C) to match the type of TV. The options are: • Auto – [...]

CHANGING THE DEFAULT SETTINGS 26 ........................................................................................................................................................................... DISC MENU Use this to set the languag e of the menus recorded on the disc (top menu, etc.) ENGLISH (default) - Select if you want th e menus in E[...]

CHANGING THE DEFAULT SETTINGS 27 PG – Parental Guidance Parental Guidance means the movie ma y contai n some contents such as mild violence, some brief nudity, and strong language. The c ontent s are not deemed intense. PG-13 – Parents Strongly Cautioned Parents with children under 13 are cautioned that the content of movies with this rating ma[...]

PLAYBACK 28 STARTING A DISC 1. Turn on the Power. • Press the power button, the power turns ON and the standby indicator lights turns OFF. • When in standby mode, press the PO WER button on remote control unit to turn the player ON. 2. Press the OPEN button to open the di sc tray. 3. Place the disc in the disc tray. 4. Press the OPEN button a s[...]

PLAYBACK 29 PAUSING PLAYBACK During playback, press the PAUSE button on the remote contr ol to pause playback. Press the PAUSE button a second tim e or press the PLAY button to resume normal playback. FORWARD/REVERSE SEARCHING During playback, press one of the REW/FF buttons on the remote control unit.  : Reverse direction  : Forward directio[...]

SERVICE AND CARE 30 CARE AND CLEANING The cabinet housing and front panel of the DVD 8 may be cleaned with a soft cloth and Windex or a window cleaner. The frequency of cleaning will be governed b y how many hours the DVD 8 is operated and by the cleanliness of the operating environment . FACTORY SERVICE Careful consideration has been given to the [...]

UNITED STATES LIMITED WARRANTY 31 Cary Audio Design warrants to the original United Stat es purchaser for use i n the United States that Cary Audio Design vacuum tube or solid state power amplif iers, surround sound processors or preamplifiers shall be free from defects in parts or workmanship for three (3) years from the date of the original purch[...]

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