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E n DV D P l a y e r D V-SP405 Instruction Manual Thank you for pu rchasing an Onk yo D VD Player . Read this manual carefully before using your new D VD Player . A good understanding of its features and operation will allo w you to achie ve optimum perform ance a nd enjo yment. K eep this manual for future reference. Contents Overview ............[...]
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2 Impor tant Saf ety Instructions 1. Read these ins tructions. 2. K eep these instructions. 3. Heed all warnings. 4. F ollow all instructions. 5. Do not use this apparatus near water . 6. Clean only with dr y cloth. 7. Do not block any v entil ation openings. Install in accordance with the manuf acturer’ s instructions. 8. Do not install near an [...]
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3 Precautions 1. Recording Copyright —Unless it’ s for personal use only , recording c opyrighted material is il leg al with- out the permission of the copyright holder . 2. A C Fuse —The AC fuse inside the unit is not user- serviceable. If you cannot turn on the unit, contact your Onkyo dealer . 3. Care —Occasionally you should dust the un[...]
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4 Precautions —Continued 10. Region Numbers —The D VD standard uses region numbers to control ho w di scs can be played ar ound the world, the w orld being di vided into six regions. This unit will only play D V D discs that match its region number , which can be found on its rear panel (e.g., , ). 11. About this Manual —This manual explains [...]
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5 Precautions —Continued For Canadian Models NO TE: THIS CLASS B DIGIT AL APP ARA TUS COMPLIES WITH CA N ADIAN ICES-003. For models ha ving a po wer cord with a polarized plug: CA UTION: T O PREVENT ELECT RIC SHOCK, MA TCH WIDE BLADE OF PLUG TO WIDE SLO T , FULL Y INSER T . Modèle pour les Canadien REMARQ UE: CET APP AREIL NUMÉRIQUE DE LA CLASS[...]
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6 T able of Contents Basic Operation Overvie w Important Safety Instructions ............................... 2 Precautions ......................................................... 3 Introduction .......................................................... 7 Supplied Accessories ...................................... 7 Features ......................[...]
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7 Intr oduction Make sure you ha ve the follo wing accessories: The letter displayed at the end of the product name found in catalogs and on package represen ts the color of the D V-SP405 D VD player . Though the color va ries, the specifications and operations are the same. A udio/Video Pr ocessing •D o l b y *1 Digital and DTS *2 Digital Output[...]
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8 Introduction —Continued Supported Discs The D V-SP405 supports the follo wing discs. • Some audio CDs feature copy protection that doesn’ t conform to the of ficial CD standard. Since these are nonstandard discs, they ma y not play pr operly in the D V-SP405. • The D V-SP405 supports CD-R and CD-R W discs recorded in V ideo CD form at, au[...]
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9 Intr oduction —Continued About DualDisc pla yback A DualDisc is a new two -sided disc, one side of which con- tains D VD content video, audio, etc. while the ot her side contains non-DVD content such as digital au dio material. The non-D VD, audio side of the disc is not compliant with the CD Audio specification and theref ore may not play . Th[...]
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10 Introduction —Continued About DivX DivX is a compressed digital video format created b y the DivX ® vid eo codec from DivX, I nc. This player can play DivX video files burned on CD-R/R W/ROM discs. K eeping the same te rminolo gy as D VD-V ideo, indi vid- ual Di vX video f iles are ca lled “T itles”. When naming files/titles on a CD-R/R W[...]
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11 Intr oduction —Continued PC-created disc compatibility Discs recorded using a pers onal computer may not be playable in this unit due to the setting of the application software used to creat e th e disc. In these particular instances, check with the software publisher for more detailed information . Discs recorded in pack et write mode (UDF fo[...]
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12 Bef ore Using the D V-SP405 Notes: • If the remote control ler doesn’ t work reliably , try replacing both batteries. • Don’t mix ne w and old batterie s, or dif ferent types of batteries. • If you intend not to use the remote controller for a long time, remove the batteries t o pre vent possible leakage and corrosion. • Flat batteri[...]
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13 Fr ont & Rear P anels For deta iled informat ion, refer to the pages in brackets. North American model Oceanian and European models 1 ST ANDBY/ON b utton [24, 27] This button is used to set the D V-SP405 to On or Standby . 2 HDMI indicator Lights when the D V-SP405 is recognized b y another HDMI or D VI/HDCP compatible compo- nent. 3 Disc tr[...]
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14 Front & Rear P anels —Continued 1 Pause indicator This indicator appears wh en playback is paused. 2 Play indicator This indicator is sh own during playback. 3 CHP indicator This indicator appears while the number of th e cur- rent chapter is being displayed. 4 TITLE indicato r This indicator appears while the number of th e cur- rent titl[...]
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15 Fr ont & Rear P anels —Continued North American model Oceanian model Euro pean model 1 HDMI OUT [22] This connector can be used to connect a TV or pro- jector with an HDMI input . This connector outputs digital audio and digital video. 2 COMPONENT VIDEO OUTPUT [21] These sockets output com ponent video and can be connected to an component [...]
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16 Front & Rear P anels —Continued 1 ST ANDBY bu tton [24] This button is used to set the D V-SP405 to Standby . 2 ON but ton [24] This button is used to turn on the D V-SP405. Don’t turn on the D V-SP405 until you’ ve com- pleted, and double checked all connections (pages 18–23). 3 Number buttons [28–29, 38, 48–49] These b uttons a[...]
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17 Fr ont & Rear P anels —Continued bl Fast Forwar d /( ) button [28, 31, 32] This button is used for fa st forward, slo w motion, and frame-by-frame playback. bm USB/D VD b utton [41] (not Nor th American model) This butto n is used to se lect the playback media. Press to change between D VD mode and USB mode. bn OPEN/CLOSE button [27] This [...]
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18 Connecting the D V-SP405 • Read the manuals supplied with your A V components. • Don’t connect the po wer cord until you’ ve completed all audio and video connections. Optical Digital Output (Oceanian model only) The optical digital connector is f itted with protecti ve cap. Before connecting a cabl e, remo ve the cap and keep it safely [...]
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19 Connecting the D V-SP405 —Continued The setup described here is a basic setup that allows you to play discs usi ng just the supplied A V cable (RCA). In this setup, stereo audio is played throu gh the speakers in your TV . Important: • This player is equipped wi th copy protection technol- ogy . Do not connect this player to your TV via a VC[...]
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20 Connecting the D V-SP405 —Continued Switching the video output to interlace using the f ro nt panel contr ols Switch the player to standby then, using the front panel controls, press ST ANDBY/ ON while pressing to switch the player back to “Interlace”. • If the player is connected using HDMI, disconnect the HDMI cable before resetting th[...]
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21 Connecting the D V-SP405 —Continued • Connect the D VD Player to the TV directly . If you connect the D VD Player to a VCR, TV/VCR combi- nation, or video selector , the playback picture may be distorted as D VD videos are cop y protected. Using S-Video (not Eur opean model) If your TV (or other equipm ent) has an S-V ideo input, you can use[...]
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22 Connecting the D V-SP405 —Continued Using HDMI If you hav e a HDMI equipped monitor or display , you can connect it to this play er using a commercially av ail- able HDMI cable. The HDMI connector outputs uncompressed digital video, as well as almost e v ery kind of digital audio that the player is compati ble with, including D VD-V ideo, V id[...]
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23 Connecting the D V-SP405 —Continued Although you can reproduce the D VD Player’ s sound from the TV speakers with the connections on page 19, connecting with an amplifie r pro vides you high quality dynamic sounds. T o reproduce Dolby Digital sur round and DTS surround sound, you need to connect to an amplifier with a Dolb y Digital and DTS [...]
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24 Connecting the P o wer/T u rning on the D V-SP405 Befor e connecting • Make sure that all the connections on pages 18–23 are complete (the connection to a TV is required). Note: • This player features a screen sav er and an auto po wer off function. If the player is stopped and no button is pressed for fi v e minutes, the screen sa v er st[...]
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25 Getting Star ted For ease of use, this player makes e xtensiv e use of graph- ical on-screen displays (OSDs). All the screens are na vigated in basically the same w ay , u s i n g t h e /// ( c u r s o r ) b u t t o n s t o c h a n g e t h e highlighted item and pres sing ENTER to se lect it. Note: • From here on in this manua l, the word “s[...]
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26 Getting Star ted —Continued This sets the language of this system’ s on-screen dis- plays. Setting the language of this pla y er’ s on-screen displa ys 1 Press HOME MENU and select “Initial Settings”. 2 Select “OSD Language” fr om the “Display” settings. 3 Select a lang uage. The on-screen language will change according to your[...]
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27 Getting Started —Continued The basic playback contro ls for playing D VD, CD, V ideo CD, DivX V ideo/ WMV and MP3/WMA/MPEG- 4 AA C discs are co vered he re. Further functions ar e detailed in the next chapter . For details on playing JPEG picture discs, see “V iewing a JPEG slideshow” on page 32. Notes: • Y ou may find with some D VD dis[...]
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28 Getting Star ted —Continued The table belo w sho ws the basic controls on the remote for playing discs. The following ch apter cov ers other playback features in more detail. When you stop playback of a disc, RESUME is show n in the display indicating that you can resume playback again from that point. If the disc tray is not opened, the next [...]
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29 Getting Started —Continued Many D VD-V ideo discs feature menus from which you can select what you want to watch. They may also gi ve access to additional fe atures, such as subtitle and audio language selection, or spec ial features su ch as slide- shows. See the disc packaging for details. Sometimes D VD-V ideo menus are d isplayed automati [...]
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30 Getting Star ted —Continued Hint: • After I load a D VD disc, it ejects automatically afte r a fe w seconds! → Most likely , the disc is the wrong region for your player . The region number should be printed on the disc; check it against the re gion number of the player (which you can find on the rear panel). See also “D VD-V ideo region[...]
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31 Pla ying discs Notes: • Many of the functions cove red in this chapter apply to D VD discs, V ideo CDs, CD s, Di vX V ideo/WMV and MP3/WMA/MPEG-4 AA C/JP EG discs, although the exact operation of some v aries slightly with the kind of disc loaded. • Some D VDs restrict the us e of some functions (ran- dom or repeat, for example) in some or a[...]
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32 Play ing discs —Continued Y ou can advance or back up D VD discs frame-by-frame. W ith V ideo CD you can only use frame advance. Note: • Backward frame-by-f rame pl ayback does not work with V ideo CD. After loading a CD/CD-R/R W containing JPEG picture files, press (play) to start a slidesho w from the first folder/picture on the disc. The [...]
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33 Playing discs —Contin ued Use the “Disc Navigator” to bro wse through the contents of a D VD or V ideo CD disc to f i nd the part you want to play . Important: • Y ou can’t use the “Disc Naviga tor” with V ideo CD in PBC mode. Tip : • Another way to f ind a particul ar place on a disc is to use one of the search mode s. See “Se[...]
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34 Play ing discs —Continued Use the “Disc Na vigator” to f ind a particular f ile or folder by filename. Note that if there are other types of files on the same disc, these will not be displayed in the “Disc Navigator”. Tip: • T o play the contents of the whole disc rather than just the current folder , exit the “Disc Na viga tor” [...]
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35 Playing discs —Contin ued The “A-B Repeat” function allo ws you to specify two points (A and B) within a tr ack (CD, V i deo CD) or title (D VD) that form a lo op which is played o ver and ov er . • Y ou can’t use “A-B Repeat ” with V ideo CD in PBC mode, or MP3/WMA/MPEG-4 AA C/DivX V ideo/ WMV files. There are v arious repeat play[...]
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36 Play ing discs —Continued Use the random play function to play titles or chapters (D VD-V ideo) or tracks (CD, V ideo CD) at random. (Note that the same track/tit le/chapter may play more than once.) Y ou can set the random play option when a disc is play- ing or stopped. Important: • Random play remains in ef fect until you select “Ran- d[...]
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37 Playing discs —Contin ued This feature lets you program the play order of titles/ chapters/tracks on a disc. Important: • Y ou can’t use Program play with VR format D VD-R/ -R W discs, V ideo CD playing in PBC mode, MP3/ WMA/MPEG-4 AA C discs, Di vX V ideo/WMV discs, or while a D VD disc menu is being displayed. Tip : • Use the f ollowin[...]
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38 Play ing discs —Continued There are a number of other options in the “Program” menu in addition to “Create/Edit”. • Playback Start – Starts playback of a sav ed program list • Playback Stop – T urns off program play , b ut does n ot erase the program list • Program Delete – Erases the program list and turns off progr am pla[...]
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39 Playing discs —Contin ued Some D VD or Di vX V ideo disc s hav e subtitles in one or more languages; the disc box will usually te ll you which subtitle languages are a vaila ble. Y ou can sw itch subtitle language during playback. • See “Displaying Di vX subt itle files” on page 10 for more on DivX su btitle. When playing a D VD or Di vX[...]
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40 Play ing discs —Continued Using the zoom feature you ca n magnify a part of the screen by a factor of 2 or 4, while wa tching a D VD, DivX V ideo/WMV title or V ideo CD , or playing a JPEG disc. Some D VD discs feature scen es shot from tw o or more angles—check the disc box for details. When a multi-angle scene is playing, a icon appears on[...]
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41 USB pla ybac k (Not Nor th Am erican model) Note: Onkyo cannot guarantee compat ibility (operation and/or bus po wer) with all USB mass storage devices and assumes no responsibility for any loss of data th at may occur when connected to this unit. It is possible to listen to two-channel audio and watch JPEG files u sing the USB interf ace on the[...]
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42 A udio Settings and Video Adjust menus The “Audio Settings” menu of fers features for adjusting the way discs sound. Equalizer • Settings: “Of f (d efault)” , “Rock”, “Pop”, “Li ve”, “Dance”, “T echno” , “Classic”, “Soft” The v arious preset EQ curv es are designed to suit vari- ous styles of music. Note: ?[...]
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43 A udio Settings and Video Adjust menus —Continued From the “V ideo Adjust” screen you can adjust v arious settings that affect how the picture is presented. Note: • Depending on your TV , the picture may appear dis- torted if the brightness is set too high. If th is happens, lower the brightness. Video Adjust menu 1 Press HOME MENU and s[...]
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44 Initial Settings menu The “Initial Settings” menu provides audio and video output settings, pare ntal lock settings , and display set- tings, among others. If an option is grayed out it means that it cannot be changed at the current time. This is usua lly because a disc is playing. Stop the di sc, then change the setting. Notes: • In the t[...]
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45 Initial Settings menu —Contin ued Digital A udio Out settings Setting Option What it means Digital Out On Digital audio is output from the digital outputs. Off No digital audio output. Dolby Digital Out Dolby Digital Dolby Digital encoded digital audio is output when playing a Dolb y Digit al D VD disc. Dolby Digital > PCM Dolby Digital aud[...]
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46 Initial Settings menu —Continued Video Output settings Setting Option What it means TV Screen *1 (This setting effective for analog and HDMI video output. See also “Screen sizes and disc formats” on page 52.) *1 When connected to a 16:9 television: when either “16:9 (Wide)” or “16:9 (C ompressed)” is selected a nd the television sc[...]
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47 Initial Settings menu —Contin ued Language settings Setting Option What it means Audio Language *1 *1 This setting is your preferred audio language for DVD discs. You can switch between the languages recorded on a DVD disc dur ing playback using the AUDIO b utton. Some DVD discs set the audio language automatically when loaded, overriding th e[...]
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48 Initial Settings menu —Continued • Default level: “Of f”; Defa ult password: none; Default Country/Area code: us (2119) T o gi ve you some control ov er what your children w atch on your D VD player , some D VD-V ideo discs feature a “Pare ntal Lock” le vel. If your playe r is set to a lo wer lev el than the di sc, the disc won’t p[...]
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49 Initial Settings menu —Contin ued Changing y our pass w ord T o change your password, conf irm your e xisting pass- word then enter a ne w one. Setting/chan ging the P arental Loc k Setting/changing t he Country/Area code Y ou can find th e Country/Area code list in the ad jacent column. 1 Select “P assw or d Change”. 2 Use the number b ut[...]
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50 Initial Settings menu —Continued • Defaul t setting: “STEREO” If you’ ve selected “DTS > PCM” in “DTS Out” on page 45, you can choose the way the signal is down- mixed to PCM audio. “STEREO” will downmix the DTS signal to 2-channel ster eo, whereas “Lt/Rt” will do wnmix to a 2-channel signal com patible with Dolb y s[...]
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51 Initial Settings menu —Contin ued Some DivX V OD content may only be play able a f ixed number of times. When you load a disc containing this type of Div X V OD content, the remaining number of plays is shown on-screen and you then ha ve the option of playing the disc (thereby using up one of the remaining plays), or stopping. If you load a di[...]
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52 Additional inf ormation D VD-V ideo discs come in sev eral dif ferent screen aspect ratios, ranging from TV p rogr ams, which are genera lly 4:3, to CinemaScope widescreen movies, with an aspect ratio of up to about 7:3. T elevisions, too, come in di f ferent aspect ratios; “st an- dard” 4:3 and widescreen 16:9. Widescreen TV users If you ha[...]
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53 Additional inf ormation —Contin ued Note: • Y ou have to switch the player into standby (press ST ANDBY/ON) before each change. D VD discs are generally di vide d into one or more ti tles. T itles may be further subdivid ed into chapters. CDs and V ideo CDs are divided into tracks. CD-R OMs contain folders a nd files. MP3, WMA and MPEG-4 AA [...]
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54 Additional inf ormation —Contin ued Language code list Language Language code letter Language code Japanese ja 1001 English en 0514 F rench fr 0618 German de 0405 Italian it 0920 Spanish es 0519 Chinese zh 2608 Dutch nl 1412 P ortuguese pt 1620 Swedish sv 1922 Russian ru 1821 K orean ko 1115 Greek el 0512 Afa r aa 0101 Abkhazian ab 0102 Afrika[...]
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55 Glossary Analog audio An electrical signal that di rectly represents sound. Com- pare this to digital audio wh ich can be an electric al sig- nal, but is an indirect repr esentation of sound. See also “Digital audio”. Aspect ratio The width of a TV screen relati ve to its height. Con ven- tional TVs are 4:3 (in other wo rds, the screen is al[...]
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56 Glossary —Continued Progressive scan video All the lines that make up a video picture are updated in one pass (compared to inte rlace which takes two passes to update the whole picture). Regions (DVD-Video only) These associat e discs and players with part icular areas of the world. This unit will only play discs that ha ve com- patible region[...]
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57 T r oubleshooting If you hav e any trouble using your D V-SP405, check the foll o wing table for possible caus es and remedies. If you still can’t resolve the issue yourself, pl ease contact your Onkyo dealer . Symptoms Causes Remedies DV D P l ay er Can’t turn on th e D V-SP405? The power cord is not connected. Connect the power cord to a s[...]
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58 T roubleshooting —Continued Symptoms Causes Remedies DV D P l aye r Brightness is unstable or the picture is noisy? The D V-SP405 is connected to your TV via a VCR or other video equipment and a copy-protection system is affecting the picture. Connect the DV-SP405 directly to your TV (page 19). Y our TV doesn’t support pro gressi ve scanning[...]
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59 T roubl eshooting —Continued Symptoms Causes Remedies DV D P l aye r Some MP3 f iles don’ t play? MP3 files without a “.m p3” or “.MP3” filename e xtension are not recognized. Use the correct filename extension (page 9). The MP3 disc is a multisession disc. The DV-SP405 doesn’ t fu lly support multisession discs. Only files in the [...]
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60 T roubleshooting —Continued HDMI tr oubleshooting Incorrect operation is often mistak en fo r trouble or malfunction. If you think that there is something wron g with this component, check the points belo w . Some times the trouble may lie in another component. Insp ect the other components and electrical appliances bei ng used. If the trouble[...]
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61 T roubl eshooting —Continued USB tr oubleshooting (Not North American model) Note: • Static electricity or other e xternal influences may cause malfunctioning of this unit. In this case, unplug the po wer cord and then plug back in . This will usually reset the un it for proper operation. If this d oes not correct the problem, please consult[...]
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62 Specifications ■ General Specifications and features s ubject to change without notice. Signal Sy stem NTSC (Nor th American model) P AL/NTSC (Oceanian and European models) Composit e Video Outp ut/Impe dance 1.0 V (p-p)/75 Ω negative sync, RCA S-Video Output /Impedance (not European model) Y : 1.0 V (p-p)/75 Ω negative sync , 4-pin mini D[...]
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63 MEMO DV-SP405_En.book Page 63 Tuesday, May 29, 2007 2:48 PM[...]
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64 Printed in Japan Y0705-1 (C) Copyright 2007 ONKY O CORPORA TION Japan. All rights reserved. http://www.onky o.com/ HOMEP AGE SN 29344511 Sales & Product Planning Div. : 2-1, Nisshin-cho, Neyagawa-shi, OSAKA 572-8540, JAPAN Tel: 072-831-8023 Fax: 072-831-8124 ONKYO U.S.A. CORPORATION 18 Park Way, Upper Saddle River, N.J. 07458, U.S.A. Tel: 20[...]