LG DV378: Before Use

Before Use: LG DV378

Before Use

Playable Discs

Disc-related terms

Title (DVD only)

DVD

The main film content or accompanying feature content

(8 cm / 12 cm disc)

or additional feature content, or music album.

Each title is assigned a title reference number enabling

Video CD (VCD)

you to locate it easily.

(8 cm / 12 cm disc)

Chapter (DVD only)

Audio CD

Sections of a picture or a musical piece that are smaller

(8 cm / 12 cm disc)

than titles. A title is composed of one or several chap-

In addition, this unit can play a DVD-R, DVD±RW,

ters. Each chapter is assigned a chapter number,

Kodak PICTURE CD, SVCD, and CD-R or CD-RW that

enabling you to locate the chapter you want. Depending

contains audio titles, MP3, WMA or JPEG files.

on the disc, chapters may not be recorded.

Track (Video CD and audio CD only)

Notes

Sections of a picture or a musical piece on a video CD

Depending on the conditions of the recording equip-

or an audio CD. Each track is assigned a track number,

ment or the CD-R/RW (or DVD-R/±RW) disc itself,

enabling you to locate the track you want.

some CD-R/RW (or DVD-R/±RW) discs cannot be

played on the unit.

Scene

Do not attach any seal or label to either side (the

On a video CD with PBC (Playback control) functions,

labeled side or the recorded side) of a disc.

moving pictures and still pictures are divided into sec-

Do not use irregularly shaped CDs (e.g., heart-shaped

tions called “Scenes”. Each scene is displayed in the

or octagonal). It may result in malfunctions.

menu screen and assigned a scene number, enabling

you to locate the scene you want.

Notes on DVDs and Video CDs

A scene is composed of one or several tracks.

Some playback operations of DVDs and Video CDs may

be intentionally fixed by software manufacturers. As this

Types of video CDs

unit plays DVDs and Video CDs according to disc con-

There are two types of video CDs:

tent designed by the software manufacturer, some play-

back features of the unit may not be available or other

Video CDs equipped with PBC (Version 2.0)

functions may be added.

PBC (Playback control) functions allow you to interact

Refer also to the instructions supplied with the DVDs

with the system via menus, search functions, or other

and Video CDs. Some DVDs made for business

typical computer-like operations. Moreover, still pictures

purposes may not be played on the unit.

of high resolution can be played if they are included in

the disc.

Regional code of the DVD player and DVDs

Video CDs not equipped with PBC (Version 1.1)

This DVD player is designed and manufactured

Operated in the same way as audio CDs, these discs

for playback of region “5” encoded DVD software.

allow playback of video pictures as well as sound, but

The region code on the labels of some DVD discs

they are not equipped with PBC.

indicates which type of player can play those discs. This

unit can play only DVD discs labeled “5” or “ALL”. If you

try to play any other discs, the message “Check Regional

Code” will appear on the TV screen. Some DVD discs

may not have a region code label even though their

playback is prohibited by area limits.

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