Technicolor - Thomson TV/DVD: Playback

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DVD

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Several playback modes are available.

This page shows the simple playback mode. For the other playback modes, see next page.

Playback

Open the drawer using the open/close key next to the drawer.

Place the disc with its printed side upward (if one-sided).

After a few seconds, the disc title (or, by default, the type of disc) appears with the image and audio

format information and its total duration (if this information is available).

Press on the ok or

PLAY

key to start the playback.

Some discs automatically propose a menu.You can choose an item with the

keys and press ok to confirm your selection.

To stop the playback, press the 

STOP

key.

This disc location is stored by the player: it is the “pickup memory”. If you press once more on the

PLAY

key, playback will pick up where you left off.

If you press twice on the 

STOP

key or if you unload the disc, this “pickup memory” will be lost: the

next playback will start at the beginning of the disc.

The DVD player remains in playback when you switch to TV mode

by pressing the tv/dvd key.

For example, this enables you to surf on TV channels without having

to interrupt the playing of the disc.

If the player is locked and the disc has been assigned a rating limit,

you must enter the password to play the disc (see page 17).

The discs capabilities (menus, access functions, dialogue and

sub-title languages, camera angles, interactivity) may vary

from one disc to the next. Please check the instructions given

on the disc. Some discs may have been pre-programmed so

as to render impossible some functions, such as skipping

chapters, still-frame and repeat play.

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The MAGNIFY 

function

On some DVDs and Video CDs, this function allows you to enlarge

the image during a playback at normal speed or during a pause.The

zoom-in will be 1.5 or 2 or 4 times the normal size for DVDs and

twice the normal size for Video CDs.

When you press on this remote control key, the image centre is

enlarged.When the image is sufficiently enlarged. you can navigate

from one zone to the next with the 

keys (on some

discs).

If you call a Info Display while the magnify function is activated, the

keys will only act for the Info Display.

This mode will be cancelled if you request one of the following

functions:

- modification of title, or chapter

- disc menu 

- stopping (STOP key)

- access to a marker.

Simple playback

Discs you can read

Discs you cannot read

Digital video discs

12 cm and 8 cm, single or double sided, single or dual layer. DVDs are high density optical discs on which high quality picture

and audio are recorded by means of digital signals.

Audio CDs  

12 cm and 8 cm.

Video CDs

12 cm and 8 cm (with or without playback control).

NTSC playback 

In addition to the PAL DVDs and video CDs, you may enjoy your favourite NTSC movies as well.

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NTSC

Currently, these are the discs that you cannot play with this unit : CD-I, CD-ROM, DVD-ROM, DVD-RAM, CDV, CD-G. DVD

with regional code other than that of your player.

Do not try to play Photo CD or CD-R.

Regional code number: your DVD player is designed and manufactured to respond to the region management

information that is recorded on a DVD disc.

If the DVD disc does not carry the region code corresponding to your player, it cannot be played.The region code for your

player is region No. #2. (Europe, the Middle East, Republic of South Africa, Japan).

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types of discs

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Disc name: Blues Brothers

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