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HANDBOOK DV135
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Arcam DV135 DVD player
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Safety guidelines CAUTION ATTENTION RISK OF ELECTRIC RISQUE DE CHOC ELECTRIQUE SHOCK DO NOT OPEN NE PAS OUVRIR CAUTION: To reduce the risk of electric shock, do not remove cover (or back). No user serviceable parts inside. Refer servicing to qualified service personnel. WARNING: To reduce the risk of fire or electric shock, do not expose this apparatus to rain or moisture. The lightning flash with an arrowhead symbol within an equilateral triangle, is intended to alert the user to the presence
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Contents Thank you for purchasing the Arcam DV135 DVD player. Safety guidelines ............................................... E-2 Designed to reproduce the highest quality two-channel Important safety instructions ............................E-2 digital sound and vision. With true 10-bit vertical and Safety compliance ...........................................E-2 horizontal scaling, full picture quality controls and output Installation ......................................................
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SCART output The SCART connector is common on European A/V equipment and provides a convenient connection method between your DVD player and display device, carrying both video and stereo audio. If you are using a SCART connection and you do not wish to listen to the audio through your TV, then it is best to mute your TV’s speakers; muting the TV will prevent this audio being heard. Note that the SCART output has a control signal that switches your TV to its SCART input when the DV135 is turn
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The remote-control and trigger inputs The remote control The REMOTE IN input can be used to pass RC5 codes to the DV135 if it is installed in a position (or input requires a mono system) where infrared cannot be used. If this is required, please contact your dealer for further 3.5mm jack, with the information. tip active and the sleeve The TRIGGER IN input can be used to switch the DV135 in and out of stand-by. Connecting the grounded. trigger output of your Arcam amplifier (or other
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Basic use of your DVD player ���������������� ����� �� ����� ���� ���� ���� ���� ����� ��� ����� ����� Introduction ‘Basic use’ explains how to play a DVD, CD or other type of disc. Note that it may be necessary to configure your player correctly for your system before optimum – or any – playback can be achieved. Player configuration is described beginning on page 12. More sophisticated features – such as special playback modes and programming jumps and playback sequences – are described in t
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CR-515 remote control The CR-515 is a remote control designed for use On/Standby with Arcam DVD players. Some owners may wish to This allows the DV135 to be put into and taken out use a dedicated remote in preference to a Universal of stand-by remotely. remote control. HDMI DISP (display) Selects the picture resolution for HDMI output. Press to cycle through the front panel display’s brightness options (dim to bright, off). CLEAR Use CLEAR to clear a numeric field. Page Up/Down (DVD-audio
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Advanced controls (CR-515) TRIM TITLE This button has no function on the Press TITLE to access the DVD’s ‘Title’ DV135 menu (a feature that only applies to multi-title discs). ZOOM Press ZOOM to enlarge a particular area SUBT of the picture. Each press of the ZOOM Cycles through the available subtitle button increases the zoom. Pressing languages, including ‘Off’. Some discs ZOOM when the maximum enlargement force subtitles on, overriding any set up has been reached returns the image to pr
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Configuring your DVD player Introduction This section of the document describes the use of the ‘Set-up’ menu, which is used to configure your player for your system and your personal preferences. Obtaining a picture To view the Set-up menu for the initial configuration, we recommend the use of the composite video output to connect to your display device. This is because the high quality video output has several display modes and may be incompatible with your display device in its default con
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Operational set-up Preferred language This settings allows you to specify your preferred language. The default language is English, but three other languages (French, German and Dutch) are supported. Status messages This setting controls the ‘pop up’ messages that appear on screen. On Pop-up messages are enabled. Off No pop-up messages, only menus when required. Certain messages, such as ‘No Disc’ are always shown regardless of how this is set. Subtitle display This setting controls which subt
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Video set-up If your display device is HDMI-compliant, the DV135 can read the capabilities of the display device directly; the information allows the DV135 to configure its output automatically and optimally for the attached device. See page 18 for more information about connecting to HDMI devices. Main video output This setting is to tell the DV135 which of the available video outputs is the ‘main’ output, i.e., in the event of a conflict between video outputs, which output has priority. H
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HDMI colour space This setting controls the type of video (the colour space) given out over the HDMI connection. Auto The colour space will be set appropriately for the connected display. This is the recommended setting if you are connecting the DV135 to an HDMI- or DVI-compliant device. YUV The HDMI connection carries Y, Pb, Pr (YUV) component video. RGB The HDMI connection carries RGB video with standard video levels. This setting can be changed only if ‘Main video output’ is set to ‘HDMI’. T
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Audio set-up This section allows you to configure the analogue, digital and HDMI audio outputs. In particular, the digital output type needs to be set correctly if you are using an external audio decoder, receiver or D-A converter. Digital audio output This setting configures the digital audio output – coaxial, optical and HDMI. S/PDIF When the ‘Stereo PCM’ digital output is selected, all audio material played is stereo PCM down-mixed to stereo and output as stereo PCM. Use this setting if
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by setting these items to 0ms (no delay). DV135 E-15 English
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DVD/VCD special playback modes This section explains the special playback modes for DVDs and VCDs. The operations described here are not exactly the same for DVDs and VCDs, but very similar. Note that many VCDs have a single track, so some operations involving tracks will not be relevant. Jumping to a particular point Press the SRCH button on the remote control to open the ‘Search’ menu: If the disc is playing, then the elapsed and total times on the disc are shown. With a DVD, Title, Chapter
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Disc navigator screen When a disc containing audio/video/image files is detected by the DVD player, the disc navigator screen is displayed. In the example, a CD-R containing MP3 files is shown. The following areas can be identified: File/Folder The name of the file or Control window folder that is currently The following advanced functions can be selected. accessed from here: Filter: You can use this to allow only certain types of file to be displayed (audio, photo and video) View Program
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The HDMI interface If you have a HDMI- or DVI-equipped monitor or display, you can connect it to the DV135 using a HDMI cable. The HDMI connector carries uncompressed digital video, as well as digital audio. About HDMI HDMI (High Definition Multimedia Interface) supports both video and audio on a single digital connection for use with DVD players, digital TV, set-top boxes, and other AV devices. HDMI was developed to combine the technologies of High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection (HDCP
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Remote-control codes The following table gives the IR-commands accepted by the DV135. The system code for the DV135 is 25 (in common with other Arcam DVD players). Power commands Command Decimal Code Power toggle 25–12 Power-on 25–123 Power-off 25–124 Playback control commands Command Decimal Code Track number ‘n’, (e.g., 1) 25–n (e.g., 25–1) Track forward 25–32 Track back 25–33 Fast forward 25–52 Fast rewind 25–50 Slow forward 25–30 Slow rewind 25–31 Open 25–45 Pause 25–48 Stop 25–54 Play 25–5
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Technical specifications General Power Requirements 100/115V or 230V AC, set by voltage selector switch on rear panel Power consumption < 35 VA Dimensions (W x D x H) 435mm x 355mm x 87mm inc. feet Weight net: 5.1kg; packed: 8.0kg Video outputs Composite video 1 x gold plated phono. 1V pk-pk in 75Ω S-Video 1 x 4-pin mini-DIN. Y 1V pk-pk in 75Ω, C 0.3V pk-pk in 75Ω Component video Interlaced or Progressive 3 gold plated phono sockets. Y 1V pk-pk in 75Ω, Pb 0.7V pk-pk in 75Ω, Pr 0.7V pk-pk in 7
