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7 MONITOR TYPE
You can select the monitor type to match your TV when you play 
DVDs recorded in the picture’s height/width ratio of 16:9.

Select this when the aspect ratio of your TV is fixed on 16:9 

(wide TV).

When you play DVDs recorded in the picture’s height/width 

ratio of 4:3, the system adjust the ratio of output signal 

automatically.

Select this when the aspect ratio of your TV is 4:3 

(conventional TV). While viewing a wide screen picture, the 

black bars appear on the top and the bottom of the screen.

Select this when the aspect ratio of your TV is 4:3 

(conventional TV). While viewing a wide screen picture, the 

black bars do not appear, however, the left and right edges of 

the pictures will not be shown on the screen.

• Even if “4:3 PS” or “4:3 MULTI PS” is selected, the screen size may 

become “4:3 LB” or “4:3 MULTI LB” with some DVDs. This 
depends on how DVDs are recorded.

• When selecting “MULTI” options as the monitor type for the multi-

color system TV, this system outputs PAL or NTSC video signal 
according to the disc, regardless of the scan mode setting. (

A pg. 16)

7 PICTURE SOURCE
When you set the scan mode to the progressive (“PAL PRG” or 
“NTSC PRG”) (

A pg. 16), you can obtain optimal picture quality 

by selecting whether the content on the disc is processed by frame 
(film source) or by field (video source) .
Normally set to “AUTO”.

Used to play a disc containing both video and film source 

materials.

This system recognizes the source type (video or film) of the 

current disc according to the disc information.

• If the playback picture is unclear or noisy, or the oblique 

lines of the picture are rough, try to change to other modes.

Suitable for playing back a film source disc.

Suitable for playing back a video source disc.

7 SCREEN SAVER (

A pg. 20)

You can activate or deactivate Screen Saver function.

7 FILE TYPE
When several types of files are recorded on a disc, you can select 
which files to play.

Select this to play MP3/WMA files.

Select this to play JPEG files.

Select this to play MPEG-4 files.

7 D. RANGE COMPRESSION
(Dynamic range compression)
You can enjoy low level recorded sound clearly at night even at a 
low volume when listening to the sound with Dolby Digital.

Select this when you want to enjoy surround sound with its 

full dynamic range (no effect applied).

Select this when you want to fully apply the compression 

effect (useful at midnight).

• When you play a multichannel Dolby Digital source with the 

surround mode is off, the setting of D. RANGE COMPRESSION is 
set to ON automatically.

Ex.: 16:9

Ex.: 4:3 LB

Ex.: 4:3 PS

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