Panasonic SC-PT550 User Manual

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QUICK SETUP enables successive settings of the items in the shaded area.
 Changing the player settings (continued)
Player settings (continued)
7 “Video” tab
TV Aspect
Choose the setting to suit your television 
and preference.
•  4:3 Pan&Scan: Regular aspect television (4:3)
  The sides of the widescreen picture are cut off so it fi lls the screen (unless 
prohibited by the disc).
•  4:3 Letterbox: Regular aspect television (4:3)
  Widescreen picture is shown in the letterbox style.
•  16:9: Widescreen television (16:9)
TV Type
Select to suit the type of television.
•  Standard (Direct View TV) 
•  CRT Projector 
•  LCD TV/Projector
• Projection TV 
• Plasma TV
Time Delay
When connected with a Plasma display, 
adjust if you notice the audio is out of 
sync with the video.
•  0ms 
• 20ms 
• 40ms 
• 60ms 
• 80ms 
• 100ms
Video Out (AV/Component)
*11
Choose the video signal format to be
output from the SCART (AV) and
Component terminal.
• Video/YPbPr 
• S-Video/YPbPr
• RGB/No Output
Still Mode
Specify the type of picture shown when 
paused.
• Automatic
*
5
• Field:  The picture is not blurred, but picture quality is lower.
*
5
• Frame:  Overall quality is high, but the picture may appear blurred.
NTSC Disc Output
Choose PAL 60 or NTSC output when 
playing NTSC discs (
\ page 15, Video 
systems).
•  PAL60: When connected to a PAL television.
•  NTSC:  When connected to an NTSC television.
(
For Southeast Asia and Thailand
 : “NTSC” is the  factory preset.)
Picture/Video Output
Change the video signal format to be 
output for JPEG, MPEG4 and DivX 
video if picture output is not smooth 
during playback.
*
*
• Automatic 
• PAL
 
• NTSC/PAL60: Output will depend on “NTSC Disc Output” setting (
\ see above)
*
• NTSC/PAL60: Output will depend on “NTSC Disc Output” setting (
\ see above)
 • 
PAL
7 “Audio” tab
Dolby Digital 
*
10
• Bitstream
• PCM
Select to suit the type of equipment you connected to the HDMI AV OUT 
terminal (
\ page 13).
Select  “Bitstream” when the equipment can decode the bitstream (digital 
form of multi-channel data). Otherwise, select “PCM”.
(If the bitstream is output to the equipment without a decoder, high levels of 
noise can be output and may damage your speakers and hearing.)
DTS Digital Surround 
*
10
• Bitstream
• PCM
MPEG 
*
9
 
*
10
• PCM
• Bitstream
Dynamic Range Compression 
• Off
•  On:  Adjust for clarity even when the volume is low by compressing the range of the lowest 
sound level and the highest sound level. Convenient for late night viewing.
   
(Only works with Dolby Digital)
Speaker Settings (
page 29)
Set the delay time for your center and 
surround speakers
• Center: 
0.0/1.0/2.0/3.0/4.0/5.0 ms
• Surround (L/R): 0.0/5.0/10.0/15.0 ms
7 “HDMI” tab
RGB Range
Set “HDMI Colour Space” to “RGB”
(
\ page 25, Picture Menu).
• Standard
•  Enhanced: When the black and white images are not distinct.
Video Mode 
(This setting is irrelevant when
connected through the VIDEO OUT 
terminal).
• On:  When connected through the HDMI AV OUT terminal. Video is output from the HDMI terminal.
   
Video is also output from the COMPONENT VIDEO OUT terminal, but only in 480i or 576i 
(interlace). When connected through the SCART (AV) terminal, RGB signal is not output.
•  Off:  When connected through the COMPONENT VIDEO OUT or SCART (AV) terminal. 
Video is output from the COMPONENT VIDEO OUT or SCART (AV) terminal according 
to the setting of the “Video Output Mode” (
\ page 24,  Picture Menu) or SCART (AV) 
terminal according to the setting of the “Video Out (AV/Component)” in the “Video” 
tab (
\ see above). Video is also output from the HDMI AV OUT terminal, but only in 
480p/576p (progressive).
Audio Output
•  On:  When audio output is from the HDMI AV OUT terminal. (Depending on the capabilities 
of the connected equipment, audio output may differ from the audio settings of the 
main unit.)
•  Off:  When audio output is not from the HDMI AV OUT terminal. (The audio is output using 
the settings of the main unit.)
VIERA Link
(“HDAVI Control”)
•  On:  The VIERA Link “HDAVI Control” function is available (
\ page 39).
• Off
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