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Other Settings (continued)
7 Display Menu
4:3 Aspect
To select how to show images 
made for 4:3 aspect screens on a 
16:9 aspect television
Normal : Laterally stretches images.
Auto 
: Expands 4:3 letterbox 
images to fi ll more of the 
screen. Other images 
appear in full in the center 
of the screen.
Shrink  : Images appear in the 
center of the screen.
Zoom  : Expands to 4:3 aspect 
ratio.
If your television has a similar 
feature, use it instead for a better 
effect.
Just Fit 
Zoom
 
 
To select the appropriate screen 
size to fi t your television screen
Auto
4:3 Standard
European Vista
16:9 Standard
American Vista
Cinemascope 1
Cinemascope 2
Example:
.
Manual 
Zoom
To zoom in and out manually
– in 0.01-unit steps from “x1.00” to 
“x1.60”
– in 0.02-unit steps from “x1.60” to 
“x2.00”
• To change the steps quickly, press 
and hold [
5, ∞].
Bit Rate 
Display
 
 
On  Off
GUI See-
through
To make the on-screen menu 
transparent
Off, On, Auto
GUI 
Brightness
To adjust the on-screen menu 
brightness
–3 to +3
HDMI 
Status
Indicates various information when 
connected with HDMI AV OUT 
terminal.
(
\ see below, Confi rming HDMI 
information)
7 Other Menu
Setup
(
\ page 25)
Play as DVD-
VR, Play as 
HighMAT 
or
Play as Data 
Disc
To use functions for data discs 
(
\ page 19)
(To play MP3, JPEG or video 
contents on DVD-RAM, or to play 
a HighMAT disc without using 
HighMAT function)
Select “Play as Data Disc”.
Confi rming HDMI information
 Using on-screen menus (continued)
Connection status
Shows the output signal type.
Shows the number of audio 
channels.
(
\ page 23, HDMI Colour Space)
(
\ page 23, Video Output Mode)
7 HDMI Status — HDMI is connected.
HDMI Information
Audio Stream
PCM
Max Channel
2ch
Colour Space
YCbCr (4:4:4)/YCbCr (4:2:2)/RGB
Video Format
480i/576i/480p/576p
720p/1080i/1080p
Example:
Note
All possible types of output are displayed.
• The current output for “Audio Stream”, “Video Format” and “Colour Space” (or “Color Space”) will be 
underlined.
  (If you select a video output without an “
” mark in the “Video Output Mode” in Picture Menu, the selected 
video format will not be underlined.)
• When “Off” is selected in “Audio Output” (
\ page 27, “HDMI” tab), “– – –” will be displayed in “Audio Stream” 
and “Max Channel”.
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