Arcam dv27 Manuale Utente

The rating setting is used in conjunction with the password to restrict 
the content of DVD titles that may be played. To change this setting 
the parental control must be unlocked.

The term ‘Parental level’ refers to a standard defined for DVDs. 
DVD movies have a parental level between 1 and 8. Note that this 
only applies to DVD video discs that have the parental level correctly 
implemented. Some DVD video titles do not respond to parental 
control settings, and Video CDs have no mechanism for parental 
control.

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Titles of all parental levels will be played

No Adult  Only material of parental level 4 or less may be 

played. This corresponds to the MPAA (Motion Picture 
Association of America) rating of PG-13

Kids Only  Only material of parental level 1 may be played. This 

corresponds to MPAA rating G.

Once the rating level has been set, DVD titles with parental level 
higher than the setting will not play. Sometimes DVD video titles may 
be produced that have the parental level set for specific scenes, so a 
disc will play but skip or substitute certain scenes.

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.

VIDEO SETUP

V i d e o   S e t u p

2 / 3

T V   t y p e

 

:

4 : 3   p a n s c a n

H Q   v i d e o

 

:

T V   s y s t e m

 

:

B l a c k   s e t u p

 

:

R G B   S C A RT
PA L
0   I R E

This needs to be set correctly for the type of TV you have and the type 
of display you prefer.

4:3 Letterbox Use this setting if you have a conventional 4:3 TV, and 

you prefer to view wide screen movies in letterbox 
format (with black bars at the top and bottom)

4:3 Panscan 

Use this setting if you have a conventional 4:3 TV, and 
you prefer to view wide screen movies in Pan & Scan 
format (cropping the sides of the image)

16:9 

Use this setting if you have a wide screen (16:9) TV. 
Material in 16:9 format is displayed so as to fill the 
screen.

If you have a 4:3 TV and you have set a preference for Panscan, it does 
not mean you will always see movies in this format, since the Panscan 
display must be supported on that disc.

This setting controls the type of video given out on the Component 
and SCART video outputs. It is set at the factory to be appropriate for 
the type of TV used in your country, so it is best not to change it. If it 
gets set incorrectly then the picture shown on the TV will have strange 
colouring.

Component  The video output on both the Component video (3 

phonos) and SCART is Y, Pb, Pr component video.

RGB SCART  The video output on both the Component video (3 

phonos) and SCART is RGB. Note that if you are 
using RGB output via phono connectors, you will also 
need to use 

COMPOSITE

 as a sync signal.

This is set at the factory to be appropriate for the type of TV used in 
your country. Should you need to change this setting, the options are 
explained below.

NOTE: PAL and NTSC refer to the video standards used in Europe 
and North America respectively. 

Auto 

The video output is taken from that recorded on the disc. 
When no movie is playing, the logo screen is displayed using 
the standard from the last movie.

NTSC  NTSC discs will be played as NTSC, and PAL discs will not 

play at all, since the unit cannot convert PAL to NTSC. This 
is the best setting to use if your TV can only accept NTSC 
video (this is generally the case in North America).

PAL 

PAL is always used as the video standard. Note that NTSC 
titles are converted to PAL, but this may cause some 
reduction in smoothness of movement. Better results may 
be obtained using AUTO; however your TV must then 
support NTSC.

PAL60 This 

is 

‘60Hz PAL’. This setting may allow NTSC titles to be 

played on certain PAL TVs that do not support NTSC.

PAL-M  A variation of PAL that is used in Brazil

PAL-N  A variation of PAL that is used in Argentina, Paraguay and 

Uruguay.

This setting controls the ‘pedestal’ signal or black level when the NTSC 
video standard is used. Note that it does not affect PAL video in any 
way.

0 IRE 

This removes the pedestal from NTSC video. This setting 
should be used in Japan, and also if you are using RGB 
video, whatever the country.

7.5 IRE  This is the standard pedestal level that should be used in 

all countries that use NTSC video, with the exception of 
Japan.