ROTEL RDV-985 - Manual (Page 24)

24 RDV-985 DVD Player
On Screen Guide
The RDV-985 can display “on-screen guide”
icons or characters on the picture. These in-
clude the Multi-Angle icon
, the Subtitle
icon .
Use the Cursor Buttons / 7 to turn the
guide display on or off.
Monitor Type
You can select the monitor type to match your
TV when you playback DVD discs recorded
for wide screen televisions.
4:3 LB (Letter Box Conversion)
When you connect a normal TV to the unit
and play a wide picture recorded on a DVD
disc, the picture is
displayed with
bands across the
upper and lower
portions of the
screen.
4:3 PS (Pan scan Conversion)
When you connect a normal TV to the unit
and play a wide picture recorded on a DVD
disc, a portion of the picture is automatically
cut off from the left and right sides of the image.
Depending on the disc, it may not be possible
to playback in this
mode. In this
case, the picture is
played back as in
4:3 LB
mode.
16:9 WIDE (Wide Television screen)
When you connect a wide-screen TV to the
unit.
PREFERENCE2 PREFERENCE1
MENU LANGUAGE ENGLISH
AUDIO LANGUAGE ENGLISH
SUBTITLE ENGLISH
ON SCREEN LANGUAGE ENGLISH
ON SCREEN GUIDE ON
MONITOR TYPE
PRESS KEY
4:3 LB
Preference 2 Screen Options
Digital Audio Output
To connect the unit‘s digital output to an ex-
ternal device equipped with a digital input,
this item must be set correctly.
PCM ONLY
When you connect the DIGITAL OUT jack
of the unit with the linear PCM digital input
of other audio equipment.
STREAM/PCM
When you connect to the digital input of an
amplifier with built-in DTS, Dolby Digital, and
MPEG audio decoder.
DOLBY DIGITAL/PCM
When you connect to the digital input of a
Dolby Digital decoder, or an amplifier with
built-in Dolby Digital decoder
The table below shows the relationship be-
tween types of playback discs and output sig-
nals.
NOTE: The RDV-985 does not provide the
DTS decoding function. When playing a
DVD or Audio CD disc with DTS, use a DTS
decoder to get correct signals from your
speakers. Never use the unit's analog out-
put jacks, which output incorrect signals
that may damage your speakers.
PREFERENCE2 PREFERENCE1
DIGITAL AUDIO OUTPUT PCM ONLY
DOWN MIX L 0 / R 0
COMPRESSION ON
PRESS KEY
SCREEN SAVER MODE1
AV COMPULINK MODE DVD1
AUTO STANDBY OFF
Playback discs
DVD with 48-kHz,
16-bit linear PCM
DVD with 48-kHz,
20/24-bit linear
PCM
DVD with 96-kHz,
linear PCM
DVD with DTS
DVD with Dolby
Digital
DVD with MPEG
audio
Video CD
SVCD
Audio CD
Audio CD with
DTS
STREAM/PCM
48-kHz,
16-bit linear
PCM
48-kHz,
20-bit linear
PCM
No output
DTS
bitstream
Dolby Digital
bitstream
MPEG
bitstream
44.1-kHz,
16-bit linear
PCM
44.1-kHz,
16-bit linear
PCM
DTS
bitstream
PCM ONLY
←
←
←
←
48-kHz, 16-bit
linear PCM
←
←
←
←
Output
DOLBY DIGITAL/PCM
←
←
←
No output
←
48-kHz, 16-bit
linear PCM
←
←
←
If you connect the analog outputs and digital
outputs simultaneously, be sure to select the
source of the amplifier correctly, or set the level
control of the amplifier connected to the analog
outputs to minimum.
Down Mix
By setting DOWN MIX correctly, you can get
the optimum stereo mix for your audio sys-
tem from DVD discs recorded with Dolby
Digital surround multichannel audio.
Use the Cursor Buttons / 7 to change
the DOWN MIX setting.
Lt/Rt (Dolby Digital disc only)
For monitoring the unit's 2-channel audio
output signals via a Dolby Pro Logic decoder.
L 0 /R 0
For monitoring the unit's 2-channel audio output
signals via a TV or an amplifier with no built-
in Dolby Pro Logic decoder. Also for record-
ing DVD audio to a cassette tape, MD, etc.
The DOWN MIX function does not work when
the 3D PHONIC (VSS) function is activated.
Compression
You can compress the dynamic range of the
sound if needed. Using this function, you can
listen to sound at low volumes easily.
Use the Cursor Buttons / 7 to turn com-
pression on or off. When set to ON the au-
dio dynamic range compressed. When set to
OFF audio is played back as it was recorded.
The Compression function works only when
playing back a disc recorded with DOLBY
DIGITAL 1CH or 2CH. The setting is not ef-
fective for other discs. The Compression func-
tion does not work when the 3D PHONIC (VSS)
function is activated.
PREFERENCE2 PREFERENCE1
DIGITAL AUDIO OUTPUT PCM ONLY
DOWN MIX L 0 / R 0
COMPRESSION ON
PRESS KEY
SCREEN SAVER MODE1
AV COMPULINK MODE DVD1
AUTO STANDBY OFF
SCREEN SAVER MODE1
AV COMPULINK MODE DVD1
AUTO STANDBY OFF
PREFERENCE2 PREFERENCE1
DIGITAL AUDIO OUTPUT PCM ONLY
DOWN MIX L 0 / R 0
COMPRESSION ON
PRESS KEY