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This simple example points to the problem the PMDT solves. System defaults
are used to bypass the usual navigation of DVDs as much as possible. You
could simply tell the PMDT that if English, Dolby Digital and a 16:9 aspect ra-
tio are available, those are your preferences. Load your discs and press
play –
the PMDT “navigates” for you.
Since some discs will undoubtedly be played using different options (such as
subtitles on the occasional foreign film) than your system defaults, the PMDT
is capable of remembering the unique settings you choose for this disc. The
next time this disc is loaded, the PMDT overrides the system defaults and
plays the disc using the settings you have saved. The PMDT can remember
how you want to play each disc. These electronically saved preferences
(ESP
™ ) eliminate much of the day-to-day annoyance of using DVD players.
Programming is also available to permanently record settings for individual
discs. This method allows the PMDT to recognize when you have preferences
that you want remembered, regardless of how the disc was last used. Other
programming features, such as reordering or skipping titles/chapters/tracks,
are included as well.
On-screen menus simplify the navigation of discs and programming of system
and disc defaults. A help menu is offered to guide users through more ad-
vanced functions.
The PMDT is intuitive to use. It works like a CD player (with advanced fea-
tures) when playing CDs, and like a well-designed DVD player when playing
DVDs. Our goal has been to allow the use of multiple formats without requir-
ing the user to fully understand the navigation and confusing options on dif-
ferent discs. Load the disc, press
play and get what you want – that’s the way
the PMDT works. That is a high-performance user interface.
Industrial design The PMDT shares the handsome industrial design of other Proceed compo-
nents such as the AVP/AVP2 audio/video processor. Dark buttons against a
light face simplify the operation of the PMDT, even in a dimly lit room.
The large, easily read display provides information as to the operational status
of the PMDT from across the room, making the supplied remote control more
genuinely useful than on products lacking such a display.
In keeping with its sophisticated design, the PMDT also incorporates a Madri-
gal-designed loading mechanism. Contrasting strongly with the bulky, plastic
drawers commonly used, the slim drawer is machined from a solid piece of
aluminum and rides on highly polished steel and Teflon
® bearings. Its vari-
able-speed design opens and closes quickly, but without jarring the disc con-
tained within or risking a jam from dislodging it.