Kenwood BDR-A7 - Manual (Page 24)

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Operation of BD player
Region code
• Blu-ray Disc player and BD-ROM or DVD Video discs are
assigned region codes according to the region in which they
are sold. If the region codes do not match, the disc will not
play.
Blu-ray Disc
Region Code
Area
A
North America, Central America, South
America, Korea, Japan, Taiwan, Hong
Kong and South East Asia
B
Europe, Greenland, French territories,
Middle East, Africa, Australia and New
Zealand
C
India, China, Russia, Central and South
Asia
A, B and C All areas
DVD Region
Code
Area
1 North America
2
Europe, Japan, Middle East, Egypt,
South Africa, Greenland
3
Taiwan, Korea, the Philippines,
Indonesia, Hong Kong
4
Mexico, South America, Central America,
Australia, New Zealand, Pacific Islands,
Caribbean
5
Russia, Eastern Europe, India, most of
Africa, North Korea, Mongolia
6 China
ALL All areas
Examples of playable discs :
U.S.A. Europe
BDs
DVDs
PRELIMINARY KNOWLEDGE ABOUT DISCS
Playable disc types
This unit supports the following discs.
Type Logo Playable format/mode
BD-ROM
BD-RE/BD-R
BDMV, AVCHD
DVD-Video DVD-Video
DVD-R DVD-Video, AVCHD
DVD-RW DVD-Video, AVCHD
Audio CD Audio CD (CD-DA)
CD-R
Audio CD (CD-DA), MP3,
WMA, JPEG, AVI, WMV
CD-RW
Audio CD (CD-DA), MP3,
WMA, JPEG, AVI, WMV
• Only BD-RE/-R, DVD-R/-RW and CD-R/-RW discs recorded
with UDF or ISO9660 format can be played back.
• This unit supports Ver 2.0 BD-ROM, Ver 3.0 BD-RE and
Ver 2.0 BD-R.
■ Notes :
• Unfinalized BD-RE/-R, DVD-R/-RW and CD-R/-RW discs
can not be played back.
• Some 8 cm BD-REs/8 cm BD-Rs cannot be played on this
unit.
• When a BD-Java title is played, loading may take longer
than a normal title, or some functions may perform slowly.
■ Unplayable discs
• Since this unit cannot support disc types, formats and file
types not listed above, do not play such discs.
• Some BD-RE/BD-R, DVD-RWs/DVD-Rs or CD-Rs/CD-RWs
cannot be played due to incomplete disc finalization,
recording quality or physical condition of the disc,
characteristics of recording device or authoring software,
etc.
See the operating instructions supplied with your recording
device for more information.
■ Color system format
• Depending on the countries, this unit conforms to either the
NTSC color system for U.S.A, Canada, etc. or the PAL for
Europe, Australia, China, etc.
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