Page 2 - Contents; Touch Panel Control
280-7803-00 2 VRX925VD 280-7803-00 VRX925VD 233 Thank you for purchasing the Clarion VRX925VD. ∗ This owner’s manual is for the VRX925VD. ∗ Please read this owner’s manual in its entirety before operating this equipment. ∗ After reading this manual, be sure to keep it in a handy place (e.g., glove c...
Page 3 - Information Panel; WARNING; Handling Discs; Handling; CAUTION
280-7803-00 VRX925VD 3 8 VRX925VD 280-7803-00 280-7803-00 VRX925VD 4 English Owner’ s manual English Owner’ s manual English Owner’ s manual 5. DISPLAY The Color LCD Display and the Information Panel on the main unit show the following displays, provid-ing information about the mode and functions op...
Page 4 - English; Unité principale; When the display open; Names of Buttons
280-7803-00 VRX925VD 7 5 VRX925VD 280-7803-00 6 VRX925VD 280-7803-00 English Français Español English Owner’ s manual English Owner’ s manual Note: Be sure to unfold this page and refer to the front diagrams as you read each chapter. Remarque: Veuillez déplier cette page et vous référer aux schémas ...
Page 5 - Color LCD Display
VRX925VD 9 English Owner’ s manual Color LCD Display MANUSTLD BEQ Clock time Mode name MOTION/SPRITE pattern display : PROGRAM WEST COAST (user title) • Radio/TV mode : USER TITLE SHINE (user title) • CD changer mode : DISC TITLE SHINE (disc title) : TRACK TITLE Time has come (track title) • MD chan...
Page 10 - Remote control unit
14 VRX925VD English Owner’ s manual 7. REMOTE CONTROL [CeNET] [MUTE] [VOLUME] [P.TIME] [BAND] [FUNC] [ ] [ ] [0-9] [DISC SEL] [SEARCH MODE] [MENU] [RTN] [SET UP] [TITLE] [ ],[ ] [ ],[ ] [PBC] [RDM] [SLOW] [ANGLE] [SCAN] [RPT] [AUDIO] [SUB TITLE] [ ],[ ] [ENT] [ ],[ ] Signal transmitter Operating ran...
Page 11 - Functions of Remote Control Unit Buttons; Shared modes
VRX925VD 15 English Owner’ s manual Functions of Remote Control Unit Buttons ● Shared modes [FUNC] button • Press and hold this button for 1 second or longer to turn on or off the power. Power on/off, switches among radio, TV,etc. [VOLUME] button • Increases and decreases volume. [MUTE] button • Tur...
Page 12 - DVD changer mode
16 VRX925VD English Owner’ s manual [ w ], [ z ], [ Å ], [ Î ] button • Press to select menus and other items during DVD video/MP-3 playback. [ENT] button • Press to confirm numerics entered in the KEY PAD operation screen. [ ] [ ] buttons • Press to select the next higher or lower chap- ter number ...
Page 13 - Removing the DCP; Attaching the DCP
VRX925VD 17 English Owner’ s manual 8. DCP The control panel can be detached to preventtheft. When detaching the control panel, store itin the DCP (DETACHABLE CONTROL PANEL)case to prevent scratches. We recommend taking the DCP with you whenleaving the car. Removing the DCP 1. Turn the power off. 2....
Page 14 - CAUTIONS ON HANDLING; LCD panel/Generalities
18 VRX925VD English Owner’ s manual 9. CAUTIONS ON HANDLING LCD panel/Generalities For a longer service life, be sure to read the following cautions. • Be sure to store the LCD panel inside the main unit when parking the car outdoors forlong period of time. The LCD panel will oper-ate properly in a ...
Page 15 - DVD Video Features; Dolby digital
VRX925VD 19 English Owner’ s manual DVD video is a high-quality digital video sourcethat provides crisp and clear images. One 12 cmdisc contains either one film or four hours of mu-sic. DVD Video Features This unit provides the following functions in ad-dition to the high image quality and sound qua...
Page 16 - Discs; About the registered marks etc.; Playable discs; ALL
20 VRX925VD English Owner’ s manual Discs Playable discs This DVD video player can play the followingdiscs. TV color system This DVD player plays NTSC discs and PALdiscs only and cannot be used for playback ofSECAM discs. About MP3 playback This unit can play back CD-R/CD-RW discs onwhich MP3 music ...
Page 17 - Basic Operations; Turning on and off the power; Switching the display; When the panel is closed:
VRX925VD 21 English Owner’ s manual 11. OPERATIONS Basic Operations Note: Be sure to read this chapter referring to the front diagrams of chapter “3. CONTROLS” on page 5 (unfold). When the unit is turned on, starting and stoppingthe engine with its volume raised to the maximumlevel may harm your hea...
Page 18 - Opening and turning the display; Standing up the liquid crystal panel; To adjust the angle; Housing the liquid crystal panel
22 VRX925VD English Owner’ s manual Opening and turning the display 20˚ 20˚ Basic Operations WARNING • To prevent the battery from going dead, operate this unit with the engine running,if possible. • When the liquid crystal panel is operat- ing, be careful not to get your hand or fin-ger caught betw...
Page 19 - Adjusting the bass
VRX925VD 23 English Owner’ s manual Basic Operations Turning the liquid crystal panelhorizontal (Air conditioneroperation mode) When the way the liquid crystal panel ismounted hinders the operation of the air condi-tioner, the position of the panel can be turnedhorizontal temporarily. 1. Press and h...
Page 21 - FM reception; Listening to the radio; Radio Operations
VRX925VD 25 English Owner’ s manual Basic Operations WARNING Perform the setting of this function the caris stopped with the parking break applied. Changing the setting of the displaybackground 1. Press the [DISP] button for 1 second or longer to show the background setup menu. 2. Touch the setting ...
Page 22 - Manual tuning
26 VRX925VD English Owner’ s manual Manual tuning There are 2 ways available: Quick tuning andstep tuning. When you are in the step tuning mode, the fre-quency changes one step at a time. In quick tun-ing mode, you can quickly tune the desired fre-quency. 1. Press the [BAND] button and select the de...
Page 23 - Auto store; Preset scan
VRX925VD 27 English Owner’ s manual Radio Operations Manual memory 1. Press the [BAND] button and select the de- sired band. (FM or AM) 2. Select the desired station with seek tuning, manual tuning, or preset tuning. 3. Press and hold one of the [DIRECT] buttons for 2 seconds or longer to store the ...
Page 24 - Changing DVD system settings; Selecting the DVD SETUP menu; DVD Video Player Operations; Setting up the screen size; Setting up the angle mark display; Setting up the disc menu language.
28 VRX925VD English Owner’ s manual Changing DVD system settings Notes:• If the SETUP operation is performed in the middle of video CD/DVD video play, the disc plays fromthe beginning. • Various settings of the SETUP menu cannot be made with the remote control unit. Selecting the DVD SETUP menu 1. P...
Page 25 - Setting up the audio language; Setting up the subtitle language; Setting up the country code
VRX925VD 29 English Owner’ s manual 2. Touch the key to select a desired language to set it. ∗ The factory default setting is “ENGLISH”. 3. Touch the [RTN] key to return previous mode. Setting up the audio language 1. Following the steps 1 to 2 in “Selecting the DVD SETUP menu”, touch the [AUDIO LAN...
Page 26 - Pausing play; Loading a disc
30 VRX925VD English Owner’ s manual The relationship between DVD video categorycodes and parental level are shown in the tablebelow. Use this table when setting the parentallevel. DVD Video Player Operations WARNING • Videos may be played back with particu- larly loud sound. Increase the volumegradu...
Page 27 - Ejecting a disc; Show the menu screen; KEY PAD operation
VRX925VD 31 English Owner’ s manual Ejecting a disc 1. Press the [ Q ] button a disc ejects. “EJECT” appears in the display. ∗ If a disc (12 cm) is left in the ejected positionfor 15 seconds, the disc is automatically re-loaded. (Auto reload) ∗ 8 cm discs are not auto reloaded. Be sure toremove it w...
Page 28 - DVD Video Operations
32 VRX925VD English Owner’ s manual • In CD mode: To display the playtime, touch the [P.TIME] key. To perform track repeat, touch the [T.RPT] key. To perform track scan, touch the [T.SCN] key. To perform track random, touch the [T.RDM]key. • In MP-3 mode: To switch the playtime, touch the [P.TIME] k...
Page 29 - Scan playback
VRX925VD 33 English Owner’ s manual • Slow playback cannot be performed in the backward direction. In addition, audio can-not be reproduced during slow playback. Skipping a chapter (searching) About chapter Chapter means a small segment to divide thedata area of the disc. 1. Press the [ a ] or [ d ]...
Page 31 - Switching angles; Watching a video CD
VRX925VD 35 English Owner’ s manual Switching angles On DVD discs in which video images have beenrecorded in two or more angles, you can switchamong the angles during playback. 1. Display the sub KEY PAD using the proce- dures described in the section “KEY PADoperation”. 2. Touch the [ANGLE] key dur...
Page 33 - Repeat playback; On/off of Playback Control; Listening to a CD; Pausing playback
VRX925VD 37 English Owner’ s manual 2. Touch the [TRACK SCAN] key, then touch the [RTN] key. Touch the [TRACK SCAN] key again, andscan playback is turned off. ∗ If you are playing a disc with PBC and thePBC function is engaged, this operation maynot be performed. Repeat playback This operation plays...
Page 34 - Listening to an MP3
38 VRX925VD English Owner’ s manual Skipping a track (searching) 1. Press the [ a ] or [ d ] button during play- back. Tracks are skipped, as many as the times thebutton is pressed, and playback starts. • Press the [ d ] button, and playback star ts from the beginning of the next track. • Press the ...
Page 35 - Precautions when creating an MP3 disc
VRX925VD 39 English Owner’ s manual What is MP3? MP3 is an audio compression method and clas-sified into audio layer 3 of MPEG standards.This audio compression method has penetratedinto PC users and become a standard format. This MP3 features the original audio data com-pression to about 10 percent ...
Page 36 - Fast forward and fast rewind
40 VRX925VD English Owner’ s manual Fast forward and fast rewind 1. Press and hold the [ a ] button or [ d ] button during playback. Press the button, and the playback speedbecomes 4-time faster first and then 8-timefaster 3 seconds later. Release the button,and the normal speed is restored. Selecti...
Page 38 - VISUAL Operations; Changing over monitor display size; Switching to the VISUAL mode
42 VRX925VD English Owner’ s manual VISUAL Operations This function is available when a VTR, etc. isconnected to the visual 1 or visual 2 terminal. ∗ The visual 1 mode is not available when a DVDchanger is connected to the visual 1. adjust BRIGHT, HUE and COLOR. ● “BRIGHT”: Adjust the brightness of ...
Page 39 - Monitoring the CCD camera
VRX925VD 43 English Owner’ s manual ● “WIDE”: (wide mode) The image at right and left ends in a displayelongates horizontally. ● “F. WIDE”: (full wide mode) The whole image elongates horizontally. ● “CINEMA”: (cinema mode) The image at both top and bottom in a dis-play disappears. Notes:• When a nor...
Page 41 - CD/MD changer functions; Switching the CD TEXT titles
VRX925VD 45 English Owner’ s manual CD/MD ChangerOperations Note:• When an optional DVD (CD/MD) changer is con- nected through the CeNET cable, this unit con-trols all DVD (CD/MD) changer functions. This unitcan control a total of 2 changers (MD and/or CDand/or DVD). CD/MD changer functions Press th...
Page 42 - Selecting an MD; Selecting a CD; CD/MD Changer Operations
46 VRX925VD English Owner’ s manual When the panel is open: 1. Press the [DISP] button. The disc title, track title, artist title and usertitle is displayed. 2. Touch the [DISC] key, [TRACK] key, [ARTIST] key or [USER] key to select the desired title. The selected titles except for the user titlescr...
Page 43 - Selecting a track
VRX925VD 47 English Owner’ s manual ● Direct track selection 1. Touch the [SRCH] key to switch the KEY PAD. 2. Touch the [0] ~ [9] key corresponding with the track you desired. When you touch thewrong number([0] ~ [9] key), you can cancelthat to touch the [DEL] key. 3. Touch the [ENT] key. The speci...
Page 45 - TV Operations; TV functions; Watching TV; DVD Changer Operations; Selecting a disc; Disc Repeat playback
VRX925VD 49 English Owner’ s manual TV Operations TV functions When an optional TV tuner is connected throughthe CeNET cable, this unit controls all TV tunerfunctions. To watch TV requires a TV tuner. WARNING For your safety, the driver should notwatch the TV or operate the controls whiledriving. Pl...
Page 46 - Seek tuning
50 VRX925VD English Owner’ s manual Seek tuning 1. Press the [BAND] button and select the desired TV band (TV1 or TV2). ∗ If “MANU” is lit in the display, press and holdthe [BAND] button for 1 second or longer.“MANU” in the display goes off and seektuning is now available. 2. Press the [ d ] or [ a ...
Page 48 - What is Sirius; Sirius operation; Selecting Sirius Radio modes
52 VRX925VD English Owner’ s manual What is Sirius Satellite Radio? Sirius is radio the way it was meant to be: Up to100 new channels of digital quality programmingdelivered to listeners coast to coast via satellite.That means 50 channels of completely commer-cial-free music. Plus up to 50 more chan...
Page 49 - Recalling a preset station; Channel selection
VRX925VD 53 English Owner’ s manual Tuning mode (T-MODE) There are two channel selection modes: seekmode and manual mode. ● Seek tuning Only channels that can be received are selectedwhile channels without broadcasts and channelsnot covered by the contract are automaticallyskipped. 1. Press the [ a ...
Page 50 - Manual memory; Presetting a category
54 VRX925VD English Owner’ s manual Sirius operation 3. Touch the [DIRECT] key (1 to 6) to select the desired preset station. 4. Touch the [RTN] key to return to the previus mode. ● Using the [DIRECT] button 1. Press the [BAND] button and select the de- sired SIRIUS band (SR1, SR2 or SR3). 2. To rec...
Page 51 - Entering titles; Other Functions
VRX925VD 55 English Owner’ s manual Sirius operation Scan function There are two scan modes: a category scanmode and a preset scan mode. During scanning channels are displayed in ab-breviated form and the display mode cannot beswitched. ● Category scanning In a category scan, broadcast channels in t...
Page 52 - Setting the auto dimmer; Adjusting the dimmer level; Setting the button illumination
56 VRX925VD English Owner’ s manual Setting the auto dimmer The brightness of the color LCD display isadjusted automatically in proportion to thesurrounding light. The auto dimmer function canswitch between ON and OFF. ON : Auto dimmer function is set. OFF : Auto dimmer function is cancelled. ∗ The ...
Page 53 - Clock Adjustment
VRX925VD 57 English Owner’ s manual Other Functions Setting the beep ∗ The sound heard when you make operations iscalled “beep”. The unit can be set up so that itdoes not produce this beep sound. ∗ The factory default is “BEEP ON”. 1. When the panel is open, press the [ADJ] button to select the ADJU...
Page 54 - Multiple Channel Processor Operations; MCP control function
58 VRX925VD English Owner’ s manual ● PL II Control ∗ This function is available only when the MUSICMODE is selected for Dolby PL II . For setup details, see “Selecting the Dolby PL II (Dolby Pro Logic II ) type.” 3-1. Touch the [PL II CONTROL] key to show the submenu. 3-2. Touch the [PANORAMA], [DI...
Page 55 - DETAIL functions
VRX925VD 59 English Owner’ s manual ● SPEAKER GAIN This function sets speaker output level. ∗ This function is not available for speakers whoseSPEAKER SEL setting is set to OFF. 3-1. Touch the [SPEAKER GAIN] key to show the submenu. 3-2. Touch the [FRONT L], [CENTER], [FRONT R], [SURROUND R], [SURRO...
Page 56 - DSF mode; Selecting the DSF type; Selecting the Dolby PL; Logic
60 VRX925VD English Owner’ s manual Multiple Channel Processor Operations Selecting t.he DSF mode or theP.EQ mode 1. Press the [A-M] button. 2. Touch the [STATUS] key to select “DSF” or “P.EQ”. 3. Touch the [DSF] or [P.EQ] to select a desired mode and to set the mode thus selected. 4. After setting,...
Page 57 - IN CASE OF DIFFICULTY
VRX925VD 61 English Owner’ s manual 12. IN CASE OF DIFFICULTY GENERAL Problem Cause Measure D VD Pla yer Power does notturn on.(No sound isproduced.) Nothing happenswhen buttons arepressed. Display is notaccurate. The remotecontroller doesnot work. Disc cannot beloaded. Sound skips or isnoisy. Sound...