Onkyo DV-SP501 - Manuals

5 Precautions —Continued 5. Never Touch this Unit with Wet Hands Never handle this unit or its power cord while your hands are wet or damp. If water or any other liquid gets inside this unit, have it checked by your Onkyo dealer. 6. Installing this Unit • Install this unit in a well-ventilated locat...

6 Table of Contents Basic Operation Overview Important Safety Instructions ...............................2Precautions .........................................................3Introduction ..........................................................7 Supplied Accessories ................................

7 Introduction Make sure you have the following accessories: Highlights • Dolby *1 Digital and DTS *2 • DVD-Video / Video CD / Audio CD playback• CD-R, CD-RW (Video CD, audio CD, MP3/WMA *3 / JPEG) • DVD-R (DVD-Video)• DVD-RW (DVD-Video, VR format)• Vector Linear Shaping Circuitry Video • Advanced 5...

8 Introduction —Continued Supported Discs The DV-SP501 supports the following discs. • Some audio CDs feature copy protection that doesn’t conform to the official CD standard. Since these are nonstandard discs, they may not play properly in the DV-SP501. • The DV-SP501 supports CD-R and CD-RW discs ...

9 Introduction —Continued MP3/WMA Compatibility • This unit will play CD-R, and CD-RW discs contain- ing files saved in the MPEG-1 Audio Layer 3 (MP3) or Windows Media Audio (WMA) format with a sam-pling rate of 32*, 44.1 or 48 kHz. Incompatible files will not play and the message “Can’t play this f...

10 Introduction —Continued Handling Discs • Never touch the underside of a disc. Always hold discs by the edge, as shown. • Never attach adhesive tape or sticky labels to discs. Cleaning Discs • For best results, keep your discs clean. Fingerprints and dust can affect the sound and picture quality a...

11 Before Using the DV-SP501 Notes: • The supplied batteries should last for about six months, although this will vary with usage. • If the remote controller doesn’t work reliably, try replacing both batteries. • Don’t mix new and old batteries, or different types of batteries. • If you intend not t...

12 Front & Rear Panels For detailed information, refer to the pages in brackets. A POWER switch [23] This is the main power switch. When set to OFF, the DV-SP501 is completely shutdown. When set to ON, the DV-SP501 can be set to On or Standby.Don’t turn on the power until you’ve completed, and d...

13 Front & Rear Panels —Continued 1 D indicator This indicator appears when playing Dolby Digital material. 2 Disc type indicators These indicators show the type of disc loaded. 3 TITLE indicator While stopped, the total number of titles on the cur-rent DVD-Video disc is displayed here. During p...

14 Front & Rear Panels —Continued A OPTICAL DIGITAL AUDIO OUTPUT [21] This optical digital audio output can be connected to an optical digital audio input on a hi-fi amp, AV receiver, or surround sound decoder (Dolby Digital, DTS). B COAXIAL DIGITAL AUDIO OUTPUT [21] This coaxial digital audio o...

16 Front & Rear Panels —Continued A STANDBY button [23] This button is used to set the DV-SP501 to Standby. B ON button [23] This button is used to turn on the DV-SP501.Don’t turn on the DV-SP501 until you’ve com-pleted, and double checked all connections (pages 18–22). C REPEAT button [32] This...

17 Front & Rear Panels —Continued K Stop button [27] This button is used to stop playback. L Fast Reverse / ( ) button [27, 30, 31] This button is used for fast reverse, reverse slow motion, and reverse frame-by-frame playback. M Fast Forward / ( ) button [27, 30, 31] This button is used for fas...

18 Connecting the DV-SP501 • Read the manuals supplied with your AV components.• Don’t connect the power cord until you’ve completed all audio and video connections. Optical Digital Inputs The DV-SP501’s optical digital connectors have a shut-ter-type cover that opens when an optical plug is inserte...

19 Connecting the DV-SP501 —Continued The setup described here is a basic setup that allows you to play discs using just the cables supplied with the player. In this setup, stereo audio is played through the speakers in your TV. • This player is equipped with copy protection technol- ogy. Do not con...

20 Connecting the DV-SP501 —Continued • Connect the DVD Player to the TV directly. If you connect the DVD Player to a VCR, TV/VCR combina-tion, or video selector, the playback picture may be distorted as DVD videos are copy protected. Using S-Video If your TV (or other equipment) has an S-Video inpu...

21 Connecting the DV-SP501 —Continued Although you can reproduce the DVD Player’s sound from the TV speakers with the connections on page 19, connecting with an amplifier provides you high quality dynamic sounds.To reproduce Dolby Digital surround and DTS surround sound, you need to connect to an am...

22 Connecting the DV-SP501 —Continued • The remote controller supplied with Onkyo AV receiver or amplifiers can be used to control the DV-SP501. • The function of the upper and lower connectors are the same. Connect to either one. • Connecting an cable only does not make the sys- tem operational. Yo...

23 Connecting the Power/Turning on the DV-SP501 Before connecting • The DV-SP501 is shipped with the POWER switch in the on position ( ON). When the power cord is plugged in for the first time, the DV-SP501 will auto-matically enter the standby state and the STANDBY indicator will light (same condit...

24 Getting Started For ease of use, this player makes extensive use of graph-ical on-screen displays (OSDs).Make sure that you select the input on the TV (by using the TV remote) to view the on-screen displays.You should get used to the way these work as you’ll need to use them when setting up the p...

25 Getting Started —Continued The available languages vary between models. • North American and European models: English, French, Spanish, German, Italian, Other Language. • Australian, Asian and South American models: English, French, Spanish, Chinese (traditional), Other Language. • Chinese model:...

26 Getting Started —Continued The basic playback controls for playing DVD,CD, Video CD and WMA/MP3/JEPG discs are covered here. Playing discs 1 If the player isn’t already on, press DVD player’s STANDBY/ON or the remote controller’s ON to switch it on. If you’re playing a DVD or Video CD, also turn ...

27 Getting Started —Continued The table below shows the basic controls on the remote controller for playing discs. Front panel controls The PLAY, STOP, and PAUSE buttons on the front panel work in exactly the same way as their remote control equivalents. The combined / buttons on the front panel wor...

28 Getting Started —Continued Many DVD-Video discs contain menus from which you can select what you want to watch. They may give access to additional features, such as subtitle and audio lan-guage selection, or special features such as slideshows.See the disc packaging for details.Sometimes DVD-Vide...

29 Playing discs Introduction Most of the features described in this chapter make use of on-screen displays. For an explanation of how to nav-igate these, see “Using the on-screen displays” on page 24.Many of the functions covered in this chapter apply to DVD discs, Video CDs, CDs and WMA/MP3/JPEG d...

30 Playing discs —Continued You can fast-scan discs forward or backward at various different speeds. You can play DVDs and Video CDs at four different for-ward slow motion speeds. DVD-Video discs can also be played at two reverse speeds. (With Video CDs and VR format DVD-RWs, you can only use forwar...

31 Playing discs —Continued You can advance or back up a DVD disc frame-by-frame. With Video CDs and VR format DVD-RWs, you can only use frame advance. The A-B Repeat function allows you to specify two points (A and B) within a track (CD and Video CD) or title (DVD) that form a loop which is played ...

32 Playing discs —Continued Using the A-B button With the A-B button you can qucikly set the A-B Repeat function. Simply press the A-B button to set the A point. “A” appears on the display. Pres the A-B button again to set the B point. “B” appears on the display and A-B repeat playback starts. To ca...

33 Playing discs —Continued Use the random play function to play titles or chapters (DVD-Video) or tracks (CD, Video CD and WMA/MP3 discs) in a random order.You can set the random play option when a disc is play-ing or stopped.• You can’t use random play with VR format DVD-RW discs, Video CDs playin...

34 Playing discs —Continued This feature lets you program the play order of titles/chapters/folders/tracks on a disc.• You can’t use Program play with VR format DVD-RW discs, Video CDs playing in PBC mode, or while a DVD disc menu is being displayed. Creating a program list 1 Press PLAY MODE and sel...

35 Playing discs —Continued Tips: • To save your program list and exit the program edit screen without starting playback, press PLAY MODE or SETUP. (Don’t press RETURN—your program list won’t be saved.) • During program play, press to skip to the next program step; press to go back to the previous p...

36 Playing discs —Continued As well as creating and editing a program list, you can start program play, cancel program play, erase the pro-gram list, and memorize a program list from the Play Mode menu. Notes: • Program lists are saved for the DVD disc loaded. When you load a disc with a saved progr...

37 Playing discs —Continued Notes: • The disc must be playing in order to use time search.• Search functions are not available with Video CDs in PBC mode, or unfinalized CD-R/RW discs. Some DVD discs have subtitles in one or more lan-guages; the disc box will usually tell you which subtitle language...

38 Playing discs —Continued Using the zoom feature you can magnify a part of the screen by a factor of 2 or 4, while watching a DVD or Video CD. Notes: • We do not recommend using DVD disc menus when the screen is zoomed as menu options will not be high-lighted. • If you are displaying subtitles, th...

39 Playing discs —Continued Various track, chapter and title information, as well as the video transmission rate for DVD discs, can be dis-played on-screen while a disc is playing. Note: • You can see disc information (number of titles/chap- ters, tracks, folders and so on) from the Disc Navigator s...

40 Viewing JPEG discs After loading a CD/CD-R/RW containing JPEG pic-tures, press to start a slideshow from the first folder/ picture on the disc. The player displays the pictures in each folder in alphabetical order.Pictures are automatically adjusted so that they fill as much of the screen as poss...

41 Viewing JPEG discs —Continued The Photo Browser displays nine thumbnail images at a time from the current folder. Using the zoom feature you can magnify a part of the screen by a factor of 2 or 4, while viewing pictures from a JPEG disc. Using the Photo Browser 1 From the Disc Navigator screen, h...

42 Audio Settings menu ■ Default setting: Off When watching Dolby Digital DVDs at low volume, it’s easy to lose the quieter sounds completely—including some of the dialog.Switching Audio DRC (Dynamic Range Control) to On can help by bringing up the quieter sounds, while con-trolling loud peaks.How m...

43 Video Adjust menu ■ Default setting: Standard From the Video Adjust screen you can select the standard video presentation or define presets of your own. Video Adjust 1 Press SETUP and select “Video Adjust” from the on-screen dis-play. 2 Use the / (cursor left/right) buttons to select a preset. • ...

44 Initial Settings menu The Initial Settings menu gives you complete control in setting up your DVD player, including audio, and video output settings, audience limitation settings, among oth-ers.If an option is grayed out it means that it cannot be changed at the current time. This is usually beca...

45 Initial Settings menu —Continued MPEG Out You only need to make this setting if you connected this player to an AV receiver (or other component) using one of the digital outputs. ■ Default setting: MPEG > PCM If your AV receiver (or other connected component) is compatible with MPEG audio, set...

46 Initial Settings menu —Continued Compatibility of this unit with progressive-scan TVs. This player is compatible with progressive video Macro Vision System Copy Guard.CONSUMERS SHOULD NOTE THAT NOT ALL HIGH DEFINITION TELEVISION SETS ARE FULLY COMPATIBLE WITH THIS PRODUCT AND MAY CAUSE ARTIFACTS ...

47 Initial Settings menu —Continued The available languages vary between models. • North American and European models: English, French, Spanish, German, Italian, Other Language. • Australian, Asian and South American models: English, French, Spanish, Chinese (traditional), Other Language. • Chinese ...

48 Initial Settings menu —Continued Parental Lock ■ Default level: Off ■ Default password: none ■ Default Country code: us (2119) Some DVD-Video discs feature a Parental Lock level. If your player is set to a lower level than the disc, the disc won’t play. This gives you some control about what your...

49 Initial Settings menu —Continued Setting/changing the Parental Lock level Setting/changing the Country code You may also want to refer to the “Country code list” on page 52. Note: • Changing the Country code does not take effect until the next disc is loaded (or the current disc is reloaded). ■ D...

50 Additional information DVD-Video discs come in several different screen aspect ratios, ranging from TV programs, which are generally 4:3, to Cinema- Scope widescreen movies, with an aspect ratio of up to about 7:3.Televisions, too, come in different aspect ratios; “stan-dard” 4:3 and widescreen 1...

51 Additional information —Continued DVD discs are generally divided into one or more titles. Titles may be further subdivided into chapters. CDs and Video CDs are divided into tracks. CD-ROMs contain folders and files. MP3 and WMA files are referred to as tracks. Folders may contain further folders...

52 Additional information —Continued Country code list Country Country code Country code letter Argentina 0118 ar Australia 0121 au Austria 0120 at Belgium 0205 be Brazil 0218 br Canada 0301 ca Chile 0312 cl China 0314 cn Denmark 0411 dk Finland 0609 fi France 0618 fr Germany 0405 de Hong Kong 0811 ...

53 Additional information —Continued Language code list Language Language code letter Language code Japanese ja 1001 English en 0514 French fr 0618 German de 0405 Italian it 0920 Spanish es 0519 Chinese zh 2608 Dutch nl 1412 Portuguese pt 1620 Swedish sv 1922 Russian ru 1821 Korean ko 1115 Greek el ...

54 Using the RC-524DV Remote controller with TVs from Other Manufacturers (North American model only) Learning a pre-programming code You can make RC-524DV remote controller to operate a TV from other brand than Onkyo by storing the pre-pro-gramming code of the brand in the RC-524DV. Notes: • With s...

55 Using the RC-524DV Remote controller with TVs from Other Manufacturers (North American model only) —Continued Pre-programming Code List Brand Code AIWA 100. 101 AKAI 102, 103, 104 AUDIO SONIC 105 BELL&HOWELL 106 BLAUPUNKT 107 BRIONVEGA 108, 109 CENTURION 110 COLTINA 111, 112, 113 CORONAD 114 ...

56 Glossary Analog audio An electrical signal that directly represents sound. Com-pare this to digital audio which can be an electrical sig-nal, but is an indirect representation of sound. See also “Digital audio”. Aspect ratio The width of a TV screen relative to its height. Conven-tional TVs are 4...

57 Troubleshooting If you have any trouble using your DV-SP501, check the following table for possible causes and remedies. If you still can’t resolve the issue yourself, please contact your Onkyo dealer. Symptoms Causes Remedies D VD Pla y e r Can’t turn on the DV-SP501? The power cord is not conne...

58 Troubleshooting —Continued D VD Pla y e r Buttons on the DV-SP501 and remote controller don’t work? Power supply voltage fluctuations and other anomalies, such as static electricity, can interfere with normal operation. Turn off the DV-SP501, wait five seconds, then turn it on again. If that does...

59 Troubleshooting —Continued The DV-SP501 contains a microcomputer for signal processing and control functions. In very rare situations, severe interference, noise from an external source, or static electricity may cause it to lockup. In the unlikely even that this should happen, unplug the power c...

60 SN 29343485 I0305-1 http://www.onkyo.co.jp/ HOMEPAGE Sales & Product Planning Div. : 2-1, Nisshin-cho, Neyagawa-shi, OSAKA 572-8540, JAPANTel: 072-831-8111 Fax: 072-831-8124 ONKYO U.S.A. CORPORATION 18 Park Way, Upper Saddle River, N.J. 07458, U.S.A.Tel: 201-785-2600 Fax: 201-785-2650 http://...

5 Precautions —Continued 5. Never Touch this Unit with Wet Hands Never handle this unit or its power cord while your hands are wet or damp. If water or any other liquid gets inside this unit, have it checked by your Onkyo dealer. 6. Installing this Unit • Install this unit in a well-ventilated locat...

6 Table of Contents Basic Operation Overview Important Safety Instructions ...............................2Precautions .........................................................3Introduction ..........................................................7 Supplied Accessories ................................

7 Introduction Make sure you have the following accessories: Highlights • Dolby *1 Digital and DTS *2 • DVD-Video / Video CD / Audio CD playback• CD-R, CD-RW (Video CD, audio CD, MP3/WMA *3 / JPEG) • DVD-R (DVD-Video)• DVD-RW (DVD-Video, VR format)• Vector Linear Shaping Circuitry Video • Advanced 5...

8 Introduction —Continued Supported Discs The DV-SP501 supports the following discs. • Some audio CDs feature copy protection that doesn’t conform to the official CD standard. Since these are nonstandard discs, they may not play properly in the DV-SP501. • The DV-SP501 supports CD-R and CD-RW discs ...

9 Introduction —Continued MP3/WMA Compatibility • This unit will play CD-R, and CD-RW discs contain- ing files saved in the MPEG-1 Audio Layer 3 (MP3) or Windows Media Audio (WMA) format with a sam-pling rate of 32*, 44.1 or 48 kHz. Incompatible files will not play and the message “Can’t play this f...

10 Introduction —Continued Handling Discs • Never touch the underside of a disc. Always hold discs by the edge, as shown. • Never attach adhesive tape or sticky labels to discs. Cleaning Discs • For best results, keep your discs clean. Fingerprints and dust can affect the sound and picture quality a...

11 Before Using the DV-SP501 Notes: • The supplied batteries should last for about six months, although this will vary with usage. • If the remote controller doesn’t work reliably, try replacing both batteries. • Don’t mix new and old batteries, or different types of batteries. • If you intend not t...

12 Front & Rear Panels For detailed information, refer to the pages in brackets. A POWER switch [23] This is the main power switch. When set to OFF, the DV-SP501 is completely shutdown. When set to ON, the DV-SP501 can be set to On or Standby.Don’t turn on the power until you’ve completed, and d...

13 Front & Rear Panels —Continued 1 D indicator This indicator appears when playing Dolby Digital material. 2 Disc type indicators These indicators show the type of disc loaded. 3 TITLE indicator While stopped, the total number of titles on the cur-rent DVD-Video disc is displayed here. During p...

14 Front & Rear Panels —Continued A OPTICAL DIGITAL AUDIO OUTPUT [21] This optical digital audio output can be connected to an optical digital audio input on a hi-fi amp, AV receiver, or surround sound decoder (Dolby Digital, DTS). B COAXIAL DIGITAL AUDIO OUTPUT [21] This coaxial digital audio o...

16 Front & Rear Panels —Continued A STANDBY button [23] This button is used to set the DV-SP501 to Standby. B ON button [23] This button is used to turn on the DV-SP501.Don’t turn on the DV-SP501 until you’ve com-pleted, and double checked all connections (pages 18–22). C REPEAT button [32] This...

17 Front & Rear Panels —Continued K Stop button [27] This button is used to stop playback. L Fast Reverse / ( ) button [27, 30, 31] This button is used for fast reverse, reverse slow motion, and reverse frame-by-frame playback. M Fast Forward / ( ) button [27, 30, 31] This button is used for fas...

18 Connecting the DV-SP501 • Read the manuals supplied with your AV components.• Don’t connect the power cord until you’ve completed all audio and video connections. Optical Digital Inputs The DV-SP501’s optical digital connectors have a shut-ter-type cover that opens when an optical plug is inserte...

19 Connecting the DV-SP501 —Continued The setup described here is a basic setup that allows you to play discs using just the cables supplied with the player. In this setup, stereo audio is played through the speakers in your TV. • This player is equipped with copy protection technol- ogy. Do not con...

20 Connecting the DV-SP501 —Continued • Connect the DVD Player to the TV directly. If you connect the DVD Player to a VCR, TV/VCR combina-tion, or video selector, the playback picture may be distorted as DVD videos are copy protected. Using S-Video If your TV (or other equipment) has an S-Video inpu...

21 Connecting the DV-SP501 —Continued Although you can reproduce the DVD Player’s sound from the TV speakers with the connections on page 19, connecting with an amplifier provides you high quality dynamic sounds.To reproduce Dolby Digital surround and DTS surround sound, you need to connect to an am...

22 Connecting the DV-SP501 —Continued • The remote controller supplied with Onkyo AV receiver or amplifiers can be used to control the DV-SP501. • The function of the upper and lower connectors are the same. Connect to either one. • Connecting an cable only does not make the sys- tem operational. Yo...

23 Connecting the Power/Turning on the DV-SP501 Before connecting • The DV-SP501 is shipped with the POWER switch in the on position ( ON). When the power cord is plugged in for the first time, the DV-SP501 will auto-matically enter the standby state and the STANDBY indicator will light (same condit...

24 Getting Started For ease of use, this player makes extensive use of graph-ical on-screen displays (OSDs).Make sure that you select the input on the TV (by using the TV remote) to view the on-screen displays.You should get used to the way these work as you’ll need to use them when setting up the p...

25 Getting Started —Continued The available languages vary between models. • North American and European models: English, French, Spanish, German, Italian, Other Language. • Australian, Asian and South American models: English, French, Spanish, Chinese (traditional), Other Language. • Chinese model:...

26 Getting Started —Continued The basic playback controls for playing DVD,CD, Video CD and WMA/MP3/JEPG discs are covered here. Playing discs 1 If the player isn’t already on, press DVD player’s STANDBY/ON or the remote controller’s ON to switch it on. If you’re playing a DVD or Video CD, also turn ...

27 Getting Started —Continued The table below shows the basic controls on the remote controller for playing discs. Front panel controls The PLAY, STOP, and PAUSE buttons on the front panel work in exactly the same way as their remote control equivalents. The combined / buttons on the front panel wor...

28 Getting Started —Continued Many DVD-Video discs contain menus from which you can select what you want to watch. They may give access to additional features, such as subtitle and audio lan-guage selection, or special features such as slideshows.See the disc packaging for details.Sometimes DVD-Vide...

29 Playing discs Introduction Most of the features described in this chapter make use of on-screen displays. For an explanation of how to nav-igate these, see “Using the on-screen displays” on page 24.Many of the functions covered in this chapter apply to DVD discs, Video CDs, CDs and WMA/MP3/JPEG d...

30 Playing discs —Continued You can fast-scan discs forward or backward at various different speeds. You can play DVDs and Video CDs at four different for-ward slow motion speeds. DVD-Video discs can also be played at two reverse speeds. (With Video CDs and VR format DVD-RWs, you can only use forwar...

31 Playing discs —Continued You can advance or back up a DVD disc frame-by-frame. With Video CDs and VR format DVD-RWs, you can only use frame advance. The A-B Repeat function allows you to specify two points (A and B) within a track (CD and Video CD) or title (DVD) that form a loop which is played ...

32 Playing discs —Continued Using the A-B button With the A-B button you can qucikly set the A-B Repeat function. Simply press the A-B button to set the A point. “A” appears on the display. Pres the A-B button again to set the B point. “B” appears on the display and A-B repeat playback starts. To ca...

33 Playing discs —Continued Use the random play function to play titles or chapters (DVD-Video) or tracks (CD, Video CD and WMA/MP3 discs) in a random order.You can set the random play option when a disc is play-ing or stopped.• You can’t use random play with VR format DVD-RW discs, Video CDs playin...

34 Playing discs —Continued This feature lets you program the play order of titles/chapters/folders/tracks on a disc.• You can’t use Program play with VR format DVD-RW discs, Video CDs playing in PBC mode, or while a DVD disc menu is being displayed. Creating a program list 1 Press PLAY MODE and sel...

35 Playing discs —Continued Tips: • To save your program list and exit the program edit screen without starting playback, press PLAY MODE or SETUP. (Don’t press RETURN—your program list won’t be saved.) • During program play, press to skip to the next program step; press to go back to the previous p...

36 Playing discs —Continued As well as creating and editing a program list, you can start program play, cancel program play, erase the pro-gram list, and memorize a program list from the Play Mode menu. Notes: • Program lists are saved for the DVD disc loaded. When you load a disc with a saved progr...

37 Playing discs —Continued Notes: • The disc must be playing in order to use time search.• Search functions are not available with Video CDs in PBC mode, or unfinalized CD-R/RW discs. Some DVD discs have subtitles in one or more lan-guages; the disc box will usually tell you which subtitle language...

38 Playing discs —Continued Using the zoom feature you can magnify a part of the screen by a factor of 2 or 4, while watching a DVD or Video CD. Notes: • We do not recommend using DVD disc menus when the screen is zoomed as menu options will not be high-lighted. • If you are displaying subtitles, th...

39 Playing discs —Continued Various track, chapter and title information, as well as the video transmission rate for DVD discs, can be dis-played on-screen while a disc is playing. Note: • You can see disc information (number of titles/chap- ters, tracks, folders and so on) from the Disc Navigator s...

40 Viewing JPEG discs After loading a CD/CD-R/RW containing JPEG pic-tures, press to start a slideshow from the first folder/ picture on the disc. The player displays the pictures in each folder in alphabetical order.Pictures are automatically adjusted so that they fill as much of the screen as poss...

41 Viewing JPEG discs —Continued The Photo Browser displays nine thumbnail images at a time from the current folder. Using the zoom feature you can magnify a part of the screen by a factor of 2 or 4, while viewing pictures from a JPEG disc. Using the Photo Browser 1 From the Disc Navigator screen, h...

42 Audio Settings menu ■ Default setting: Off When watching Dolby Digital DVDs at low volume, it’s easy to lose the quieter sounds completely—including some of the dialog.Switching Audio DRC (Dynamic Range Control) to On can help by bringing up the quieter sounds, while con-trolling loud peaks.How m...

43 Video Adjust menu ■ Default setting: Standard From the Video Adjust screen you can select the standard video presentation or define presets of your own. Video Adjust 1 Press SETUP and select “Video Adjust” from the on-screen dis-play. 2 Use the / (cursor left/right) buttons to select a preset. • ...

44 Initial Settings menu The Initial Settings menu gives you complete control in setting up your DVD player, including audio, and video output settings, audience limitation settings, among oth-ers.If an option is grayed out it means that it cannot be changed at the current time. This is usually beca...

45 Initial Settings menu —Continued MPEG Out You only need to make this setting if you connected this player to an AV receiver (or other component) using one of the digital outputs. ■ Default setting: MPEG > PCM If your AV receiver (or other connected component) is compatible with MPEG audio, set...

46 Initial Settings menu —Continued Compatibility of this unit with progressive-scan TVs. This player is compatible with progressive video Macro Vision System Copy Guard.CONSUMERS SHOULD NOTE THAT NOT ALL HIGH DEFINITION TELEVISION SETS ARE FULLY COMPATIBLE WITH THIS PRODUCT AND MAY CAUSE ARTIFACTS ...

47 Initial Settings menu —Continued The available languages vary between models. • North American and European models: English, French, Spanish, German, Italian, Other Language. • Australian, Asian and South American models: English, French, Spanish, Chinese (traditional), Other Language. • Chinese ...

48 Initial Settings menu —Continued Parental Lock ■ Default level: Off ■ Default password: none ■ Default Country code: us (2119) Some DVD-Video discs feature a Parental Lock level. If your player is set to a lower level than the disc, the disc won’t play. This gives you some control about what your...

49 Initial Settings menu —Continued Setting/changing the Parental Lock level Setting/changing the Country code You may also want to refer to the “Country code list” on page 52. Note: • Changing the Country code does not take effect until the next disc is loaded (or the current disc is reloaded). ■ D...

50 Additional information DVD-Video discs come in several different screen aspect ratios, ranging from TV programs, which are generally 4:3, to Cinema- Scope widescreen movies, with an aspect ratio of up to about 7:3.Televisions, too, come in different aspect ratios; “stan-dard” 4:3 and widescreen 1...

51 Additional information —Continued DVD discs are generally divided into one or more titles. Titles may be further subdivided into chapters. CDs and Video CDs are divided into tracks. CD-ROMs contain folders and files. MP3 and WMA files are referred to as tracks. Folders may contain further folders...

52 Additional information —Continued Country code list Country Country code Country code letter Argentina 0118 ar Australia 0121 au Austria 0120 at Belgium 0205 be Brazil 0218 br Canada 0301 ca Chile 0312 cl China 0314 cn Denmark 0411 dk Finland 0609 fi France 0618 fr Germany 0405 de Hong Kong 0811 ...

53 Additional information —Continued Language code list Language Language code letter Language code Japanese ja 1001 English en 0514 French fr 0618 German de 0405 Italian it 0920 Spanish es 0519 Chinese zh 2608 Dutch nl 1412 Portuguese pt 1620 Swedish sv 1922 Russian ru 1821 Korean ko 1115 Greek el ...

54 Using the RC-524DV Remote controller with TVs from Other Manufacturers (North American model only) Learning a pre-programming code You can make RC-524DV remote controller to operate a TV from other brand than Onkyo by storing the pre-pro-gramming code of the brand in the RC-524DV. Notes: • With s...

55 Using the RC-524DV Remote controller with TVs from Other Manufacturers (North American model only) —Continued Pre-programming Code List Brand Code AIWA 100. 101 AKAI 102, 103, 104 AUDIO SONIC 105 BELL&HOWELL 106 BLAUPUNKT 107 BRIONVEGA 108, 109 CENTURION 110 COLTINA 111, 112, 113 CORONAD 114 ...

56 Glossary Analog audio An electrical signal that directly represents sound. Com-pare this to digital audio which can be an electrical sig-nal, but is an indirect representation of sound. See also “Digital audio”. Aspect ratio The width of a TV screen relative to its height. Conven-tional TVs are 4...

57 Troubleshooting If you have any trouble using your DV-SP501, check the following table for possible causes and remedies. If you still can’t resolve the issue yourself, please contact your Onkyo dealer. Symptoms Causes Remedies D VD Pla y e r Can’t turn on the DV-SP501? The power cord is not conne...

58 Troubleshooting —Continued D VD Pla y e r Buttons on the DV-SP501 and remote controller don’t work? Power supply voltage fluctuations and other anomalies, such as static electricity, can interfere with normal operation. Turn off the DV-SP501, wait five seconds, then turn it on again. If that does...

59 Troubleshooting —Continued The DV-SP501 contains a microcomputer for signal processing and control functions. In very rare situations, severe interference, noise from an external source, or static electricity may cause it to lockup. In the unlikely even that this should happen, unplug the power c...

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