Page 2 - Important Safety Instructions; WARNING; AVIS
2 Important Safety Instructions 1. Read these instructions.2. Keep these instructions.3. Heed all warnings.4. Follow all instructions.5. Do not use this apparatus near water.6. Clean only with dry cloth.7. Do not block any ventilation openings. Install in accordance with the manufacturer’s instructi...
Page 3 - Precautions; For British models; IMPORTANT; For European Models; Recording Copyright; Never Touch this Unit; • Install this unit in a well-ventilated location.; Declaration of Conformity
3 Precautions For British models Replacement and mounting of an AC plug on the power supply cord of this unit should be performed only by qualified service personnel. IMPORTANT The wires in the mains lead are coloured in accordance with the following code: Blue: Neutral Brown: LiveAs the colours of ...
Page 4 - —Continued; To Obtain a Clear Picture; Moisture condensation may damage this unit.; This unit is a CLASS 1
4 Precautions —Continued • Install this unit horizontally. Never use it on its side or on a sloping surface, because it may cause a malfunc-tion. • If you install this unit near a TV, radio, or VCR, the picture and sound quality may be affected. If this occurs, move this unit away from the TV, radio...
Page 5 - Table of Contents; Basic Operation; Connecting the Power/Turning on; Advanced Operation; Browsing WMA, MP3 and JPEG files
5 Table of Contents Basic Operation Overview Important Safety Instructions .............................. 2Precautions ......................................................... 3Introduction ......................................................... 6 Supplied Accessories ...............................
Page 6 - Introduction; Make sure you have the following accessories:; Supplied Accessories; Only supplied in certain countries.
6 Introduction Make sure you have the following accessories: Supplied Accessories Remote controller & 2 batteries (AA) AV cable (RCA/phono) (1.5 m) S-Video cable (1.5 m) (not supplied with European model) Coaxial cable (1 m) Power-plug adapter Only supplied in certain countries. cable (0.8 m) Ca...
Page 7 - Highlights; • Dolby; Video; • Some audio CDs feature copy protection that doesn’t; Disc Notes; Including PBC
7 Introduction —Continued 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) Video • Advanced 54 MHz/10-bit video D/A converter• Component video output• S-Video an...
Page 8 - * Edit points may not play exactly as edited screen may go
8 Introduction —Continued • Don’t use discs with an unusual shape, such as those shown below, because you may damage the DV-L55. • Don’t use discs that have residue from adhesive tape, rental discs with peeling labels, or discs with custom-made labels or stickers. Doing so may damage the DV-L55 and ...
Page 9 - Handling Discs; Underside
9 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 an...
Page 10 - Before Using the DV-L55; Installing the Batteries; Close the battery compartment.; Using the Remote Controller; Appro
10 Before Using the DV-L55 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 to ...
Page 11 - Front Panel
11 Front & Rear Panels For detailed information, refer to the pages in brackets. A STANDBY/ON button [22, 24] This button is used to set the DV-L55 to On or Standby. B STANDBY indicator [22] This indicator lights up when the DV-L55 is in Standby. C DISPLAY button [37] This button is used to disp...
Page 12 - These indicators show the type of disc loaded.; Display
12 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...
Page 13 - These; Rear Panel
13 Front & Rear Panels —Continued A OPTICAL DIGITAL AUDIO OUTPUT [20] 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 [20] This coaxial digital audio o...
Page 14 - This button is used to set the DV-L55 to Standby.; Cursor; These buttons are used to navigate onscreen menus.; Stop; This button is used to stop playback.; Fast Reverse; Remote Controller
14 Front & Rear Panels —Continued A STANDBY button [22] This button is used to set the DV-L55 to Standby. B ON button [22] This button is used to turn on the DV-L55.Don’t turn on the DV-L55 until you’ve completed, and double checked all connections (pages 16–21). C Number buttons [25–27, 35, 43]...
Page 15 - Fast Forward
15 Front & Rear Panels —Continued K Fast Forward / ( ) button [25, 28, 29] This button is used for fast forward, slow motion, and frame-by-frame playback. L OPEN/CLOSE button [24] This button is used to open and close the disc tray. M PLAY MODE button [32–35] This button is used to open and clos...
Page 16 - Connecting the DV-L55; all audio and video connections.; Optical Digital Inputs; • Push each plug in all the way to; Before Making Any Connections
16 Connecting the DV-L55 • 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-L55’s optical digital connectors have a shutter-type cover that opens when an optical plug is inserted, an...
Page 17 - Connect the VIDEO OUTPUT and AUDIO OUT-; Basic Setup; To power outlet
17 Connecting the DV-L55 —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 conne...
Page 18 - Switching the video output to interlace; to; Compatibility of this player with
18 Connecting the DV-L55 —Continued Switching the video output to interlace from progressive Switch the player to standby then, using the front panel controls, press STANDBY/ON while pressing to switch the player back to Interlace. Compatibility of this player with progressive-scan and high-definiti...
Page 19 - • Connect the DVD Player to the TV directly. If you; Using Component Video; • To set up the player for use with a progressive scan TV,; Connecting Your TV; TV; TV
19 Connecting the DV-L55 —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 input,...
Page 20 - Before connecting; • When you connect the DVD Player to the amplifier, be; Connect one of DIGITAL AUDIO OUTPUT jacks; • You usually have to connect the same kind of video; Connecting to an AV Receiver; AV receiver
20 Connecting the DV-L55 —Continued Although you can reproduce the DVD Player’s sound from the TV speakers with the connections on page 17, 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 ampl...
Page 22 - Connecting the Power/Turning on the DV-L55; • Make sure that all the connections on pages 16 – 21; • Do not use a power cord other than the; Screen saver and Auto power off
22 Connecting the Power/Turning on the DV-L55 Before connecting • Make sure that all the connections on pages 16 – 21 are complete (the connection to a TV is required). ON STANDBY PLAY MODE DISPLAY DIMMER MENU SETUP TOP MENU RETURN AUDIO ANGLE SUBTITLE ZOOM RC-574DV CLEAR OPEN/ CLOSE ENTER 1 2 3 6 7...
Page 23 - Getting Started; highlighted item and pressing ENTER to select it.; Using the on-screen displays; Changes the highlighted menu item.; Setting up the player for your TV
23 Getting Started For ease of use, this player makes extensive use of graph-ical on-screen displays (OSDs). All the screens are navigated in basically the same way, using the cursor buttons ( / / / ) to change the highlighted item and pressing ENTER to select it. Note:• From here on in this manual,...
Page 24 - Playing discs; Press
24 Getting Started —Continued This sets the language of this system’s on-screen dis-plays. The basic playback controls for playing DVD, CD, Video CD and MP3/WMA discs are covered here. Fur-ther functions are detailed in the next chapter.For details on playing JPEG picture discs, see “Viewing a JPEG ...
Page 25 - • You may find with some DVD discs that some play-; Basic playback controls; Button; Skips to the next track or chapter.; • If the disc is playing, playback jumps; Numbers
25 Getting Started —Continued Note: • You may find with some DVD discs that some play- back controls don’t work in certain parts of the disc. This is not a malfunction. The table below shows the basic controls on the remote for playing discs. The following chapter covers other playback features in m...
Page 26 - • The Last Memory function doesn’t work with CD and; Resume and Last Memory; Moves the cursor around the screen.
26 Getting Started —Continued When you stop playback of a disc, RESUME is shown in the display indicating that you can resume playback again from that point.If the disc tray is not opened, the next time you start play-back the display shows RESUME and playback resumes from the resume point.With DVDs...
Page 27 - Video CD PBC menus; Displays the PBC menu.
27 Getting Started —Continued Some Video CD have menus from which you can choose what you want to watch. These are called PBC (Playback control) menus.You can play a PBC Video CD without having to navi-gate the PBC menu by starting playback using a number button to select a track, rather than the (p...
Page 28 - Scanning discs
28 Playing discs Notes: • Many of the functions covered in this chapter apply to DVD discs, Video CDs, CDs and MP3/JPEG discs, although the exact operation of some varies slightly with the kind of disc loaded. • Some DVDs restrict the use of some functions (ran- dom or repeat, for example) in some o...
Page 29 - While the slideshow is running:; Frame advance/frame reverse; Displays the previous picture.
29 Playing discs —Continued You can advance or back up DVD discs frame-by-frame. With Video CD you can only use frame advance. Note: • Backward frame-by-frame playback does not work with Video CD. After loading a CD/CD-R/RW containing JPEG picture files, press (play) to start a slideshow from the fi...
Page 30 - Select a view option.
30 Playing discs —Continued Use the Disc Navigator to browse through the contents of a DVD or Video CD disc to find the part you want to play. Important: • You can’t use the Disc Navigator with Video CD in PBC mode. Tip: • Another way to find a particular place on a disc is to use one of the search ...
Page 31 - • To play the contents of the whole disc rather than just; Use the cursor buttons (; • When a JPEG file is highlighted, a
31 Playing discs —Continued Use the Disc Navigator to find a particular file or folder by filename. Tip: • To play the contents of the whole disc rather than just the current folder, exit the Disc Navigator and start playback using the (play) button. Browsing WMA, MP3 and JPEG files with the Disc Na...
Page 32 - • You can’t use Repeat play with Video CD in PBC; Looping a section of a disc; Using repeat play; Select a repeat play option.; • For CDs and Video CD, select Disc; PLAY MODE
32 Playing discs —Continued The A-B Repeat function allows you to specify two points (A and B) within a track (CD, Video CD) or title (DVD) that form a loop which is played over and over.• You can’t use A-B Repeat with Video CD in PBC mode, or WMA/MP3/JPEG files. There are various repeat play option...
Page 33 - • You can’t use random play with VR format DVD-RW; Using random play; Select a random play option.; • For CDs and Video CD, select On or
33 Playing discs —Continued Use the random play function to play titles or chapters (DVD-Video) or tracks (CD, Video CD) at random. (Note that the same track/title/chapter may play more than once.)You can set the random play option when a disc is play-ing or stopped. Important: • If you press the (s...
Page 34 - • You can’t use Program play with VR format DVD-RW; Creating a program list; • For a CD or Video CD, select a track to; To play the program list, press; Skip to the next step in the program list.
34 Playing discs —Continued This feature lets you program the play order of titles/chapters/tracks on a disc. Important: • You can’t use Program play with VR format DVD-RW discs, Video CD playing in PBC mode, WMA/MP3/JPEG discs, or while a DVD disc menu is being dis-played. Tip:Use the following con...
Page 35 - Searching a disc; Select a search mode.; Press ENTER to start playback.
35 Playing discs —Continued There are a number of other options in the program menu in addition to Create/Edit.• Playback Start – Starts playback of a saved program list • Playback Stop – Turns off program play, but does not erase the program list • Program Delete – Erases the program list and turns...
Page 36 - Switching subtitles; • Some discs only allow you to change; Switching audio language/channel; • Some DVD discs only allow you to; AUDIO
36 Playing discs —Continued Some DVD discs have subtitles in one or more lan-guages; the disc box will usually tell you which subtitle languages are available. You can switch subtitle lan-guage during playback. When playing a DVD disc recorded with dialog in two or more languages, you can switch aud...
Page 37 - icon appears; Zooming the screen; Switching camera angles; tion appears at the top of the screen.; ANGLE
37 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 or playing a JPEG disc. Notes: If you are displaying subtitles, these will disappear when the screen is zoomed. They will reappear when you return the scree...
Page 38 - Audio Settings and Video Adjust menus; • Audio DRC is only effective with Dolby Digital audio; Audio Settings menu; Audio DRC
38 Audio Settings and Video Adjust menus The Audio Settings menu offers features for adjusting the way discs sound. • Settings: High, Medium, Low, Off (default)When watching Dolby Digital DVDs at low volume, it’s easy to lose the quieter sounds completely—including some of the dialog. Switching Audi...
Page 39 - Video Adjust menu; Make settings using the
39 Audio Settings and Video Adjust menus —Continued From the Video Adjust screen you can adjust various set-tings that affect how the picture is presented. Note: • Depending on your TV, the picture may appear dis- torted if the brightness is set too high. If this happens, lower the brightness. Video...
Page 40 - Initial Settings menu; • In the table on next pages, the default setting is shown; Using the Initial Settings menu
40 Initial Settings menu The Initial Settings menu provides audio and video out-put settings, parental lock settings, and display settings, among others.If an option is grayed out it means that it cannot be changed at the current time. This is usually because a disc is playing. Stop the disc, then c...
Page 41 - Digital Audio Out settings
41 Initial Settings menu —Continued Digital Audio Out settings Setting Option What it means Digital Out On Digital audio is output from the digital outputs. Off No digital audio output. Dolby Digital Out Dolby Digital Dolby Digital encoded digital audio is output when playing a Dolby Digital DVD dis...
Page 42 - Language settings
42 Initial Settings menu —Continued *4 The default settings may be different depending on where you purchased the unit. Language settings Setting Option What it means Audio Language *1 *1 (The default settings may be different depending on where you purchased the unit.) This setting is your preferre...
Page 43 - • Not all discs use Parental Lock, and will play without; Parental Lock; Changing your password; Select “Password Change”.; Setting/changing the Parental Lock; Select “Level Change”.; • Press
43 Initial Settings menu —Continued • Default level: Off; Default password: none; Default Country code: us (2119) To give you some control over what your children watch on your DVD player, some DVD-Video discs feature a Parental Lock level. If your player is set to a lower level than the disc, the d...
Page 44 - Setting/changing the Country code; Select “Country Code”.; • Select by code number: Press; Country code list
44 Initial Settings menu —Continued You can find the Country code list in the adjacent col-umn. Setting/changing the Country code 1 Select “Country Code”. 2 Use number buttons to enter your password, then press ENTER. 3 Select a Country code and press ENTER. There are two ways you can do this:• Sele...
Page 45 - Additional information; Widescreen TV users; Screen sizes and disc formats; Switch the player into standby.
45 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...
Page 46 - Setting the TV system; If the player is on, press; Titles, chapters and tracks
46 Additional information —Continued The default setting of this player is “AUTO”, and unless you notice that the picture is distorted when playing some discs, you should leave it set to “AUTO”. If you experience picture distortion with some discs, set the TV system to match your country or region’s...
Page 47 - Select “Other Language”.
47 Additional information —Continued Some of the language options (such as “DVD Language” in the Setup Navigator) allow you to set your prefered language from any of the 136 languages listed in the lan-guage code list on page 48. Selecting languages using the language code list 1 Select “Other Langu...
Page 48 - Language code list
48 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 ...
Page 49 - Glossary
49 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...
Page 50 - Troubleshooting; Symptoms
50 Troubleshooting If you have any trouble using your DV-L55, 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-L55? The power cord is not connected...
Page 51 - VD Pla
51 Troubleshooting —Continued D VD Pla y e r Buttons on the DV-L55 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-L55, wait five seconds, then turn it on again. If that doesn’t ...
Page 52 - The disc has not been finalized.; Can’t select MP3 files?; The WMA file’s copyright option is on.; Can’t view JPEG files?; The batteries are flat.
52 Troubleshooting —Continued The DV-L55 contains a microcomputer for signal processing and control functions. In very rare situations, severe inter-ference, noise from an external source, or static electricity may cause it to lockup. In the unlikely even that this should happen, unplug the power co...
Page 53 - Specifications; General; Specifications and features subject to change without notice.; DVD Linear Sound
53 Specifications ■ General Specifications and features subject to change without notice. Signal System NTSC/PAL/AUTO Composite Video Output/Impedance 1.0 V (p-p)/75 Ω negative sync, RCA/phono S-Video Output/Impedance Y: 0.7 V (p-p)/75 Ω negative sync, 4-pin mini DIN C: 0.286 V (p-p)/75 Ω Component ...
Page 56 - Printed in Japan
56 SN 29343727 Printed in Japan I0406-1 Sales & Product Planning Div. : 2-1, Nisshin-cho, Neyagawa-shi, OSAKA 572-8540, JAPANTel: 072-831-8023 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://www.onkyousa.com...
