Page 2 - Important Safety Instructions; 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
3 Precautions 1. Recording Copyright —Unless it’s for personal use only, recording copyrighted material is illegal with-out the permission of the copyright holder. 2. AC Fuse —The AC fuse inside the unit is not user- serviceable. If you cannot turn on the unit, contact your Onkyo dealer. 3. Care —Oc...
Page 4 - —Continued; WARNING; IMPORTANT; For European Models; Declaration of Conformity
4 Precautions —Continued This unit contains a semiconductor laser system and is classified as a “CLASS 1 LASER PRODUCT”. So, to use this model properly, read this Instruction Manual carefully. In case of any trouble, please contact the store where you purchased the unit.To prevent being exposed to t...
Page 5 - Table of Contents; Basic Operation; Advanced Operation
5 Table of Contents Basic Operation Overview Important Safety Instructions .............................. 2Precautions ......................................................... 3Introduction ......................................................... 6 Supplied Accessories ...............................
Page 6 - Introduction; Audio / Video Processing; Supplied Accessories; Coaxial cable; Features
6 Introduction Make sure you have the following accessories: The letter displayed at the end of the product name found in catalogs and on package represents the color of the DV-SP305 DVD player. Though the color varies, the specifications and operations are the same. Audio / Video Processing • Dolby...
Page 7 - Supported Discs; The DV-SP305 supports the following discs.; Function Support; Disc Notes
7 Introduction —Continued Supported Discs The DV-SP305 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-SP305. • The DV-SP305 supports CD-R and CD-RW discs ...
Page 8 - Compressed audio compatibility
8 Introduction —Continued DVD-R/RW compatibility • Compatible formats: DVD-Video, Video Recording (VR)* * Edit points may not play exactly as edited; screen may go momentarily blank at edited points. • Unfinalized playback: No• WMA/MP3/JPEG file playback on DVD-R/RW: No DVD+R/DVD+RW compatibility On...
Page 10 - Before Using the DV-SP305; Installing the Batteries; Close the battery compartment.; Using the Remote Controller
10 Before Using the DV-SP305 Notes: • 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 use the remote controller for a long time, remove the batteries to prevent possible leakage a...
Page 11 - Front Panel; bm
11 Front & Rear Panels For detailed information, refer to the pages in brackets. STANDBY/ON button [21, 24] This button is used to set the DV-SP305 to On or Standby. Disc tray [24] Discs are loaded here. Remote control sensor [10] This sensor receives control signals from the remote controller. ...
Page 12 - This indicator appears when playback is paused.; Display
12 Front & Rear Panels —Continued Pause indicator This indicator appears when playback is paused. Play indicator This indicator is shown during playback. CHP indicator This indicator appears while the number of the cur-rent chapter is being displayed. TITLE indicator This indicator appears while...
Page 13 - Rear Panel
13 Front & Rear Panels —Continued COAXIAL DIGITAL AUDIO OUTPUT [20] This coaxial digital audio output can be connected to a coaxial digital audio input on a hi-fi amp, AV receiver, or surround sound decoder (Dolby Digital, DTS). COMPONENT VIDEO OUTPUT [19] These sockets output component video an...
Page 14 - This button is used to set the DV-SP305 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 STANDBY button [21] This button is used to set the DV-SP305 to Standby. ON button [21] This button is used to turn on the DV-SP305.Don’t turn on the DV-SP305 until you’ve com-pleted, and double checked all connections (pages 16–20). Number buttons [25–26, 35, 44...
Page 15 - Fast Forward; This button is used to open and close the disc tray.; Pause; This button is used to pause playback.; buttons; This button is used to start playback.
15 Front & Rear Panels —Continued (2 Fast Forward /( ) button [25, 28, 29] This button is used for fast forward, slow motion, and frame-by-frame playback. (3 OPEN/CLOSE button [24] This button is used to open and close the disc tray. (4 PLAY MODE button [32–35] This button is used to open and cl...
Page 16 - Connecting the DV-SP305; all audio and video connections.; RCA AV Connection Color Coding; • Push each plug in all the way to; Before Making Any Connections
16 Connecting the DV-SP305 • Read the manuals supplied with your AV components.• Don’t connect the power cord until you’ve completed all audio and video connections. RCA AV Connection Color Coding RCA AV connections are usually color coded: red, white, and yellow. Use red plugs to connect right-chan...
Page 17 - • This player is equipped with copy protection technol-; Connect the VIDEO OUTPUT and ANALOG; • Before unplugging the player from the power outlet,; Basic Setup
17 Connecting the DV-SP305 —Continued The setup described here is a basic setup that allows you to play discs using just the supplied AV cable (RCA). In this setup, stereo audio is played through the speakers in your TV. Important: • This player is equipped with copy protection technol- ogy. Do not ...
Page 18 - to
18 Connecting the DV-SP305 —Continued Switching the video output to interlace using the front panel controls Switch the player to standby then, using the front panel controls, press STANDBY/ON while pressing to switch the player back to Interlace. Note: • If you connect a TV that is not compatible w...
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; Using SCART; CONNECTOR to an AV input on your TV.; Connecting Your TV
19 Connecting the DV-SP305 —Continued • Connect the DVD Player to the TV directly. If you connect the DVD Player to a VCR, TV/VCR combi-nation, or video selector, the playback picture may be distorted as DVD videos are copy protected. Using Component Video You can use the component video output inst...
Page 20 - Before connecting; • When you connect the DVD Player to the amplifier, be; Connect the DIGITAL AUDIO OUTPUT jack on; • You usually have to connect the same kind of video; Connecting to an AV Receiver
20 Connecting the DV-SP305 —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 am...
Page 21 - Connecting the Power/Turning on the DV-SP305; • Make sure that all the connections on pages 16–20 are; • Do not use a power cord other than the
21 Connecting the Power/Turning on the DV-SP305 Before connecting • Make sure that all the connections on pages 16–20 are complete (the connection to a TV is required). Note: • This player features a screen saver and an auto power off function. If the player is stopped and no button is pressed for f...
Page 22 - Getting Started; ) buttons to change the; Using the on-screen displays; Button; Setting up the player for your TV
22 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 - • You may find with some DVD discs that some play-; Playing discs; Press
24 Getting Started —Continued The basic playback controls for playing DVD, CD, Video CD, DivX Video and MP3/WMA discs are cov-ered here. Further functions are detailed in the next chap-ter.For details on playing JPEG picture discs, see “Viewing a JPEG slideshow” on page 29. Notes: • You may find wit...
Page 25 - • The Last Memory function doesn’t work with VR for-; Basic playback controls; Numbers; Resume and Last Memory
25 Getting Started —Continued The table below shows the basic controls on the remote for playing discs. The following chapter covers other playback features in more detail. When you stop playback of a disc, RESUME is shown in the display indicating that you can resume playback again from that point....
Page 26 - Video CD PBC menus
26 Getting Started —Continued Many DVD-Video discs feature menus from which you can select what you want to watch. They may also give access to additional features, such as subtitle and audio language selection, or special features such as slide-shows. See the disc packaging for details.Sometimes DV...
Page 27 - • After I load a DVD disc, it ejects automatically after a
27 Getting Started —Continued Hint: • After I load a DVD disc, it ejects automatically after a few seconds! o Most likely, the disc is the wrong region for your player. The region number should be printed on the disc; check it against the region number of the player (which you can find on the rear p...
Page 28 - Scanning discs; Playing in slow motion
28 Playing discs Notes: • Many of the functions covered in this chapter apply to DVD discs, Video CDs, CDs, DivX Video and MP3/WMA/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 ex...
Page 29 - • Backward frame-by-frame playback does not work; While the slideshow is running:; • The time it takes for the player to load a file increases; Frame advance/frame reverse; Viewing a JPEG slideshow; ZOOM; MENU
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 sea...
Page 31 - • To play the contents of the whole disc rather than just; tons and ENTER to navigate.; by going to the top of the list to the “
31 Playing discs —Continued Use the “Disc Navigator” to find a particular file or folder by filename. Note that if there are other types of files on the same disc, these will not be displayed in the “Disc Navigator”. Tip: • To play the contents of the whole disc rather than just the current folder, ...
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/DivX Video files. There are various repeat p...
Page 33 - Using random play; Select a random play option.
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: • Random play remains...
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
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 discs, or while a DVD disc menu is being displayed. Tip:• Use the following control...
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 t...
Page 36 - Switching subtitles; Switching audio language/channels; AUDIO
36 Playing discs —Continued Some DVD or DivX Video discs have subtitles in one or more languages; the disc box will usually tell you which subtitle languages are available. You can switch subtitle language during playback. • See “Displaying DivX subtitle files” on page 8 for more on DivX subtitle. W...
Page 37 - icon appears; Zooming the screen; tons to change the zoomed area.; Switching camera angles; tion appears at the top of the screen.; DISPLAY
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, DivX Video title or Video CD, or playing a JPEG disc. Some DVD discs feature scenes shot from two or more angles—check the disc box for details.When a multi-angle scen...
Page 38 - Audio Settings and Video Adjust menus; Audio Settings menu; Virtual Surround
38 Audio Settings and Video Adjust menus The “Audio Settings” menu offers features for adjusting the way discs sound. • Settings: “Rock”, “Pop”, “Live”, “Dance”, “Techno”, “Classic”, “Soft”, “Off (default)” The various preset EQ curves are designed to suit vari-ous styles of music. Note: • 96kHz lin...
Page 39 - Video Adjust menu
39 Audio Settings and Video Adjust menus —Continued From the “Video Adjust” screen you can adjust various settings 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. Vide...
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 output settings, parental lock settings, and display set-tings, 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...
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 - Video Output settings
42 Initial Settings menu —Continued Video Output settings Setting Option What it means TV Screen(See also “Screen sizes and disc formats” on page 47.) 4:3 (Letter Box) Set if you have a conventional 4:3 TV. Widescreen movies are shown with black bars top and bottom. 4:3 (Pan&Scan) Set if you hav...
Page 43 - Language settings; Display settings
43 Initial Settings menu —Continued Language settings Setting Option What it means Audio Language *1 *1 This setting is your preferred audio language for DVD discs. You can switch between the languages recorded on a DVD disc during playback using the AUDIO button.Some DVD discs set the audio languag...
Page 44 - • Not all discs use “Parental Lock”, and will play with-; Parental Lock; Changing your password; Select “Password Change”.; Setting/changing the Parental Lock; Select “Level Change”.; • Press the cursor left (
44 Initial Settings menu —Continued • Default level: “Off”; Default password: none; Default Country/Area 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 di...
Page 45 - Select “Country Code”.; ) buttons to change the; Country/Area code list
45 Initial Settings menu —Continued You can find the Country/Area code list in the adjacent column. Setting/changing the Country/Area code 1 Select “Country Code”. 2 Use number buttons to enter your password, then press ENTER. 3 Select a Country/Area code and press ENTER. There are two ways you can ...
Page 46 - • DivX VOD content is protected by a DRM (Digital; About DivX; Your 8-digit registration code is displayed.; Playing DivX
46 Initial Settings menu —Continued In order to play DivX VOD (video on demand) content on this player, you first need to register the player with your DivX VOD content provider. You do this by gener-ating a DivX VOD registration code, which you submit to your provider. Important: • DivX VOD content...
Page 47 - Additional information; Widescreen TV users; Screen sizes and disc formats; Switch the player into standby.; All the player’s settings are now reset.; Setting the TV system; then press; The TV system changes as follows:
47 Additional information DVD-Video discs come in several different screen aspect ratios, ranging from TV programs, which are generally 4:3, to CinemaScope 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 16:...
Page 48 - • You have to switch the player into standby (press; Titles, chapters and tracks; Select “Other Language”.
48 Additional information —Continued Note: • You have to switch the player into standby (press STANDBY/ON) before each change. 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 a...
Page 49 - Language code list
49 Additional information —Continued Language code list Language Language codeletter 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 0...
Page 50 - Glossary
50 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 51 - Progressive scan video
51 Glossary —Continued Progressive scan video All the lines that make up a video picture are updated in one pass (compared to interlace which takes two passes to update the whole picture). Regions (DVD-Video only) These associate discs and players with particular areas of the world. This unit will o...
Page 52 - Troubleshooting; Symptoms; Can’t start playback?; Settings are not saved?
52 Troubleshooting If you have any trouble using your DV-SP305, 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 DV D P la y e r Can’t turn on the DV-SP305? The power cord is not conn...
Page 53 - DV
53 Troubleshooting —Continued DV D P la y e r No sound? The “96 kHz PCM Out” setting is set to “96kHz”. Change the “96 kHz PCM Out” setting to “96kHz > 48kHz”, or use analog connections (page 41). The “Digital Out” setting is set to “Off”. Change the “Digital Out” setting to “On” (page 41). The w...
Page 54 - Remo
54 Troubleshooting —Continued Note: • Static electricity or other external influences may cause malfunctioning of this unit. In this case, unplug the power cord and then plug back in. This will usually reset the unit for proper operation. If this does not correct the problem, please consult your nea...
Page 55 - Specifications; General; Specifications and features subject to change without notice.
55 Specifications ■ General Specifications and features subject to change without notice. Signal System PAL/NTSC Composite Video Output/Impedance 1.0 V (p-p)/75 : negative sync, RCA Component Video Output/Impedance Y: 1.0 V (p-p)/75 : PB/PR: 0.7 V (p-p)/75 : RCA AV Connector 1.0 V (p-p)/75 : , Scart...
Page 56 - Printed in Japan
56 Printed in Japan Y0703-1 (C) Copyright 2007 ONKYO CORPORATION Japan. All rights reserved. http://www.onkyo.com/ HOMEPAGE SN 29344508 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, U...
