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Initial Settings menu
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Video Out settings
Setting Option What it means
TV Screen
(This setting effective
for analog and HDMI
video output. See also
“Screen sizes and disc
formats” on page 49.)
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 have a conventional 4:3 TV. Widescreen movies are
shown with the sides cropped so that the image fills the screen.
16:9 (Wide) Set if you have a widescreen TV.
Component Out
Interlace
Set if your TV is not compatible with progressive scan video.
Progressive
Set if your TV is compatible with progressive scan video (see
your TV’s instruction manual for details). See also “Switching
the video output to interlace using the front panel controls” on
page 19.
Note that progressive scan video is only output from the com-
ponent video jacks and that there is no output from the com-
posite and S-video jacks when this setting is selected.
AV Connector Out
(European model only)
Video
Ordinary (composite) video output, compatible with all TVs.
RGB
If your TV is compatible, this setting gives the best picture
quality.
Note that there is no output from the component jacks when
this setting is selected.
HDMI Resolution
(Default changes with
TV format (PAL/NTSC).)
1920x1080i Set if your TV supports 1920 x 1080 pixel interlace video.
1280x720p
Set if your TV supports 1280 x 720 pixel progressive-scan
video.
720x480p (NTSC)/
720x576p (PAL)
Set if your TV supports 720 x 480 pixel (NTSC)/720 x 576
pixel (PAL) progressive-scan video.
720x480i (NTSC)/
720x576i (PAL)
Set if your TV supports 720 x 480 pixel (NTSC)/720 x 576
pixel (PAL) interlace video.
HDMI Color
(Default changes
depending on device
connected.)
Full range RGB If colors are weak, this gives brighter colors and deeper black.
RGB
Use this setting if colors appear overly rich on the Full Range
RGB setting.
Component
Outputs component video format (default setting for HDMI-
compatible devices).
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