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English
For details about language codes, see “Ap-
pendix B: Table of languages and their abbre-
viations”.
You cannot change the setting during playback.
ON SCREEN LANGUAGE
You can select the on-screen display language
of the RDV-1040.
Setting options: ENGLISH, FRENCH, GERMAN
Some on-screen messages are shown in En-
glish regardless of the setting.
You cannot change the on-screen language
shown on the MP3 display.
PICTURE Menu
MONITOR TYPE
You can select the monitor type to match your
TV when you play back DVD VIDEO discs re-
corded for wide-screen televisions.
Setting options: 16:9 NORMAL, 16:9
AUTO, 4:3 LB, 4:3 PS
16:9 NORMAL (Wide television
screen): select when you connect the RDV-
1040 to a wide-screen (16:9) TV whose as-
pect ratio is fixed to 16:9 (the unit automati-
cally adjusts the screen width of the output signal
correctly when playing back a 4:3 source).
If you play a 4:3 DVD VIDEO source using the
16:9 NORMAL mode, the picture character
changes slightly due to the process for con-
verting the picture width.
16:9 AUTO (Wide television screen):
select when you connect the RDV-1040 to a
wide-screen (16:9) TV.
4:3 LB (Letter Box conversion):
select when you connect the RDV-1040 to a
normal (4:3) TV. When playing back a DVD
VIDEO disc recorded in wide picture format,
the picture is shown with black bars at the top
and bottom.
4:3 PS (Pan Scan conversion): select
when you connect the RDV-1040 to a normal
(4:3) TV. When playing back a DVD VIDEO
disc recorded in wide picture format, the pic-
ture is zoomed to fill the screen vertically, and
the left and right sides of the image are chopped
off. Note, however, that the picture will be
shown in the 4:3 LB mode even if you select
the 4:3 PS mode depending on the disc.
Picture Source
This mode selects whether the content on the
disc is processed by field (video source) or by
frame (film source). You can obtain optimal
picture quality according to the source type to
be played back by selecting an appropriate
option.
Setting options: AUTO, FILM, VIDEO (NOR-
MAL), VIDEO (ACTIVE)
AUTO: select when playing back a disc con-
taining both video and film source materials.
The RDV-1040 recognizes the picture type (film
or video source) of the current disc according
to the disc information. Normally, select this
option.
FILM: select when playing back a film source
disc.
VIDEO (NORMAL): select when playing back
a video source disc with few movements.
VIDEO (ACTIVE): select when playing back
a video source disc with a lot of movement.
Screen Saver
You can turn the screen saver ON or OFF.
Setting options: ON, OFF
MP3 and WMA/JPEG
The RDV-1040 can play MP3/WMA and JPEG
files recorded on a CD-R/CD-RW disc. How-
ever, if a disc contains both MP3/WMA and
JPEG files, you can only play files of the type
selected in this menu.
Setting options: MP3 & WMA, JPEG
MP3 & WMA: when selected, only MP3/
WMA files can be played back.
JPEG: when selected, only JPEG files can be
played back.
AUDIO menu
DIGITAL AUDIO OUTPUT
When you connect the digital output of the RDV-
1040 to an external device equipped with a
digital input, this item must be set correctly. See
“Appendix C: Digital Output Signal Chart” for
details about the relation between the setting
and output signals.
Setting options: PCM ONLY, DOLBY DIGI-
TAL/PCM, STREAM/PCM
PCM ONLY: select when you connect the DIGI-
TAL OUT jack of the RDV-1040 to the linear
PCM digital input of other audio equipment.
DOLBY DIGITAL/PCM: select when you con-
nect the digital input of a Dolby Digital decoder
or an amplifier with a built-in Dolby Digital
decoder. When this option is selected, play-
ing back a disc recorded by the MPEG Multi-
channel format outputs a linear PCM digital
signal.
STREAM/PCM: select when you connect the
digital input of an amplifier with a built-in DTS,
MPEG Multichannel or Dolby Digital decoder,
or the stand-alone unit of such a decoder.
• With some DVD VIDEO discs that are not
fully copy-protected, a 20 or 24 bit digital
signal may be output.
•A signal recorded with the 96 kHz or higher
sampling frequency is output from the DIGI-
TAL OUT jack with the 48 kHz sampling
frequency.
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