Filter
Top Products
18
RDV-1093 DVD Audio/Video Player
Inserting a Disc
A disc drawer slides out to accept a disc
and retracts for playback. Place the disc in
the drawer label-side up and program side
down. Make sure the disc is properly centered
in the tray. The OPEN/CLOSE button on the
front panel or the remote opens or closes the
drawer.
Playing a Disc
Press the PLAY
/
button on the remote to start
playing the disc from the beginning. If the disc
drawer is open, it will close automatically. If
the RDV-1093 is in standby mode with a disc
loaded, pressing the PLAY
/
button will “wake-
up” the unit and begin playing the disc.
By default, DVDs either begin playing automati
-
cally or display a start-up menu as soon as
the disc is inserted. This auto-play feature can
be disabled. See DVD Playback in the
Setup
section of this manual for information.
The PLAY
/
button usually starts play from
the beginning of the disc, except after the
PAUSE
,
button has been pressed. In this
case, the disc will resume playing from the
current location. The RDV-1093 also has a
resume feature that restarts play at the current
location after pressing the STOP
.
button once
during playback.
Stopping Disc Playback
Press the STOP
.
button to stop a disc that
is playing.
The first press of the STOP
.
button memorizes
the point at which the disc stopped playing.
Resume play at that point by pressing the
PLAY
/
button. This stored position remains
in memory until the disc drawer is opened, or
the top menu is selected.
The second press of the STOP
.
button clears
the memorized position.
Pause/Still Frame
Press the PAUSE
,
button to temporarily suspend
play. To resume playing the disc from the current
location, press the PLAY
/
button.
Still-Frame: When playing a video disc, a
still-frame picture remains on the TV screen
with no sound when the PAUSE
,
button is
pressed. Press the PAUSE
,
button again to
advance to the next still-frame picture. Each
button press advances one frame.
Skip forward/back
The TRACK
{
}
buttons skip forward/back
to the beginning of the next selection. While
a disc is playing, pressing the right TRACK
{
}
button once advances to the beginning
of the next
Chapter or Track. Pressing the left
button returns to the beginning of the current
scene or song. Pressing twice in quick succes
-
sion returns to the beginning of the previous
Chapter or Track.
Press the button as many times as necessary
to find the desired scene or selection.
For a DVD-Video disc: During playback,
this feature usually skips to the next
Chapter,
although it may skip to the next Title on some
discs, depending on the disc configuration.
For an Audio CD or DVD-Audio disc:
While the disc is playing or stopped, this feature
skips to the next Track.
NOTE: There are other methods of locating
specific selections on a disc, including direct
access with the NUMERIC buttons and using
the On-Screen Menu features. See Playing
Specific Selections for details.
High Speed Play
The SEARCH
[
]
buttons allow you to activate
high speed play, either forward or reverse.
During playback, press and release the
SEARCH
[
]
buttons to begin video and
audio playback at 2x normal speed, backwards
or forwards. Each time you press the button
again, the playback speed increases from to
2x, 4x, 8x, 16x, 30x, or 60x normal speed,
and back to normal speed. You can also press
PLAY
/
to resume normal playback.
Slow Speed Play
Press the SLOW button on the remote to begin
slow motion forward play at 1/2 normal speed.
Repeatedly press the button to step through
additional options (1/4 speed, 1/8th speed,
1/2 speed reverse, 1/4 speed reverse, 1/8
speed reverse) and back to normal play.
NOTE: The sound is muted during slow-mo-
tion play. Slow-motion is not available on
Audio CDs. On DVD-Audio discs, the
SLOW button is used to view still pictures.
Press PLAY
/
to resume normal playback.
NOTE: The sound is muted during slow-mo-
tion play. Slow-motion is not available on
Audio CDs. Slow motion reverse play is only
available on DVD-Video discs.
Time Display
The disc time indicators in the front panel
display and the On-Screen status bar can
show several different types of information
for DVD-Audio, and Audio CD discs. Options
include elapsed time or remaining time for a
single selection (chapter or track) or entire disc
(or Title for DVD-Video).
• Press the DISPLAY button to display the
elapsed time of the current disc or Title
in the Status Bar and front panel display.
On DVD-Video discs, the current Title and
Chapter are also displayed for several
seconds.
• Repeatedly press the DISPLAY button to step
through additional time display options:
remaining time of the current Disc/Title
,
elapsed time of the current Chapter/Track
,
and remaining time of the current
Chap-
ter/Track
.
• The Status bar disappears automatically
after the amount of time specified in the
Status bar delay setting of the System Setup
menu.
Advanced Features
The RDV-1093 provides several advanced
features for controlling the audio/video content
displayed during playback. These include high
definition video, zooming, changing the scene
angle on DVD-Video discs, selecting alternate
languages for the audio portion of DVD pro
-
grams, and selecting subtitle languages on
DVD programs.
Zoom
When playing a DVD-Video disc, the RDV-1093
can zoom in to enlarge a section of the picture
to 1.8, 4, or 8 times its original size. The zoom
feature is available for full-motion video during
playback or for still-frame pictures while the
unit is paused. While zoomed, you can move
the displayed image up, down, left, or right to
view the desired portion of the full image.
NOTE: It is typical for a zoomed video im-
age to look coarse or blurry.