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RDV-985 DVD Player
Advanced Operations
Selecting a Scene From a Menu
DVD discs generally have menus which show
the disc contents. These menus contains various
items such as titles of a movie, names of songs,
or artist information, which can be displayed
on the TV screen. You can locate a desired
scene by using the menu.
Insert the DVD disc. Press the TITLE button
6
or MENU button
21
. The menu appears on
the TV screen.
Use the CURSOR buttons ///
7
to select a desired item, then press ENTER.
The RDV-985 starts playing the selected item.
With some discs, you can also select items by
entering the corresponding number using the
Numeric Buttons
13
. This may cause the
RDV-985 to automatically start playing the
selected item.
About menus
Normally, a DVD disc which contains more
than one title will have a "title" menu which
is displayed when you press the TITLE button.
Some DVD discs may also have a different
menu which appears by pressing the MENU
button. See the instructions of each DVD disc
for its particular menu.
NOTE: When appears on the TV
screen when you press TITLE button it indi-
cates the disc does not have a menu listing
the titles. When
appears on the TV
screen when you press MENU button it in-
dicates the disc does not have a menu.
Selecting a Scene From the
Menu of a Video CD with PBC
(Playback Control)
Some Video CD and SVCD discs are compat-
ible with the PBC (“PlayBack Control”) func-
tion. A Video CD or SVCD disc recorded with
PBC has menus which list the items recorded
on the disc. You can select specific items by
using this menu.
When the menu appears on the TV screen
while playing a disc with PBC, use the Nu-
meric Buttons
13
to select the number of the
desired item. (See page 12 for information
about how to use the numeric buttons.) Play-
back starts from the selected item.
You can return to the menu by pressing the
RETURN button
1
.
When “Next” or “Previous” appears on the
TV screen, usually you can press
or
5
to go to the next page or previous page.
(The method of the operation may be differ-
ent depending on the disc.)
To activate the PBC function when a PBC-com-
patible Video CD or SVCD disc is being played
back without the PBC function, press ■ STOP
4
then press PLAY
20
.
You can also activate the PBC function using
the on-screen display. Press the ON SCREEN
button
23
. Use the Cursor Buttons
7
/ buttons to move to [PBC CALL],
then press ENTER
22
.
If you want to play a PBC-compatible Video
CD or SVCD disc without activating the PBC
function, start playback by using the numeric
buttons instead of the PLAY button. See the
next section.
Selecting a Scene or Track
With the Numeric Buttons
You can select a scene or track by number using
the Numeric Buttons
13
. Whether or not the
disc can be playing when you start to select
the track or scene depends on the type of disc.
DVD Discs: Play is stopped
Audio CD: During playback
or while stopped
Video CD/SVCD: During playback
without PBC function
or while stopped
Use the numeric buttons to select the title or
track number. (See page 12 for information
about how to use the numeric buttons.) The
selected title or track number appears in the
indicator
in the front panel display win-
dow on the front panel. The selected track
begins playing.
NOTES: If the symbol appears on the
screen when you make a selection with the
numeric buttons, the selected track is not
on the disc.
This function does not work with Video
CD/SVCD playback with PBC function.