10
About Media Types
Discs that Cannot Be Used with
This Player
The following discs cannot be played back or will
not play back properly on this Player. If such a
disc is mistakenly played back, speaker damage
may occur. Never attempt to play back these
discs.
CDG, Video CD, Photo CD, CD-ROM, CD-TEXT,
SVCD, SACD, PD, CDV, CVD, DVD-RAM, DVD-
Audio, BD-RE with the cartridge, CD-WMA
Discs with unusual shapes cannot be played.
• Discs with unusual shapes (heart-shaped or hexagonal
discs, etc.) cannot be used. The use of such discs will
cause malfunction.
The following BD video discs cannot be played.
• Discs not displaying “A” or “ALL” for the region code
(discs sold outside the authorized marketing area).*
• Discs produced illegally.
• Discs recorded for commercial use.
*
The region code for this product is A.
The following DVD video discs cannot be played.
• Discs not displaying “1” or “ALL” for the region code
(discs sold outside the authorized marketing area).*
• Discs produced illegally.
• Discs recorded for commercial use.
*
The region code for this product is 1.
The following BD-RE/R, DVD-RW/R and
DVD+RW/R discs cannot be played.
• Discs on which data has not been recorded cannot be
played back.
The following Audio CD
*1
discs cannot be played.
• Discs containing a signal for the purpose of protecting
copyrights (copy control signal) may not be played back
with this Player.
• This Player has been designed on the premise of
playing back Audio CDs that comply with CD (Compact
Disc) standards.
The following CD-RW/R discs cannot be played.
• Discs on which data has not been recorded cannot be
played back.
• Discs recorded in a format other than an Audio CD and
JPEG/MP3 file format cannot be played back.
• Discs may not be played back depending on their
recording status or the status of the disc itself.
• Discs may not be played back depending on their
compatibility with this Player.
*2
About the JPEG file format
JPEG is a type of file format for storing still-image
files (photos, illustrations, etc.). The Player lets you
play JPEG format still-image files.
File formats that are not compatible.
• Still images in formats other than JPEG (such as TIFF)
cannot be played.
• There may be some files that cannot be played even if
they are in JPEG format.
• Progressive JPEG files cannot be played.
• Moving image files as well as Motion JPEG format files
cannot be played, even though they are JPEG files.
Other files that cannot be played back.
• You may not be able to play some still images which
you have created, touched up, copied or otherwise
edited on your computer.
• You may not be able to play some still images you have
processed (rotated or saved by overwriting other images
you have imported from the Internet or e-mail).
You may experience one or more of the following
symptoms when playing files.
• It may take some time to play files depending on the
number of folders, number of files and volume of data
involved.
• EXIF information will not be displayed. EXIF stands for
Exchangeable Image File Format, and is a standard for
storing interchange information in image files, especially
those using JPEG compression. (Refer to http://exif.org
for more information.)
*3
About the MP3 file format
MP3 files are audio data compressed in the
MPEG1/2 Audio layer-3 file format. “MP3 files” have
“.mp3” as extensions. (Some files that have “.mp3”
extensions or files that have not been recorded in
MP3 format will produce noise or cannot be played.)
Playing the MP3 file format
• The MP3 files are not played in the order they were
recorded.
• It is recommended to record data at a lower speed as
data recorded at a fast speed can produce noise and
may not be able to be played.
• The more folders there are, the longer the reading time.
• Depending on the folder tree, reading MP3 files can take
time.
• The playing time may not be correctly displayed during
MP3 file playback.
The following files cannot be played on this
player.
• When both Audio CD [CD-DA] format and JPEG/
MP3 file formats are recorded on a disc. (The disc is
recognized to be an Audio CD [CD-DA] only tracks in
Audio CD [CD-DA] format are played back.)
• Multi-session discs cannot be played.
About the DivX+HD (H.264/MKV) file
format
• Some files may not be playable depending on the file.
For details, refer to pages 10–11.