Chapter 4
Playback
Playing discs or files
This section describes the player's main operations.
For the types of discs and files that can be played, see
page 7. Video, image and audio files recorded on discs
are played with the Home Media Gallery (page 33).
1
Press STANDBY/ON to turn on the power.
Turn the TV's power on and switch its input beforehand.
Press OPEN/CLOSE to open the disc tray and
2
load the disc.
Note
• Load the disc with the printed side facing up.
• Several dozen seconds are required to read the disc.
Once reading is completed, the type of disc is
displayed on the player's front panel display.
• When a BD with usage restrictions set by a BD
recorder is loaded, the PIN code input screen
appears. In this case, input your PIN code.
Press PLAY to play the disc.
3
• To pause, press PAUSE during playback.
• To stop, press STOP during playback.
Note
• Some discs start playing automatically when the disc
tray is closed.
• DVD-Video discs have parental lock features. Input
the password registered in the player's settings to
unlock the parental lock. For details, see page 43.
If the disc menu is displayed
For some discs, the disc menu is displayed automatically
when playback starts. The contents of the disc menu and
the way to operate depend on the disc.
Resuming playback from where it
was stopped (resume playback
function)
• When STOP is pressed during playback, the point
at which the disc stopped is stored in the memory.
When PLAY is pressed after that, playback
resumes from that point.
• To cancel the resume playback function, press
STOP while playback is stopped.
Note
• The resume playback function is canceled
automatically in the following cases:
– When the disc tray is opened.
– When the file list window is switched.
– When the power is turned off. (For BDs and DVDs
this does not cancel the resume playback
function.)
• When you want to continue playback from a position
you specify to be played next time, see Continuing
playback from a specified position (Continued Viewing
Playback) on page 32.
• The resume playback function cannot be used for
some discs.
Forward and reverse
scanning
During playback, press REV or FWD.
• The scanning speed switches each time the button is
pressed. The speed steps depend on the disc or file
(the speed is displayed on the TV screen).
To resume normal playback
Press PLAY.
Playing specific chapters,
tracks or files
During playback, input the number of the
chapter/track/file you want to select.
• Use the number buttons (0 to 9) to input the number,
then press ENTER.
• Press CLEAR to clear the values you have input.
Skipping content
During playback, press or .
• When is pressed, the playback skips ahead to the
beginning of the next chapter/track/file.
• When is pressed while a video or audio file is
playing, the playback skips back to the beginning of
the currently playing chapter/track/file. Press twice to
skip back to the beginning of the previous chapter/
track/file.
• When is pressed while an image file is playing,
playback returns to the previous file.
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