Harman Kardon DVD 27 Owner'S Manual Download

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REMOTE CONTROL FUNCTIONS

Power On:

Turns on the player when it is in

Standby mode (Harman Kardon logo appears on-
screen).

Open/Close:

Press to open or close the

disc tray.

Audio Select:

Press to access various audio lan-

guages on a DVD (if the DVD contains multiple audio
streams). This button may also allow you to access
other audio formats on DVD discs, such as linear PCM
or Dolby Digital 5.1 tracks (or other formats), if they’ve
been recorded on the disc.

Clear:

Press this button to remove on-screen

menus or banners from the display screen. Press this
button to clear the current play order displayed next to
a track while programming a playlist. In Stop mode
and with all menus and banners removed from the
display, press and hold this button for five seconds
to reset all settings to their factory defaults.

Playlist:

Press this button to access the Playlist

on-screen menu, which enables you to change the
order in which tracks are played on a CD. (See page
33 for more information on creating and playing
playlists.)

Repeat:

Each press of this button changes the

playback mode to repeat a chapter or track or the
entire disc. A repeat icon will appear in the upper right
corner of the screen indicating the current repeat
mode. If the Player Information Screen is active, the
changes will be displayed on screen.

A-B Repeat:

Press this button to enter the start-

ing point of a section on a disc you wish to repeat.
The second press enters the end of the selection to
be repeated. Once the “A” (start) and “B” (end) points
have been entered the player will repeat the selection
until the

Play Button

is pressed or the disc is

stopped. If the Player Information Screen is active, the
changes will be displayed on screen.

Random:

Each press of this button starts or

stops playback in random order. The Random function
is only available when playing CDs, but not when a
Playlist is active (the Player Information screen indi-
cates Programmed Order on the Playlist line).

Info:

Press once to access the Player Information

menu for information on the current disc and the play-
back mode settings. Press again to remove informa-
tion from screen. See page 17 for more information
on the Player Information menu.

Setup:

Press this button to use the DVD 27’s

on-screen menu system to adjust the player’s configu-
ration settings. Note that the

Info Button

must

be pressed to access the DVD 27’s Player Information
menu to obtain detailed disc information, and to con-
figure the playback mode of the disc.

Previous Step/Skip:

Press this button once to

skip back to the beginning of the current chapter on

a DVD or track on a CD. Press it again to continue

to skip back through the previous chapters or tracks.
After first pressing the

Pause Button

, press this

button to step backwards through a DVD or VCD as a
series of still image frames.

Search/Slow Reverse:

This button initiates fast

or slow play in the reverse mode. For fast reverse play,
each press of the button when playing DVD or VCD
discs changes the speed as indicated by the number
appearing in the upper right corner of the screen. For
slow reverse play, first press the

Pause Button

and each subsequent press of this button will change
the slow play speed as indicated by the number
appearing in the upper right corner of the screen.

Angle:

Press this button to change the camera

angle on discs programmed for multiple-angle views.
When a JPEG is being displayed, pressing the

Angle

Button

repeatedly causes the on-screen image

to rotate clockwise by 90 degrees each press. The
current orientation in degrees will be displayed in
the upper right corner of the screen.

M NKL

Navigation Buttons

Use to move

the cursor in the on-screen menu system.

Light:

Press to illuminate the buttons on the

remote controller.

Video Off:

Press this button to turn off the video

output for improved audio performance when playing
discs. Press it again to view the on-screen menus. It
is highly recommended that you use this function to
prevent “burn-in” of your plasma video display.

Dimmer

Press to change the brightness of the

front panel display or to turn the display off completely
in the following order:

FULL BRIGHTNESS

➜

HALF

BRIGHTNESS

➜

OFF

➜

FULL BRIGHTNESS

Progressive Scan/Interlaced Button:

Each

press of this button selects between the progressive
scan and interlaced modes for the

Component Video

Outputs

∞

Enter:

Press this button to enter a setting in the

DVD 27 menu system or to confirm a menu selection
choice in a disc’s on-screen menu.

Pause:

Press this button to pause the disc and

freeze the picture during DVD or VCD playback, or to
pause the playback of a CD. To play a DVD or VCD in
the slow, forward or reverse mode, first press this but-
ton and then press either the

Search/Slow Forward

Reverse Button

Zoom:

Press this button to zoom in on the

image from a DVD, VCD or JPEG image. The image
may be expanded by a factor of x2, x3, x4 or x5.
Once the on-screen indication of the zoom ratio disap-
pears from the screen you may use the

Navigation

Buttons

to explore the picture.

Play:

Press this button to begin the playback of

a disc, or to resume normal playback when a disc has
been paused or scanned.

Search/Slow Forward:

This button initiates fast

or slow play in the forward mode. For fast forward play,
each press of the button when playing DVD or VCD
discs changes the speed as indicated by the number
appearing in the upper right corner of the screen. For
slow forward play, first press the

Pause Button

and each subsequent press of this button will change
the slow play speed as indicated by the number
appearing in the upper right corner of the screen.

Stop:

When a DVD is playing, press this button

once to place the disc in the Resume mode, which
means that playback will stop. However, as long as
the disc drawer is not opened, playback will continue
from the point where the disc was stopped when the

Play Button

is pressed again, as indicated by

the

LAST SCENE

message (for DVDs) or the

RESUME

message (for CDs, MP3 files, JPEG files

and VCDs with PBC) in the

Information Display

Resume will not operate for WMA files or VCDs that
do not have playback control. Pressing the button
twice will stop the disc and play will start from the
beginning of the disc when the

Play Button

is pressed again.

Next Step/Skip:

Press this button once to

advance to the beginning of the next chapter on a
DVD or track on a CD. Press it again to continue to
advance through the remaining chapters or tracks.
After first pressing the

Pause Button

, press this

button to step through a DVD as a series of still-image
frames.

Disc Menu:

While a DVD is playing, press this

button to view the disc’s main menu.

Status:

Press while a disc is playing to view the

on-screen status banner display. The first press will
display the current title and chapter, the play mode
icon and the elapsed time, along with a “temperature
bar” display of the time elapsed. You may use the

M NKL

Navigation Buttons

and the

Enter

Button

to select and change the current title

or chapter, or the time display. The Status Banner is
only available for DVDs and VCDs when PBC is turned
off. Press the button one more time to remove the
status displays from the screen. More detailed infor-
mation about the disc is available by pressing the

Info Button

Numeric Keys:

Press these buttons to enter a

number.

REMOTE CONTROL FUNCTIONS

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