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Streaming Media via Your Home Network,  

Listening to Your iPod/iPhone/iPad and Listening to FM Radio,  

Before you can access files located on other devices via DLNa, each device must first 

give permission to share files with the BDs receiver. To give file sharing permission on a 

pC with windows Media player:

1.  Open windows Media player.
2.  Open the Library menu and select Media sharing.  The Media sharing window will 

appear.

3.  Check the “share My Media” box. an icon for the BDs receiver will appear in the 

window.

4.  select the BDs icon, select “allow,” then select “Ok.”

The computer’s wMa and Mp3 media should now be available to the BDs receiver. To 

share media on other types of computers, operating systems or media software, check 

the instructions for the computer, operating system or media player. 
To determine which of your network devices allow DLNa media sharing, simply scroll 

through the BDs receiver’s Home Menu and select DLNa; the various network devices 

will be listed below the main title. simply click on a device and if it allows file sharing, its 

file structure will be displayed, allowing you to find the available media. 
NOTe: your BDs receiver is compatible with Mp3 and wMa media; no other types of 

media can be played. 
Bluetooth connectivity lets you stream audio wirelessly from a device that has been 

paired with the BDs receiver.

 

• after you have paired the BDs receiver with a Bluetooth device, you can select 

“Bluetooth” as the active source from the Home Menu.

 

• If at any time you begin playing media on a paired Bluetooth device the audio stream 

will automatically break in (the OsD will display a “Bluetooth activated” message) 

and interrupt the source that is currently playing through the BDs receiver. 

with both of the above methods, the Bluetooth screen will appear on the OsD.

Bluetooth

Artist:Jugalbandi

Song:Uncle Sun

Album:Jugalbandi Classic

19:46/32:12

Press “Stop” to abort Bluetooth

Use the remote’s Transport Control buttons to control playback.
To terminate Bluetooth streaming and return to the previously playing source, press the 

remote’s stop button at any time while the Bluetooth screen is displayed.
Playing Media from YouTube. youTube is an Internet-based service that lets you share 

videos with friends, family and the world.
Displaying Media from Picasa. google’s picasa is a Cloud-based subscription service 

that lets you organize, edit and share your digital images via the Internet and view them 

on your TV. NOTe: Before you can view content from picasa you first must set up an 

account with the service.
Playing Music from Pandora. available only on BDs receivers sold in the United states, 

pandora is a free, personalized Internet radio service that lets you access a wide cross 

section of musical styles and tastes. NOTe: Before you can stream audio from pandora 

you first must set up an account with the service.

Use your apple cable (not supplied) to connect your iOs-compatible mobile device to 

the BDs receiver’s front-panel UsB port. The ipod icon will appear on the Home Menu. 

Highlight the “ipod” icon and press the Ok button. The BDs receiver’s on-screen display 

(OsD) will show ipod Now playing screen.

iPod

Please see the screen iOS devices of the operation.

VOL Up

VOL Down

Menu / Back

Control playback

Navigate menus

NOTe: The BDs receiver will not play video content stored on an ipod, iphone or ipad.
In addition to playing content from an iOs-compatible device, buttons on the receiver’s 

remote control will control a number of the ipod/iphone/ipad functions, as shown on the 

Now playing screen.
pressing the Home button will switch the OsD to the Home screen while you continue to 

hear the ipod/iphone/ipad content through your BDs receiver. pressing the Repeat button 

will cycle the connected device between Repeat song, Repeat all, Repeat Off.

press the Radio button on the remote control or, if the Home screen is displayed on 

the OsD, highlight “Radio” and press the Ok button. The Radio Now playing screen will 

appear on the OsD and the BDs receiver’s information display will show the currently 

tuned-in fM frequency; the bottom line of the display will show the RDs information for 

the currently tuned station (if available).

FM Radio

Scan to a higher frequency
Scan to a lower frequency
Tune to higher frequency
Tune to a lower frequency

Highlight the previous preset
Select the highlighted preset
Highlight the next preset

Save to the preset
Delete the current preset

In addition to playing the radio through the receiver, pressing the Radio button places the 

remote in the radio-control mode, as shown on the Now playing screen.
pressing the Home button will switch the OsD to the Home screen while the radio 

continues to be heard through the BDs receiver. To display the Radio Now playing screen 

again, press the Back button.

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