DVD 1500 (serv.man2) - Harman Kardon Audio User Guide / Operation Manual. Page 19

18 SYSTEM SETUP

■ 4:3 Pan Scan: Choose this setting if the 

DVD 1500 is connected to a conventional (4:3)
TV set and you want widescreen movies to fill
the entire screen. Note that this setting is
effective only with a few widescreen DVD’s
recorded with the Pan and Scan mode. With
those movies you won’t see parts of the pic-
ture (particularly the right and left edges).
This setting is usefull only with a few DVD’s,
with all others the letterbox format fits best.

■ 16:9 Widescreen: Choose this setting if your

DVD player is connected to a widescreen TV, or
to a conventional (4:3) TV set to widescreen
(16:9) mode.
With this set up, discs recorded with 4:3
aspect ratio will appear as a boxed image in
the center of a 16:9 widescreen TV, with black
bars to the left and right of the image (not
with 4:3 TVs set to 16:9 mode). True
widescreen (anamorphic) DVD’s i.e. those
shown spread vertically when the DVD 1500 is
set to "16:9" and your TV is set to "4:3", will
be shown optimally with full vertical resolu-
tion. With some 4:3 TV’s, set to 16:9 format,
discs with 4:3 format may be played com-
pressed vertically. With those discs the TV must
be set to 4:3 format.

To select TV Aspect follow these steps:

1. Press ARROW (UP or DOWN) on the remote to

select ”TV Aspect” on the Set Up Menu 
Display.

2. Press ENTER or ARROW (right), TV Aspect

Menu appears.

3. In that menu the currently selected TV Aspect

ratio will be displayed and highlighted. Press
ARROW (UP or DOWN) on the remote to select
desired TV Aspect ratio. Then press ENTER.

4. Press ARROW (UP or DOWN) to select another

Set Up Menu item or PLAY to resume normal
playback.

5. Press ENTER. The previous Set Up Menu

appears again, displaying the TV Aspect ratio
selected.

6. Press PLAY to resume normal playback or

ARROW (Up or DOWN) to select another Set
Up Menu item.

This setting enables Dolby Digital recordings to
be played back with full dialogue intelligibility
while reducing peak levels and increasing low
levels by 1/4 to 1/3. This smooth level compres-
sion prevents abrupt loud transitions from dis-
turbing others without reducing the impact of the
digital source perceptibly.

To select Dynamic Range Compression:

1. Press ARROW (UP or DOWN) on the remote to

select ”Dynamic Range” on the Set Up Menu
Display.

2. Press ENTER, Dynamic Range Menu appears.

3. Press ARROW (UP or DOWN) on the remote to

select dynamic range mode (on or off).

4. Press ENTER.

5. Press ARROW (Up or DOWN) to select another

Set Up Menu item or PLAY to resume normal
playback.

■ This function only works with Dolby Digital

DVD and in conjunction with the Dolby Digital
Decoder connected to the digital output of
DVD 1500, depending on its ”Night Mode”
setting:

a) When Dynamic Range is off, normal audio

range is selected.

b) When Dynamic Range is On and ”Night

Mode” on decoder is off, normal audio
range is selected.

c) Dynamic compression is activated only

when Dynamic Range on DVD 1500 is on
AND “Night Mode” on the decoder is on.

This setting determines the digital signal format
to be output from the coaxial digital audio output
of the DVD 1500.

■ MPEG-2/DTS: Choose this setting if you’ve

connected the AVR 1500 to your DVD player.
Then all recordings will be output and played
with their original format, whether PCM,
MPEG (see Note below), Dolby Digital or DTS.

To select Digital Audio Output format follow
these steps:

1. Press ARROW (UP or DOWN) on the remote to

select ”Digital Audio Out” on the Set Up Menu
Display.

2. Press ENTER or ARROW (right), Digital Audio

Out Display appears.

3. Press ARROW (UP or DOWN) on the remote to

select MPEG-2/DTS.

4. Press ENTER.

5. Press PLAY to resume normal playback.

Important Note for MPEG Audio: Though the
MPEG-2 multichannel digital audio standard isn´t
used in Europe, some DVD’s use MPEG-1 alterna-
tive audio tracks, the same as MPEG 2/0 (2-chan-
nel stereo). The audio format of any DVD track
selected will be indicated on the screen when you
press the AUDIO button on the remote. Note that
when the digital output of the DVD 1500 is set to
"PCM" or "Dolby Digital", MPEG audio tracks
will be output in PCM format and can be decod-
ed with the AVR 1500. But when "MPEG-2/DTS"
is selected, they will be output as an original
MPEG datastream, and an MPEG-Decoder is
needed to convert the digital signal.