Harman Kardon DVD 48 Owners Manual - Page 29

INITIAL SETUP Buttons to select the next channel. Repeat the procedure to enter the output level offset, if needed, that brings all of the channels to the same output volume. You may need to repeat this procedure more than once to accurately set the levels. The DVD 48 includes a built-in test tone to assist you with setting Speaker Levels. Navigate to the Test tone line and use the ‹ /› Buttons to select the Manual or Auto test tone. • Manual: Navigate to the desired speaker's line within the submenu, press the Enter Button and the test tone will play from that speaker. The test tone will not play from another speaker until you move the cursor to its line and press the Enter Button. You may adjust the speaker's level setting while the test tone is playing. • Auto: When this option is selected, the Test Tone dialog box will appear and ask you to confirm your selection. Press the ‹ Button to highlight "Yes", and press the Enter Button to proceed. The test tone will automatically be played by each speaker in order, starting with the front left speaker. It is not possible to make any adjustments to the level settings while the test tone is playing in Auto mode. • Off: Navigate back to the Test tone line and use the ‹ /› Buttons to select Off to stop the test tone. Initialize: Set Initialize to On to reset all of the Speaker Level settings to their factory defaults. When prompted by the Initialize dialog box, press the ‹ Button to highlight "Yes", and press the Enter Button to proceed. When you have finished adjusting the speaker output levels, press the Return Button to return to the SPEAKER SETUP menu (Figure 24). The two remaining items are used to configure the speaker settings that will be used when an SACD disc is playing. These settings have no effect for other playback modes. • SACD Config: This setting allows you to select from one of three preset speaker-size configurations, as indicated in Table 2. Select the configuration that most closely matches your system. If you have fewer than six speakers, use the 2-Channel Analog Audio Outputs for SACD discs, and change the Analog Output setting in the Audio Setup menu to Stereo. Speaker Front L/R Center Surround L/R Subwoofer Config 1 Large Large Large On Config 2 Small Small Small On Config 3 Large Small Small Off • CUT-OFF Frequency: This setting selects the frequency below which all signals are sent to the subwoofer. Consult the speaker frequency response specifications that you obtained at the beginning of the Speaker Setup process, and locate the speaker with the lowest low-frequency limit. Set the CUT-OFF Frequency to the setting closest to or just above that low-frequency limit. The available settings are 60Hz, 80Hz, 100Hz and 120Hz. When you have finished configuring your speakers, press the Return Button to return to the SYSTEM SETUP menu (Figure 20). Step Four - Video Setup In this step you may make a few adjustments to ensure that the video signal is output in a way that is compatible with your video display. Press the Setup Button and use the ⁄/¤ Buttons to highlight the Video tab. See Figure 20. Press the Enter Button to view the VIDEO SETUP menu (Figure 28). Figure 28 - Video Setup Menu Screen TV Display: This setting selects the aspect ratio of video programming. Your choice should be made according to the shape of your video display and your personal preferences. Three choices are available: • 16:9: If you have a widescreen (16:9) display, or a display that has a widescreen mode, choose this setting. The DVD 48 will adjust the output for widescreen movies so that they fill the entire screen in the proper aspect ratio. However, a disc recorded in the 4:3 aspect ratio will appear as a boxed image in the center, with black or gray bars on the left and right side of the screen. If the widescreen option is chosen and a widescreen movie is played on a conventional 4:3 aspect ratio set, the image will be distorted due to vertical compression. • 4:3 Letterbox: If you have a standard, 4:3 aspect ratio video display, choose this setting to see the entire frame of the movie as it is recorded on the disc without any image cutoff at the left and right sides. While this allows widescreen movies to be shown in their entirety, they will occupy a smaller portion of the screen and black "letterbox" bars may appear at the top and bottom of the screen. • 4:3 Pan Scan: This setting is useful only with a few specially encoded DVDs; with all others, the letterbox format fits best when a standard 4:3 aspect ratio video display is in use. For these special DVDs widescreen movies will fill the entire screen. However, you won't see parts of the picture (particularly the right and left edges). Most discs produced in a widescreen format can't be cropped in this fashion, which means the black bars will appear at the top and bottom of the screen (letterbox format). Some widescreen DVDs, particularly anamorphic types, may be shown with original width but spread vertically. With these discs, the letterbox format must be selected. TV Type: This setting allows you to specify whether your video display uses the NTSC (used in North America) or PAL (used in Europe and other parts of the world) video format. The DVD 48 is capable of recognizing and playing DVDs in the PAL format, but only if they are encoded for Region 1 or Region 0 (open region, playable worldwide). The DVD 48 automatically converts the video to the NTSC format for output to your video display. If you have inadvertently changed this setting to PAL and your picture is too distorted for you to view the on-screen menus, you may reset the setting to the default NTSC by following these steps: 29