Sony MEXDV2200 Operating Instructions - Page 52

Additional Information Precautions • Cool off the unit beforehand if your car has been parked in direct sunlight. • Power antenna (aerial) extends automatically. Moisture condensation Should moisture condensation occur inside the unit, remove the disc and wait for about an hour for it to dry out; otherwise the unit will not operate properly. To maintain high sound quality Do not splash liquid onto the unit or discs. Notes on discs • Do not expose discs to direct sunlight or heat sources such as hot air ducts, nor leave it in a car parked in direct sunlight. • Before playing, wipe the discs with a cleaning cloth from the center out. Do not use solvents such as benzine, thinner, commercially available cleaners. • This unit is designed to playback discs that conform to the Compact Disc (CD) standard. DualDiscs and some of the music discs encoded with copyright protection technologies do not conform to the Compact Disc (CD) standard, therefore, these discs may not be playable by this unit. • Discs that this unit CANNOT play - Discs with labels, stickers, or sticky tape or paper attached. Doing so may cause a malfunction, or may ruin the disc. - Discs with non-standard shapes (e.g., heart, square, star). Attempting to do so may damage the unit. - 8 cm (3 1/4 in) discs. Note on playback operations of DVDs and VCDs Some playback operations of DVDs and VCDs may be intentionally set by software producers. Since this unit plays DVDs and VCDs according to the disc contents the software producers designed, some playback features may not be available. Also, refer to the instructions supplied with the DVDs or VCDs. 52 Notes on DATA CDs and DATA DVDs • Some DATA CDs/DATA DVDs (depending on the equipment used for its recording, or the disc condition) may not play on this unit. • Finalization is required for some discs (page 52). • The unit is compatible with the following standards. For DATA CDs - ISO 9660 level 1/level 2 format, Joliet/Romeo in the expansion format - Multi Session For DATA DVDs - UDF Bridge format (combined UDF and ISO 9660) - Multi Border • The maximum number of: - folders (albums): 256 (including root and empty folders). - files (tracks/images) and folders contained in a disc: 2,000 (if a folder/file names contain many characters, this number may become less than 2,000). - displayable characters for a folder/file name: 64 (Joliet/Romeo). Notes on finalizing discs The following discs are required to be finalized to play on this unit. • DVD-R/DVD-R DL (in video mode/VR mode) • DVD-RW in video mode • DVD+R/DVD+R DL • CD-R • CD-RW The following discs can be played without finalization. • DVD+RW - automatically finalized. • DVD-RW in VR mode - finalization not required. For details, see the manual supplied with the disc. Notes on Multi Session CDs/Multi Border DVDs This unit can play Multi Session CDs/Multi Border DVDs under the following conditions. Note that the session must be closed and the disc must be finalized. • When CD-DA (Compact Disc Digital Audio) is recorded in the first session: The unit recognizes the disc as CD-DA and only CD-DA of the first session is played, even if an other format (e.g., MP3) is recorded in other sessions. • When CD-DA is recorded other than in the first session: The unit recognizes the disc as a DATA CD or DATA DVD, and all CD-DA sessions are skipped. • When an MP3/WMA/JPEG is recorded: Only the sessions containing the selected file type (audio/image)* are played (if CD-DA or other data exists in other sessions, they are skipped). * For details on how to select the file type, see page 34.