Onkyo DR-815 User Manual

En DVD receiver DR-815 Instruction Manual Thank you for purchasing the Onkyo DR-815 DVD receiver. Read this manual carefully before using your new DVD

10 Remote Controller Notes: • If the remote controller doesn’t work reliably, try replacing the batteries.• Don’t mix new and old batteries or differ

11 Part Names and Functions The page numbers in parentheses show where you can find the main explanation for each item. A Remote control sensor (10) R

12 Part Names and Functions —Continued A S.BASS indicator This indicator lights up when the super bass is selected. B MUTING indicator This indicator

13 Part Names and Functions —Continued The page numbers in parentheses show where you can find the main explanation for each item. A TAPE/HDD IN/OUT (

14 Part Names and Functions —Continued This section describes the role of the individual buttons you use to control the amplifier and the tuner.The pa

15 Part Names and Functions —Continued This section describes the role of the individual buttons you use to control DVD and CD.The page numbers in pa

16 Connecting Antenna This section explains how to connect the supplied indoor FM antenna and AM loop antenna, and how to connect commercially availa

17 Connecting Antenna —Continued Connecting an Outdoor FM Antenna If you cannot achieve good reception with the supplied indoor FM antenna, try a com

18 Connecting Speakers • Connect the right speaker to the DVD receiver’s right (R) SPEAKERS terminals. Connect the left speaker to the DVD receiver’s

19 AV Cables and Connectors • Read the manuals supplied with your AV components.• Don’t connect the power cord until you’ve completed all audio and v

2 Important Safety Instructions 1. Read these instructions.2. Keep these instructions.3. Heed all warnings.4. Follow all instructions.5. Do not use t

20 Connecting Your TV Connect the DVD receiver to the TV directly. If you con-nect the DVD receiver to a VCR, TV/VCR combination, or video selector,

21 Connecting External Devices Connect the white plugs of the audio cables to the L jacks and connect the red plugs of the audio cables to the R jack

22 Connecting External Devices —Continued Connect the LINE IN terminal on the DVD receiver and an audio output terminal on TV.The DVD receiver has a

23 Connecting External Devices —Continued You can connect a center speaker and a left and a right surround speakers by adding on a power (main) ampli

24 Connecting External Devices —Continued The DVD receiver provides multi-channel playback with its theater dimensional feature, even under two front

25 Connecting the Power Cord When the power cord is connected to the AC outlet, the DVD receiver enters Standby mode. The STANDBY indicator lights up

26 Understanding Common Operations Press STANDBY/ON on the unit or on the remote con-troller.If you press the same button again, the unit will turn o

27 Understanding Common Operations —Continued You can select DVD, FM, AM, or connected external audio/video equipment (HDD, CD-R, TAPE, LINE) as the

28 Customizing the Source Names You can change the source name that appears in the display to suit any component you connected per the instruc-tions

29 Before Starting DVD Playback For ease of use, this player makes extensive use of graphical on-screen displays (OSDs). All the screens are navigate

3 Precautions 1. Recording Copyright —Unless it’s for personal use only, recording copyrighted material is illegal with-out the permission of the cop

30 Before Starting DVD Playback —Continued This sets the language of this system’s on-screen dis-plays. Setting the Language of This Player’s On-scre

31 Playing Discs The basic playback controls for playing DVD, CD, SACD, Video CD and MP3/WMA discs are covered here. Further functions are detailed i

32 Playing Discs —Continued The table below shows the basic controls on the remote for playing discs. The following chapter covers other playback fea

33 Playing Discs —Continued Some Video CD have menus from which you can choose what you want to watch. These are called PBC (Playback control) menus.

34 Playing Discs —Continued Playing in slow motion you can play DVD-Videos and DVD-R/RW at four different slow motion speeds, for-wards and backwards

35 Playing Discs —Continued When playing a DVD-Video disc recorded with dialog in two or more languages, you can switch audio language during playbac

36 Playing Discs —Continued Use the Disc Navigator to browse through the contents of a DVD-Video, DVD-RW or Video CD disc to find the part you want to

37 Playing Discs —Continued Use the Disc Navigator to find a particular file or folder by filename. Tip: • To play the contents of the whole disc rather

38 Playing Discs —Continued This feature lets you program the play order of titles/chapters/tracks on a disc. Important: • You can’t use Program play

39 Playing Discs —Continued You can search DVD-Video discs by title or chapter number, or by time; DVD-Audio discs can be searched by group or track

4 Precautions —Continued 11. About this Manual —This manual explains how to use all of this unit’s functions. Although the DVD standard offers many s

40 Playing Discs —Continued The A-B Repeat function allows you to specify two points (A and B) within a track (CD, Video CD) or title (DVD-Video and

41 Playing Discs —Continued After loading a CD/CD-R/RW containing JPEG picture files, press (play) to start a slideshow from the first folder/picture

42 Listening to the Radio With the built-in tuner you can enjoy AM and FM radio stations. You can store your favorite stations as presets for quick s

43 Listening to the Radio —Continued Adjusting the Antenna12Change the direction of the antenna to determine the best reception.Affix the antenna usin

44 Listening to the Radio —Continued Auto presets store the frequencies of radio stations into memory so you can select your favorite channels withou

45 Listening to the Radio —Continued You can store the frequencies of stations one by one manually into the preset memory channels. This is useful wh

46 Listening to the Radio —Continued Customizing the preset channels The following additional functions are available:• Naming a preset channel (see

47 Listening to the Radio —Continued Repeatedly pressing DISPLAY on the remote controller or on the unit toggles between two types of information dis

48 Changing the Preset Channels Using the delete and copy functions, you can delete preset stations, copy a preset station to another channel, or cha

49 Changing the Preset Channels —Continued Erasing a Preset Channel – Preset Erase 1 Call the preset channel you wish to erase. 2 Press EDIT/NO/CLEAR

5 Features Receiver • Built-in Dolby Pro Logic II, Dolby Digital and DTS• On board Theater Dimensional Circuit• Deep bass adjustable S. Bass feature•

50 Naming Preset Channels You can name FM/AM preset channels.After you select the preset channel to name, execute “Entering a Name” as described belo

51 Naming Preset Channels —Continued If the unit is not in “Name In” mode, execute steps 1 and 2 in “Entering a Name,” then follow the steps belo

52 Enjoying Surround Sound The DVD receiver will provide you a full-fledged home theater, when it is added on extra speakers in addition to the two fr

53 Enjoying Surround Sound —Continued Set the distance from the listening position to the speak-ers.With the distance set, the DVD receiver can keep

54 Enjoying Listening Modes About the Listening Modes Listening modes on the DVD receiver enable you to enjoy movie theater or concert hall quality s

55 Enjoying Listening Modes —Continued Playback Sources and Corresponding Listening Modes Selecting Listening Mode 1 Play back the selected device. 2

56 Adjusting Sound You can adjust the level of individual speakers during playback. • These adjustments are temporary and will be can-celled when the

57 Adjusting Sound —Continued By using the following audio adjust function, you can fine adjust the tone and the precise settings for Mono, Multiplex

58 Setting the Clock The ACCUCLOCK function normally uses the FM station with the strongest signal to set the clock. If the clock cannot be set prope

59 Setting the Clock —Continued You can select either the 12-hour or 24-hour display. (This section explains how to set the time based on the 24-hour

6 Table of Contents Getting Started Important Safety Instructions...2Precautions ...

60 Setting the Clock —Continued To check the time and the day of the week, press CLOCK on the remote controller.The clock appears for eight seconds i

61 Using the Timer Functions The DVD receiver features three timer functions: Sleep, Once, and Every timer.Selecting a timer number You can set up to

62 Using the Timer Functions —Continued Checking the Remaining Time Press SLEEP while the Sleep timer is on. If you press SLEEP while the remaining t

63 Using the Timer Functions —Continued Before programming a timer for an AM/FM broadcast, program the desired broadcast stations to the preset chann

64 Using the Timer Functions —Continued 4 Press MULTI JOG. (Only for Timer Rec)Check connections and settings to the recording component. 5 Turn MULT

65 Using the Timer Functions —Continued To reprogram the timers, press EDIT/NO/CLEAR and follow the procedure from the beginning. 6 Turn MULTI JOG to

66 Using the Timer Functions —Continued • You can use this function to cancel or resume the pro-grammed timer operation.• You cannot program the time

67 DVD Audio Settings and Video Adjust menus . From the Video Adjust screen you can adjust various set-tings that affect how the picture is presented

68 Initial Settings menu The Initial Settings menu provides audio and video out-put settings, parental lock settings, and display settings, among oth

69 Initial Settings menu —Continued Language settings Setting Option What it meansAudio Language *1 *1 This setting is your preferred audio language

7 Table of Contents —Continued Enjoying Surround Sound Enjoying Surround Sound...52Configuring Subwoofer and Setting Up

70 Initial Settings menu —Continued Display settings Options settings Setting Option What it meansOSD LanguageEnglish On-screen displays of the playe

71 Initial Settings menu —Continued • Default level: Off; Default password: none; Default Country code: us (2119) To give you some control over what

72 Initial Settings menu —Continued Setting/changing the Country code You can find the Country code list in the adjacent column. Country code list 3

73 Additional information DVD-Video discs come in several different screen aspect ratios, ranging from TV programs, which are generally 4:3, to Cinem

74 Additional information —Continued Use this procedure to reset all the player’s settings to the factory default. 1 Stop DVD playback or unload any

75 Additional information —Continued Language code list LanguageLanguage code letterLanguage code Japanese ja 1001English en 0514French fr 0618Germ

76 Input Source Names and Available Buttons on Remote Controller If you customized source names using the method described on page 28, you can use t

77 Input Source Names and Available Buttons on Remote Controller —Continued Connecting Terminal TAPE / HDDSelector NameTAPE HDD CD-RButtons on the re

78 Recording The copyright laws prohibit using your recordings without consent of the copyright owner, except for the purpose of your personal entert

79 Troubleshooting Problems may be caused by any component connected to this unit. Please check the table below, cross-referenc-ing the instruction m

8 Disc Notes Supported Discs The DVD receiver supports the following discs.• Some audio CDs feature copy protection that doesn’t conform to the offici

80 Troubleshooting —Continued New settings made in the Setup screen menus while a disc is playing are ineffective. • Some settings can be changed wh

81 Troubleshooting —Continued The interoperability with other external Onkyo device is not available. • Make sure that the cable and analog audio

82 Specifications General Audio Inputs Audio Outputs Amplifier Section Tuner Section FM AM DVD VIDEO Specifications and features are subject t

83 Memo

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9 Disc Notes —Continued About WMA WMA is an acronym for Windows Media Audio and refers to an audio compression technology developed by Microsoft Corp