Welcome
Region numbers
Types of discs you can play
Conventions used in this guide
Glossary
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Thank you for purchasing a LIFESTYLE
proprietary Bose technologies and innovative LIFESTYLE
rior performance for both music and video programming from an elegant and easy-to-use
system.
Note: Because DVD is a relatively new technology, please take the time to read through this
manual and familiarize yourself with the features of your new system.
Region numbers are allocated to DVD players according to where they are sold. Look for the
region number marked on the carton or on the bottom of the media center. Your system can
play DVD discs marked with the same region number.
The DVD player in your system can play the following types of discs having the
corresponding logos:
• Video DVDs
• Audio CDs
• CD-Rs or CD-R/Ws
• MP3 CDs
Operating instructions include names of buttons on the remote control and on the media cen-
ter front panel, and menu items appearing on your TV screen and on the media center display.
Button names appear in boldface type. If a button has only a symbol, that will be used.
On-Screen Display messages appear in boldface with a line above and below.
MEDIA CENTER DISPLAY items are represented by a narrow boldface uppercase type.
2 D
– The trademarked logo for Dolby Digital, a perceptual coding system for audio, devel-
oped by Dolby Laboratories and accepted as an international standard. Dolby Digital is the
most common means of encoding audio for DVD-Video and is the mandatory audio compres-
sion system for 525/60 (NTSC) discs.
Aspect Ratio – The shape of the rectangular picture in a TV set. It is the width of the picture
relative to the height. Our standard TV picture, in terminology used by that industry, is 4 units
wide by 3 units high, or 4:3 (read as 4 by 3) in aspect ratio. There are currently two standard
TV aspect ratios in the U.S., 4:3 and 16:9.
October 30, 2001
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