Programming the pmdt – Proceed PMDT User Manual

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Programming the PMDT

The PMDT offers an unusually wide range of programming options for ad-
vanced users. These options operate on two levels:

• Electronically Saved Preferences (

ESP

™) that keep track of the

playback options (soundtrack, subtitles, etc.) you want used for
this particular disc;

• ad hoc, on-the-fly changes to the sequence in which you want a

disc played;

We will cover

ESP

first.

Electronically Saved

Preferences (ESP)

As detailed elsewhere in this manual, the PMDT allows you to set up general
preferences for how you want discs played: spoken language, audio format,
subtitles, audio delay and so forth. However, there are likely to be some ex-
ceptions to these general rules. For example, you may have a foreign film in
your collection for which you need subtitles turned on.

In order to take advantage of this “intelligence”,

ESP

must be turned on in the

disc behavior menu (

Use ESP: on

). The factory default setting is

off

. With

ESP

turned on you can view the current settings by pressing and holding the

pro-

gram

button on the remote for a few seconds. The list of

ESP

options are dis-

played, complete with the context-sensitive help along the bottom edge of the
screen. In the example above, the subtitles currently on will be displayed un-
der the Subtitles option. To have the discs always play with the

subtitles,

you

would highlight the

Save Settings

item and press

enter

Audio, language
Subtitles
Subtitle On/Off
Black Level
Audio Delay
Save Settings

If you would like to force

ESP

to remember certain settings regardless of how

the disc was playing when it was last played, edit the

ESP

settings here, and

then lock the settings using the last menu item. The

help

bar at the bottom of

the screen will guide you, but the navigation is much like the main menu.

Use the four navigation buttons (

down

left

right

) to move around the

menu system and make selections. Moving to the right from an item displays a
list of the possibilities for that item. Clicking either the

program

button or the

return

button exits the

ESP menu

, as will clicking the

left arrow

when the cur-

sor is already on the left-most column of the menu.

audio, language

This field summarizes the information regarding the soundtrack currently play-
ing, including the audio format (Dolby Digital, DTS, MPEG, etc.), how many
channels are available, and the language. (This information is all taken from
the disc itself; its accuracy is limited to what is on the disc. For example, many
old classic movies have two identical channels of audio, which is effectively
mono. Yet because there are two channels, this is what would be reported by
the PMDT.)