Harman Kardon AVR 247 Owner's Manual

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43OPERATIONSETTINGS: This line accesses the Settings menu, shown in Figure 76.The items in this menu enable you to use the Shuffle and Repeatfunctions on the iPod. You may also set the Resume function, whichresumes play of a selection from the point at which it was stopped,Figure 76 – The Bridge: Settings Menu ScreenNOTE: iTunes allows you to set certain selections to always ornever remember playback position, or to be skipped in Shufflemode. The AVR 247’s settings cannot override these iTunes settings.Figure 77 – Using The Bridge (Remote)Figure 78 – Using The Bridge (Front Panel)Table 7 summarizes the controls available when The Bridge is in use.See also Figures 77 and 78.Table 7 – Using The BridgeNOTES:• The Play and Pause functions are not available unless contenthas been selected for playback by navigating the menu system.• For the Search function, press and hold the indicated button.Pressing the Previous Track Button once skips to the beginningof the current track. Press the Previous Track Buttontwice toskip to the beginning of the previous track.While a selection is playing, the song title, artist and album name, if availableon the iPod, will scroll across the upper line in the front panel MessageDisplay. The lower line will display the elapsed time of the track on the left,the play mode icon, and the time remaining on the right.In addition, if a video display is connected to the AVR 247, a screen willappear briefly to display information about the iPod’s status and the track.The top line will display the play mode icon, with the phrase “Now Playing”appearing to the right to indicate that you are viewing the status of thecurrent track. Below that the AVR displays the total number of tracks in thecurrent play list on the right (one of the play lists includes all materials onthe iPod) with the number of the current track on the left. The song title,artist and album are displayed. At the bottom of the screen is a graphic barindicating the current play position within the track, with the elapsed andremaining times appearing below the bar.After a period of time the screen may disappear from view. The length oftime is set using the Full-OSD Time Out setting in the System Settingsmenu (described in the Advanced Functions section). You may restore theNow Playing screen to view by pressing either of the ‹/› Buttons, andyou may then navigate the menus as explained above.NOTE: It is strongly recommended that you use a screen saverbuilt into your video display to avoid possible damage from “burn-in”that may occur with plasma and many CRT displays when a stillimage, such as a menu screen, remains on display for an extendedperiod of time.NOTES ON VIDEO PLAYBACK:• Before attempting to play videos stored on your iPod, check theVideo Settings menu on the iPod and make sure that the TV Outsetting is set to On. The TV Signal setting should be NTSC tomatch the capabilities of your video display. Set Widescreen to Onor Off, depending on the aspect ratio of your video display. If yourselection was playing and paused at the time you changed the TVOut setting, the iPod may require you to navigate its menu systemand reselect the video for the new TV Out setting to take effect.Resuming play from the Now Playing function may not reflect thechange to the TV Out setting. This is a function of the iPod, notthe AVR 247.• In Video mode, the iPod’s menus will not be visible on your videodisplay, although you may view them on the iPod’s screen. Youmay operate the iPod using the AVR remote, as long as it is inThe Bridge device mode.• You may view the AVR’s on-screen displays while The Bridge isin use, just as you would with any other video source.iPod Function Remote Control Key Front-Panel ButtonPlay Play (›) Tuner ModePause Pause (II) Tuner ModeMenu Menu (Spkr) Tuner Band (AM/FM)Select Set SetScroll Forward Left Arrow (‹) Preset DownScroll Reverse Right Arrow (›) Preset UpForward Search/Next Track Forward/Next (››) Tuning UpReverse Search/Previous Track Reverse/Previous (‹‹) Tuning Down