Step 4: Go to the “Audio Setup” menu option
Be warned if you set the resolution to “1080p24” then you may experience a very unnatural movement in the picture when playing back source material other than 24fps. When you’re done here, exit out of the Setup menu and hit the “HDMI Res” button towards the top of the remote. It really depends on how the color space conversion of your display is done so I suggest trying both settings and if you don’t see a notable difference, use the YCbCr setting.ĭon’t forget to enable SACD if you plan on passing it out via the HDMI cable to your A/V receiver/processor. In most cases, the former is the appropriate one to use with the latter being utilized mostly for computer type displays. When setting up HDMI, you must consider the following selection of HDMI YCbCr or HDMI RGB. You can independently set all of these options for each HDMI output except resolution. In this menu, you also assign Deep Color, Color Space, HDMI control (power options to sync with your display), and HDMI resolution for your display of the two HDMI outputs. Choose this option if only using the analog outputs of this player to have it doing all of your multi channel decoding.
This is the setting you’ll likely want to use if you have an HDMI 1.3 receiver/processor.
This menu can only be accessed if you disable D.Link first. To configure the audio output for HDMI, select the “Audio Setup” submenu in the HDMI menu.
If you are a D.Link user (fellow AVR-5308CI and AVP-A1HDCI users), skip down to Step 5).Īlthough the manual does a terrible job of explaining this, you CANNOT get the player to do any decoding via the analog outputs unless you set it properly. Personally, I feel Denon should have kept the Audio stuff in the main “Audio setup” menu, as I found myself having to go back and forth between the “HDMI” and “Audio” menus to get this player’s audio settings properly configured. This menu option affects the function of this player on many levels both audio and video. I use “Wide(16:9) instead of “16:9 Squeeze” so the image completely fills the screen on 4:3 material. This is where you set the aspect ratio for your display as well as resolution and scaling options for component video. Step 2: Go to the “Video Setup” menu option I didn’t and found operational issues when doing my testing which all disappeared after the firmware update. There have been 3 firmware updates since this player was released to market and I highly recommend getting the latest before operating this player.
Select “Firmware Update” to download the latest firmware for this player. Make sure you have an Ethernet cable connected and no disc inserted in the player. Step 1: Go to the “Other Setup” menu option HDMI, D.link, etc), follow this configuration procedure and you will be on your way towards Blu-ray nirvana. After you make all of your connections (ie. I have collected my setup notes and hope you find them useful when dialing in the basic operation of this player.
The user manual is terrible just like most Denon manuals tend to be. The Denon DVD-A1UDCI is NOT an easy player to setup properly.