Owner`s manual

Listening to Audio Sources
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BDS 280/580
• When the BDS system is playing video files from a USB device or CD data
disc, the Repeat and Options functions are slightly different from playing
Blu-ray Disc recordings and DVDs. Repeat button: Pressing this button cycles
through the repeat modes such as 1 (current video), All (folder), OFF.
• Options button: Pressing this button displays any available options for
the video that is currently playing File, Title, Chapter, Time, Mode, Audio,
Subtitle, Code Page, Bitrate, Advance, Replay, Adjust Lip Sync, 2D to 3D, 2D
to 3D level, Video mode, Sound and Find.
Viewing HDMI Sources
Plug in an HDMI source device into the HDMI port on the back panel of the BDS system
to view the available HDMI sources and use the remote control to accept the HDMI
source you want. Connecting to an HDMI source allows you to transmit digital audio
and video signals. You can connect game players, set-top-box, TV box to these inputs. It
can transfer high quality audio and video. HMDI1 is Roku and MHL devices compatible.
HMDI3 is Apple TV compatible.
Listening to Audio Sources
Press the Aux button on the remote control. The system will switch to the audio input
that was selected last. Subsequent presses of the Aux button will advance through the
audio inputs in the following order: Coax In, Optical In 1, Optical In 2, Aux In 1, Aux
In 2 and HDMI ARC (Audio Return Channel). The aux Input Now Playing screen will be
displayed on the TV or flat-panel display.
In addition to playing the aux source through the system, pressing the Aux button places
the remote in the aux-control mode. If you have programmed the remote to control an
auxiliary component (either by entering in a code number or teaching commands to the
remote), the remote operates according to that programming mode.
Lip sync delay: When playing an Aux source, audio and video processing circuitry may
create a slight delay between the picture and sound. Pressing the Options button helps
you adjust the audio delay to eliminate “lip sync” errors that may occur between the
sound and picture in video programs with sound playing through one of the system’s
rear panel audio inputs. Use the Cursor Right/Left buttons to increase or decrease the
audio delay until the perceived lip-sync errors disappear and the sound and picture are
properly synchronized. The amount of audio delay is shown on the system’s front panel
Information display.
Listening to your iPod/iPhone/iPad
To listen to your iPod/iPhone/iPad through the BDS system:
1. Insert your iPod, iPhone or iPad into the USB port
on the front panel of the BDS system.
2. Select iPod icon from the home screen.
A Now Playing screen will be displayed on your TV.
Use the following remote control buttons to browse and select content on your iPod/
iPhone/iPad and control the device during playback:
• Previous/Step button: Press this button once to skip to the beginning of the
current track. Press the button twice to skip to the beginning of the previous
track.
• Next/Step button: Press this button to skip to the beginning of the next
track.
• Search/Slow Reverse button: Press this button to search backward through
the current track.
• Search/Slow Forward button: Press this button to search forward through
the current track.
• Stop button: Press this button to stop playback.
• Play button: Press this button to play the item appearing on the system’s
display.
• Pause button: Press this button to pause the item that is playing. Pressing
this button while the iPod/iPhone device is paused will resume play.
• Home button: Pressing the Home button will switch the display to the
Home screen while you continue to hear the iPod/iPhone content through
the BDS system. To display the iPod Now Playing screen again, select iPod
source from the Home Menu.
Bluetooth
Bluetooth connectivity lets you stream audio wirelessly from a device that has been
paired with the BDS system. After you have paired the BDS system with a Bluetooth
device, you can select Bluetooth as the active source from the Home Menu.
Bluetooth source can also be selected by pressing Bluetooth button from the remote.
Bluetooth source is also selected when there is streaming of Music from the paired
Android/iOS/Windows device.
Listening to Media via AirPlay®
The Harman Kardon BDS system supports AirPlay®. BDS is compatible with all devices
that support AirPlay and the BDS volume can be controlled by AirPlay. If you have
connected a BDS 280 or BDS 580 system to your home network, you can stream audio
to it via AirPlay from compatible Apple devices with iOS 4.2 or newer and computers
that have iTunes 10.1 or newer that are joined on the same network.
To initiate AirPlay streaming to the BDS system from a computer with iTunes:
• Launch iTunes, click the AirPlay button that appears at the bottom of the
computer’s iTunes window, and select HK BDS in displayed pop-up list.
HK BDS
AirPlay
Button
Select
“HK BDS”
From Pop-Up List
To initiate AirPlay streaming from an iPod, iPhone or iPad device:
• Tap the AirPlay button on the device’s screen and select HK BDS in the
displayed speaker-selection list.