User manual ACER ASPIRE

[. . . ] Aspire Series Generic User Guide Original Issue: 07/2009 Changes may be made periodically to the information in this publication without obligation to notify any person of such revisions or changes. Such changes will be incorporated in new editions of this manual or supplementary documents and publications. This company makes no representations or warranties, either expressed or implied, with respect to the contents hereof and specifically disclaims the implied warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. Record the model number, serial number, purchase date and place of purchase information in the space provided below. [. . . ] The Navigation Controls panel appears at the top and the Player Controls panel appears at the bottom of the screen. English Navigation controls To return to the Arcade home page, click the Home button in the upper-left corner of the window. To go up one folder level while searching for content, click the arrow. The buttons in the upper right (minimize, maximize, close) have standard PC behaviors. To quit Arcade, click the Close button in the upper right corner of the window. Player controls At the bottom of the window, the player controls -- used for video, slideshows, movies and music -- are shown. They provide standard playback controls (play, pause, stop, etc. ) and volume controls (mute and volume up/down). Note: When playing movies from optical discs, there are additional controls added to the right of the volume controls. These are discussed in more detail in the Cinema of this guide. Cinema Play Movie: Click Play Movie to watch a movie from your optical disc drive. Depending in the type of optical drive installed in your computer, you can play movies from Blu-Ray discs, standard DVDs and video CDs (VCDs) with the Cinema function of Acer Arcade Deluxe. When you insert a disk into the DVD drive, the movie begins playing automatically. To control the movie, the pop-up player control panel appears at the bottom of the window when you move the pointer. If more than one optical drive contains a playable disc, you will be asked to select which one you would like to watch when you click Play Movie. Alternatively, you can select content stored on your HDD by clicking Videos and navigating to the video clip you wish to view using a folder browser. When viewing DVDs, the following special controls are added to the pop-up panel: · DVD Menu 18 · · · · Subtitles Language Snapshot Angle English If you move your mouse/cursor while you're watching a movie, a menu bar will appear at the bottom of the screen. This contains buttons to control the movie playback, select subtitles, adjust volume, select soundtrack language and set advanced features. Note: Function availability will depend on what the optical disc being played supports. Clicking the stop button will stop the movie playback, and return you to the Cinema main screen. At the bottom of the screen are buttons that allow you to resume the movie from the point it was stopped, restart the movie from the beginning or eject the disk. Videos: Click Videos to watch a video clip stored on your hard drive. Note: The Video feature is designed to play back many different kinds of video formats. Refer to the Video help section for a full list of compatible formats. Playing a video file: Click Videos to open a file browser to navigate to the video clip you want to view. The pop-up control panel will appear at the bottom of the screen when you move the mouse. You can capture a still of a scene by clicking the Snapshot button in the pop-up control panel. Recent Videos: Shows video clips saved recently. Double-click on a clip to watch it. 19 HomeMedia HomeMedia is a program that lets you access and share media files and TV signals via your home network. HomeMedia gives you access to your network computers with Media Server and TV Server installed, so you can view shared music, videos, pictures and TV signals. Click HomeMedia to open the main page that displays a list of the media and TV servers available on your network. [. . . ] This equipment shall not be set up to make automatic calls to Telecom's 111 Emergency Service. This device is equipped with pulse dialing while the Telecom standard is DTMF tone dialing. There is no guarantee that Telecom lines will always continue to support pulse dialing. Use of pulse dialing, when this equipment is connected to the same line as other equipment, may give rise to bell tinkle or noise and may also cause a false answer condition. [. . . ]