Is it normal for some new dvd players to have no cd track number on the display?

jerrymb
jerrymb Posts: 278
edited October 2009 in Electronics
I've never seen this before. I got a new Pioneer dvd player and the front panel display shows the elapsed time but no track number. I tried every remote button but it looks like there is no way to tell what track is playing on a cd unless you use the on screen display. Wierd.
Jerry
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  • coolsax
    coolsax Posts: 1,826
    edited October 2009
    yet my DVD player shows track number but no elapsed time... not sure which is better heh
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  • comfortablycurt
    comfortablycurt Posts: 6,745
    edited October 2009
    I had a really cheap DVD player like that once...when I say really cheap...I mean like bottom of the barrel. I think it was like $35 brand new...lol

    All it displayed on the front was the elapsed time of the total CD.
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  • jerrymb
    jerrymb Posts: 278
    edited October 2009
    If I knew this I never would have ordered this player. I read up on the player and read many reviews for it and not one person mentioned the lack of a track number on the display!
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  • comfortablycurt
    comfortablycurt Posts: 6,745
    edited October 2009
    Have you tried looking through the DVD players on screen menu?
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  • jerrymb
    jerrymb Posts: 278
    edited October 2009
    I tried the on screen display. Nothing. I read the intsruction booklet and it clearly shows the display showing the elapsed time but but no track number. I don't get the reasoning behind not having a track number showing next to the elapsed time.
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  • MrGlobe
    MrGlobe Posts: 401
    edited October 2009
    My Samsung DVD player also does not show track number. It only bugs me when I don't know the CD well. But then again it adds to the mystery when listening to a CD for the first time
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  • danger boy
    danger boy Posts: 15,722
    edited October 2009
    i guess DVD players are more aimed towards DVD's and not audio CD's. therefore track numbers were prob left off. while watching a DVD you would not want to know the chapter, but you would want to know time elapsed or time remaining. it's no biggie for me. the on screen display shows track numbers, etc.
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  • jerrymb
    jerrymb Posts: 278
    edited October 2009
    Can't afford an Oppo right now or I would get one.
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