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How do I play a CD on a Pioneer dvd-v7400 ?

Hopefully someone here has this DVD player. I just got one to use as a transport for CDs. I'm using a universal remote and have a copy of the manual. From the little information I've found you have to plug the unit into a TV to set it up for CD playing but the manual is useless as to how to actually do it. I am able to get into the menus but anything I've tried has no effect in getting the unit to play music or even recognize a cd (the disc illumination LED is supposed to flash orange when a cd is inserted - so far just a green light) . It does play DVDs but I read somewhere that it actually has 2 lasers, one for DVDs and one for CDs. It has a total playing time of 5400 hours so has a way to go before the MTBF of 37000 hours and I assume most of those hours are playing DVDs. Any help in setting up the player to recognize CDs would be greatly appreciated. Cheers, Mike.
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I've never owned a DVD/Blu-Ray player that needed anything extra to play a CD and I've owned probably 30 different units. I'm sure that there are some that do, but normally nothing else is required.

I looked at the manual and all I saw pertaining to playing a CD, would be to make sure that the "digital out" is turned on, since you said that you were using it as a transport.

If the unit isn't even reading the CD, have you tried a different CD? You might also try to "reset" the unit. There are instructions for that in the manual. That would allow you to start over from the beginning.
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