Disc-Related Terms; Types Of Video Cds; About Symbols; About The Symbol Display - Philips DVDR3320V/05B User Manual

Disc-related terms

Title (DVD only)
The main film content or accompanying feature content
or music album.
Each title is assigned a title reference number enabling
you to locate it easily.
Chapter (DVD only)
Sections of a picture or a musical piece that are smaller
than titles. A title is composed of one or several chap-
ters. Each chapter is assigned a chapter number to
enable you to locate the chapter you want. Depending
on the disc, chapters may not be labeled.
Track (Video CD and audio CD only)
Sections of a picture or a musical piece on a video CD
or an audio CD. Each track is assigned a track number,
enabling you to locate the track you want.
Scene
On a video CD with PBC (Playback control) functions,
moving pictures and still pictures are divided into sec-
tions called "Scenes". Each scene available is displayed
on the Scene menu and assigned a scene number,
enabling you to locate the scene you want.
A scene may be composed of one or several tracks.

Types of video CDs

There are two types of video CDs:
Video CDs equipped with PBC (Version 2.0)
PBC (Playback control) functions allow you to interact
with the system via menus, search functions, or other
typical computer-like operations. Moreover, high resolu-
tion still pictures can be played if they are included on
the disc.
Video CDs not equipped with PBC (Version 1.1)
Operated in the same way as audio CDs, these discs
allow playback of video pictures as well as sound, but
they are not equipped with PBC.
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About Symbols

About the symbol display
" " may appear on the TV screen during operation.
This icon means the function explained in this owner's
manual is not available on that specific disc.

About the disc symbols for instructions

A section whose title has one of the following symbols
are applicable only to those discs represented by the
symbol.
Many functions of this recorder are dependent on the
recording mode. One or more of the symbols
( ) appear by each function explained in
+R +RW
,
this manual so that you can see at a glance whether it's
relevant for the disc loaded.
DVD+R disc
+R
DVD+RW disc
+RW
DVD-Video disc
DVD
Video CDs
VCD
Audio CDs
CD
MP3 CDs
MP3
JPEG CDs
JPEG
DivX CDs
DivX
VHS Tape.
VHS
The finalized DVD disc is as DVD-Video disc
DivX
DivX is the name of a revolutionary new video codec
which is based on the new MPEG-4 compression stan-
dard for video. You will be able to play DivX movies
using this recorder.
DivX, DivX Certified, and associated logos
are trademarks of DivXNetworks, Inc and
are used under license.
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