On-Screen Displays; Glossary - Panasonic DMR-E30 Operating Instructions Manual

On-screen displays

DVD/TV
DVD POWER TV
DVD TV
Í Í
VCR Plus+ TV/VIDEO REC MODE REC
1 2 3
CH
4 5 6
VOLUME
7 8 9
CANCEL
0 100
SKIP SLOW/SEARCH
DIRECT NAVIGATOR PLAY LIST
TOP MENU
MENU
ENTER
FUNCTIONS RETURN
PROG/CHECK ADD/DLT DISPLAY TIME SLIP
OPEN/CLOSE STATUS FRAME
STATUS SETUP AUDIO INPUT SELECT CM SKIP
ERASE F Rec POSITION MEMORY MARKER
Display examples
Current recording or play status/input
channel and caption (if entered)
REC:Recording
PAUSE:Recording paused
PLAY:Playing
;: Playing paused
6:Rewinding
5:Fast forwarding
D: Slow-motion
E: Reverse slow-motion
Recording mode
The current date and time
6/8 10:15 PM
Elapsed recording time π PRG2 1:12.12 FR
Elapsed play time π PRG1 0:00.04 SP
Bit Rate
π
Video bit-rate when recording REC 1.2Mbps EP
π PLAY 1.2Mbps EP
Video bit-rate when playing
Bit-rate display
Show as Mbps (Mega-bytes per seconds) during play and record-
ing, or kbit (kilobytes) while paused.
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The method of calculating bit-rate for recording and playing is different so there may be differences in the figures displayed. (Values are approx-
imate.)
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Changing the information displayed
Displays appear on the television when you operate the
unit to let you know what operation was performed and
what condition the unit is in.
≥You can change the setting in the SETUP menu so these displays
do not appear automatically ( page 53, Display—Status Mes-
sages).
Press [STATUS].
The display changes each time you press the button.
For example, DVD-RAM
DVD-RAM
REC
PLAY
LR
6/8 10:15 PM Remain 2:34 FR
π PRG2 1:12.12 FR
π PRG1 0:00.04 SP
Bit Rate 0 . . . . 5 . . . . 10
π
REC 1.2Mbps EP
π PLAY 1.2Mbps EP
No display
DVD-RAM Current media
Audio type ( page 26)
REC
Shows the selected audio type.
PLAY
≥During reception
LR Stereo:Stereo is selected
Mono:Monaural is selected
SAP:Secondary audio program is selected
("((" appears when the type you have selected is actu-
ally being received.)
≥During play
LR, R, L:a stereo program is recorded
MAIN, SAP:an SAP program is recorded
Available recording time and recording mode
Remain 2:34 FR
Current position on disc
Recording mode
or I/P/B display when paused
0 . . . . 5 . . . . 10
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Glossary

Bitstream
This is the digital form of multi-channel audio data (e.g., 5.1 chan-
nel) before it is decoded into its various channels.
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Decoder
A decoder restores the coded audio signals on DVDs to normal.
This is called decoding.
Dolby Digital
This is a method of coding digital signals developed by Dolby Labo-
ratories. Apart from stereo (2-channel) audio, these signals can also
be multi-channel audio. A large amount of audio information can be
recorded on one disc using this method.
This unit is set to record using Dolby Digital in all recording modes
except for XP mode, where you may choose Dolby Digital or LPCM.
Dolby Pro Logic
A surround system where a 4-channel audio track is recorded as 2
channels and then is restored to 4 channels for play. The surround
channel is monaural and can reproduce up to 7 kHz.
DTS (Digital Theater Systems)
DVD-RAM
This surround system is used in many movie theaters around the
REC
world. There is good separation between the channels, so realistic
PLAY
sound effects are possible.
LR
Dynamic range
DVD-RAM
Dynamic range is the difference between the lowest level of sound
REC
that can be heard above the noise of the equipment and the highest
PLAY
level of sound before distortion occurs.
LR
Film and video
DVD-Videos are recorded using either film or video. Usually, film is
recorded at 24 frames per second, the rate movies are filmed at,
while video is recorded at 30 frames per second.
Frame still and field still
Frames are the still pictures that go together to make a moving pic-
ture. There are about 30 frames shown each second.
One frame is made up of two fields. A regular television shows these
fields one after the other to create frames.
A still is shown when you pause a moving picture. A frame still is
made up of two alternating fields, so the picture may appear blurred,
but overall quality is high.
A field still is not blurred, but it has only half the information of a
frame still so picture quality is lower.
Language code list
Abkhazian: 6566 Chinese:
Afar: 6565 Corsican:
Afrikaans: 6570 Croatian:
Albanian: 8381 Czech:
Ameharic: 6577 Danish:
Arabic: 6582 Dutch:
Armenian: 7289 English:
Assamese: 6583 Esperanto:
Aymara: 6588 Estonian:
Azerbaijani: 6590 Faroese:
Bashkir: 6665 Fiji:
Basque: 6985 Finnish:
Bengali; Bangla:6678 French:
Bhutani: 6890 Frisian:
Bihari: 6672 Galician:
Breton: 6682 Georgian:
Bulgarian: 6671 German:
Burmese: 7789 Greek:
Byelorussian: 6669 Greenlandic: 7576
Cambodian: 7577 Guarani:
Catalan: 6765 Gujarati:
Interlace and progressive output
NTSC, the video signal standard, has 480 interlaced (i) scan lines,
whereas progressive scanning uses twice the number of scan lines.
This is called 480p. The video signals output from this unit's COM-
PONENT VIDEO OUT terminals (Y, P
quality pictures than if the signals were output from the VIDEO OUT
terminal or S VIDEO OUT terminal.
I/P/B
MPEG 2, the video compression standard adopted for use with
DVD-Video, codes frames using these 3 picture types.
I: Intra coded picture
This picture has the best quality and is the best to use when
adjusting the picture.
P: Predictive coded picture
This picture is calculated based on past I- or P-pictures.
B: Bidirectionally-predictive coded picture
This picture is calculated by comparing past and future I- and
P-pictures so it has the lowest volume of information.
Linear PCM (pulse code modulation)
These are uncompressed digital signals. LPCM sound is available
when recording in XP mode.
Playback control (PBC)
If a Video CD has playback control, you can select scenes and infor-
mation with menus.
Pan&Scan/Letterbox
In general, DVD-Video are produced with the intention that they be
viewed on a widescreen television with an aspect ratio of 16:9. This
means you can view most material with the intended aspect ratio on
a widescreen television.
Material with this ratio will not fit onto a standard television with an
aspect ratio of 4:3. Two styles of picture, "Pan&Scan" and "Letter-
box", deal with this problem.
Pan&Scan: The sides are cut off so the pic-
ture fills the screen.
Letterbox: Black bands appear at the top
and bottom of the picture so the
picture itself appears in
aspect ratio of 16:9.
Input the code with numbered buttons.
9072 Hausa: 7265 Lithuanian: 7684 Romanian:
6779 Hebrew: 7387 Macedonian: 7775 Russian:
7282 Hindi: 7273 Malagasy: 7771 Samoan:
6783 Hungarian: 7285 Malay: 7783 Sanskrit:
6865 Icelandic: 7383 Malayalam: 7776 Scots Gaelic: 7168
7876 Indonesian: 7378 Maltese: 7784 Serbian:
6978 Interlingua: 7365 Maori: 7773 Serbo-Croatian:8372
6979 Irish: 7165 Marathi: 7782 Shona:
6984 Italian: 7384 Moldavian: 7779 Sindhi:
7079 Japanese: 7465 Mongolian: 7778 Singhalese:
7074 Javanese: 7487 Nauru: 7865 Slovak:
7073 Kannada: 7578 Nepali: 7869 Slovenian:
7082 Kashmiri: 7583 Norwegian: 7879 Somali:
7089 Kazakh: 7575 Oriya: 7982 Spanish:
7176 Kirghiz: 7589 Pashto, Pushto:8083 Sundanese: 8385
7565 Korean: 7579 Persian: 7065 Swahili:
6869 Kurdish: 7585 Polish: 8076 Swedish:
6976 Laotian: 7679 Portuguese: 8084 Tagalog:
Latin: 7665 Punjabi: 8065 Tajik:
7178 Latvian, Lettish:7686 Quechua: 8185 Tamil:
7185 Lingala: 7678 Rhaeto-Romance:8277 Tatar:
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8279 Telugu: 8469
8285 Thai: 8472
8377 Tibetan: 6679
8365 Tigrinya: 8473
Tonga: 8479
8382 Turkish: 8482
Turkmen: 8475
8378 Twi: 8487
8368 Ukrainian: 8575
8373 Urdu: 8582
8375 Uzbek: 8590
8376 Vietnamese: 8673
8379 Volapük: 8679
6983 Welsh: 6789
Wolof: 8779
8387 Xhosa: 8872
8386 Yiddish: 7473
8476 Yoruba: 8979
8471 Zulu: 9085
8465
8484
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