Glossary - Sony HANDYCAM DCR-DVD610 Operating Manual

Glossary
• 5.1chsurround sound
A system that plays back sound on 6 speakers. 3 al
the lronl (lell, right and center) and 2 at the rcar
(righl and left) with an additional low-pass
subwoolcr counled as a 0.1 channel Ior
flequencies of 120 Hz or lower.
• DolbyDigital
An m/dio encoding (compression) syslem
developed by Dolby Laboratories Inc.
• Dolby Digital5.1 Creator
Sound compression leclmology developed by
Dolby Laboratories lnc. whicll compresses audio
efficiently while prc_rving higll sound quality. It
cnables recording of 5.1 ch surround sound wllile
using disc space more elliciently. Discs crcated
by Dolby Digital 5.1 Creator can be played back
on a device compatible with file disc creatcd on
your calllcorder.
• JPEG
JPEG slands lot Joinl Photographic Experts
Group, a slill image data compression (data
capacity, reduclion) standmd. Your camcorder
records still inmges in JPEG ft_rmat.
• MPEG
MPEG stands lor Moving Picture Experts Group,
the group of standards lor lhe coding (image
compression) of video (lnovie) and audio. There
arc MPEGI and MPEG2 ft_rmals. Your
camcorder records movies m MPEG2 lorm_,t.
• Thumbnail
Reduced-size images which enable you to view
many images al tim same time. [VISUAL
INDEXI, [_ INDEXI, [[_ [NDEXI, etc. are
thumbnail display syslem.
• VBR
VBR slands li)r Variable Bit Rale, the rccording
ft_rmat lor autolnatically controlling lhe bit rate
(the volume of recording dala in a given time
segment) according 1o the scene being recorded.
For last-moving video, a lot of media space is
used to produce a clear image, so lhe rccording
time to the media shortens.
• VIDEO mode
One of tim recording lormals you can select when
using a DVD-RW. VIDEO mode provides
excellenl compatibilily wilh otller DVD devices.
• VRmode
One of tim recording lormats you can select when
using a DVD-RW. VR mode enables editing
(deleting or sequence rearrangement) with your
camcorder. Finalizing the disc lels you play il
back on a VR mode compatible DVD device.
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