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Bitstream
This is the digital form of multiple channel audio data (e.g., 5.1 chan-
nel) before it is decoded into its various channels.
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 5.1-channel audio. A large amount of audio information can be
recorded on one disc using this method.
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)
This surround
system is used in many movie theaters around the
world. There is good separation between the channels, so realistic
sound effects are possible.
Dynamic
range
Dynamic range is the difference between the lowest level of sound
that can be heard above the noise of the equipment and the highest
level of sound before distortion occurs.
Film and video
DVDs are recorded using either film or video. Usually, film is record-
ed 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.
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 480i video signals output from this unit's COMPONENT
VIDEO
OUT terminals (Y, PB, PR) allow you to enjoy higher quality pictures
than if the signals were output from the video output terminal or S-
VIDEO OUT terminal. The COMPONENT
VIDEO OUT terminals are
also able to handle 480p (progressive)
video signals which are of
even greater resolution.
I/P/B
MPEG 2, the video compression standard adopted for use with DVD-
Video, codes frames using these 3 picture types.
h
Intra coded picture (I-picture)
This is the standard picture and is a complete picture in itself.
This means it has the best picture quality and is the best to use
when adjusting the picture.
P: Predictive coded picture (P-picture)
This picture is calculated
based on past I or P-pictures.
B: Bidirectionally-predictive coded picture (B-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, similar to those found on
CDs.
MP3
A method of compressing audio, MPEG Audio Layer 3 (MP3) allows
audio to be reduced to up to one tenth its original size without overtly
hurting audio quality.
When creating MP3 files to play on this unit
oDisc formats:
ISO9660 level 1 and level 2 (except for extended for-
mats)
Files: MP3 files with the suffix ".mp3" or ".MP3"
oTo have this unit play files in a certain order, prefix folder and file
names with numbers in the order you want to play them. This may
not work in all cases.
Not compatible with multi-session
recordings
If you record MP3 onto CD-R/CD-RW
over a number of sessions,
this unit can play only the recordings made in the first session.
Playback
control
(PBC)
If a Video CD has playback control, you can select scenes and infor-
mation with menus.
Language code list
Abkhazian:
Afar:
Afrikaans:
Albanian:
Ameharic:
Arabic:
Armenian:
Assamese:
Aymara:
Azerbaijani:
Bashkir:
Basque:
Bengali; Bangla:
Bhutani:
Bihari:
Breton:
Bulgarian:
Burmese:
Byelorussian:
Cambodian:
Catalan:
6566
Chinese:
6565
Corsican:
6570
Croatian:
8381
Czech:
6577
Danish:
6582
Dutch:
7289
English:
6583
Esperanto:
6588
Estonian:
6590
Faroese:
6665
Fiji:
6985
Finnish:
6678
French:
6890
Frisian:
6672
Galician:
6682
Georgian:
6671
German:
7789
Greek:
6669
Greenlandic:
7577
Guarani:
6765
Gujarati:
9O72
6779
7282
6783
6865
7876
6978
6979
6984
7079
7074
7073
7082
7089
7176
7565
6869
6976
7576
7178
7185
Hausa:
7265
Hebrew:
7387
Hindi:
7273
Hungarian:
7285
Icelandic:
7383
Indonesian:
7378
Interlingua:
7365
Irish:
7165
Italian:
7384
Japanese:
7465
Javanese:
7487
Kannada:
7578
Kashmiri:
7583
Kazakh:
7575
Kirghiz:
7589
Korean:
7579
Kurdish:
7585
Laotian:
7679
Latin:
7665
Latvian, Lettish:
7686
Lingala:
7678
Lithuanian:
7684
Macedonian:
7775
Malagasy:
7771
Malay:
7783
Malayalam:
7776
Maltese:
7784
Maori:
7773
Marathi:
7782
Moldavian:
7779
Mongolian:
7778
Nauru:
7865
Nepali:
7869
Norwegian:
7879
Oriya:
7982
Pashto, Pushto:
8083
Persian:
7065
Polish:
8076
Portuguese:
8084
Punjabi:
8065
Quechua:
8185
Rhaeto-Romance:
8277
Romanian:
8279
Russian:
8285
Samoan:
8377
Sanskrit:
8365
Scots Gaelic:
7168
Serbian:
8382
Serbo-Croatian:
8372
Shona:
8378
Sindhi:
8368
Singhalese:
8373
SIovak:
8375
SIovenian:
8376
Somali:
8379
Spanish:
6983
Sundanese:
8385
Swahili:
8387
Swedish:
8386
Taga log:
8476
Tajik:
8471
Tamil:
8465
Tatar:
8484
Telugu:
8469
Thai:
8472
Tibetan:
6679
Tigrinya:
8473
Tonga:
8479
Turkish:
8482
Turkmen:
8475
Twi:
8487
Ukrainian:
8575
Urdu:
8582
Uzbek:
8590
Vietnamese:
8673
VolapQk:
8679
Welsh:
6789
Wolof:
8779
Xhosa:
8872
Yiddish:
7473
Yoruba:
8979
Zulu:
9085
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