Audio Cds - Meridian 800 User Manual

INTRODUCTION
The 800 DVD/CD Player also provides access to the range of additional
features available on the DVD-Audio format, including still images and
video sequences.
DVD-Video
The multi-channel soundtracks on DVD-Video discs are encoded and
compressed, using the Dolby Digital, MPEG, or DTS encoding systems. The
800 Reference DVD/CD Player uses mathematically precise digital signal
processing (DSP) to decode the soundtrack into discrete channels. The video
is processed using broadcast-quality video circuitry, with the ability to
reproduce both PAL and NTSC video formats and to convert between them
if the television or video display is not capable of displaying both formats.

Audio CDs

Because the CD catalogue is so comprehensive, CD will be the major source
of music enjoyment for many years. In designing the 800 Reference DVD/CD
Player no compromises have been permitted in reproducing conventional
audio CDs. The 800 uses triple buffering and a FIFO to remove the timing
variations that typically occur with reading data from an audio CD,
resulting in an extremely clear and authoritative sound.
MP3 audio CDs
The 800 Reference DVD/CD Player can also play CD-ROMs containing
directories of MP3 audio files. This provides a convenient way of archiving
record collections to achieve up to 10 times the capacity of a conventional
CD where sound quality is not of primary importance.
MP3 discs can be created from a computer using appropriate MP3 encoding
software and a CD-ROM writer. Generate the MP3 files with a data rate of
at least 128Kbits per second. Group the tracks into folders to create
separate albums on the disc. Do not create folders within folders.
Tracks and albums are played in the order in which they are recorded onto
the CD-ROM. Usually this will be in alphabetical order of filename.
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