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Optimum disc playability :Presenting Super Error Correction
ensuring excellent picture qualityTo ensure consistently good results when
Philips components and modules for theplaying Video CD discs of all quality grades
various CD applications have always enjoyedand conditions, Philips has introduced further
an excellent reputation in the market placeimprovements in the system's playability.
for super disc playability - the ability to playThese developments together are called
discs which may be scratched, soiled or notSuper Error Correction, a proprietary Philips
fully according to the standard specification.technology optimizing the system's ability to
This position has been underlined by testshandle less than perfect discs with the
showing the superior performance of theminimum disturbance to normal playing.
various Philips players, as well as by theBy effectively eliminating virtually all errors
positive experiences of millions of individualarising under normal playing conditions,
consumers around the world.Super Error Correction ensures that the
picture quality as seen by the user is
Constantly improving performanceindependent of disc play.The video encoding
As the penetration of the CD system hasand processing during mastering of the disc,
increased, and new applications like CD-and the MPEG-1 decoding and video
ROM and Video CD have becomeencoding in the signal processing stages, are
commonplace, Philips Components - as thenow the only limiting factors for picture
CD technology inventor and as one of thequality.
major suppliers of CD player modules in the
industry - has constantly improved the
performance of its products.
One of the ways in which this benefits users
is by optimum disc playability.This is an
important parameter for CD players other
than CD Audio, and especially for the Video
CD applications, because any loss of data
from the disc will at best cause disturbances
in the reproduced picture, and at worst can
cause the player to lose track so that disc
playing fails.
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