Glossary
EnglishAnalogue: Sound that has not been turned DTS: Digital Theatre Systems. This is a
into numbers. Analogue sound varies, while surround sound system, but it is different
digital sound has speci
These sockets send audio through two developed by different companies.
channels, the left and right.
HDMI: High-De
Aspect ratio: The ratio of vertical and Interface (HDMI) is a high-speed digital
horizontal sizes of a displayed image. The interface that can transmit uncompressed
horizontal vs. vertical ratio of conventional high de
TVs. is 4:3, and that of wide-screens is 16:9.audio. It delivers perfect picture and sound
quality, completely free from noise. HDMI is
AUDIO OUT Sockets: Red and white fully backward-compatible with DVI.
sockets on the back of the system that send As required by the HDMI standard,
audio to another system (TV, Stereo, etc).connecting to HDMI or DVI products
without HDCP (High-bandwidth Digital
Chapter: Sections of a picture or a music
piece on a DVD that are smaller than titles. Content Protection) will result in no Video
or Audio output.
A title is composed of several chapters. Each
chapter is assigned a chapter number Index Picture Screen: A screen that gives
enabling you to locate the chapter you want.an overview of a recorded DVD disc. An
Index Picture represents each recording.
Digital: Sound that has been converted into
numerical values. Digital sound is available
JPEG: A very common digital still picture
when you use the DIGITAL AUDIO OUT format. A still-picture data compression
COAXIAL. These sockets send audio system proposed by the Joint Photographic
through multiple channels, instead of just
Expert Group, which features small decrease
two channels as analogue does.in image quality in spite of its high
compression ratio.
Disc menu: A screen display prepared for
allowing selection of images, sounds, MP3: A
subtitles, multi-angles, etc recorded on a compression system. MP3 is the
DVD.abbreviation of Motion Picture Experts
Group 1 (or MPEG-1) Audio Layer 3. By
DivX: The DivX code is a patent pending, using the MP3 format, one CD-R or CD-RW
MPEG-4 based video compression
technology, developed by DivXNetworks can contain about 10 times more data then a
regular CD.
Inc., that can shrink digital video to sizes
small enough to be transported over the MPEG: Motion Picture Experts Group. A
internet, while maintaining high visual quality.collection of compression systems for digital
audio and video.
Dolby Digital: A surround sound system
developed by Dolby Laboratories containing
Multichannel: DVDs are formatted to have
up to six channels of digital audio (front left each sound track constitute one sound
and right, surround left and right, centre and Multichannel refers to a structure of sound
subwoofer).
tracks having three or more channels.
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