

 Notes
 Notes on Terminology
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 | DVD | recorded by means of digital signals. Incorporating a new video compression | |||||||||||
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 | PCM | An acronym for Pulse Code Modulation - another name for digital audio. | |||||||||||
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| REGION NUMBER | If the region number on the DVD disc does not correspond to the region number | |||||||||||||
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| TITLE NUMBER | These numbers are recorded on DVD discs. When a disc contains two or more | |||||||||||||
| movies, these movies are numbered as Title 1, Title 2, etc. | ||||||||||||||
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| TRACK NUMBER | These numbers are assigned to the tracks which are recorded on video and | |||||||||||||
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