Philips 625p, HTS6520/93, 525p user manual Glossary

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Aspect ratio

Aspect ratio refers to the length to height ratio of TV screens. The ratio of a standard TV is 4:3, while the ratio of a high-de nition or wide TV is 16:9. The letter box allows you to enjoy a picture with a wider perspective on a standard 4:3 screen.

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DivX Video

DivX® is a digital video format created by DivX, Inc. This is an of cial DivX Certi ed device that plays DivX video. Visit www.divx.com for more information and software tools to convert your les into DivX video.

DivX Video-On-Demand

This DivX Certi ed ® device must be registered in order to play DivX Video-on-Demand (VOD) content. To generate the registration code, locate the DivX VOD section in your device setup menu. Go to vod.divx.com with this code to complete the registration process and learn more about DivX video.

Dolby Digital

A surround sound system developed by Dolby Laboratories that contains up to six channels of digital audio (front left and right, surround left and right, center and subwoofer.)

DTS

Digital Theatre Systems. A surround sound system for providing 5.1 channels of discrete digital audio in consumer electronics products and software content. It is not developed by Dolby Digital.

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HDCP
High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection.
This is a speci cation that provides a secure
transmission of digital contents between
different devices (to prevent unauthorized
copyright.)	English
HDMI
High-De nition Multimedia Interface (HDMI) is
a high-speed digital interface that can transmit
uncompressed high de nition video and digital	Glossary
multichannel audio. It delivers high quality
picture and sound quality, completely free from
noise. HDMI is fully backward-compatible with
DVI.
As required by the HDMI standard, connecting
to HDMI or DVI products without HDCP (High-
bandwidth Digital Content Protection) will result
in no Video or Audio output.
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JPEG
A very common digital still picture format. A
still-picture data compression system proposed
by the Joint Photographic Expert Group, which
features small decrease in image quality in spite
of its high compression ratio. Files are recognized
by their le extension ‘.jpg’ or ‘.jpeg.’
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MP3
A le format with a sound data compression
system. MP3 is the abbreviation of Motion
Picture Experts Group 1 (or MPEG-1) Audio
Layer 3. With the MP3 format, one CD-R or
CD-RW can contain about 10 times more data
than a regular CD.
MPEG
Motion Picture Experts Group. A collection of
compression systems for digital audio and video.

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