Dolby Digital (5.1)
Dolby Digital, also designated as AC3, is a digital sound format, by which up to six seperate audio channels can be transported. With most of the current DVDs, the sound is stored in the so called "Dolby Digital 5.1" format; the "5" in the title "5.1" stands for three front and two rear surround sound channels, the "1" for the bass sound chanel.
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DTS
DTS is the abbreviation for "Digital Theatre System" and refers to one of the most common surround sound formats for DVDs. As with Dolby Digital 5.1, DTS uses three front and two rear surround sound channels as well as a bass sound channel.
WMA
WMA ("Windows® Media Audio") is a data format developed by Microsoft® for audio data.
17.3 What are PAL and NTSC?
PAL
PAL is the abbreviation for "Phase Alternation Line". PAL is the mid and west Europe (Exception: France, see the heading "SECAM") customary and most wide spread colour television standard.
NTSC
NTSC is the abbreviation for "National Television System Committee". NTSC is a colour television standard that is primarily used in the USA and Japan.
JPEG
JPEG ("Joint Photographics Expert Group") denotes a wide spread graphic format, developed by the organization with the same name, with which image data of the colour and grey scales are compressed.
DivX
DivX is a coding format for videos and multimedia data, invented by the DivX Networks, Inc company.
MPEG
MPEG ("Moving Picture Experts Group") refers to a video compression format.
17.4MP3, WMA, JPEG, DivX and
MPEG
MP3
MP3 denotes a process and/or format developed by the Fraunhofer Institute for the compression of audio data. In the MP3 format compressed music pieces are only a fraction of their original size, which, for example, on
17.5 What are files?
As opposed to audio CDs the title on a
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