Disc-related Terms, Types of Video CDs

Essential Information

Disc-related Terms

Title (DVD only)

A title is the main ﬁ lm content or the content of the accompanying feature or the music album. Each title has a title number enabling you to locate it easily.

Chapter (DVD only)

Chapters are sections of a ﬁ lm or a piece of music that are smaller than a title. A title consists of one or several chapters. Each chapter has a chap- ter number to enable you to locate the desired chapter. Depending on the disc, chapters may not be labeled.

Track (Video CD or Audio CD only)

Types of Video CDs

There are two types of Video CDs:

Video CDs equipped with PBC (Version 2.0)

PBC (Playback Control) functions enable you to in- teract with the system via menus, search functions or other typical computer operations. In addition high-resolution still pictures can be displayed if they are available on the disc.

Video CDs not equipped with PBC (Version 1.1)

These discs are operated in the same way as Audio CDs and allow playback of video pictures and sound. They are not however equipped with PBC.

Video DVD-R/RW disc with Video mode

VR	DVD-RW disc with VR mode
+R	DVD+R disc
+RW	DVD+RW disc
DVD-V	DVD-Video disc
DVD-A	DVD-Audio disc
VCD	Video CD
CD	Audio CD
DivX	DivX ﬁ les
MP3	MP3 ﬁ les
WMA	WMA ﬁ les
JPEG	JPEG ﬁ les

The ﬁ nalized DVD disc is a DVD-Video disc.

DVD-R and DVD-RW discs

How are DVD-R and DVD-RW discs

Sections of a ﬁ lm or a piece of music on a Video CD or an Audio CD. Each track has a track number to enable you to ﬁ nd the desired track.

Scene

On a Video CD with PBC (Playback Control) func- tions, moving pictures and still pictures are divided into sections that are called “scenes“. Each scene is displayed in the scene menu and has a scene number to enable you to ﬁ nd the scene quickly. A scene consists of one or more tracks.

Symbols

The symbol on the screen

During operation “” may appear on the screen. This symbol means that the desired function is not currently available on this disc.

Disc symbols in the operating instructions

If part of the operating instructions contains one of the symbols listed below, the section is only ap- plicable to the disc shown on the symbol.

Many functions of this recorder are dependent on the selected recording quality. One or more of the symbols (DVD, Video, +RW, MP3) are dis- played for each function described in the manual so that you can immediately see whether the disc supports this function.

different?

The essential difference between a DVD-R and a DVD-RW disc is the fact that a DVD-R disc can only be written to once, whilst a DVD-RW disc can be written to several times. In addition, its content can be deleted. You can write to and delete a DVD-RW disc approx. 1000 times.

Playback of writable discs on normal DVD players

DVD-R discs and DVD-RW discs written to in Video mode can be played on some normal DVD players. They must however be ﬁ nalized ﬁ rst. This process

ﬁxes the content of the disc so that it can be read by other DVD players as a DVD-Video disc.

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