Rotel RDV-1060 About Discs, Disc Formats, DVD Region Codes, Disc Structure, Digital Audio Formats

About Discs

This section covers basic information on the types of discs that can be played in the RDV-1060.

Disc Formats

The RDV-1060 can play several different types of disc formats. Each of these formats has its own characteristics including digital sampling rate, disc structure, etc. The RDV-1060 auto- matically detects the type of disc and activates the proper playback parameters.

Look for the standard logo on the packaging for each of the following types of disc the RDV-1060 can play:

DVD Video

DVD Audio

Video CD

SVCD

Audio CD

NOTE: The RDV-1060 can play recorded MP3 and JPEG files from most CD-R, CD-RW, DVD-R, and DVD+R discs. The unit can only play the audio content on CD-EXTRA, CD- G, and CD-TEXT discs. The RDV-1060 can- not play DVD-ROM, DVD-RAM, CD-ROM and DVD+/–RW discs.

DVD Region Codes

DVD-Video discs are encoded with region codes which also appear on the packaging:

ALL 2	2 5	2	3	1 2 3
		4	5	4 5 6

A disc can only be played if its region code matches the code printed on the back-panel of the RDV-1060.

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The RDV-1060 can play discs encoded in ei- ther the NTSC or PAL video formats, output- ting the correct video signal as set by the back- panel NTSC/PAL switch.

Disc Structure

Each type of disc has its own organization, allowing you to locate various portions of the program recorded on the disc. Depending on the type of disc, these may be called Titles, Groups, Chapters, or Tracks:

DVD-Video:

Title 1		Title 2
Chapter 1	Chapter 2	Chapter 1	Chapter 2

A DVD-Video disc is comprised of Titles and each title may be divided into Chapters. For example, a DVD-Video disc may contain sev- eral movies, each with its own Title number, and each movie may be divided into several Chapters. In a DVD-Video karaoke disc, each song usually has its own title number and does not have Chapters.

DVD-Audio:

Group 1			Group 2
Track 1	Track 2	Track 3	Track 1	Track 2

A DVD-Audio disc contains Groups, with each group divided into Tracks. Some DVD-Audio discs also contain a Bonus Group that can only be played back by entering a Key Number password.

Most DVD-Audio discs include other informa- tion in addition to audio, such as still pictures, movies and text.

Audio CD:

Track 1 Track 2 Track 3

An Audio CD, Video CD or SVCD simply contains Tracks.

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Digital Audio Formats

DVD and CD discs can be encoded with sev- eral different digital audio formats. Generally, the type of digital audio encoding is indicated on the disc packaging.

•Dolby Digital. A digital surround format that may contain as many as five discrete audio channels plus an LFE (low frequency effects) channel (referred to as 5.1 chan- nel surround). Particularly for older soundtracks, Dolby Digital may be used to record a 2.0 channel stereo soundtrack with Dolby Surround matrix encoding.

•DTS (Digital Theater Systems). An- other 5.1 channel digital surround format similar to Dolby Digital, but somewhat different encoding characteristics. Also plays the DTS 96/24 used on DTS music discs.

•MPEG. Another compressed digital for- mat. MPEG Multichannel signals are only available at the analog outputs.

•DVD-Audio and MLP (Meridian Loss- less Packing). A high quality digital format for DVD-Audio with the compres- sion ratio of about 2:1 supporting up to 192kHz sampling rate and 24-bit resolu- tion, allowing the PCM signal to be recre- ated without loss. Some content may only be available at the analog outputs.

•LPCM (Linear PCM). Uncompressed digi- tal audio, the format used on CDs and most studio masters.

•MP3 (MPEG 1, Layer 3). Compressed 2-channel digital audio, a format often used for music on recordable CD-R and CD-RW discs.

The RDV-1060 automatically detects the type of digital audio signal encoded on the disc and activates the proper processing circuitry. An indicator in the front panel display illumi- nates to show the type of digital audio.

NOTE: If you use the RDV-1060 with a Dolby Digital/DTS surround processor, you would generally use the decoders built into the sur- round processor, rather than those in the DVD player. In this case, connect the DVD player to the processor with a digital audio cable and activate the digital input on the proces- sor. An unprocessed digital bitstream is sent to the surround processor for decoding.