Overview (Continued)
Disc Related Terms
Title (DVD only)
The main film content or accompanying feature content or music album. Each title is assigned a title reference number enabling you to locate it easily.
Chapter (DVD only)
Sections of a picture or a musical piece that are smaller than titles. A title is composed of one or several chap- ters. Each chapter is assigned a number to enable you to easily locate the chapter you want. Depending on the disc, chapters may not be labeled.
Track (Video CD and Audio CD only)
Sections of a picture or a musical piece on a video CD or an audio CD. Each track is assigned a number, enabling you to easily locate the track you want.
Scene
On a video CD with PBC (Playback Control), movies and pictures are divided into “scenes”. Each scene is displayed on a menu and assigned a number, enabling you to quickly locate the scene you want. A scene may be composed of one or several tracks.
Types of Video CDs
There are two types of video CDs:
Video CDs equipped with PBC (Version 2.0)
PBC (Playback control) allows you to interact with the contents of a Video CD using menus, search functions, and other special operations. High resolution pictures can be displayed if they are included on the disc.
Video CDs not equipped with PBC (Version 1.1) Video CDs without PBC are similar to audio CDs, except they allow playback of video as well as sound.
What is ‘DoMiNoFX™’?
DoMiNoFX™ is a patented video process- ing technology that digitally enhances and refines the picture quality during recording. This results in visibly superior recordings, and a dramatic improvement when recording from noisy source material, such as VHS tapes or weak TV signals.
About Symbols
About the 
Symbol
“
” may appear on the TV screen during operation. This icon means the function explained in this owner’s manual is not available on that specific disc.
Symbols Used in this Manual
Many functions provided on this recorder are dependent on the Recording mode. One or more of the symbols
( Video , VR ) appear by each function explained in this manual so that you can see at a glance whether it’s applicable to the loaded disc.
Video | |
VR | |
DVD | |
VCD | Video CD |
CD | Audio CD |
MP3 | MP3 Disc |
WMA | WMA CD |
JPEG | JPEG CD |
VHS | VHS Tape |
Finalized DVD discs are
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