Bose 3.2.1 manual Glossary

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GLOSSARY

DDigital audio – Audio in digital form, which is encoded as bits of information.

Dolby Digital – A means of encoding multi-channel audio, developed by Dolby Laboratories and accepted as an international standard.

– The logo representing Dolby Digital.

DTS – An abbreviation for Digital Theater Systems. DTS encoding provides a type of multi-channel surround sound format used on certain CDs and many DVDs.

– The logo representing DTS.

DVD – An abbreviation most commonly known to mean digital video disc or digital versatile disc. A DVD looks like a CD but contains high-quality video and multi-channel audio for movies.

DVD-R,DVD-RW– Abbreviations for Recordable (R) and ReWriteable (RW) Digital Video (or Versatile) Disc (DVD). Data can be added to a DVD-R once only, and to a DVD-RW more than once.

DVD-ROM– The abbreviation for Read Only Memory (ROM) on a Digital Video (or Versatile) Disc (DVD), which allows no data to be added.

DVD video – A standard for storing and reproducing audio and video on DVD-ROM discs, based on MPEG video, Dolby Digital audio, and other proprietary data formats.

DVR – An abbreviation for Digital Video Recording (otherwise known as PVR for Personal Video Recording). With a hard drive, an electronic program guide, and internal processing, a DVR simplifies recording and playback of programs.

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