GLOSSARY
Title
The longest sections of a picture or a music piece on a DVD, or a movie, etc., for a picture piece on video software; or an album, etc., for a music piece on an audio software. Each title is assigned a title number enabling you to locate the title you want.
CHAPTER
Sections of a picture or a music piece on a DVD that are smaller than titles. A title is composed of several chapters. Each chapter is assigned a chapter number enabling you to locate the chapter you want.
JPEG
PAL
Phase Alternation Line: a video standard used in Europe.
YUV
A video standard, it can optimize the translation of the Video, Y means Luminance, U and V mean chrominance.
S-Video Cable
This cable can connect to your
JPEG is short for the “Joint Photographic Ex- perts Group”, a group of experts nominated to produce standards for continuous tone im- age coding. In other words, your DVD player can view digital picture CDs or CDs you made on your computer with file names that end in
the “.JPG” format.
PROGRESSIVE SCAN
Progressive scan, creates a picture signal with double the scan lines of a conventional interlaced picture. It creates a noticeably sharper image and can offer higher picture resolution and eliminates virtually all motion artifacts. Even on large screens, the progressive scan lines are barely noticeable and picture flickering is greatly reduced, so you can enjoy extended viewing without eye fatigue. Our
NTSC
National TV Systems Committee for TV broadcasts: a video standard used in the USA and Canada.
Video Cable
This is a wire with plugs on each end which is used to connect the picture information into your TV set.
Video Input
This is a jack which accepts the picture portion of a signal. In order to use this DVD player, your TV set must have an
ABOUT DVD REGION
MANAGEMENT
The DVD inventors and motion | 1 |
picture makers have decided to | |
break up the world’s DVDs into |
regions so that one country’s
DVDs should not be able to play in another country.
This is a legal issue and that is why your DVD player is restricted to play only region 1 DVDs.
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