Sharp BD-HP21U operation manual About Disc Contents

DVD VIDEO

About Disc Contents

BD Video

•Enjoy Final Standard Profile functions (Page 25), such as picture- in-picture.

The available functions differ depending on the disc.

This is a new function of BD-Video that plays the primary video and secondary video simultaneously.

For instance, the function is capable of playing the original movie as the primary video while playing video commentary from the film director on a small screen as a secondary video.

Linear PCM

Linear PCM is a signal recording format used for Audio CDs and on some DVD and Blu-ray discs. The sound on Audio CDs is recorded at 44.1 kHz with 16 bits. (Sound is recorded between 48 kHz with 16 bits and 96 kHz with 24 bits on DVD video discs and between 48 kHz with 16 bits and 192 kHz with 24 bits on BD video discs.)

2Subtitle languages

This indicates the kind of subtitles.

Title, Chapter and Track

•Blu-ray discs and DVDs are divided into “Titles” and “Chapters”. If the disc has more than one movie on it, each movie would be a separate “Title”. “Chapters”, on the other hand, are subdivisions of titles. (See Example 1.)

•Audio CDs are divided into “Tracks”. You can think of a “Track” as one tune on an Audio CD. (See Example 2.)

Example 1: Blu-ray disc or DVD

3Screen aspect ratio

Movies are shot in a variety of screen modes.

4Camera angle

Recorded onto some BD/DVD discs are scenes which have been simultaneously shot from a number of different angles (the same scene is shot from the front, from the left side, from the right side, etc.).

5Region code

This indicates the region code (playable region code).

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Title 1 Title 2

The Icons Used in This Operation Manual

Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 1 Chapter 2

Example 2: Audio CD

Track 1 Track 2 Track 3 Track 4 Track 5

Icons Used on DVD Video Disc Cases

The back of the case of a DVD that is commercially available usually contains various information about the contents of the disc.

1			2
2	1.	English	2	1. English
	2.	Chinese		2. Chinese
3		4	5
16:9	LB	2	1 2 3
			4 5 6

1Audio tracks and audio formats

DVD discs can contain up to 8 separate tracks with a different language on each. The first in the list is the original track.

This section also details the audio format of each soundtrack — Dolby Digital, DTS, MPEG etc.

Dolby Digital

A sound system developed by Dolby Laboratories Inc. that gives movie theater ambience to audio output when the Player is connected to a Dolby Digital processor or amplifier.

DTS

DTS is a digital sound system developed by DTS, Inc. for use in cinemas. This system uses 6 audio channels and provides accurate sound field positioning and realistic acoustics. (By connecting a DTS Digital Surround decoder, you can also listen to DTS Digital Surround sound.)

BD VIDEO

BD-RE

BD-R

DVD-RW

DVD-R

AUDIO CD

CD-R

JPEG

CD-RW

JPEG

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for BD Video discs.

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for BD-RE discs.

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for BD-R discs.

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for DVD Video discs.

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for DVD-RW discs.

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for DVD-R discs.

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for Audio CDs.

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for CD-R discs in JPEG format.

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for CD-RW discs in JPEG format.

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