9 Glossary
Aspect ratio
Aspect ratio refers to the length to height ratio of TV screens. The ratio of a standard TV is 4:3, while the ratio of a high- definition or wide TV is 16:9. The letter box allows you to enjoy a picture with a wider perspective on a standard 4:3 screen.
Blu-ray Disc (BD)
Blu-ray Disc is a next generation optical video disc capable of storing five times more data than a conventional DVD. The large capacity makes it possible to benefit from the features such as high-definition videos, multichannel surround sound, interactive menus and so on.
BONUSVIEWTM
This is a BD-Video (Final Standard Profile or Profile 1.1) that supports interactive content encoded on the disc, such as picture-in-picture. This means you can play the primary video and secondary video simultaneously.
Digital Audio
Digital Audio is a sound signal that has been converted into numerical values. Digital sound can be transmitted through multiple channels. Analogue sound can only be transmitted through two channels.
Dolby® Digital
The system to compress digital sound developed by Dolby Laboratories. It offers you sound of stereo (2ch) or multichannel audio.
Dolby® Digital Plus
Dolby Digital Plus is the next generation digital audio compression technology developed as an extension to Dolby Digital. Blu-ray Disc supports 7.1 multi-channel surround sound output.
Dolby® TrueHD
Dolby TrueHD is a lossless coding technology developed for next generation optical discs. Blu-ray Disc supports 7.1 multi-channel surround sound output.
DTS®
DTS is a multi-channel surround sound system. By connecting to DTS decoder, you can enjoy movie dynamic and realistic sound like movie theater. DTS surround sound technologies were developed by DTS, Inc.
DTS-HD®
DTS-HD is a lossless coding technology developed as an extension of the original DTS Coherent Acoustics format.
Blu-ray Disc supports 7.1 multi-channel surround sound output.
DTS-HD Master AudioTM
A disc encoded with DTS-HD Master Audio delivers ALL of the information from the original master recording — bit-for-bit, it's identical to what the sound engineers laid down. Audio doesn't get any better than this.
HDCP
High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection. This is a specification that provides a secure transmission of digital contents between different devices (to prevent unauthorized copyright.)
HDMI®
High-Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI) is a high-speed digital interface that can transmit uncompressed high definition video and digital multichannel audio. It delivers high quality picture and sound quality. HDMI is fully backward- compatible with DVI. As required by the HDMI standard, connecting to HDMI or DVI products without HDCP (High- bandwidth Digital Content Protection) will result in no Video or Audio output.
JPEG
A very common digital still picture format. A still-picture data compression system proposed by the Joint Photographic Expert Group, which features small decrease in image quality in spite of its high
