Philips BDP7500 user manual Glossary

9 Glossary

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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.

AVCHD

AVCHD is a new format (standard) for high definition video cameras that can be used to record and play high-resolution HD images.

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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.

BONUSVIEW

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.

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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.

DivX Video-On-Demand

This DivX Certified ® device must be registered in order to play DivX Video-on-Demand (VOD) content. To generate the registration code, locate the DivX VOD section in your device setup menu. Go to vod.divx.com with this code to complete the registration process and learn more about DivX video.

Dolby Digital

A surround sound system developed by Dolby Laboratories that contains up to six channels of digital audio (front left and right, surround left and right, center and subwoofer.)

DTS

Digital Theatre Systems. A surround sound system for providing 5.1 channels of discrete digital audio in consumer electronics products and software content. It is not developed by Dolby Digital.

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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

ahigh-speed digital interface that can transmit uncompressed high definition video and digital multichannel audio. It delivers high quality picture and sound quality, completely free from noise. 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.

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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 compression ratio. Files are recognized by their file extension ‘.jpg’ or ‘.jpeg.’

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LAN (Local Area Network)

A group of linked devices in a company, school or home. Indicates the boundaries of a particular network.

Local storage

This storage area is used as destination for storing additional contents from BD-Live enabled BD- Video.

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