Glossary

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4:3 Letterbox Screen

This is one method for displaying a wide screen picture on a conventional sized (4:3) TV. While viewing a wide screen picture, the black bars appear on the top and the bottom of the screen.

4:3 Pan-Scan Screen

This is one method for displaying a wide screen picture on a conventional sized (4:3) TV. While viewing a wide screen picture, the left and right edges of the pictures will not be shown on the screen.

Dolby Digital

DTS Digital Surround

This is another discrete 5.1 channel digital audio format, available on CD, LD, and DVD software, developed by Digital Theater Systems, Inc.

Compared to Dolby Digital, the audio compression rate is relatively low. This fact allows DTS Digital Surround format to add breadth and depth to the reproduced sounds. As a result, DTS Digital Surround features natural, solid and clear sound.

To reproduce these surround signals, you need to connect an amplifier or a decoder compatible with DTS Digital Surround.

ID3 Tag (MP3)

An MP3 file can contain file information called

“ID3 Tag” where its album name, performer, track title, etc. are recorded.

There are two versions–ID3v1 (ID3 Tag version 1) and ID3v2 (ID3 Tag version 2). Only ID3v1 can be shown.

Linear PCM

This is a digital recording format that is used for audio CDs.

Dolby Digital is a technology developed by Dolby Laboratories that reproduces multi-channel cinema sound in systems equipped with a Dolby Digital multi-channel processor or amplifier. Dolby Digital can deliver from mono up to 5.1 discrete channels of excellent sound quality.

The KD-DV5000 automatically recognizes the Dolby Digital bitstream and provides a downmix suitable for two-channel listening. An additional Dolby Digital decoder or amplifier is required to reproduce the discrete multi-channel sound encoded in many DVDs.

Playback Control (VCD)

When a VCD has the PBC (Playback Control) function, you can use menu-driven operations and enjoy high-resolution still pictures.

Sampling Frequency, Quantization Bits

When analog signals are converted into digital signals, they are divided into many points and digitized. This dividing method is called “sampling.” The sampling frequency indicates how many points one second is divided into – for example, for CD sound, one second is divided into 44100 points since its sampling frequency is

44.1kHz. On the other hand, the number of quantization bits indicates the volume size used to memorize each divided point.

The larger this number is, the clearer the sound can be reproduced.