GLOSSARY
TITLE
The longest sections of a picture or a music piece on a DVD, or a movie, etc.. Each title is assigned a title number enabling you to locate the title you want.
VIDEO CABLE
This is a wire with plugs on each end which is used to transfer the picture information into your TV set.
NTSC
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
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. This set will not play pic- tures encoded in formats other than JPG.
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 a video input (standard) jack.
National TV Sy stems Committee for TV broadcasts: a video standard used in the USA and Canada.
PAL
Phase Alternation Line: a video standard used in Europe.
JACK
This is another term for socket.
ABOUT DVD REGION
MANAGEMENT
The DVD inventors and motion 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 2 DVDs.
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