Overview (Continued)
Disc-related terms
Title (DVD only)
The main film content or accompanying feature content
or music album.
Each title is assigned a title reference number enabling
you to locate it easily.
Chapter (DVD only)
Sections of a picture or a musical piece that are smaller
than titles. Atitle is composed of one or several chap-
ters. Each chapter is assigned a chapter number to
enable you to locate the chapter you want. Depending
on the disc, chapters may not be labeled.
Track (Video CD and audio CD only)
Sections of a picture or a musical piece on a video CD
or an audio CD. Each track is assigned a track number,
enabling you to locate the track you want.
Scene
On a video CD with PBC (Playback Control), movies
and pictures are divided into “Scenes”. Each scene is
displayed on a menu and assigned a number, enabling
you to quickly locate the scene you want. Ascene may
be composed of one or several tracks.
Types of video CDs
There are two types of video CDs:
Video CDs equipped with PBC (Version 2.0)
PBC (Playback control) allows you to interact with the
contents of a Video CD using menus, search functions,
and other special operations. High resolution pictures
can be displayed if they are included on the disc.
Video CDs not equipped with PBC (Version 1.1)
Video CDs without PBC are similar to audio CDs,
except they allow playback of video as well as sound.
About Symbols

About the symbol display

“ ” may appear on the TV screen during operation.
This icon means the function explained in this owner’s
manual is not available on that specific disc, or at that
time.

About the disc symbols for instructions

Asection whose title has one of the following symbols
are applicable only to those discs represented by the
symbol.
Many functions provided on this Recorder are depend-
ent on the recording mode. One or more of the symbols
( , , , ) appear by each
function (explained in this manual) so that you can see
at a glance whether it’s applicable to the disc loaded.
DVD-R/RW with Video recording mode
DVD-RW with VR recording mode
DVD+R disc
DVD+RW disc
DVD-Video disc
Audio CDs
MP3 CDs
WMACDs
JPEG CDs
Memory Card
VHS Tape
The finalized DVD disc is a DVD-Video disc
VHS
M/C
JPEG
WMA
MP3
CD
DVD
+RW
+R
VR
Video
+RW+RVR
Video
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