Essential Information

Disc-related Terms

Title (DVD only)

A title is the main film content or the content of the accompanying feature or the music album. Each title has a title number enabling you to locate it easily.

Chapter (DVD only)

Chapters are sections of a film or a piece of music that are smaller than a title. A title consists of one or several chapters. Each chapter has a chap- ter number to enable you to locate the desired chapter. Depending on the disc, chapters may not be labeled.

Track (Video CD or Audio CD only)

Sections of a film or a piece of music on a Video CD or an Audio CD. Each track has a track number to enable you to find the desired track.

Scene

On a Video CD with PBC (Playback Control) func- tions, moving pictures and still pictures are divided into sections that are called “scenes“. Each scene is displayed in the scene menu and has a scene number to enable you to find the scene quickly. A scene consists of one or more tracks.

Types of Video CDs

There are two types of Video CDs:

Video CDs equipped with PBC (Version 2.0)

PBC (Playback Control) functions enable you to in- teract with the system via menus, search functions or other typical computer operations. In addition high-resolution still pictures can be displayed if they are available on the disc.

Video CDs not equipped with PBC (Version 1.1)

These discs are operated in the same way as Audio CDs and allow playback of video pictures and sound. They are not however equipped with PBC.

Symbols

The symbol on the screen

During operation “” may appear on the screen. This symbol means that the desired function is not currently available on this disc.

Disc symbols in the operating instructions If part of the operating instructions contains one of the symbols listed below, the section is only ap- plicable to the disc shown on the symbol.

Many functions of this recorder are dependent on the selected recording quality. One or more of the symbols (DVD, Video, +RW, MP3) are dis- played for each function described in the manual so that you can immediately see whether the disc supports this function.

Video DVD-R/RW disc with VR recording mode

VR

DVD-RW disc with VR recording mode

+R

DVD+R disc

+RW

DVD+RW disc

DVD

DVD-Video disc

VCD

Video CD

CD

Audio CD

MP3

MP3 CD

JPEG

JPEG CD

The finalized DVD disc is a DVD-Video disc.

DVD-R and DVD-RW discs

How are DVD-R and DVD-RW discs different?

The essential difference between a DVD-R and a DVD-RW disc is the fact that a DVD-R disc can only be written to once, whilst a DVD-RW disc can be written to several times. In addition, its content can be deleted. You can write to and delete a DVD-RW disc approx. 1000 times.

Playback of writable discs on normal DVD players

DVD-R discs and DVD-RW discs written to in Video mode can be played on some normal DVD players. They must however be finalized first. This process fixes the content of the disc so that it can be read by other DVD players as a DVD-Video disc.

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Loewe Centros 1172, Centros 1202 manual Disc-related Terms, Types of Video CDs, Symbols, DVD-R and DVD-RW discs

Centros 1172, Centros 1202 specifications

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