NEC NDRV-62 owner manual Disc-related terms, About Symbols, Types of video CDs

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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. A title 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) functions, moving pictures and still pictures are divided into sec- tions called “Scenes”. Each scene available is displayed on the Scene menu and assigned a scene number, enabling you to locate the scene you want.

A scene 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) functions allow you to interact with the system via menus, search functions, or other typical computer-like operations. Moreover, high resolu- tion still pictures can be played if they are included on the disc.

Video CDs not equipped with PBC (Version 1.1) Operated in the same way as audio CDs, these discs allow playback of video pictures as well as sound, but they are not equipped with PBC.

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.

About the disc symbols for instructions

A section whose title has one of the following symbols are applicable only to those discs represented by the symbol.

Many functions of this recorder are dependent on the recording mode. One or more of the symbols

( Video , VR , +R , +RW ) appear by each function explained in this manual so that you can see at a glance whether it’s relevant for the disc loaded.

Video DVD-R/RW with Video recording mode

VR DVD-RW with VR recording mode

+R DVD+R disc

+RW DVD+RW disc

DVD DVD-Video disc

VCD Video CDs

CD Audio CDs

MP3 MP3 files

JPEG JPEG files

DivX DivX files

VHS VHS Tape

The finalized DVD disc is as DVD-Video disc

DivX

DivX is the name of a revolutionary new video codec which is based on the new MPEG-4 compression stan- dard for video.You will be able to play DivX movies using this recorder.

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