Panasonic SC-HT95 warranty Glossary, Reference, Language code list

Glossary

Bitstream

This is the digital form of multiple channel audio data (e.g., 5.1 chan- nel) before it is decoded into its various channels.

Decoder

A decoder restores the coded audio signals on DVDs to normal. This is called decoding.

Dolby Digital

This is a method of coding digital signals developed by Dolby Labo- ratories. Apart from stereo (2-channel) audio, these signals can also be 5.1-channel audio. A large amount of audio information can be recorded on one disc using this method.

Dolby Pro Logic

A surround system where a 4-channel audio track is recorded as 2 channels and then is restored to 4 channels for play. The surround channel is monaural and can reproduce up to 7 kHz.

DTS (Digital Theater Systems)

This surround system is used in many movie theaters around the world. There is good separation between the channels, so realistic sound effects are possible.

Interlace and progressive output

NTSC, the video signal standard, has 480 interlaced (i) scan lines, whereas progressive scanning uses twice the number of scan lines. This is called 480p.

The 480i video signals output from this unit’s COMPONENT VIDEO OUT terminals (Y, PB, PR) allow you to enjoy higher quality pictures than if the signals were output from the video output terminal or S- VIDEO OUT terminal. The COMPONENT VIDEO OUT terminals are also able to handle 480p (progressive) video signals which are of even greater resolution.

I/P/B

MPEG 2, the video compression standard adopted for use with DVD- Video, codes frames using these 3 picture types.

I:Intra coded picture (I-picture)

This is the standard picture and is a complete picture in itself. This means it has the best picture quality and is the best to use when adjusting the picture.

P:Predictive coded picture (P-picture)

This picture is calculated based on past I or P-pictures.

B:Bidirectionally-predictive coded picture (B-picture)

This picture is calculated by comparing past and future I and P- pictures so it has the lowest volume of information.

Dynamic rangeLinear PCM (pulse code modulation)

Dynamic range is the difference between the lowest level of sound

that can be heard above the noise of the equipment and the highest

These are uncompressed digital signals, similar to those found on

level of sound before distortion occurs.

CDs.

Reference

Film and video

DVDs are recorded using either film or video. Usually, film is record- ed at 24 frames per second, the rate movies are filmed at, while video is recorded at 30 frames per second.

Frame still and field still

Frames are the still pictures that go together to make a moving pic- ture. There are about 30 frames shown each second.

One frame is made up of two fields. A regular television shows these fields one after the other to create frames.

A still is shown when you pause a moving picture. A frame still is made up of two alternating fields, so the picture may appear blurred, but overall quality is high.

A field still is not blurred, but it has only half the information of a frame still so picture quality is lower.

MP3

A method of compressing audio, MPEG Audio Layer 3 (MP3) allows audio to be reduced to up to one tenth its original size without overtly hurting audio quality.

When creating MP3 files to play on this unit

≥Disc formats: ISO9660 level 1 and level 2 (except for extended for- mats)

Files: MP3 files with the suffix “.mp3” or “.MP3”

≥To have this unit play files in a certain order, prefix folder and file names with numbers in the order you want to play them. This may not work in all cases.

Not compatible with multi-session recordings

If you record MP3 onto CD-R/CD-RW over a number of sessions, this unit can play only the recordings made in the first session.

Playback control (PBC)

If a Video CD has playback control, you can select scenes and infor- mation with menus.

Language code list

Abkhazian:	6566	Chinese:	9072	Hausa:	7265	Lithuanian:	7684	Romanian:	8279	Telugu:	8469
Afar:	6565	Corsican:	6779	Hebrew:	7387	Macedonian:	7775	Russian:	8285	Thai:	8472
Afrikaans:	6570	Croatian:	7282	Hindi:	7273	Malagasy:	7771	Samoan:	8377	Tibetan:	6679
Albanian:	8381	Czech:	6783	Hungarian:	7285	Malay:	7783	Sanskrit:	8365	Tigrinya:	8473
Ameharic:	6577	Danish:	6865	Icelandic:	7383	Malayalam:	7776	Scots Gaelic:	7168	Tonga:	8479
Arabic:	6582	Dutch:	7876	Indonesian:	7378	Maltese:	7784	Serbian:	8382	Turkish:	8482
Armenian:	7289	English:	6978	Interlingua:	7365	Maori:	7773	Serbo-Croatian:	8372	Turkmen:	8475
Assamese:	6583	Esperanto:	6979	Irish:	7165	Marathi:	7782	Shona:	8378	Twi:	8487
Aymara:	6588	Estonian:	6984	Italian:	7384	Moldavian:	7779	Sindhi:	8368	Ukrainian:	8575
Azerbaijani:	6590	Faroese:	7079	Japanese:	7465	Mongolian:	7778	Singhalese:	8373	Urdu:	8582
Bashkir:	6665	Fiji:	7074	Javanese:	7487	Nauru:	7865	Slovak:	8375	Uzbek:	8590
Basque:	6985	Finnish:	7073	Kannada:	7578	Nepali:	7869	Slovenian:	8376	Vietnamese:	8673
Bengali; Bangla: 6678		French:	7082	Kashmiri:	7583	Norwegian:	7879	Somali:	8379	Volapük:	8679
Bhutani:	6890	Frisian:	7089	Kazakh:	7575	Oriya:	7982	Spanish:	6983	Welsh:	6789
Bihari:	6672	Galician:	7176	Kirghiz:	7589	Pashto, Pushto:	8083	Sundanese:	8385	Wolof:	8779
Breton:	6682	Georgian:	7565	Korean:	7579	Persian:	7065	Swahili:	8387	Xhosa:	8872
Bulgarian:	6671	German:	6869	Kurdish:	7585	Polish:	8076	Swedish:	8386	Yiddish:	7473
Burmese:	7789	Greek:	6976	Laotian:	7679	Portuguese:	8084	Tagalog:	8476	Yoruba:	8979
Byelorussian:	6669	Greenlandic:	7576	Latin:	7665	Punjabi:	8065	Tajik:	8471	Zulu:	9085
Cambodian:	7577	Guarani:	7178	Latvian, Lettish:	7686	Quechua:	8185	Tamil:	8465
Catalan:	6765	Gujarati:	7185	Lingala:	7678	Rhaeto-Romance: 8277		Tatar:	8484

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