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
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.
Overview (Continued)
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
( +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.
+R DVD+R disc
+RW DVD+RW disc
DVD
VCD Video CDs
CD Audio CDs
MP3 MP3 CDs
JPEG JPEG CDs
VHS VHS Tape.
The finalized DVD disc is as
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