Rotel RDV-1050 Glossary

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Composite Input TV Connection

Connect the COMPOSITE VIDEO output

to the composite video input of your TV. Con-

nect the ANALOG AUDIO outputs to the

audio inputs of your TV. A cable for these con-

nections is supplied.

If your TV has a single monaural audio input

instead of a pair of stereo inputs, you need to

use a “Y” cable adapter to connect the two

output channels of the RDV-1050 to the single

input.

You can improve the sound quality of the sys-

tem by connecting the audio outputs to a sepa-

rate hi-fi audio system. (See the following sec-

tion.)

S-Video Input TV Connection

If your TV has an S-video input, you should

connect it to the S-VIDEO output of

RDV-1050 using an S-video cable. This will

produce better picture quality.

Component Input TV Connection

If your TV has component video signal input

jacks you will get better video performance

by using the COMPONENT VIDEO out-

put jacks of the RDV-1050. The required cable

is not provided. Be sure to connect the “Y” out-

put to the “Y” input, “PB” output to the “PB”

input, and the “PR” output to the “PR” input.

NOTES: The component signal inputs on

some TV’s have BNC type connectors. (BNC

connectors are coaxial connectors that

have keyed locking collars.) In such in-

stances adapters or a special cable may be

needed.

A Progressive Scanning signal can be

produced with both PAL (576p) and NTSC

(480p) outputs depending on the setting of

the Video Output Selector switches.

European Version Note: When Pro-

gressive Scanning is used with a PAL output

signal, set the Video Signal Selector Switch

to REMOTE.

VIDEO OUTDIGITAL OUT

AUDIO OUT

COMPONENT

VIDEO

S-VIDEOFRONTREAR

PCM/STREAM

COAXIAL

OPTICAL

LEFT

RIGHT

CENTER

SUB

WOOFER

Audio/video cable

S-video cable

White

Red Yellow

Red

White

Yellow

VIDEO

AUDIO

RIGHT

LEFT

S-VIDEO

YPBPR

VIDEO OUTDIGITAL OUT

AUDIO OUT

COMPONENT

VIDEO

S-VIDEOFRONTREAR

PCM/STREAM

COAXIAL

OPTICAL

LEFT

RIGHT

CENTER

SUB

WOOFER

PRPB

White

Red

Component video cable

Red

Green

Blue

Red

Green Blue

Audio Cable

White

Red

White

VIDEO

AUDIO

RIGHT

LEFT

S-VIDEO

S-video cable

NOTE: See the Video Signal Selector Switches section for information on setting the switch

for the various types of connections.

NOTE: See the Video Signal Selector Switches section for information on setting the switch

for the various types of connections.

RDV-1050 DVD Player

MPEG

MPEG stands for Moving Picture coding Ex-

perts Group. MPEG is a family of standards

for compressing audio-visual information.

“MPEG” standards include MPEG-1, MPEG-

2 and MPEG-4. Video CD and MP3 are based

on MPEG-1, while DVD is based on MPEG-

MPEG Multichannel

This feature expands the 5.1 channel audio

format recorded on the disc to a 7.1 channel

format. The further expansion of the 5.1 chan-

nel audio makes it easy for you to reproduce

the movie theater experience in your own

home.

NTSC (National television system

committee - U.S. version)

A black and white and color television sys-

tem format used in the U.S.A., Canada, Mexico

and Japan.

PAL (Phase Alternation by Line)

A color television system format used exten-

sively in Western Europe.

PBC

PBC stands for “Playback control” and is a

method of controlling disc play for Video CDs

(VCD). You are able to interact with the disc

through menus.

Progressive scanning

Progressive scanning displays all the horizontal

lines of a picture at one time, as a single frame.

A progressive scanning DVD unit converts the

interlaced video from DVD into progressive

format for connection to a progressive display.

It dramatically increases the vertical resolu-

tion.

RGB

An abbreviation for Red, Green and Blue.

Color monitors and color television sets dis-

play different hues by mixing these three col-

ors.

S-video

A video signal which improves picture qual-

ity over standard composite connections. Used

on Super VHS, DVD, high end TV monitors,

etc.

Track

The smallest division on SVCD, Video CD and

Audio CD discs.

Glossary

Aspect ratio

A ratio which defines the shape of the rect-

angular picture in a TV. It is the width of the

picture relative to the height. A conventional

TV picture has 4:3 in aspect ratio.

Bit rate

Shows the number of digital information

needed to play back sound for 1 second. The

bit rate is expressed in bits per second.

Bitstream

The digital form of multichannel audio data

(e.g., 5.1-channel) before it is decoded into

its various channels.

Chapter/title

Chapter is the smallest division and title is the

largest division on DVD Video. A chapter is

a division of a title and similar to a track for

Video CD or Audio CD.

Component video

Video signals with three separate channels of

information that make up the picture. There

are several types of component video, such

as R/G/B and Y/CB(PB)/CR(PR).

Composite video

A single video signal commonly used in most

consumer video products that contains all lu-

minance, color, and synchronization informa-

tion.

Dolby Digital (AC3)

A six-channel system consisting of left, cen-

ter, right, left rear, right rear and LFE (Low-

Frequency Effect channel for use with a sub-

woofer) channels. All processing is done in

the digital domain. Not all Dolby Digital discs

contain six (5.1) channels of information.

Dolby Surround/Dolby Pro Logic

Dolby Surround records four channels of front

and rear audio in two channels in a way that

allows a decoder to recover the original four

channels for playback. Because the audio is

recorded in two channels, it can be played

back by a two-channel stereo system.

Dolby Pro Logic introduces directional circuits

in decoder-side processing (increasing the level

of specific channels and lowering the level of

silent channels) for greater spatial perspec-

tive, and adds a center speaker used prima-

rily for dialog. The result is enhanced chan-

nel separation.

Down-mix

Internal stereo mix of multichannel surround

audio by a DVD player. The down-mix sig-

nals are output from stereo output connectors.

DTS

DTS stands for Digital Theater Systems, a Digital

Surround audio encoding format configured

with six (5.1) channels, similar to Dolby Digital.

It requires a decoder, either in the player or

in an external receiver. Not all DTS discs con-

tain six (5.1) channels of information.

Dynamic range

The difference between the loudest and soft-

est sounds.

Group

The largest division on DVD AUDIO.

Interlaced scanning

In a conventional video system, a picture is

shown on the display monitor in between lines

of two halves. The Interlaced scanning system

places lines of the second half of the picture

in-between lines of the first half of the picture.

JPEG

A popular file format for still image compres-

sion and storage. JPEG stands for Joint Pho-

tographic Experts Group.

There are three sub-types of the JPEG format

as follows.

•baseline JPEG: used for digital cameras, the

web, etc.

•progressive JPEG: used for the web

•lossless JPEG: an old type, rarely used now

Linear PCM audio

PCM stands for “pulse code modulation.” Lin-

ear PCM is the usual method for digitally en-

coding audio without compression, and is used

for the audio tracks on DVD Video discs, Au-

dio CDs, etc.

MLP

MLP stands for “Meridian Lossless Packing.”

A lossless audio compression system that can

completely recreate the PCM signal.

MP3

MP3 is an audio data compression format,

which stands for MPEG-1 Audio Layer 3. Using

MP3, you can achieve a data reduction of

about 1:10.