Sharp LC 46BD80UN Title, Chapter and Track, Icons Used on DVD-VIDEO Disc Cases, About Discs

About Discs

■The following CD-RW/R discs cannot be played.

•Discs on which data has not been recorded cannot be played back.

•Discs recorded in a format other than an Audio CD cannot be played back.

•Discs may not be played back depending on their recording status or the status of the disc itself.

•Discs may not be played back depending on their compatibility with this TV.

BD-VIDEO

•Enjoy Final Standard Profi le functions (see page 25), such as picture-in-picture.

The available functions differ depending on the disc.

This is a new function of BD-VIDEO that plays the primary video and secondary video simultaneously. For instance, the function is capable of playing the original movie as the primary video while playing video commentary from the fi lm director on a small screen as a secondary video.

Title, Chapter and Track

•Blu-ray discs and DVDs are divided into “Titles” and “Chapters”. If the disc has more than one movie on it, each movie would be a separate “Title”. “Chapters”, on the other hand, are subdivisions of titles. (See Example 1.)

•Audio CDs are divided into “Tracks”. You can think of a “Track” as one tune on an Audio CD. (See Example 2.)

Example 1: Blu-ray disc or DVD

Title 1	Title 2
Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3	Chapter 1 Chapter 2

Example 2: Audio CD

Track 1 Track 2 Track 3 Track 4 Track 5

Icons Used on DVD-VIDEO Disc Cases

The back of the case of a DVD that is commercially available usually contains various information about the contents of the disc.

1			2
2	1.	English	2	1. English
	2.	Chinese		2. Chinese
3		4	5
16:9	LB	2	1 2 3
			4 5 6

Audio tracks and audio formats

DVD discs can contain up to 8 separate tracks with a different language on each. The fi rst in the list is the original track.

This section also details the audio format of each soundtrack — Dolby Digital, DTS, MPEG etc.

Dolby Digital

A sound system developed by Dolby Laboratories Inc. that gives movie theater ambience to audio output when the TV is connected to a Dolby Digital processor or amplifi er.

DTS

DTS is a digital sound system developed by DTS, Inc. for use in cinemas.

Linear PCM

Linear PCM is a signal recording format used for Audio CDs and on some DVD and Blu-ray discs. The sound on Audio CDs is recorded at 44.1 kHz with 16 bits. (Sound is recorded between 48 kHz with 16 bits and 96 kHz with 24 bits on DVD-VIDEO discs and between 48 kHz with 16 bits and 192 kHz with 24 bits on BD-VIDEO discs.)

Subtitle languages

This indicates the kind of subtitles.

Screen aspect ratio

Movies are shot in a variety of screen modes.

Camera angle

Recorded onto some BD/DVD discs are scenes which have been simultaneously shot from a number of different angles (the same scene is shot from the front, from the left side, from the right side, etc.).

Region code

This indicates the region code (playable region code).

The Icons Used in This Operation Manual

BD-VIDEO ........ Indicates the functions that can be

performed for BD-VIDEO discs.

BD-RE ........ Indicates the functions that can be

performed for BD-RE discs.

BD-R ........ Indicates the functions that can be

performed for BD-R discs.

DVD-VIDEO .... Indicates the functions that can be

performed for DVD-VIDEO discs.

DVD-RW ...... Indicates the functions that can be

performed for DVD-RW discs.

DVD-R ....... Indicates the functions that can be

performed for DVD-R discs.

AUDIO CD ........ Indicates the functions that can be

performed for Audio CDs.

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