Album
Section of a music piece or an image on a data CD containing MP3 audio tracks or JPEG files.
ChapterSubdivision of a title on a DVD. A title is composed of several chapters.
Digital Cinema Sound (DCS)This is the generic name of the surround sound produced by digital signal processing technology developed by Sony. Unlike previous surround sound fields mainly directed at the reproduction of music, Digital Cinema Sound is designed specifically for the enjoyment of movies.
Dolby Digital
This movie theatre sound format is more advanced than Dolby Surround Pro Logic. In this format, the surround speakers output stereo sound with an expanded frequency range, and a subwoofer channel for deep bass is independently provided. This format is also called “5.1,” with the subwoofer channel designated as the 0.1 channel (since it functions only when a deep bass effect is needed). All six channels in this format are recorded separately for superior channel separation. Furthermore, since all the signals are processed digitally, less signal degradation occurs.
Dolby Digital EXAn enhanced compatible format of Dolby Digital 5.1, developed by Dolby Laboratories and Lucasfilm THX, which adds an extra surround back channel, and can be used for 6.1(three surround speakers) channel playback, using matrix encoding.
Dolby Pro Logic IIDolby Pro Logic II creates five
The Movie mode is for use with stereo television shows and all programs encoded in Dolby Surround. The result is enhanced soundfield directionality that approaches the quality of discrete
The Music mode is for use with any stereo music recordings, and provides a wide and deep sound space.
Dolby Surround Pro LogicAs one method of decoding Dolby Surround, Dolby Surround Pro Logic produces four channels from
DTS
Digital audio compression technology developed by Digital Theater Systems, Inc. This technology conforms to
An enhanced compatible format of 5.1 channel, which adds an extra surround back channel. There are two formats: Discrete 6.1, which processes the surround back signal independently, and Matrix 6.1, which processes it along with the Surround (L/R) channels.
DVD
A disc that contains up to 8 hours of moving pictures even though its diameter is the same as a CD.
The data capacity of a