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Analog audio

An electrical signal that directly repre- sents sound. In contrast, digital audio which can be an electrical signal, but is an indirect representation of sound. See also Digital audio.

Aspect ratio

The width of a TV screen relative to its height. Conventional TVs are 4:3 (in other words, the screen is almost square); widescreen models are 16:9 (the screen is almost twice as wide as it is high).

Chapter

Just as a book is split up into several chapters, a title on a DVD disc is usually divided into chapters. See also Title.

Component video output

This is a video signal format that con- veys each of three principal colors of light (red, blue and green) through different signal lines. This allows the viewers to experience picture colors as original as it is. There are several signal formats, including Y/PB/PR and Y/CB/CR.

CPRM (Content Protection for Recordable Media)

This is a format used to record copy- once programs. By recording coded data on the area of DVD discs that ordinary writing software cannot write on, it pre- vents copy-once programs from being recorded repeatedly on different media.

Digital audio

An indirect representation of sound by numbers. During recording, the sound is measured at discrete intervals (44, 100 times a second for CD audio) by

Glossary

an analog-to-digital converter, generat- ing a stream of numbers. On playback, a digital-to-analog converter generates an analog signal based on these num- bers. See also Sampling frequency and Analog audio.

Dolby Digital

The system developed by Dolby Laboratories to compress digital sound. It offers you sound of stereo(2ch) or multi-channel audio (up to 5.1ch).

Finalize

To make recorded contents on DVD discs possible to be played back on DVD players. With this unit, it is pos- sible to finalize DVD-RW/DVD-R discs.

PCM (Pulse Code Modulation)

PCM is a format that converts audio into digital data. It is mainly used for Audio CDs and DAT. This unit can play back sounds as realistic as possible by converting even compressed Dolby Digital and MPEG audio to PCM.

Playlist

From this list you can play back con- tents of a disc in your desired order or sequence. Also it allows to search a specific scene directly.

Progressive Scan (525p/480p)

A type of display that does not split each frame into fields, and instead scans directly through all the scanlines of each frame in order. Progressive Scan provides less flickering and higher image resolution than tradi- tional (525i/480i) TV signals. Refer to page 15 for instructions on selective Progressive Scan mode.

Regions code

Regions associate discs and players with particular areas of the world. This unit will only play back discs that have compatible region codes. You can find the region code of your unit by looking at the rear panel. Some discs are com- patible with more than one region (or all regions).

Sampling frequency

The rate which sound is measured by a specified interval to turn it into digital audio data. The numbers of sampling in one second defines as sampling fre- quency. The higher the rate, the better the sound quality is.

SAP (Secondary Audio Program)

Sub audio channel which is delivered separately from main-audio channel. This audio channel is used as an alter- nate in bilingual broadcasting.

S-Video output

It delivers independently each signal of color(C) and luminance(Y) to TV as video signals, so that higher-quality picture will be materialized.

Title (DVD only)

A collection of chapters on DVD disc. See also Chapter.

Track

Audio CDs use tracks to divide the content of a disc. The DVD equivalent is called a chapter. See also Chapter.

Language code

Language		Code	Language		Code	Language		Code	Language		Code
Abkhazian	4748		French	5264		Lithuanian	5866		Sindhi	6550
Afar	4747		Frisian	5271		Macedonian	5957		Singhalese	6555
Afrikaans	4752		Galician	5358		Malagasy	5953		Siswat	6565
Albanian	6563		Georgian	5747		Malay	5965		Slovak	6557
Amharic	4759		German	5051		Malayalam	5958		Slovenian	6558
Arabic	4764		Greek	5158		Maltese	5966		Somali	6561
Armenian	5471		Greenlandic	5758		Maori	5955		Spanish	5165
Assamese	4765		Guarani	5360		Marathi	5964		Sundanese	6567
Aymara	4771		Gujarati	5367		Moldavian	5961		Swahili	6569
Azerbaijani	4772		Hausa	5447		Mongolian	5960		Swedish	6568
Bashkir	4847		Hebrew	5569		Nauru	6047		Tagalog	6658
Basque	5167		Hindi	5455		Nepali	6051		Tajik	6653
Bengali;Bangla	4860		Hungarian	5467		Norwegian	6061		Tamil	6647
Bhutani	5072		Icelandic	5565		Occitan	6149		Tatar	6666
Bihari	4854		Indonesian	5560		Oriya	6164		Telugu	6651
Bislama	4855		Interlingua	5547		Oromo (Afan)	6159		Thai	6654
Breton	4864		Interlingue	5551		Panjabi	6247		Tibetan	4861
Bulgarian	4853		Inupiak	5557		Pashto; Pushto	6265		Tigrinya	6655
Burmese	5971		Irish	5347		Persian	5247		Tonga	6661
Byelorussian	4851		Italian	5566		Polish	6258		Tsonga	6665
Cambodian	5759		Japanese	5647		Portuguese	6266		Turkish	6664
Catalan	4947		Javanese	5669		Quechua	6367		Turkmen	6657
Chinese	7254		Kannada	5760		Rhaeto-Romance	6459		Twi	6669
Corsican	4961		Kashmiri	5765		Romanian	6461		Ukrainian	6757
Croatian	5464		Kazakh	5757		Russian	6467		Urdu	6764
Czech	4965		Kinyarwanda	6469		Samoan	6559		Uzbek	6772
Danish	5047		Kirghiz	5771		Sangho	6553		Vietnamese	6855
Dutch	6058		Kirundi	6460		Sanskrit	6547		Volapuk	6861
English	5160		Korean	5761		Scots Gaelic	5350		Welsh	4971
Esperanto	5161		Kurdish	5767		Serbian	6564		Wolof	6961
Estonian	5166		Laothian	5861		Serbo-Croatian	6554		Xhosa	7054
Faroese	5261		Latin	5847		Sesotho	6566		Yiddish	5655
Fiji	5256		Latvian; Lettish	5868		Setswana	6660		Yoruba	7161
Finnish	5255		Lingala	5860		Shona	6560		Zulu	7267

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